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petak, 25.06.2010.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

To try to be better is to be better.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

An employee health promotion program delivered in three 2-hour sessions at one manufacturing plant was designed to increase participants' awareness of the health risks related to stress and drinking.

I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

This description of alcoholism helps us understand why most alcoholics can't just "use a little willpower" to stop drinking.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

nedjelja, 20.06.2010.

Alcohol abuse is defined as a pattern of drinking that is accompanied by one or more of the following situations within a 12-month period:

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

In 1975, however, the canal was reopened and enlarged, and traffic through the sea increased. Suez, Egypt; Elat, Israel; Jidda, Saudi Arabia; Hodeida, Yemen; Massawa, Eritrea; and Port Sudan, Sudan, are the main ports on the Red Sea and its northern arms.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
He who laughs, lasts!
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Who were these clowns?
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The average person thinks he isn't.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

subota, 19.06.2010.

Choosing a career is like any other activity; it is best to work to a plan.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The best way out is always through.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Printing played an important role in the development of literature and culture.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Art is science made clear.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Never eat more than you can lift.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Vigorous writing is concise.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Is there life before death?
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Treatment may include detoxification (the process of safely getting alcohol out of one's system); taking doctor-prescribed medications, such as disulfiram or naltrexone, to help prevent a return to drinking once drinking has stopped; and individual and/o

There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
A joke's a very serious thing.

Despite promises about sharing the world's wealth, the gap between the rich and poor has been getting larger since 1960.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

The weather is the favourite topic of conversation in Britain.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

He was taught at The Academy in Athens, founded by Plato, and probably tutored another great mathematician, Archimedes.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

When we came into the hall the orchestra were tuning in their instruments.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

For example, Brazilians never eat with their hands ? they always use a knife and a fork, even when they eat hotdogs.

Someone went upside my head again.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Many families celebrate cristmas day in the open air near the cristmas tree in order to catch the spirit of cristmas.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

petak, 18.06.2010.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

My mother fixed me a hot lemonade but that didn't help me much.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
My friends are my estate.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

It tells of the adventures of ship surgeon, as related by himself and divided into four parts of four voyages: 1. A voyage to Liliput. 2. A voyage to Brobdignag. 3. A voyage to Laputa. 4. A voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Other great holidays are:Father?s day,Mother?s day,Helloween and other.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
So little time and so little to do.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

The seas are in danger.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Art is science made clear.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

It was hear that the Dutch built the first building of the town.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

By 1855 the new party was well launched in the North.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

četvrtak, 17.06.2010.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
To try to be better is to be better.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.

Other great holidays are:Father?s day,Mother?s day,Helloween and other.

Life is consciousness.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

So, we may say that the British climate has three main features: it is mild, humid and changeable.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

People fail forward to success.

An idea is salvation by imagination.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Art is science made clear.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

Later, already being a world-known writer, she tried to avoid publicity and stayed out of public eye.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

When two Englishmen are introduced to each other, if they can't think of any thing else to talk about, they talk about weather.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

četvrtak, 10.06.2010.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.