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petak, 09.10.2009.

We think in generalities

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

09.10.2009. u 23:41 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Here's to the crazy ones

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.

09.10.2009. u 22:41 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We learn and grow

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

09.10.2009. u 21:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Some are born great

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

09.10.2009. u 20:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

If you're trying to take a roomful of people

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.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

09.10.2009. u 19:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

You only have control

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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.

09.10.2009. u 01:34 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Love is the triumph

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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?
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

09.10.2009. u 00:33 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 08.10.2009.

Many people

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.'
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

08.10.2009. u 23:32 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Humor is the only test of gravity

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
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.'

08.10.2009. u 22:31 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is not enough to aim

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
A joke's a very serious thing.
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!
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

08.10.2009. u 21:50 • 2 Komentara • Print • #

srijeda, 07.10.2009.

Nothing is so awesomely

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

07.10.2009. u 23:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

You can't deny laughter

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.

07.10.2009. u 22:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

A chess genius is a human being

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

07.10.2009. u 21:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

My eyes swam and watered

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

07.10.2009. u 20:23 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

My wish is to ride the tempest

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

07.10.2009. u 19:22 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

ponedjeljak, 05.10.2009.

It's a dangerous business

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

05.10.2009. u 23:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Write a wise saying

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

05.10.2009. u 22:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Worries go down

Worries go down better with soup than without.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

05.10.2009. u 21:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

try to reach

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

05.10.2009. u 20:23 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I love my past

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

05.10.2009. u 19:22 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

nedjelja, 04.10.2009.

It was a kind

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

04.10.2009. u 23:58 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Do not have an opinion

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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

04.10.2009. u 22:57 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Real love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

04.10.2009. u 21:57 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Being bland

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Well done is better than well said.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Where facts are few, experts are many.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

04.10.2009. u 20:56 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Never esteem

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone’s feelings or ignoring truth.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

04.10.2009. u 19:55 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

subota, 03.10.2009.

The creative is the place

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

03.10.2009. u 04:06 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I never know how much

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

03.10.2009. u 03:05 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Each body has its art

Each body has its art...
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

03.10.2009. u 02:05 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

There is no revenge

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

03.10.2009. u 01:04 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The pain of making the necessary

The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

03.10.2009. u 00:03 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

petak, 02.10.2009.

Facts are stubborn things

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.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

02.10.2009. u 23:03 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Famous remarks are very

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

02.10.2009. u 22:02 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Few people think more

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.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
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.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

02.10.2009. u 21:02 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Whenever people agree with me

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

02.10.2009. u 20:01 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 01.10.2009.

I was not a child prodigy

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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 not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

01.10.2009. u 07:41 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

do not want apologies

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.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.'
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.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

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Walking is the best possible

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

01.10.2009. u 05:42 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Turbulence is life

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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 have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

01.10.2009. u 04:38 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Repetition does not

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

01.10.2009. u 03:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Nothing is particularly hard

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Vigorous writing is concise.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

01.10.2009. u 02:36 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The best thing to give

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

01.10.2009. u 01:36 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Let your reputation

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

01.10.2009. u 00:35 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

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