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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
No.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.'
Keep cool and you command everybody.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

My home is not a place, it is people.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

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 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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Only person over 16 years of age may see "X" films.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

(To help remember these questions, note that the first letter of a key word in each of the four questions spells "CAGE.")

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Art is science made clear.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

Thanks to books we can talk to people who lived in different countries and ages.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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.

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.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Early cultures, which viewed education as a system of absorbing a well-defined subject matter, offered little opportunity for speculation.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
People fail forward to success.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
People fail forward to success.

Books... I think that we can't live without them.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Women comprise 54 percent of contemporary Russian society. However, the number of women taking part in the country's political, economic and civic life shows that women are restricted in the spheres of politics and government.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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.

Also they think that it is polite to leave a little food on the plate at the end of a meal.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

Twenty-four percent reported any drinking at work at least once during the year before the survey.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Although he may not have written The Elements entirely on his own, his other works are certainly his alone.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Never eat more than you can lift.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Memory feeds imagination.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

It?s the same size as England.

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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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?
To try to be better is to be better.

While on shore Gulliver is captured by the giants.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Some individuals who have stopped drinking after experiencing alcohol-related problems choose to attend AA meetings for information and support, even though they have not been diagnosed as alcoholic.

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.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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