Barbara's Collected Quotes

George Bernard Shaw

2012-01-19T15:52:00.001-08:00

.A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Bertrand Russell

2012-01-10T20:17:00.000-08:00

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Seneca

2011-12-22T09:05:00.000-08:00

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Mark Twain

2011-12-02T09:10:00.001-08:00

1. A recipe for contentment

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

2. True wisdom

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."

3. Reading habits

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

4. Success

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

5. Bravery

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

6. Procrastination

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

7. Progress

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

8. Risk-taking

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

9. Good editing

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."

10. Life

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

(thank you, Sherry, for pointing these out to me!)

Voltaire

2011-11-29T08:13:00.001-08:00

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Bob Dylan

2011-11-21T07:02:00.001-08:00

When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.

William Ewart Gladstone

2011-11-15T08:13:00.001-08:00

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Seth Godin

2011-11-08T13:55:00.000-08:00

There aren’t shortcuts.

Merely direct paths.

Most people don’t take them, because they frighten us.

Things that look like shortcuts are usually detours disguised as less work.

Anonymous

2011-10-25T09:00:00.001-07:00

The gap between where you are and where you want to be is called frustration. Frustration is eliminated by education and action.

Muhammad Ali

2011-10-17T14:40:00.000-07:00

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Steve Jobs

2011-10-06T08:50:00.000-07:00

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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.

Thomas Paine

2011-10-02T20:22:00.001-07:00

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Julia Cameron

2011-09-29T09:38:00.000-07:00

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Geneen Roth

2011-09-22T08:50:00.000-07:00

"No act of love is ever wasted".

Lao-tzu

2011-09-21T07:48:00.000-07:00

Manifest plainness

Embrace simplicity

Reduce selfishness

Pericles

2011-09-02T10:13:00.000-07:00

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Anwar al-Sadat

2011-08-25T12:51:00.000-07:00

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

Mahatma Gandhi

2011-08-13T23:31:00.000-07:00

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Dale Carnegie

2011-08-05T07:14:00.000-07:00

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Nora Roberts

2011-07-31T08:09:00.000-07:00

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

2011-07-25T10:30:00.000-07:00

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Albert Einstein

2011-07-18T19:38:00.000-07:00

‎Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

2011-07-07T21:22:00.000-07:00

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

2011-06-30T22:02:00.003-07:00

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.

Sophia Loren

2011-06-22T22:10:00.000-07:00

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

G. K. Chesterton

2011-06-16T09:27:00.000-07:00

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

Deepak Chopra

2011-06-13T11:39:00.001-07:00

The worst thing anyone can say about you contains some truth about them.

Maria Robinson

2011-06-11T18:21:00.000-07:00

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

John F. Kennedy

2011-06-02T09:16:00.000-07:00

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Robert Ringer

2011-05-19T10:01:00.000-07:00

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Mahatma Gandhi

2011-05-15T08:57:00.000-07:00

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-05-10T20:30:00.001-07:00

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Mae West

2011-04-17T22:29:00.000-07:00

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

William Feather

2011-04-12T14:01:00.001-07:00

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Ed Cunningham

2011-04-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

Ralph Nader

2011-04-02T11:33:00.001-07:00

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

John Wooden

2011-03-28T13:37:00.001-07:00

Nothing will work unless you do.

Mother Teresa

2011-03-24T20:25:00.000-07:00

We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

Freya Stark

2011-03-22T20:42:00.000-07:00

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Mark Twain

2011-03-17T08:45:00.001-07:00

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Franklin Jones

2011-03-13T17:11:00.000-07:00

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Samuel Johnson

2011-03-05T20:45:00.001-08:00

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Janis Joplin

2011-03-03T11:02:00.000-08:00

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Jack Handey

2011-02-28T12:30:00.001-08:00

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Sid Vicious

2011-02-26T16:33:00.001-08:00

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Robert Pirsig

2011-02-24T07:52:00.000-08:00

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Author Unknown

2011-02-22T07:40:00.001-08:00

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?

Anwar al-Sadat

2011-02-19T16:40:00.000-08:00

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

Basil Maturin

2011-02-17T08:15:00.001-08:00

Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

Orison Marden

2011-02-11T08:11:00.000-08:00

Most of our obstacles would melt away if instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Henry Ward Beecher

2011-02-05T22:32:00.000-08:00

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Anne Lamott

2011-02-04T08:54:00.000-08:00

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
--From Imperfect Birds: A Novel

Billy Wilder

2011-02-02T08:40:00.000-08:00

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.

Pearl S. Buck

2011-01-28T07:52:00.000-08:00

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

Dr. Joyce Brothers

2011-01-25T07:37:00.001-08:00

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

A. J. Cronin

2011-01-21T08:40:00.000-08:00

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Edgar Watson Howe

2011-01-18T08:49:00.000-08:00

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Madeleine L'Engle

2011-01-15T09:26:00.000-08:00

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Oscar Wilde

2011-01-12T08:03:00.001-08:00

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Joan Baez

2011-01-10T08:01:00.000-08:00

Action is the antidote to despair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2011-01-07T13:58:00.001-08:00

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Maria Robinson

2011-01-04T19:37:00.000-08:00

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Judy Garland

2011-01-01T18:48:00.000-08:00

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Paul Tillich

2010-12-30T07:25:00.001-08:00

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

George Jean Nathan

2010-12-22T08:51:00.001-08:00

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Lin Yutang

2010-12-15T21:21:00.001-08:00

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

St. Francis de Sales

2010-12-10T07:29:00.001-08:00

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving

William Penn

2010-12-03T07:46:00.000-08:00

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.

Thomas Jefferson

2010-12-01T07:57:00.001-08:00

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Vincent van Gogh

2010-11-29T08:16:00.001-08:00

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Ursula K. Le Guin

2010-11-26T06:54:00.001-08:00

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Maya Angelou

2010-11-16T07:42:00.001-08:00

Among other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Don Sutton

2010-11-11T09:48:00.000-08:00

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Neil Simon

2010-11-06T09:27:00.001-07:00

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor.

Marilyn Manson

2010-10-30T17:56:00.000-07:00

"I wouldn't say a single word to them I would listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did."

(Responding to the question, "If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine or the people in that community, what would you say to them if they were here right now?")

Jimi Hendrix

2010-10-12T19:43:00.000-07:00

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Lois McMaster Bujold

2010-10-06T21:59:00.000-07:00

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Barbara Bush

2010-09-30T14:00:00.000-07:00

(please note - i posted this because it cracked me up, i am not making a political statement!)

"Clinton lied.

A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is."

Josh Swoope

2010-09-06T12:46:00.001-07:00

Don't take life to seriouly because you'll never get out alive.

Lao Tzu

2010-09-04T12:39:00.000-07:00

If you don't trust people, they won't trust you.

Herbert Bayard Swope

2010-08-30T21:03:00.001-07:00

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2010-08-12T21:23:00.000-07:00

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

2010-07-31T10:11:00.001-07:00

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Wayne Gretsky

2010-07-23T08:44:00.001-07:00

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

Buddha

2010-07-15T13:26:00.000-07:00

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

Aristotle

2010-07-12T17:24:00.001-07:00

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
– Aristotle

Martin Luther King

2010-05-02T13:14:00.000-07:00

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Art Linkletter

2010-03-24T21:35:00.000-07:00

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Michael Vance

2010-03-24T21:34:00.000-07:00

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.

Saint Francis de Sales

2010-03-24T21:32:00.001-07:00

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

Sandra Carey

2010-03-24T21:31:00.000-07:00

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

Warren Buffet

2010-03-24T21:29:00.000-07:00

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Bruce Lee

2010-03-24T21:28:00.000-07:00

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Mark Twain

2010-03-24T21:25:00.001-07:00

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Socrates

2010-03-24T21:24:00.000-07:00

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Ghandi

2010-03-24T21:23:00.001-07:00

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Albert Einstein

2010-03-24T21:22:00.001-07:00

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

George Bernard Shaw

2010-03-13T10:39:00.000-08:00

We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

Will Rogers

2010-03-13T10:36:00.000-08:00

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Osho

2010-02-12T19:44:00.000-08:00

Relate with others, but relate with yourself also. Love others, but love yourself also. Go out! - the world is beautiful, adventurous; it is a challenge, it enriches. Go out fearlessly - there is nothing to lose, there is everything to gain.