How I did it:
Every day is a new beginning --Dale Carnegie
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
Attitude is everything.
Treat every day as a gift.
Both religion and insanity lie beyond reason. --Soren Kierkegaard
Everyone is twisted in his own peculiar way. --Tex Guyette
Don't panic. --Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Evil is identical with ignorance. --Kyriacos Markides
Tests for a teacher: traditional? esoteric? charges a fee?
When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom. --The Kybalion
The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding. --The Kybalion
"Nothing by Chance."
There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe.
(Keep your mind ever on the Star, but let your eyes watch over your footsteps, lest you fall into the mire by reason of your upward gaze.  Remember the Divine Paradox, that while the Universe IS NOT, still IT IS.  Remember ever the Two Poles of Truth -- the Absolute and the Relative.  Beware of Half-Truths.)
Confidence is self-confirming.
Do not worry about what other people think. --Richard Feynman
Give smiles to other people... make contact.
Smile.
Stand up straight.
Look for people who understand that happiness is a choice.
Understand the universal need for approval and inclusion.
Loneliness is the absence of emotional context.
Ask people what they have learned.
Take time for creature comforts.
Where there is no joy, walk by.  --Neitzsche
Avoid the pastry shop.
Living is about steering a course not reaching a goal, steer with confidence.
Scout Slogan: Do a good turn daily.
Scout Motto:  Be Prepared.
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once, and space is nature's way of keeping everything from happening to me.
Emotion is context for action.
How big is your context? Context can be as big as the whole universe.
Each person has access to a great source of power within themselves. --Xiangdo
Each person can use the power within themselves to access power outside of themselves. --Xiangdo
These powers can be positive or negative, constructive or destructive. --Xiangdo
Each person has the right to utilize the powers within and without themselves, providing they accept total responsibility for the ramifications of that utilization - *whether the ramifications be those of commission or omission.*
Each person willing to assume that responsibility therefore has the obligation of working and studying to improve in understanding and mastery.
Each person, in meeting that obligation, needfully comes to understanding and mastery of self.
Possessing this knowledge of self, one is then prepared to understand one's proper relationship to the rest of the world and the responsibilities inherent therein.
It is the empty center that makes the vessel useful. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Store nothing in workspace.
Distill wisdom into aphorism.
Innoculate yourself against pain.
Maintain the empty center.
You cannot "should have" done anything, either you did or you did not.
When emotion and reason disagree, choose reason. --Al Cote
First rule of tight rope walking: ignore distractions.
First rule of dancing with loose ends: there *are* no distractions.
Start parallel threads in order to gain momentum.
Use something you are *avoiding* as a parallel thread.
Allow your self to wish for what you want. --Paul Coelho, The Alchemist
Sometimes there is just no way to hold back the river. --Paul Coelho, The Alchemist
Drop fear in favor of action.
Nothing happens until it gets on a thread, i.e., until it gets scheduled.
Ask for help.
Do not be detered by complexity, break it down.
Divide in half and test.
Diagram the flow of a plan to find bottlenecks.
Get on the train of your own experience.
Be in the present.
I am always at the center of time and space.
Wherever I am is the center of time and space.
Every time and place is the same.
Pay attention to where drop things.
Clean-up time repays 10-fold later.
If the corporations are in control there is no stability for people.
Do it now not later. --Haskell's Rule
Start talking with a topic sentence. --Trankila
Choose clarity and joy.
The road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began...  Bilbo's Song
Let things be easy.
Attention is the antidote for fear.
I have paid my dues.
Practice, practice, practice.
You cannot shoot a cannon from a canoe.
Take "baby steps". --film "What About Bob?"
Recover the beginner's mind.
Work should be done and then forgotten. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Each of us is the cosmos' growing edge.
Do not worry that doing X delays doing Y.
Often obstacles are created by preconception.
Set impatience to one side.
I can trust my *own* rules.
Clarity is a choice.
Happiness is a choice.
Do not dwell on problems.
Control rumination.
Rejoice in possibilities.
Persist through tedium.
Work quickly but deliberately.
Manage attention.
Remember planning is easy just complicated.
Remember work is easy just tedious.
Start early.
Start from the center.
Work in the present moment.
Have a place for everything.
Focus on what matters.
Nobody cares what you feel.
Everyone is concerned first with themselves.
Use agressive dopiness. --Richard Feynman
Volition: effort it takes to pay attention. --William James
It is volition, monks, that I declare to be karma. --Buddha
All beings own their willful actions. --Buddha
Do without doing.  --Tao te Ching
Relax preconception enough to see and act clearly.
Strain intuition and intent enough to see and act clearly.
Knowledge is power.  No one can take it from you.
Elements of will: clarity, vigor, strength, force, power, energy, work.
Action = thread + vigor.
Vigor = emotion + strength.
Gumption = energy + initiative.
Elements of intention: emotional commitment, involvement, engagement.
Experience is composed of will and idea. --Schopenhauer
Will is composed of intuition and intention.
Idea is composed of state and process.
Goals are ideas but action is will.
Thought occurs in the realm of idea not of will.
Action occurs in the realm of will not of idea.
"Facts" are made (same root as 'factory'), sentences are abstractions, hypotheses are invented..
"Facts" are made (same root as 'factory') by thought not discovered by perception.
Do not rationalize.
Do not speak out of pain or anger.
Learning is apostasy, so most of us are guilty of it.
Faith is not supportable by discovery of facts.  By definition it is belief not knowledge.
Truth can be tested by appeal to consistency, coherence, or authority, with decreasing confidence.
An hypothesis verified is a 'fact'.
The more unverifiable a hypothesis is the more hotly it is contested.
Objectivity is a myth: the best one can hope for is to recognize the effect of emotion upon reason.
Common knowledge is a myth: invalid ideas are widely known and accepted.
Absolute truth would require a complete set of sufficient conditions.
It is probably true that the best we can say of any idea that it is probably true.
Knowledge is a subset of that which is both true and believed.
Knowledge implies belief.
Ah-ha effect: serendipitous combination of ideas and intuitions.
Methods of disproof: contradiction, counterexample, missing necessary conditions.
Knowledge is composed of know-that, know-how, and somatic knowledge.
Of the types of knowledge, only know-that is truth-functional.
Aphorisms require distillation.
Aphorisms can crystallize and clarify experience.
Mass, energy, and information are mutually interconvertible.
To do is to get done. (Look it up!)
Authority is a double-edged sword, kids need enough to learn the necessary ropes but not so much that it cuts them off from experiencing joy in learning for themselves.
Everyone has a piece of the truth.
It is not productive to argue with other people beyond expressing your considered point of view.
There is a difference between fact and truth.
Education is a success as soon as you take over the process for yourself.
The elements of philosophy are knowing, doing, and being.
Knowing is a relation between people and sentences. --Tredwell
Aphorisms explain the relation between knowing and doing.
Habit is not unconscious just non-discursive.
Theory is only the scaffold for action not the substance.
Rules are the scaffold for practice.
Know when to shift gears and when to change course.
A primary goal is something you want to do for whatever reason.
A secondary goal is something you must do to get it out of your way.
A goal to be achieved must be *my* goal.
The ways of a man are right in his own eyes.
Some people seem to be able to teach ignorance.
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.
The mystery of 'cool' is that, "Attitude is everything."
It is common to confuse 'detachment', 'indifference', and 'disdain'.
Sprezzatura is effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance.
'Sprezzatura' is the art of refraining from the appearance of trying to present oneself in a particular way. In reality, of course, tremendous exertion went into pretending not to bother or care. --Wikipedia
Lisa Simpson's Rule on Cool:  You need to be told you are cool or, "How else would you know?" --Wikipedia
Cool has social value but has less real value than genuine understanding, experience, skill, confidence, and imagination.
Joy demands enthusiasm, but clarity demands cool.
It is common to believe that cool is real but not understandable.
'Detachment' is the state of being disconnected, disinterested, impartial, or aloof.
'Indifference' is the lack of concern, interest, or feeling; apathy.
'Disdain' is the feeling, attitude, or expression of disdaining; aloof contempt or scorn.
To be 'cool' is to cultivate detachment.
To be 'phony' is to cultivate indifference.
To be an 'ass' is to cultivate disdain.
Observation requires detachment from prior categories.
Intuition requires detachment from distraction.
Intention requires detachment from distraction.
The 2 minute rule: if it takes less than 2 minutes, do it now.
Some things we do to do.  Some things we do to get done.
The urgent and the important never come together. --Eisenhower
Eighty percent of life is just showing up. --Woody Allen
Act as if  there is all the time in the world.
You cannot have enough of those things you can live without.
Fermat Principle: Nature is economical.
In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! --Solzhenitsyn
The most rewarding path of investigation is: 'the greatest external resistance in the presence of the least internal resistance.' --Solzhenitsyn
Rule of the Final Inch: Not to shirk this crucial work.  Not to postpone it, for the thoughts of the person performing the task will then stray from the realm of the Final Inch.  And not to mind the time spent on it, knowing that one's purpose lies not in --Solzhenitsyn
Work is the overcoming of resistance. --Solzhenitsyn
The wolfhound is right but the cannibal is wrong. --Solzhenitsyn
Do not think dishonestly. --Musashi
The Way is in training. --Musashi
Become acquainted with every art. --Musashi
Know the ways of all professions. --Musashi
Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. --Musashi
Develop intuitive judgment and understanding. --Musashi
Perceive those things which cannot be seen. --Musashi
Pay attention even to trifles. --Musashi
Do nothing which is of no use. --Musashi
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
The Tao is an empty vessel; it is used, but never filled. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
The sage... is detached , thus at one with all. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Shape clay into a vessel; ... It is the space within that makes it useful. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
...the sage is guided by what he feels and not by what he sees. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Empty yourself of everything. ... Knowing constancy, the mind is open. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
He who does not trust enough will not be trusted. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
When the great Tao is forgotten, ... The great pretense begins. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Yield and overcome; ... Be really whole, And all things will come to you. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Heaven follows the Tao.  Tao follows what is natural. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
... the sage, ... remains unattached and calm. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
A good walker leaves no tracks; ... A good door needs no lock, Yet no one can open it. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Know the strength of a man, But keep a woman's care!  Be the stream of the universe! --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
... the sage avoids extremes, excessives, and complacency. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
He who knows he has enough is rich. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
All men will come to him who keeps to the one, For there lies rest and happiness and peace. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Before receiving there must be giving. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Tao abides in non-action, Yet nothing is left undone. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
That without substance can enter where there is no room.  Hence I know the value of non-action. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Stillness and tranquillity set things in order in the universe. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
... he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Ruling the country is like cooking a small fish.  Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Practice non-action.  Work without doing. ... Because the sage always confronts difficulties, He never experiences them. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet. ... The sage does not act, and so is not defeated. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams?  Because it lies below them. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
I have three treasures... mercy; ... economy; ... daring not to be ahead of others. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
A good fighter is not angry. ... This is known as the Virtue of not striving. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
... marching without appearing to move... --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Knowing ignorance is strength. ... If one is sick of sickness, then one is not sick. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
The Tao of heaven does not strive, and yet it overcomes. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
What man has more than enough and gives it to the world?  Only the man of Tao. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
The supple can overcome the stiff. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
A man of Virtue performs his part, But a man without Virtue requires others to fulfill their obligations. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
The Tao of the sage is work without effort. --Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching
Do not waste time in moods. --Carlos Castenada
Danger of preoccupation. --Carlos Castenada
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.  --Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.  --Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.  --Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.  --Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.  --Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.  --Benjamin Franklin
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.  --Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.  --Benjamin Franklin
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.  --Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.  --Benjamin Franklin
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.  --Benjamin Franklin
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.  --Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck.  --Benjamin Franklin
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.  --Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.  --Benjamin Franklin
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.  --Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.  --Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.  --Benjamin Franklin
Fatigue is the best pillow.  --Benjamin Franklin
Games lubricate the body and the mind.  --Benjamin Franklin
God helps those who help themselves.  --Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.  --Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.  --Benjamin Franklin
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.  --Benjamin Franklin
He that can have patience can have what he will.  --Benjamin Franklin
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.  --Benjamin Franklin
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.  --Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.  --Benjamin Franklin
He that rises late must trot all day.  --Benjamin Franklin
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.  --Benjamin Franklin
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.  --Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?  --Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is the best policy.  --Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.  --Benjamin Franklin
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.  --Benjamin Franklin
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.  --Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.  --Benjamin Franklin
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.  --Benjamin Franklin
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.  --Benjamin Franklin
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.  --Benjamin Franklin
Industry need not wish.  --Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.  --Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.  --Benjamin Franklin
Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.  --Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.  --Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.  --Benjamin Franklin
Mine is better than ours.  --Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.  --Benjamin Franklin
Never confuse motion with action.  --Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.  --Benjamin Franklin
No nation was ever ruined by trade.  --Benjamin Franklin
Observe all men, thyself most.  --Benjamin Franklin
One today is worth two tomorrows.  --Benjamin Franklin
Our necessities never equal our wants.  --Benjamin Franklin
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.  --Benjamin Franklin
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.  --Benjamin Franklin
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.  --Benjamin Franklin
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.  --Benjamin Franklin
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.  --Benjamin Franklin
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.  --Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.  --Benjamin Franklin
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.  --Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.  --Benjamin Franklin
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  --Benjamin Franklin
The discontented man finds no easy chair.  --Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut.  --Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.  --Benjamin Franklin
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.  --Benjamin Franklin
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.  --Benjamin Franklin
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.  --Benjamin Franklin
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.  --Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.  --Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.  --Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.  --Benjamin Franklin
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.  --Benjamin Franklin
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.  --Billy Joel
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.  --Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.  --Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.  --Benjamin Franklin
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.  --Benjamin Franklin
When in doubt, don't.  --Benjamin Franklin
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.  --Benjamin Franklin
Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. --Polonius, "Hamlet"
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. --Polonius, "Hamlet"
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.  --Polonius, "Hamlet"
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. --Polonius, "Hamlet"
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. --Polonius, "Hamlet"
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. --Polonius, "Hamlet"
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Polonius, "Hamlet"
This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. --Polonius, "Hamlet"
Carpe diem.  Seize the day. --Horace
Think for yourself. --Dead Poets Society
The powerfull play goes on and you may contribute a verse. --Dead Poets Society
Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams. --Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets: Suck the marrow out of life. (HD Thoreau)* --Dead Poets Society
Let poems drip from our tongues like honey. --Dead Poets Society
It is not too late to seek a newer world. (Tennyson) --Dead Poets Society
Language was developed for one reason... to woe women. --Dead Poets Society
We must constantly strive to see the world in a new way. (desks) --Dead Poets Society
Dare to strike out and find your own voice. --Dead Poets Society
Don't let your poems be ordinary. --Dead Poets Society
Walking in a group turns into matching in cadence. (conformity) --Dead Poets Society
*Does not mean choking on the bone. --Dead Poets Society
In order to arrive at "seeing" one must "stop the world". --Carlos Castenada
The secret of great hunters is to be available and unavailable at the precise turn of the road. --Carlos Castenada
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. --Carlos Castenada
A hunter hunts whatever presents itself to him. --Carlos Castenada
In order to stop the world you must stop "doing". --Carlos Castenada
Chautauqua: being interested in what things mean rather than what they are, e.g., peculiar engine noises --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Quality is the Buddha, is scientific reality, is the goal of Art. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The difference between a good mechanic and a bad one is precisely this ability to select the good facts from the bad ones on the basis of quality. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
But the returned fisherman usually has a peculiar abundance of gumption, usually for the very same things he was sick to death of a few weeks before. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Therefore the thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else is the gumption. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Gumptionology 101 -- An examination of affective, cognitive and psychomotor blocks in the perception of Quality relationships. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Gumption desperation: try to restore gumption by hurrying to make up lost time. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Mistake: some gumption can still be salvaged... (next try will) go much faster than previous one. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Parts setback: not available, too pricy, does not fit. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Cure for value rigidity: slow down, recover ground you have seen before. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
...if you know which facts you're fishing for you're no longer fishing. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Internal trap of ego: your ego insulates you from the Quality reality. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Internal trap of anxiety: opposite of ego, hard to get started, excessive fussiness. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
To manage ego be attentive but skeptical, at least learn how to fake modesty. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Internal trap of boredom: opposite of anxiety, often goes with ego, lost your "beginner's mind". --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
To manage anxiety: work out your anxieties on paper. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
To manage boredom: stop! go to a show, etc., but do not work on the machine, sleep; else make Big Mistake. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Boredom: make boring tasks a ritual, e.g., clean the machine, change oil, etc. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Internal trap of impatience: like boredom but comes from low estimation of time and effort to do task. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Impatience is best handled by allowing an indefinite time for the job. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Scale down overall goals and scale up immediate goals. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Truth trap of yes-no logic: third term "mu" (no thing) means none of the above, re-ask the question. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Mu sometimes means enlarge the context of the question. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Psychomotor trap of bad surroundings:  --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Psychomotor trap of inadequate tools:  --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Psychomotor trap of muscular insensitivity: need to develop "mechanic's feel". --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good and bad men are less than they seem.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose equals words in their best order; poetry equals the best words in the best order.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one does anything from a single motive.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry: the best words in the best order.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Observe other people: Who are they? What do they want? How do they plan to get it? --Jean Cocteau
Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while. --Sister Mary Corita
General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.  --Sister Mary Corita
General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.  --Sister Mary Corita
Consider everything an experiment.  --Sister Mary Corita
Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.  --Sister Mary Corita
Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make. --Sister Mary Corita
The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.  --Sister Mary Corita
Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes. --Sister Mary Corita
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think. --Sister Mary Corita
“We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.” - John Cage. --Sister Mary Corita
Always be around. --Sister Mary Corita
Come or go to everything always. --Sister Mary Corita
Go to classes.  --Sister Mary Corita
Read anything you can get your hands on. --Sister Mary Corita
Look at movies carefully often. --Sister Mary Corita
Save everything, it might come in handy later. --Sister Mary Corita
It makes me smile just thinking about it. --Mythbusters
Peter Principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. --eponymous laws
Generalized Peter Principle: Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. --eponymous laws
Dilbert Principle: Companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management (generally middle management), in order to limit the amount of damage they're capable of doing. --eponymous laws
Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time available. --eponymous laws
Pareto principle: For many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes. --eponymous laws
Benford's law: In lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger numbers occur as the leading digit with less and less frequency as they grow in magnitude, to the point that 9 is the f --eponymous laws
Sturgeon's Law: Nothing is always absolutely so. --eponymous laws
Sturgeon's Revelation: Ninety percent of everything is crap. --eponymous laws
Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives: Anything that can go wrong, will and at the worst possible moment. --eponymous laws
O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law: The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum. --eponymous laws
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. --eponymous laws
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. --eponymous laws
Amara's law: We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. --eponymous laws
Asimov's three laws of robotics: --Isaac Asimov
Brooks' law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. --eponymous laws
Callahan's Principle: You can't argue with stupid. --eponymous laws
Clarke's three laws: --eponymous laws
First law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. --eponymous laws
Second law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. --eponymous laws
Third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. --eponymous laws
Comroe's principle: If a job is worth doing, the body has more than one way of doing it. --eponymous laws
Conway's Law: Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it. --eponymous laws
Dollo's Law: Evolution is not reversible. --eponymous laws
Duffy's law: Most people are wrong about most things most of the time. --eponymous laws
Duverger's law: Winner-take-all electoral systems tend to create a 2 party system, while proportional representation tends to create a multiple party system. --eponymous laws
Edwards' law: You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. --eponymous laws
Fitts's law: The time required to move from a starting position to a final target area... --eponymous laws
Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. --eponymous laws
Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. --eponymous laws
Gresham's law: Bad money drives good money out of circulation. --eponymous laws
Grimm's law: Explains correspondence between some consonants in Germanic languages vs. other Indo-European languages. --eponymous laws
Gustafson's Law: Any sufficiently large problem can be efficiently parallelized. --eponymous laws
Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation: Any statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror. --eponymous laws
Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person; they will find an easier way to do it. --eponymous laws
Hotelling's law in economics: Under some conditions, it is rational for competitors to make their products as nearly identical as possible. --eponymous laws
Hutber's law: Improvement means deterioration. --eponymous laws
Hume's Law: Normative statements cannot be deduced exclusively from descriptive statements. --eponymous laws
Kerckhoffs' law on secure cryptography: A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge. --eponymous laws
Linus's law: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. --eponymous laws
Little's law: The average number of customers in a stable system is equal to their average arrival rate, multiplied by their average time in the system. --eponymous laws
Littlewood's law: Individuals can expect miracles to happen to them, at the rate of about one per month. --eponymous laws
Macfarlane's law: You can talk faster than you can type, but you can read faster than you can listen. --eponymous laws
Metcalfe's law: The value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. --eponymous laws
Moore's law: The complexity of integrated circuits doubles every 24 months. --eponymous laws
Moynihan's law: The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. --eponymous laws
Murphy's law: If anything can go wrong, it will. -or-  If it can happen, it will happen. --eponymous laws
Occam's razor: Explanations should never multiply causes without necessity. When two explanations are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest full explanation is preferable. --eponymous laws
Reilly's law: People generally patronize the largest mall in the area. --eponymous laws
Rothbard's law: Everyone specializes in his own area of weakness. --eponymous laws
Say's law: Supply creates its own demand. --eponymous laws
Stigler's law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. --eponymous laws
Sutton's law: Go where the money is. --eponymous laws
Wirth's law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. --eponymous laws
Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. --eponymous laws
Zipf's law: The frequency of use of the nth-most-frequently-used word in any natural language is approximately inversely proportional to n. --eponymous laws
You know trail driving is no Sunday School picnic. You gotta figure your dealing with the dumbest, orneriest critter on God's green earth. Cows nothing but a bunch of trouble tied up in a leather bag, horse ain't much better --John Wayne as Will Anderson in The Cowboys
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. --Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. --Mark Twain
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. --Mark Twain
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. --Mark Twain
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. --Mark Twain
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. --Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. --Mark Twain
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. --Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. --Mark Twain
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. --Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. --Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. --Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one. --Mark Twain
All right, then, I'll go to hell. --Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. --Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. --Mark Twain
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. --Mark Twain
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. --Mark Twain
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. --Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. --Mark Twain
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. --Mark Twain
Better a broken promise than none at all. --Mark Twain
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. --Mark Twain
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? --Mark Twain
Buy land, they're not making it anymore. --Mark Twain
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. --Mark Twain
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. --Mark Twain
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. --Mark Twain
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. --Mark Twain
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. --Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. --Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. --Mark Twain
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. --Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. --Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. --Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education. --Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. --Mark Twain
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. --Mark Twain
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. --Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. --Mark Twain
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. --Mark Twain
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. --Mark Twain
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. --Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. --Mark Twain
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. --Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. --Mark Twain
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. --Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. --Mark Twain
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. --Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. --Mark Twain
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. --Mark Twain
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. --Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. --Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled. --Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. --Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. --Mark Twain
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. --Mark Twain
He is now rising from affluence to poverty. --Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. --Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. --Mark Twain
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. --Mark Twain
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. --Mark Twain
I can live for two months on a good compliment. --Mark Twain
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. --Mark Twain
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. --Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. --Mark Twain
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. --Mark Twain
I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time. --Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. --Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. --Mark Twain
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. --Mark Twain
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. --Mark Twain
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. --Mark Twain
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. --Mark Twain
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. --Mark Twain
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. --Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. --Mark Twain
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. --Mark Twain
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. --Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. --Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. --Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. --Mark Twain
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. --Mark Twain
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. --Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. --Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. --Mark Twain
It is easier to stay out than get out. --Mark Twain
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. --Mark Twain
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. --Mark Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. --Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. --Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. --Mark Twain
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. --Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. --Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. --Mark Twain
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. --Mark Twain
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. --Mark Twain
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. --Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. --Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. --Mark Twain
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. --Mark Twain
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. --Mark Twain
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. --Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. --Mark Twain
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. --Mark Twain
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. --Mark Twain
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. --Mark Twain
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. --Mark Twain
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. --Mark Twain
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. --Mark Twain
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. --Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. --Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. --Mark Twain
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. --Mark Twain
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. --Mark Twain
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. --Mark Twain
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. --Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. --Mark Twain
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." --Mark Twain
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. --Mark Twain
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. --Mark Twain
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. --Mark Twain
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. --Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. --Mark Twain
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. --Mark Twain
Prosperity is the best protector of principle. --Mark Twain
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. --Mark Twain
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. --Mark Twain
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. --Mark Twain
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. --Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. --Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. --Mark Twain
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. --Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. --Mark Twain
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word. --Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. --Mark Twain
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. --Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. --Mark Twain
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. --Mark Twain
The lack of money is the root of all evil. --Mark Twain
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. --Mark Twain
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. --Mark Twain
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. --Mark Twain
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. --Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. --Mark Twain
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. --Mark Twain
The Public is merely a multiplied "me." --Mark Twain
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. --Mark Twain
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. --Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. --Mark Twain
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. --Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. --Mark Twain
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. --Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. --Mark Twain
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. --Mark Twain
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. --Mark Twain
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. --Mark Twain
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happinesses to the unhappy. --Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. --Mark Twain
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. --Mark Twain
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. --Mark Twain
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. --Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. --Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. --Mark Twain
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work. --Mark Twain
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. --Mark Twain
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. --Mark Twain
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. --Mark Twain
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. --Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. --Mark Twain
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. --Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. --Mark Twain
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. --Mark Twain
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world. --Mark Twain
We are all alike, on the inside. --Mark Twain
We have the best government that money can buy. --Mark Twain
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. --Mark Twain
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. --Mark Twain
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. --Mark Twain
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. --Mark Twain
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. --Mark Twain
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. --Mark Twain
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. --Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth. --Mark Twain
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. --Mark Twain
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. --Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. --Mark Twain
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. --Mark Twain
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. --Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. --Mark Twain
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. --Mark Twain
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. --Mark Twain
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. --Mark Twain
Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. --Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. --Mark Twain
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. --Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. --Mark Twain
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical. --Yogi Berra
I didn't really say everything I said. --Yogi Berra
It ain't over 'til it's over. --Yogi Berra
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. --Bertrand Russell
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. --Yogi Berra
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. --Bertrand Russell

Lessons & tips:
Aphorisms continued:
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. --Bertrand Russell
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. --Voltaire
This is like deja vu all over again. --Yogi Berra
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. --Ursula K. LeGuin
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. --Yogi Berra
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. --Pliny the Elder
If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. (as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963) --Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot just by watching. (Berra's Law) --Yogi Berra
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. --HA
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.  --Unix Fortunes
Laws of infernal dynamics:  --Unix Fortunes
An object in motion will be moving in the wrong direction.  --Unix Fortunes
An object at rest will be in the wrong place.  --Unix Fortunes
The energy required to move an object in the correct direction, or put it in the right place, will be more than you wish to expend but not so much as to make the task impossible.  --Unix Fortunes
Law of conservation of misery: Misery is never created or destroyed, just transferred.  --Unix Fortunes
Asimov's three laws of robotics:  see below --eponymous laws
First law: A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. --Isaac Asimov
Second law: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. --Isaac Asimov
Third law: A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. --Isaac Asimov
When you have been to other galaxies in your mind, there's nothing so exciting about visiting Peoria. --Isaac Asimov
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.  --Isaac Asimov
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.  --Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.  --Isaac Asimov
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.  --Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.  --Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.  --Isaac Asimov
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.  --Isaac Asimov
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.  --Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'  --Isaac Asimov
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but on --Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.  --Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. --Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. --Isaac Asimov
A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written. --Isaac Asimov
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. --Isaac Asimov
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. --Isaac Asimov
The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. --Isaac Asimov
Lucat bene derdego, Honit busis inero, Honomo, demis trux, summit cousin, summit dux. --Carlos Castenada
O civili, sit ergo fortibus es in ero.  O nobile, deus trux! Vadis innem? Causam dux.
Seville Dare Dago, Tausen Busis Inaro. Demsno Bus Es Demstrux. Summit Cousin, Summit Dux.
Do not practice petty deceptions. --William F. Buckley
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. --William F. Buckley
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. --William F. Buckley
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. --William F. Buckley
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. --William F. Buckley
All adventure is now reactionary. --William F. Buckley
Insolens verbum, tanquam scopulum, evitare. (Avoid an unusual word like a rock, Julius Caesar, quoted by Coleridge p.149.) --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Caesar advised all writers, "to avoid, as the seaman avoids a rock, any word that isn't well known and commonly used." (ut tamquam scopolum sic vitas inauditum et insolens verbum.
Anger is more useful than despair. --Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3
The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
Practice increases willpower capacity. --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
The brain’s store of willpower is depleted when people control their thoughts, feelings or impulses, or when they modify their behavior in pursuit of goals. --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
People who successfully accomplish one task requiring self-control are less persistent on a second, seemingly unrelated task.  --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
Other activities that deplete willpower include resisting food or drink, suppressing emotional responses, restraining aggressive or sexual impulses, taking exams and trying to impress someone. --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
Task persistence is reduced when people are stressed or tired from exertion or lack of sleep. --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
Planning and self-control are sensitive to small changes in blood sugar.  --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
Exerting self-control lowers blood sugar, which reduces the capacity for further self-control. --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
People who drink a glass of lemonade between completing one task requiring self-control and beginning a second one perform equally well on both tasks. --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
In the short term, you should spend your limited willpower budget wisely. --"Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind," NYT, 080402w.
Chicken snakes can't hurt you, but they can scare you so bad you'll hurt yourself. --John Henry Faulk
The press is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. --A.J. Liebling
Incompetence and aimlessness, corruption and disloyalty, panic and ultimate disaster must come to any people denied an assured access to the facts. --Walter Lippman
If you cannot say something cheery then do not say anything.
The man who has no imagination has no wings. --Muhammad Ali
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. --Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. --Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. --Muhammad Ali
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. --Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up. --Muhammad Ali
Carpe diem. --Dead Poets Society
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this. --Henry David Thoreau
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. --Leonardo da Vinci
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. --Emmet Fox
Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?  Today is a gift.  That's why we call it the present. --Babatunde Olatunji
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. --William MacNeile Dixon
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment. --Henry David Thoreau
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. --Jan Glidewell
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. --Cherokee Indian Proverb
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. --Euripides, Alexander
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. --Alexander Graham Bell
Nothing is worth more than this day.  --Goethe
The living moment is everything.   --DHL
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. --Montaigne
Nothing ever gets anywhere.  The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere.  The moment is the only thing that counts. --Janet Chapman
Forever is composed of nows. --Edward Debono
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. --Margaret Bonnano
Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. --Alan Watts
It's not what if, it's what now. --unkn
We are always getting ready to live but never living. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. --Jean de la Bruyere
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. --unkn
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. --James Thurber
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future.  When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. --unkn
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. --Abraham Maslow
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.  It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. --D.H. Lawrence
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 that are blooming outside our windows today. --Dale Carnegie
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. --The Music Man
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. --Euripides, Alexander
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. --Abraham Lincoln
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. --Dale Carnegie
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. --Goethe
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. --Goethe
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. --Horace
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. --Robert Louis Stevenson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. --Edward Debono
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. --Wayne Dyer
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. --Wayne Dyer
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. --unkn
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. --unkn
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. --Buddha
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. --Francis Bacon
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in  --Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.  p 266,  A New Earth --Eckart Tolle, The Power of Now, A New Earth
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.  The Power of Now --Eckart Tolle, The Power of Now, A New Earth
History is more or less bunk.  It's tradition.  We don't want tradition.  We want to live in the present and the only history that's worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. --Henry Ford
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough troubles of its own.  Matthew 6:24 --book of Matthew
The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty . . . the better I feel about the quality of my work. --Wayne Dyer
You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God. --Fenelon (Author of The Seeking Heart)
Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need. --Fenelon (Author of The Seeking Heart)
The core principle for feeling at peace in the present moment is to act or accept, but never stay stuck." --John Kuypers
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ to me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment. --Mother Teresa
There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who can do it to the limit of their ability.  We can be completely present.   We can be all here.  We can give all our attention to the opportunity before us. --Mark Van Doren
We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us. --Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.  The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. --Winston Churchill
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end they always fall. Think of it.  Always. --Mahatma Ghandi
Look at what happened in the Past.  Learn something valuable from it.  Do things differently in the present. --Stephen Johnson
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. --E.B. White
The bottom's no good for anybody.  In this kind of implosion, if you don't react very quickly, you lose control of absolutely everything. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
What use is happiness when it's not shared. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
A man who looks at the sea turns his back on the misfortunes of the world. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
It's no use being disagreeable. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
I think even the most seasoned terrorists really have no idea what has happened to them. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
I choose to be on the side of my ability, and I make my convictions my allies. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
I refuse to consider the world as a battlefield. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
I trust anyone who requires a little of my blood to purify my soul about as much as I would trust a scorpion. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
Anyone who tells you that a greater symphony exists than the breath in your body is lying. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
If you start from the principle that your worst enemy is the very person who tries to sow hatred in your heart, you're halfway to happiness. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
Keep your sorrows to yourself.  They're all you have when you've lost everything else. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
Why favor the sacrifice of the righteous in order to permit the less righteous to survive them? --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
For the real bastard isn't the man who doesn't know his father; it's the man who doesn't know his tradition. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
I don't believe in prophecies that favor suffering over common sense. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
The first words and deeds at dawn, it's said, usually shape the rest of the day. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
He who dreams too much forgets to live. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
A man can live on love and fresh water, on crumbs and promises, but he can never survive insults. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
The instant when you really learn to hate is the one in which you become aware of your impotence. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
For some, Paradise is at the end of man's life; for me, it's at the tips of your fingers. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
There's no happiness without dignity, and no dream is possible without freedom. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
Men invented war; women invented resistance. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
They can take everything you own, but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world. --Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. --Oscar Wilde
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them. --Michael Caine
Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight. --Rosabeth Moss Kanter
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. --Carlos Castenada
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances --Bruce Barton
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. --Billy Joel
Within the laws of nature nothing is too wonderful to be true. --Michael Faraday
Act well your part, there well your honor lies. --Alexander Pope
Don't listen to the bullshit. --Joe Wilson
To be enlightened is to lighten up. --Mike Myers
Hakuna matata. --from "The Lion King"
Uva uvum vivendo varium fit.  (A grape ripens when it sees another grape.) --Larry McMurtry, "Lonesome Dove"
Nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. --Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey"
In this world, Elwood (she always called me Elwood), you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.  For years I was smart.  I recommend pleasant. --Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey"
Life is like the swift passage of a sparrow through a banquet hall. --Bede
The gift of another day.
When people are free to do what they please they imitate each other. --Eric Hoffer, The True Believer,
When you find yourself going down the wrong road, tell yourself, "Not helpful." --Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
When life out of focus return to basic of life. --Pat Morita in "The Karate Kid"
To depart from evil is understanding.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. --Proverbs 1:7
To find wisdom, first find God. --Proverbs 2:6-12
Wise people accept advice. --Proverbs 13:10
Wise people boast not in their wisdom but in knowing God. --Jeremiah 9:23-24
The wise understand God’s ways and follow his guidance. --Hosea 14:9
Wise people build on the solid foundation of God and his Word. --Matthew 7:24-27
God’s wisdom is different from the world’s wisdom. --1 Corinthians 2:1-16
God will give us wisdom if we ask for it. --James 1:5
Time is an illusion invented by the Swiss to sell watches. --Katherine Deibel: Rules of Life
The answer to 'the Chicken or the Egg?' is turtles all the way down. --Katherine Deibel: Rules of Life
When it comes to removing the 'Do not remove tag' on a pillow, do what a Zen master would do. --Katherine Deibel: Rules of Life
Happiness is cool grass on your belly and a yellow dandelion nearby to eat. --Katherine Deibel: Rules of Life
From time to time, walk out in the mystical moist night air and look up in perfect silence at the stars. --Katherine Deibel: Rules of Life
Everything will be okay in the morning. Just close your eyes. --Katherine Deibel: Rules of Life
Accept that what is done is done. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Don’t dwell on the past. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Don’t live in the future. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Dress like today is important. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Have a little space for yourself each day. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Get used to stepping outside your comfort zone. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Have dignity. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Know when to let go – when to walk away. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Look after yourself. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Prune your stuff frequently. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Aim to be the very best at everything you do – not second best. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Have a plan. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Draw the lines around yourself. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Always have someone – or something – that is pleased to see you. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Put something back. --Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Believe that something inside is superior to circumstances. --Robert Collier , Secret of the Ages
Happiness is often misunderstood as arising from external circumstances.
The mind, hungry for order, creates impossible tasks for itself.
Learn to shift gears. --Doris Weymouth
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. --Wayne Dyer
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. --Werner Heisenberg
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. --Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. --Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool. --Richard Feynman
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. --Robert Louis Stevenson
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matt 6:34 --book of Matthew
Choice of attention -- to pay attention to this and ignore that -- is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.  In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. --WH Auden
Hang on tightly, let go lightly.  (Manfred) --film "The Croupier"
Gold Rule: Quit when you are ahead.  (Manfred) --film "The Croupier"
Beating the boys won't make you popular or happy. (Laura Quinn quoting her mother) --film "Flawless"
Life is for living.  It's there for the taking.  Grant yourself no regrets. (Hobbs to Quinn) --film "Flawless"
It's a remarkable world out there.  Will you be a giver or a taker? (Hobbs to Quinn) --film "Flawless"
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. --Tom Robbins
Complete the race without leaving the gate. --Chateaubriand
Do not try this at home... ever. --Mythbusters
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world. (Walt Whitman) --Dead Poets Society
In breve tempus aetatis, satis longum est, bene honesteque vivendum.
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. --Mark Twain
Rehearse, Score, Valuate, Perform. --RSVP Cycles of Creativity
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.  --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. --Randy Pausch, the Last Lecture
A goal without a plan is just a wish. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Get mad, then get over it. --Colin Powell
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --Albert Einstein
Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon. --Winston Churchill
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. --Carl Sagan
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. --Aristotle
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. --F. Scott Fitzgerald
And the day came when the risk to remain in a tight bud was more painful that the risk it took to blossom. --Anais Nin
Get busy living, or get busy dying. --Andy Dufresne, the Shawshank Redemption
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. --Isaac Newton
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. --Confucius
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. --Sun-tzu
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. --Winston Churchill
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something --Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. --Sir Isaac Newton
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. --Ayn Rand
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. --John F. Kennedy
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. --Confuscious
But there are certain times in your life when I guess you're not supposed to have anybody, you know? There are certain doors you have to go through alone. --Joe vs. the Volcano
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. --Gatsby, the Great Gatsby
Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? --Coleman Cox
My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement. --Joe vs. the Volcano
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. --Ambrose Bierce
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. --Henri Louis Bergson
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference. --Robert Frost, the Road Not Taken
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. --Thomas Jefferson
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. --Harrison Ford
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
A man doesn’t learn to understand anything unless he loves it. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. --Albert Einstein
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. --Marcus Aurelis Antonius
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. --Charles Darwin
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. --Robert Brault
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. --Malcolm S. Forbes
The best way to predict your future is to create it. --Peter Drucker
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. --Sir Francis Bacon
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. --Isaac Asimov
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies, all of those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who will do well under the new. --Machiavelli
The beginning is the most important part of the work. --Plato
Chance favors the prepared mind. --Louis Pasteur
Give me a fulcrum and I shall move the world. --Archimedes
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. --Francisco d’Anconia, Atlas Shrugged
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. --Robert Frost
Imagination rules the world. --Napoleon Bonaparte
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. --Dale Carnegie
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. --Charles Babbage
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. --Plato
If you are going to go through hell, keep going. --Winston Churchill
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. --Napoleon Bonaparte
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. --Ernest Hemingway
Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne! --Winston Churchill
Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. --Richard Bach
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. --John W. Gardner
Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the beautious land.
March to the beat of a distant drummer.
A sentence is a complete thought.
The best reason to do something I do not want to do is that it is in my way.
One thing at a time and that done well is a mighty good rule as Minnie can tell.
Keep your promises.
Finish what you start.
Do or do not, there is no try. --Yoda

Resources:
Read.
Think.
Read some more.
Repeat.

Jul 18, 2009, 05:21PM PDT | 1 comment | 2 cheers