USEFUL QUOTES...

[EskimoBluDay]

Here are a few that seem to go together:

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think
only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the
solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
-- Carl Sagan

I do things I don't know how to do, so that I might learn how to do
them.
-- Picasso

[Giyana]

EBD, What a wonderful collection of quotes. Thanks,

Gi

[EskimoBluDay]

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not
only plan, but also believe.
-- Anatole France

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not
a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-- William Jennings Bryan

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing
still.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

[EskimoBluDay]

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to
bear are those which never happen.
-- James Russell Lowell

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask,
'Compared to what?'
-- Sydney Harris

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything,
the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is,
in the long run, the easiest.
-- Henry Miller

The grass may be greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to
cut.
-- Little Richard

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because
thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy

[EskimoBluDay]

Half the things that people do not succeed in, are through fear of
making the attempt.
-- James Northcote

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
-- Elbert Hubbard

[wired]

One from the people of my homeland.... Ehara taku toa, he toa takitahi. Engari he toa, takitini takitini. [My strength is not from myself alone, but from the strength of the group]

And so relevant to being on here me thinks...

[LuckyV2]

If you like what you're getting keep doing what you're doing. If you don't like what you're getting keep doing what you're doing and you will keep getting what you're getting. Today I like what I am getting so I will keep doing what I am doing.

Some guy in Columbia Missouri always said that when he was done sharing. It really even today, I have to be careful on what I am doing.

[Hopefloats]

LOVE these quotes..
Thank you

[Hopefloats]

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[EskimoBluDay]

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting
otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
-- Theodore Rubin

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
-- John Sales

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you
desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you
will.
-- George Bernard Shaw

[EskimoBluDay]

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful
objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill
gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but
there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform
a yellow spot into the sun.
-- Pablo Picasso

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

[EskimoBluDay]

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If you must kidnap ideas, at least don't murder them.
-- Arch

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon

[EskimoBluDay]

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
-- Victor Frankl

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
-- Mary Wilson Little

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at
the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.
-- Dorothy Nevill

[EskimoBluDay]

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying
about one year ago today."
-- Rotarian

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays
no attention to criticism.
-- anon

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux

[EskimoBluDay]

Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-- Dan Zadra

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
-- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having
lived authentically and fully.
-- Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004

There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one
of them.
-- Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006

[Biker Bill]

Great post EBD.

[Giyana]

EBD is good at this stuff isn't he!

[EskimoBluDay]

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are
performed not by strength, but perseverance.
-- Samuel Johnson

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do while
laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any
difference.
--Buddhist Saying

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you
do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

[EskimoBluDay]

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor
hand well.
-- H.T. Leslie

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of
value.
-- Albert Einstein

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the
fewness of my wants.
-- J. Brotherton

[EskimoBluDay]

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to
laugh at when you grow old.
-- Edward W. Howe

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real
strength.
-- Ralph W. Sockman

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-- M. Kathleen Casey

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting
thing he has got."
-- Josh Billings