September 2003 Quotes
Worry is interest paid in advance
on a debt that never comes due.
David Mamet
People's behavior makes sense if
you think about it in terms of
their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann
The bees got their governmental
system settled millions of years ago,
but the human race is still groping.
Don Marquis
When the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
Be yourself is about
the worst advice you can
give to some people.
Thomas L Masson
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
W Somerset Maugham
A good leader is a person who takes a
little more than his share of the blame and a
little less than his share of the credit.
Words are, of course, the most
powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
To every problem there is already a
solution, whether you know it or not. To
every sum in mathematics there is
already a correct answer, whether the
mathematician has found it or not.
Glenville Kleiser
Men, like nails, lose their
usefulness when they lose
direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in
the memory as the wish to forget it.
Montaigne
Memory
There must be a happy medium somewhere between
being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
Doug Larson
Newspapers will run a headline: 'Shark kills
human.' You never see a headline from the
other perspective: 'Man swims in shark-infested
water, forgets he's shark food.'
Gary Larson
One can never pay in gratitude; one can
pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi
If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we would find in each person's life sorrow
and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only gracious way to accept an insult
is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it;
if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't
laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
J Russel Lynes
The point is not to take the world's opinion
as a guiding star but to go one's way in life
and working unerringly, neither depressed
by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav Mahler
You're not supposed to be so blind with
patriotism that you can't face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of
darkness, and the word happy would lose
its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
Carl Gustav Jung
Adversities do not make a man frail.
They show what sort of man he is.
Thomas Kempis
You are not responsible for the
programming you picked up in childhood.
However, as an adult, you are one
hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
Ken Keyes, Jr
There are two freedoms -- the false, where
a man is free to do what he likes; the true,
where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley
