--Grandpa Perry
"Give me a firm point on which to stand, and I will move the earth."
--Archimedes
"I must live life as if I were a hero -- that I must pass through all the difficulties which confront me, because they are only my inevitable circles of fire."
--The Vampire Lestat, The Tale of the Body Thief"
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
--Phillipians 4:8
(I wrote this quote down years before the movies came out):
"Many who live deserve death. And many who are dead deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too quick to deal out death in punishment."
--Gandalf The Fellowship of the Ring
"The more clearly a problem is defined the easier it is to solve."
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-- Will Rogers
"Six ways to kill an idea:
1) It will never work
2) We can't afford it
3) We've never done it that way before
4) We're not ready for it
5) It's not our responsibility
6) We're doing fine without it."
"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."
--B.C. Forbes
"It is useless to desire more time if you are already wasting what little you have."
--James Allen
"A set back is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
"Our problem is not that we aim to high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit."
--Aristotle
"All business proceeds on beliefs or judgements of probabilities; and not on certainties."
--Charles W. Eliot
"Good luck is another name of tenacity of purpose"
--Emerson
"“The evolution of life has been a more spectacular process than even the most way-out creation myth could possibly describe.”
Jostein Gaardner, "Maya"
“The applause for the big bang was heard 15 billion years
after the explosion.”
Jostein Gaardner, "Maya"
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