[COMPILATION COPYRIGHT BELONGS TO REZA GANJAVI]

General Quotes (not in any particular order) - compiled by Reza Ganjavi

UPDATES AT BOTTOM

"Karl Rove was an architect of a political strategy that has left the country more divided, the special interests more powerful, and the American people more shut out from their government than any time in memory," Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama said.

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil,
it multiplies it.

Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor
establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do
not murder hate, In fact violence merely increases hate.

So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding
deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive
out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love
can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Moreover, a man who habitually speaks and writes correctly is one who has cured himself, not merely of conscious and deliberate lying (and the task is much
more difficult and at least as important) of unconscious mendacity. -- Aldous Huxley, Words and Their Meanings

We are what we think, having become what we thought. The Dhammapada.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. Confucius.

Live life to its tears. Albert Camus

A friend may well be reckoned a masterpiece of nature. Emerson.

From joy springs all creation, By joy it is sustained, Towards joy it proceeds, And unto joy it returns. - The Upanishads.

Freedom is found in no form of government; it is in the heart of the free man. He takes it with him everywhere. The vile man takes his servitude everywhere. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whoever is planted in the Tao, will not be rooted up. Whoever embraces the Tao, will not slip away. Her name will be held in honor, from generation to generation. Let the Tao be present in your life and you will become genuine. Let it be present in your family and your family will flourish. Let it be present in your country and your country will be an example to all countries in the world. Let it be present in the universe and the universe will sing. How do I know this is true? By looking inside myself. (Written by Lao-tzu From a translation by S. Mitchell)

"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better." Barbara Pletcher

Love is god, god is love. Jesus Christ

A relationship with trust makes all the difference. Dr. James Christian

My teaching is easy to understand, yet no one understands it; my practice is easy to practice, yet no one practices it – Lao Tzu in Tao Te Ching

"Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow". -Proverbs 25:18

Take the middle path. Gautama Buddha

Listen to people's words, (examine it), and take the good ones. - The Koran

Kas nakharad poshte man joz nakhoone angoshte man (no-one will scratch my back except the nail of my finger)

They asked the great Persian sage Loghman whom he learned manners from - he replied "form the un-mannered"...

Towards the end of his life Emerson said he now sees that most of his worries were unfounded.

If you have love you have the most important thing in a humans life. Angela Jaggi

The greatest sin is fear. The greatest courage is patience. Ali-ebne-abitaleb

-------
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King - Why we can't wait
-------

Never attack in anger. Zorro

To give power to another is to destroy oneself - Macchhiavelli

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character - Horace Greely

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system." Niccolo Macchhiavelli 1513

Don't worry about the grade; just enjoy the class. Dr. James Christian

If you take away jealousy, most people will be left with nothing. Catherine's grandmother.

A good reason to reach out to others: to share our warmth and caring and love - S. Jeffers

Traveling is good. Even if you don't have such a good time when you return home you enjoy: "ah, home sweet home" - Manna

Have no fear. The world was changed by courageous people. Peyman Azad

Treat every day as if it were your last. Shahryar (a.k.a. khooross).

“The First Amendment has to be strong enough to protect scumbags like me; if it will protect me, then it will protect all of you, because I’m the worst.” — Larry Flynt

A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. L.Ron Hubbard

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." Oscar Wilde

Proverb: Don’t throw your pearls before the swine. (Precious things to you don’t throw it to people who won’t appreciate it or quash it or be jealous…)

Honorable Pregerson: [wrote this as he spoke it – may have slight wording inaccuracies].

He said if this is what being a lawyer is, I don’t want to be a lawyer…. lot of money spent because people couldn’t work out some basic things that can be worked out.

"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power." (Jacob Bronowski)

morghi ke anjir mikhoreh mengharesh kajeh -- persian

Don't hurry. Life always gives you enough time to do what you need to do. Reza Afshar

I don't need the world. Basically the world is trashy. James Christian

Higher education is an invalidation of the individual, telling him that he does not count without it. - G.Gautama

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think - John Stuart Mill

I used to want buyers for my words. Now I wish someone would buy me away from words. - Molana Jalaluddin Rumi

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. -Bertrand Russel

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Anonymous

This cat has no money – she is completely poor – she relies on me. Jackie Griffiths

They will not say big things unless there is little things. Persian.

Being tired is not a good excuse for being tired. Phil Maynes.

“People are so geeky about their computer because we forced them to be (thanks to Bill)…………
gang, it's all about the ride not about assembling that stuff”. Scott McNealy

Civilizatinmeans, above all, an unwilingness to inflict unnecessary pain. Harold Laski

"Never argue with a fool, because bystanders can't tell you apart." Chet’s old colleague

"The minority is always right." Friedrich Nietzsche

Let's see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plan your work and work your plan. Andre Aghassi

"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach become critics."

"I wanna find myself a girl ... Who can show me what laughter means" - Jackson Brown

Mans Mind; stretched to a new idea never goes back to it's original dimension. Unknown

The Tibetan monk said that all you really need is a robe, a bowl, and maybe, a pair of chopsticks

What's the difference between LA and yogurt? Yogurt has an active culture.

All technology should be treated as guilty unless proven innocent. Jerry Mander

Have sex only if you love the person - Beatrice Wood

"The only thing of importance will be the traces of love we have left behind, when all of a sudden we need to depart." Albert Schweitzer, Humanitarian (1875-1965)

The idea that there is one people in possession of the truth, one answer to the world's ills, or one solution to humanity's needs has done immense harm throughout history. Kofi Annan.

A lot can be accomplished with 3 magic words: I "respect" you, I "appreciate" you, I "agree" with you. - Marty Nemko (mnemko@well.com)

My father and I are one. (a fact).

“they can only hurt you as much as you’re in conflict with yourself.” Sarah Satz
You should never be so occpied not to have time to live. (german saying)

"Out of clutter, find simplicity - From discord find harmony - In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"-  Mark Twain

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -   Oscar Wilde

We don’t think about not winning, so you know, it’s hard for me to get my head wrapped around giving up on something. Pat Russo

I will never *retire* because there is too much work to be done to help others have what I have and to save what we take for granted for others in the future. - Larry Deack

"All you need in life is a credit card and a luggage - not even a luggage really". Eva Maria Joelli

When the father's poor, the son is skillful. When father is skillful, the son is rich. When father is rich, the son is stupid. When the father is stupid, the son is poor. (back to the top) - Angelo Gilardino

"All happy families are happy alike, all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way". So begins Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
 
To be in love is not love. "iceberg"

"After 20 years of legal studies I can say definitively that with a correct interpretation of Islam human rights can be respected. The problem is the interpretation," "Children are the future, the hope. When they learn to question things, things can change," she said in her small office surrounded by law books and bouquets sent by well-wishers. Shirin Ebadi

Promise of a good man is an obligation - Italian saying

The amount of love that gets exchanged between the kids and the grandparents and their aunt is just unbelievable!:)  

Network computing is one word, if you can't have one without the other! Scott McNealy.

Some people take your energy, some people give you energy, and with some people there's a synergy: creating energy together - G. Gautama

The miracle of this land (India) is that the poor still smile.

"If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life."  Abraham Maslow

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

A person with alertness will never be jobless and hence be without resources or without viability. G. Gautama

"No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long." Lyndon Johnson

The worst weakness is to be hardheaded and not listen. My dad

Out here everyone is nice to you but they don’t mean it. Jonathan Byrnside -- about the West Coast

Success is only possible in a good team . Angela Jaggi

Peace Pilgrim says what one needs in life is an avenue of work to earn a livelihood, an avenue of exercise to the body fit and an avenue of service.Third, if you haven't yet found your avocation, explore in an inexpensive manner, not paying a fortune.

"Investors have time on their side..... so be patient with your selling......and, be patient with your buying as well." Blockstogo

"I have a 90 year old grandmother who can do everything better than every woman I know." Eva Joelli

The world is 2 days - a Persian saying.

Planning is everything; the plan is nothing. Dwight D. Eisenhower

" It is my view that the Vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of Humankind." Albert Einstein (from his letter to THE VEGETARIAN WATCH-TOWER)

"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute." Charles Darwin, naturalist - from Descent of Man

"you can tell a guy to go to hell tomorrow, you don't give up the right, just keep your mouth shut today and see if you feel the same way tomorrow." A tip given to Warren Buffet.
 
"Thou shalt not kill, for life is given to all by God, and that which God has given, let not man take away. For I tell you truly, from one Mother proceeds all that lives upon the earth. Therefore, he who kills, kills his brother. And from him will the Earthly Mother turn away, and will pluck from him her quickening breasts. And he will be shunned by her angels, and Satan will have his dwelling in his body. And the flesh of slain beasts in his body will become his own tomb. For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats of the body of death. For in his blood every drop of their blood turns to poison; in his breath their breath to stink; in his flesh their flesh to boils; in his bones their bones to chalk; in his bowels their bowels to decay; in his eyes their eyes to scales; in his ears their ears to waxy issue. And their death will become his death." (from Book One The Essene Gospel of Peace (Found In Vatican Library 1930))
 
"I have, from an early age, renounced eating meat. The time will come when we will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of humans." Leonardo da Vinci
 
"Those who kill and eat animals for food will be more prone than Vegetarians to torture and kill their fellow man." "For as long as men massacre Animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap Joy and Love." Pythagoras of Samos, Greek philosopher

"The only way out is through" Robert Frost

It only takes a second to be nice - Estrada (actor)

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human and disorder is our worst enemy. Hesoid, 8th Century BC

Next time bring me in your guitar - CNW

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know that place for the first time. -- TS Eliot

"A work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity." Rainer Maria Rilke

"Risk taking is at the heart of learning". Jack Miller

There was another poem from an old Persian poet (may be Sa’di) that read:

Teachers’ lessons, if whispered with affection

Would bring the ditching student to school on Friday [like western Sunday]

"The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads global economy" Obama
 

Compare each person’s today with his yesterday.
Don’t compare person with person.
Kids, fruits that get ripe in different times.

Dr. Yamini-Sharif

"He who works with his hands is a workman.
He who works with his hands and his head, is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart, is an artist." Francis of Assisi   

“Yeki bood yeki nabood” (one was one wasn’t) (used as “once upon a time” to start stories).

You have to have a healthy ego before you can transcend your ego - Kathleen Kesson

"They have taken us much farther down the road toward an intrusive, 'big brother'-style government — toward the dangers prophesied by George Orwell in his book '1984' — than anyone ever thought would be possible in the United States of America... In my opinion, it makes no more sense to launch an assault on our civil liberties as the best way to get at terrorists than it did to launch an invasion of Iraq as the best way to get at Osama bin Laden" Al Gore (10Nov2003)

"Noteworthy are not only the serious acts of great and noble men: I believe that what they do in hours of recreation and play is also worthy of attention." - Xenophon, "The Feast of Kallias"

Life is a high-risk occupation - David Purpel

"I know that you hate the whole state of Texas. I do to," she wrote to Jacqueline Kennedy from Austin in January 1964. "I wish I lived in Washington, D.C. where maybe I could maybe see you standing on your porch. I am determined to move there as soon as I can. I would feel safer there."  (Jane Dryden, a dogged and dramatic 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week for six months straight.)

Successful people are the ones who stick with it. Shadi Ganjavi

 "Success is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy the ride." Anonymous

All religions start as critiques of society - David Purpel

"I have to believe in god because I need it for living" - Angela Mancina

If you eat melon you have to put up with the shiver. - Persian saying

"Pursue the small utopias... nature, music, friendship, love" Kupferberg

"It's a luxury to not have a car" - Marianne Hubscher

We don’t want gold, we want health. -- Mom

if you have love you have the most important thing in a humans. Angela Jaggi

It is as natural for the eye to see as it is for the mind to aquire knowledge, and any effort in either case not only is useless but defeats the end in view. Dr. William Bates

Pavarotti was the best-selling classical artist, with more than 100 million records sold since the 1960s, and he had the first classical album to reach No. 1 on the pop charts.

I wish the whole world could be Brockwood. Michael R. Rogers
Struggling is putting pressure in the wrong spot. Angel Romero

Part of being a romantic fool is the risk you’re taking and enjoying the risk Rik G.

Be casual, have good time, don’t act out of greed, listen to your heart, pay attention, don’t let your mind confuse your heart. Reza Jozi

“Grammer is not something that’s against you.” Sibylle Felix

How do you listen to others?  As if they were your Master speaking his cherised last words.
--Hafiz

my schedule is free for the rest of my life until I fill it. Babak cyrus

I could live anywhere with a partner. Cindy s.

“dominion and liberty are two incompatible words...” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

From the power that binds all creatures none is free except the man who wins self-mastery! Goethe

It''s rainning, it's peaceful day, what else can I want? - Alkis Yannakopoulos

"All the sisters of mercy they are not departed or gone, they were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on..." Leonard Cohen

>A great teacher passed three things on to me, which I now offer to Reza:
>1.  Always take your work seriously.
>2.  Always take others seriously.
>3.  Never take yourself too seriously.

I told her an old county (at least here in Texas) expression that I grew up hearing:
"You can't win a puking contest with a buzzard."  She kept trying, though.

Silence is sign of consent (Persian saying).

However, prosecutor Manuela Comodi said violent crimes can lack a motive. "We live at a time where violence is purposeless," she told the jury at the American, Amanda Knox trial in Italy.

Persistence pays.

"I guess the world is dominated by barbarians pretending to be civilized." Sitanshu Kumar

there are only happy champions in the saanenland. patrick lang (gstaad my love)

you are responsible for each drop of water not the wave. (a guitar teacher)

"How come the Mac group produced Mac and the people at IBM produced the PCjr? We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build."  -- Steve Jobs, Feb.1985

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

"that's the best, if people talked together we'd have no war - if they just talked together"  HANHART LAURA

Indeed, anything you ask in my name, I will do!" John 14:12-14

Whoever has more roof, has more snow. (Persian)

Each person, his own work, his own load, and fire to his own barn. (Persian children game)

There's a thin line between richn and poor, wise and foolish, lucky and unlucky. Bamdad Shakiba

You only have to think as long as the time is not right - Eva Maria Joelli

`Never stand in the way of a falling piano' - said a trader from a U.S. bank in London of the euro's demise.
I am so hungry I can eat a goldfish (Terri's grandma).
He's as old as god's dog (Terri's grandpa).

Whereever there's an artist theres always a creation !!!!! Anu D.

Answer of the fools is silence…  Javabe ablahan khamooshist.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own <3

Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil. Friedrich niche

I can’t give you right directions b/c you might go the wrong way. (Heathrow staff)

Overeating makes one dumb (F. Maseeh)

“don't try to fight the market makers. it is an uneven playing field. One smart geezer told me it was like the wild west only the mm's have the guns and there ain't no sherrif.” x

thinking is curiosity - Lilia Karimi (12 )

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle

wow 400 mails, and there is so much more to say... -- Angela Jaggi

You only teach who you are. Dr. Kathleen Kesson

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

What you are is so loud that I can't hear what you say.  Thorou?

I have 2 rules for my friends when they come to visit at "my" home: 1) completely ignore me (because I may be working) and 2) make yourself completely at home - which means help yourself to everything...  Rob Warren

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's  relativity.  - Albert Einstein

Don’t become needy of anyone - Manna

"People don't have perspective -- they're all looking at what happened in the past." Doug Foreman

“Never make a enemy – even an ant might bite.” Dad.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” (Thomas J. Watson, Sr.)

I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde

 “It accumulates drop by drop - suddenly becomes a sea.” Persian

"Noone will scratch my back except the nail of my finger." Persian

 "I'm consistently humbled by the generosity of the American public. Every year I ask, and without blinking, you open your hearts and wallets," Lewis said (The Jerry (news - web sites) Lewis (news) Labor Day Telethon received a record $60.5 million in nationwide pledges during its annual fund-raising drive for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.)

Las palabras se las lleva el viento, lo escrito queda. (words are taken away by the wind, what is written remains).

By keeping its positions ambiguous — and its options open until the last possible moment — Russia has achieved so much with so little. Doug Birch (AP)

"Wash the pages if you're our lesson-mate, since the lesson of love is not in a book" (beshooy oragh agar hamdarse maii - ke darse eshgh dar daftar nabashad). Hafez.

If you can solve it why get angry, if you can't solve it, why get angry - Dalai lama (translated from Farsi quote)

It’s very important to spend time with onself – you can learn a lot – and relax. C.A.

Usually if you cant explain things you gotto look (for the reason) either in sex or money - Robert Vandenberg

The split-second which lays between  the bud and the Rose can know only those, who became Rose. Reshad Field

Love - and you don't need any laws. Love - and all what you do will be right. Love - and you know. (Katharina Vogel and Augustinus).

"A merry heart does good as a medicine" Melinda quoting Proverbs

"Within 10 minutes I saw 10 people I hadn't seen for 20 years". John Van Soest (about high-school reunion)

"Do good and throw in Dajled (river) and god will give it back to you in the desert"... Persian

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." William Morris.

"a measure of a man is by his generosity" Sholeh Alagheband Veiseh

"Programmers continue to find a more intricate way of solving a problem that didn't exist before." Andreas L.

Your confessions are everybody's confessions. Luis Perez.

Nietzsche described his position in life as: against meaninglessness and against moral value judjments.
"I really didn't know what the hell I wanted to do with my life...I said no, I couldn't. I looked sloppy and disheveled. But she insisted and so I did. I
took a test and did OK." - John Backus (inventor of FORTRAN in 1954) on interviewing for IBM.

You can not eat an apple all at once, you’ll choke if you do.

It's so beautiful to study and not work. Shadi

 Since when do you need money to buy airline tickets? [Tom G]

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War
will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys
the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."  -- John F.
Kennedy

The prosperity of a community of human beings working together is the greater the less the single person claims for himself the proceeds of his labor - that is, the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers and the more of his own requirements are met not out of his own work, but out of the work done by others. Rudolf Steiner

With enought inside information and a million dollars,you can go broke in a year. Warren Buffet.

Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. Robert Kiyosaki

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. John D. Rockefeller

Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. Bumper-sticker.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

Time flies and you too! Katharina Vogel.

People are unfaithful for a reason. People don't just fall into bed with someone else for no reason.  If she loves you, then you have
nothing to worry about. Emotional infidelity is much more serious than physical infidelity ... that is one thing I am sure about. -- A Friend

He is not a tool, just a fool. Nobody would use a fool as a tool. RG

My prayers for guidance for you and wisdom to recognize the path that is right for you. Sister Kilian.

Money comes and goes. As long as you have your health you can always make money. Reza Jozi

Looking forwards to one of the best years yet. (Nothing wrong with thinking big, is there?) Dr. Graham King - January 2, 2001

'if you don't appreciate what you have now, it won't do any good to have more.'  wayne dyer.

Communication is central to Knowledge Management. Data is not information until it is processed. Information is not intelligence until it is efficiently communicated...  David Vine (KMWorld)

[ Philosophy means Friend of Wisdom (Philos = friend (male), Sophia = wisdom (female)) - Sophos = wiseman]

My grandmother used to say, when you find something good, share it with others because there's no telling how far it can go. - The Education of Little Tree (need to verify)

Work as if you don't need the money. Love as if you've never been hurt. And dance as if noone's watching." - Larry and Chic Todaro

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions. Anthony Jay.

Deal with goals, then roles and responsibilities, then procedures, and finally relationships. James P. Lewis
You tend to get what you expect from others. James P. Lewis

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

Feeling responsibility is a human's most noble characteristic. - mom

He who goes slow goes far. Italian saying

The boss is not here so I don't have any problems. HRP

The secret is being able to facilitate change - A project management professional

The mountain may look big but if you take 1 step at a time it'll look small. Whatever you don't get done today - that's what tomorrow's for. Bono's friend.

"All religions value life, justice, compassion. Terrorists do not." British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw [2001]

I am not even afraid of my dad. Dad

History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme. Mark Twain

History repeats itself because nobody paid attention the first time. Woody Allen

A dollar at work is better than a man at work. Dave's grandpa (Fort Worth)

"As long as you get a good night sleep you can put with any kind of day." Ferouza talking about the weather.

"ta goosale gav shavad - dele sahebash aab shavad" - By the time a calf grows to be a cow, the owner's heart, melts (it's a lot of work to se a kid grow)...

You can eat properly, you can drink properly but if you don't take time for yourself you're overloading your body. Brigitte Sommer. [You can bring in a lot of alkaline in form of food and drink which is good for the body but if you don't take time for yourself, to relax, etc., you're bringing a lot of acidity to your system which is destructive].

To give your best to the child so that he can give his best to other people. Yvonne Ross.

Don't trouble with trouble until trouble troubles you. An English Saying

The hardest thing to do, is to do nothing, to sit patiently and wait. Jesse Livermore

"Share by default, restrict by exception" - A corporate document security policy

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. Jack Dempsey

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old"

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), The Assayer

Life is an unending question. Gisele Balleys

The secret of life is good sleep :-) Gisele Balleys

The way you approach life is a great indicator of your understanding. Gisele Balleys

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. George Burns (1896 - 1996)

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. Abraham Lincoln

Thank God, we have a system of labor where there can be a strike. Abraham Lincoln

Literature is mostly about having sex, and not much about having babies; life is the other way around. David Lodge

Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expedience asks the question, Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right... Martin Luther

This nation should never go to war because it wants to, but only because it has to. John F.Kerry

In a series of experiments, Drs. Ernst Fehr and Bettina Rockenbach discovered that people will punish others if they believe they have been threatened, but will reward a person who they believe has trusted them. SOURCE: Nature 2003;422:137-140,125-126.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it -- which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. Peter Lynch


This one is a real shame, it perfectly portrays the corruption and criminal nature of Wall Street: "But what’s important when you’re in that hedge fund mode is to not do a thing remotely truthful, because the truth is so against your view that it’s important to create a new truth to develop a fiction." Jim Cramer





This was in a news item about the main analyst behind Bin Laden capture: "That ability to spot the importance of seemingly insignificant details, to weave disparate strands of information into a meaningful story, gave him a particular knack for hunting terrorists."


Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many…. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height. Buddha

Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears. Molana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi, the poem Joy at Sudden Disappointment

"Women can-not receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women". Mark Twain

We'll all be alright. John Mather   [after the mass lay off - he later passed away]

The most important thing is to do the best you can under the circumstances. Tish Whitney

"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."  Plato
Sticks and stones, may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Chris Sawyer
In a word....litigation sucks. Jeff Linnetz, Attorney.

“Never dies one whose heart lived with love; Registered in the universe I remain”
Hafez, the 13th century (A.D) Persian poet

Quotes by Dr. Paco:
Sometimes life beats you like a drum
Rota: there are more people here than dishes
Cooking spinach is like throwing van gouge in a washing machine
-----------------------

Chinese proverb has it, when the wrong person does the right thing, it's the wrong thing.

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole
book." - Nietzsche.

I have an idea that the phrase ‘weaker sex’ was coined by some women to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. Ogdan Nash

"Life exists so you can write - right?" - Randi Caryn Shapiro

"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so the other half may reach you." Khalil Gibran 1927

"I learned it very easily but then I stopped because I hated the teacher" Claudia Wellen

"I am part-time Iraninan - Full time human" Peyvand

"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me." Sigmund Freud

I vaguely remember saying something about being a "7 year old inside". You're one of the few people who actually listen and appreciated it. Whoopie! I almost gave up on my youthful message to the world  :^) - P.S.  I like your perky, positive, energectic attitude !!!! Bruce Weimer

"The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer." (Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man)

You don't need his signature, you need his "comments and possible approval". I've known our general manager for 20 years. JP

"...it takes a busy person to get things done.  Remember that!"  Arline Bronzaft

The best law is that which is applied equally without discrimination. Dad

Let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true. --Edward 0. Wilson

Take those cinammon rolls back and give us a better price. (Michael Dell to vendor).
Hardworking people go to Mecca 10 times a day. (message therapist in Tehran).

> Time is not a friend you can trust. Sometimes running, sometimes sneaking...
> Master clock is not bribable, but dominates our lives.
> For Heaven's sake there are no clocks on the moon
Petra Ammann

The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.

"The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Martin Luther King Jr.

I can’t believe that we’re living under these clouds! Angela Jaggi

"The test of success is not what you do when your on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - General George S. Patton,

AMTRAK: 1 hour connection time may not be enough

Even stones had beatle haircut for fuck sake. Pete townshend

A waltz is at the end of the universe. Pete townshend

Put in beef or index Nothing can benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Albert Einstein

The problem with going to law school is that you become a lawyer afterwards.

Ackman's investment strategy is to bet on just a few ideas and then to apply pressure to turn those concepts into reality. "We're elephant hunters looking for big returns, rather than just bird watchers, content with making small arbitrage profits. With just 10 stocks, we can get 85% of the benefit of diversification, so why not just restrict our involvement to my very best ideas?" he asks. Barrons re: William Ackman

"Joy is man's passage from a less to a greater perfection."  --Spinoza

Money and art, are far apart - Langston Hughes

"It's one of the most important countries in the world right now. It's a regional powerhouse," Woodruff said. "It's a country we need to understand. It's big, it's powerful, it's wealthy, and it's right next to Iraq."

All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident. - unknown

People ask you for criticism but they only want praise. - Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Dive in and learn as you go. - unknown

Flexible people don't get bent out of shape. - unknown

Never say never and never say always. - D. Hawks

“You only have what you give. By spending yourself you become rich.” Isabel Allende

 "Las Vegas: the greatest nonsense I've ever seen" Dr. Norbert Satz

"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a strtanger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, is at the center of true religion."   Albert Einstein

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy. - Saadi

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

Time opens every door to him who waits. Chinese proverb

Profoundly stable and calm like a gigantic mountain you can not be disturbed by cravings or external conditions. Zen master Ying-an

The way is not difficult, only there must be no wanting or not wanting  Chao chou

Mao Tse-Tung  : “The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue”

if you seek vengeance dig two graves. Proverb

once you have prevailed be as if you have not. Art of war

the man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. samuri maxim

Everybody is so hooked on money that they don't get on with life – they work as hard as possible get money as much as possible - to be secure to do what you want - life becomes a money battle – and they have no time to understand , to get in touch with life's meaningfulness. Elsie R. (87)

You'll never see the light, you'll only see what it reveals
Petra Ammann

When you really walk in the light, you don't need to keep it for yourself, because you will always have plenty of it.

"DON'T TAKE ON RESPONSIBILITIES THAT NO ONE HAS GIVEN TO YOU" William Schweitzer. (... don't do things that you're not asked to do because then noone will thank you for them). [I wasn't sure if I agreed with this but it seems to be true).

When I have a problem with somebody it's not their problem but it's mine. Princess Camilla

All writing comes by the grace of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience

"harche pish ayad khosh ayad” (whatever comes is welcome) Persian

"...as Holy Quran says; God never changes the destiny of a society if the individuals do not change themselves.", Hamid Ashoori

"I have never regretted it, not for a second. It gives me a sense of victory over animal instinct. If you want to be a writer, which is a vatigial profession at best, there are already so many little gremlins poking out from behind the sofa to thwart you. So why would you put one there yourself? I think having children would have eaten up all my time and I wouldn't have been a good father. I would have had someone to blame my failures on." Richard Ford "He stole the election - well, the Democrats fundamentally let him steal the election, thanks to the ludicrous intervention of Nader. I saw Nader at the airport and I yelled at him." regarding his habit of yelling at people like Kissinger and Shultz in the airports: "it's totally useless, they're so insulated from things like that... it's just my inner child coming out." Richard Ford

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. Bertrand Russell, Mariage and Morals.

Werther: "It's enough if you can't make people happy. You also don't have to take their pleasures away. " Goethe (Die Leiden des jungen)

He is almost always a slave who cannot live on little. Horace, Satires

20% do something. 80% think or talk about it.

You may have many friends that you can talk to but you surely have very few that you can be silent with. Claudia Barreto

A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. Confucius

Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists"

If we were that bad we wouldn't have the money to pay you. HW to a expenensive consulting org.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama ".

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desparate to get out. Montaige, Essays

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. John Sheffield, Essay on Poetry

Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it. Henry Ford, The New York Times, Nov 8, 1931

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. Pable Casals, Conversations.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." (Albert Einstein)

Where there's music, there can be no evil. Cervantes, Don Quixote.

When the new comes to the market, the old becomes heart-bothering (unattractive) -- Persian.

Unmask their dirty games because you're not going to use the same weapons, and have a way to backslash without playing their game, and the truth has such strength. Ester Delafruente.

Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
"I didn't tell half of what I saw, because no one would have believed me." Marco Polo (1254-1324) on his death bed.

I have 2 advice to my children: 1) be human (being responsible, not bothering others, being kind...)  2) be educated   Mohammad Saadati

Niyattol Moomen Khairan men amale (arabic - means: "the intention of a religous person is better than his/her action" which is the same saying is: "it's the thought that counts").

Looks to have things move forward, delivers, easy to deal with, no hidden adgenda, streight shooter (no hidden gun), readable (you know how he feels and why), trustworthy, reliable. JPB's description of a non-problem-person.

PS courage is almost always rewarding in one way or another, even if the attempted feat was not the success originally aimed at...... Graham King

One never knows how long a stone can roll. Gisele Balleys

Crisis in Chinese means 1) danger (to the false) and 2) opportunity (for something new to come into being) - Rajesh Dalal.

"Are you a God?" they asked the Buddha. "No," he replied. "Are you an angel, then?" "No." "A saint?" "No." "Then what are you?" Replied the Buddha, "I am awake."

Kiss it better. (An English expression after a body part is hurt).

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. Hazrath Ali (AS)

"He's a nice guy just impossible to work with" William M.

"Everytime we put him in a position of responsibility, he starts writing code" William M.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breath more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours [Swedish Proverb]

"I am not interested in cars - they're too loud, too stinky - they're not useful" Claudia Wellen

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. --Shakespeare

A year that's good s evident by its spring -- Persian

I do little but write, love Lori, care tenderly for our cat-people, and alternately despair at, and give thanks to, the strange world we live in. Affectionately, Jim (Christian)

A good wife is treasure. Highest riches is good child.

A good book is that which a friend returns. Kamal K.

Tea is good. Warm things in a mug is always great. Julie Archer

Feel the power of angels and get carried by them. B.Sommer SMS

Life is the longest thing you do. Aarthi B.

The doctor says  it's broken. Another says it's not. So I've chosen the second one. JeanPhillip F.

If you pay penuts you get monkeys. English Saying

Never say no to nuts. Sarah Satz

I died with my essay. Camilla NW

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck (Author)

A good looking man will never be faithful. (German saying)

She's waiting for someone to come, take a photo of her, and make her famous! (X regarding her daughter)

If you want a job done, ask a busy man. - Anonymous

Describing Paris: "angry rude people, agitated, shoving and hitting, cars and bipeds competing in breaking traffic laws, dirty air (this from a smoker!), and joy is
achieved through vanity, voyerism, and consumption. I miss my swans." Joubin H.

The only time of the year to travel to Europe is from May through summer. Dad

Before you sleep, think, in this day, did I learn something? Did I do something good? Did I not bother anyone? If so, that day counts. (aunt about mom's dad)
``What has happened to us, '' he said, ``is that our execution and processes have broken down under the white-hot heat of driving for quarterly revenue growth.'' (Schacht, CEO of Lucent Technologies)

Sarajevo was proof that culture is as necessary for human beings as bread. They held theatre performances in candle light while there was bombing outside. Joni Bader

I made a mistake when I was 18, I thought I have to have a tattoo. [now she can’t get rid of them - at age 30]. Tanja.

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.", Albert Einstein

"If he has a cute butt, that's all right," Jessica Simpson regarding her ideal man.

I only gave promises to my mom when I was a small boy. Vladimir Putin

A terabyte can hold the text of roughly 1 million books, 250 hours of high-definition video, or a quarter million songs.

[Oct 2007] President Vladimir Putin, in his latest jab at Washington, suggested Thursday that the U.S. military campaign in Iraq was a "pointless" battle against the Iraqi people, aimed in part at seizing the country's oil reserves.

Paul McCartney : "It's been a difficult time," he said. "But music is a great healer. Music is the therapy for me. In fact, going through difficulties has only concentrated my desire to make good music."

"I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." - Galileo Galilei

I have this idea that if people disagree with K they didn't understand what he was saying. And even if they agree as well. Princess Camilla.

“he looks for limits, otherwise, he doesn’t feel secure” Yvonne R. about a roudy 5 year old.

Evening is pregnant, yet to be seen what the dawn will give birth to. Persian saying. (shab abestan-ast ta che zayad sahar). (also a related saying is that you toss an apple up and it turns many times before it comes down.)

"If man could be crossed with a cat, It would improve man but deteriorate the cat" Mark Twain
<>"For a woman living under the cover, hope is the day that she'll be seen" From "Trip To Ghandehar" a.k.a. Kandahar"

I dont read a lot of k - its not a matter of reading - if i start reading [a lot] it's like the other stuff. Ester Delafuente

He who cuts a tree gets doomed by god. Imam Jafar Sadegh Alayhe-salam

Follow me I'm right behind you. Peter Sellers (?) from Pink Panther

How can they have an all out war with a country that doesn't exist! James Wood

Looking for happiness outside is like waiting for the sun in a north oriented cave. Tibetan saying

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."  I believe the author was Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but I'm checking for you. We are overjoyed at Alex's presence in our lives.  Bringing a child into the world brings out the child in us again.  It is unbelievable to view the world once again through the eyes of a child...especially one who is seeing everything for the first time! Hope all is well with you.  Alex looks forward to meeting you someday. Love, Chris and Maureen.
--------------------------------------
Abr-o-baad-o-mah-o-khorsid-o-falak dar karand - ta to nani be kaf aari - o - be gheflat nakhori

Cloud, wind, moon, sun, and sky are at work so that you get a bread in your palm and not to eat it in ignorance. [Persian Poet and Mystic Saadi]
Cloud and wind, moon and sun move in the sky, that thou mayest gain bread, and not eat it unconcerned.  For thee all are revolving and obedient. It is against the requirements of justice if thou obeyest not.

-----------------------------------
“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.” - Dennis Prager, late 20th-century American radio host and author

"Most modern businesses recognise the ability to facilitate change as one of the most important capabilities for successful managers… X helps turn business managers into business facilitators." A process mapping software vendor.

“Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.... Your success and happiness lie in you.... The great enduring realities are love and service.... Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” - Helen Keller, 20th-century American Nobel Prize-winning social activist, public speaker and author

“Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.” - Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher

"better to be thought a damn fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt... "

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.” - Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th century U.S. president (in letter to A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy, 1811)

“I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” - Thomas Jefferson, 18th-century American Founding Father, early 19th century U.S. president (in a letter to John Adams, 1816)

“People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.” - Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher (from the Nichomachean Ethics)

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.” - Woody Allen, 20th-century American humorist and filmmaker

Let the beauty we love be what we do. - Rumi

Golden Rule - Treat others as you wish to be treated. Platinum Rule - Treat others as they wish to be treated.

Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any two.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde

Never take know for an answer. Poet-Philosopher Jonathan Williams

Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury

The first step toward wisdom is mastering the obvious. David Johnson

Curiosity is my mantra.  It is also my profession.   Curiosity offers novel lenses for looking at the world.  And the most high-powered lens I've discovered is variation. Author, Tom Peters

Theory is when you know everything and nothing is working. Organization is when nothing is working and everyone knows why. Practice is when everything is working and no one knows why. Anonymous

This is part of what I consider dialogue--for people to realize what is on each other's minds without coming to any conclusions or judgments.
Physicist, David Bohm

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Zen proverb

In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
Author, Eric Hofer

“anybody who has so much love for anything, I don’t care what it is, they will be successful”. Farid Larijani

The larger the island of knowledge, the greater the shoreline of wonder.
Writer, Ralph Sockman

You can't be an effective teacher unless you're a constant learner.
Fairfax VA teacher Philip Bigler

Reflection is the opposite of blame.
Writer Otto Sharmer

The more you know, the less you need.
Australian Aboriginal saying

The mountains, always the mountains, held the old man's gaze. There is fascination about them that it is not necessary to be a kurd or persian to be able to acquire. To mesopotamia and kurdistan in disguise.
 

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus is found in J.K. Rowling's Hogwarts
Motto. It means "Never tickle a sleeping dragon."

Click here to listen to Reza Ganjavi's new song: "Let's Keep Our Planet Clean"