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More quotes of wisdom from DaVinci, Hegel, Michelangelo, Rumi, Krishnamurti, Klee, Pythagoras, Goethe, and others
"People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change." Charles R. Swindoll, Author and Pastor

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. Bernard Meltzer  (Law Professor)

...hang in there.  Nothing of greatness, comes easy, otherwise everyone would have it! Stephanie Wilkins.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival. C.S. Lewis.

The very top performers don’t teach. Marie Pooler

We need the tonic of wilderness. We can never have enough of nature. Henry David Thoreau

"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life." Robert Browning

Since I think I am normal and not psychologically sick, I don’t have psychological problems come up. Peter.

"Mothers may still want their favorite sons to grow up to be President, but . . . they do not want them to become politicians in the process" (John F. Kennedy).

As my deceased Dad (who was a stockbroker for 40 plus years) use to say "when everyone runs to one side of the ship maybe it's time to run to the opposite side". Theory of Adverse Consequences - I think.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.—Albrecht Durer

"Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way." Shirin Ebadi
"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 Author

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-- Albert Einstein

A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested.  On the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
-- Lao-Tzu (604-531 B.C.)

"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.
"To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god."
--Napoleon

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn

"do unto others as we would have them do unto to us"

Life’s too short to do things I’m not interested in. Sarah Satz

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert A. Heinlein

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. Susan B. Anthony
 
"Wealth lost - something lost; Honor lost - much lost; Courage lost - all lost."
--German proverb

"He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."
-Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809)

"Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day."
--Frank K. Sonnenberg

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe." -- Robert W. Service

"Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect."
-- Carl Sandburg about Abraham Lincoln

"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things."
--William J. Lock


I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do. Arthur Warwick

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All little girls like horses - the lucky ones grow out of it. Quenby Dunlap

"R&D matters, it just does," Chairman and Chief Executive Scott McNealy said. "This technology has the shelf life of a banana and you have to keep innovating."

"If a hammer is the only tool you have, everything will start to look like a nail."  (Abraham Maslow)
 
"Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them."  (Mark Twain)
 
"Men can be divided into 2 groups:  one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes."  (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
 
"You may fail many times, but you are not a failure until you start blaming others."  (Olaus Petri)
 
"Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."  (Pythagoras)
 
"Any idiot can criticize, condemn and complain, and most idiots do."  (Dale Carnegie)
 
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."  (Thomas Edison)
 
"Medical research has made such enormous advances that there are hardly any healthy people left."  (Aldous Huxley)
 
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.  What isn't a part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."  (Hermann Hesse)

"Don't expect people to respect you for what you are planning to do."  (Henry Ford)

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(Sep 2002: I collected these from a friend's book recently which contained many many quotes. These ones touched something deep inside... )

Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. G.W.F. Hegel

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to other eyes as mine see it. Michelangelo

If you have something to say take your time and make it short. German Saying.

Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love. Rumi

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

A lot of successful people are risk-takers. Unless you are willing to do that, to have a go, to fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen. Phillip Adams

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing. Albert Schweitzer

I am never weary of being useful… In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me. Leonardo da Vinci

A good driver is one who gives the passenger a sense of confidence and security. Shahrooz Ganjavi

"Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever." --Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." - William Dement

"I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons."-Christopher Reev

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all. Michelangelo

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. Leonardo Da Vinci

The production of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. Plato.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. Modest Mussorgski (1839-1881)

"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”........Wayne Gretzky

we must not confuse knowledge with wisdom. the first helps us earn a livelinhood. the second helps us live.  Spanish saying.

Mir Hossein Mousavi  "If this huge volume of cheating and changing the votes... which has hurt people's trust is presented as the very evidence of the lack of cheating, then it will butcher the republican aspect of the system," he said. "If the people's trust is not matched by protecting their votes or if they are not able to defend their rights in a civil peaceful reaction, there will be dangerous ways ahead," he warned.


He who supports crooks is a crook.

a very wiseman once told me   "Never go into a meeting without knowing the outcome in advance."


Life is full of pluses and minuses.  …….. Simplicity – key to life and good system design. Mo Shahmirzadi.

"He who pays the piper calls the tune," said William Vaughan, senior policy analyst at Consumers Union.

"If the science exists in this constellation, men from Persia will reach it" a saying (Hadith) from the Prophet Mohammed.

"Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting." --- Albert Einstein

Good intelligence is 9/10 of any battle (Napoleon).

“It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.”  Artemus Ward

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought"  - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann

The best way to manage anything is to make use of its own nature. Lao Tsu

"the climate crisis is by far the most serious challenge the human race has ever faced." Al Gore

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.

For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the
preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders
in those who would gain by the new ones."

Machiavelli "The Prince" 1513
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"Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear." Warren Buffett

"May your learning be joyful"...jim christian

I never see myself as being hot, as being anything, any which way at all.... just a very ordinary human, deeply inspired. Samatha Reddy

"How poor are they that have not patience!"
 
Orthello (II, iii, 376-379)
 
William Shakespeare

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Joseph Campbell

Ancora Imparo  - I am still learning. Michelangelo (at 87).

I’m a 9 to 5 man, you know. I have to sit here and wait for the good notes to sort of come from somewhere, and if I’m not here they’re not going to come. It’s like there’s a dragon in the cave right? and you know it’s in there but it’s never coming out so you have to sit outside and wait for it. If you sit there long enough it’s going to come. If you go home and take a nap you’ll never see it because that’s when it’s coming out. Benny anderssen
 (ABBA).

It takes a lot of hard work to get rid of the rubbish in order to see what’s really really good. In order to hear that. That takes time. Bjorn *Abba)

may every moment and “non  moment” of your life be filled with peace. With the love of the season, in ma’s love, Virag

Truth is great but there’s a time and place for everything. :) Lori Villamil Christian

this (ministry of justice) was built for friends !    Mr. (minoo’s dad)

you are the ONLY VAX Software Specialist I’ve ever known – whatever that (VAX) is ! marie pooler – 1987

look around happiness is trying to catch you – fortune cookie

If you’re creating how can you not feel alive? Lori Villamil

Should things progress beyond this silly trolling, I would have to borrow Reza's tracking techniques to find out for sure. As Reza clearly demonstrated, one cannot hide forever behind a screen name. Matanya Ophee
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God is great, the Ahuramazda who created this Earth, who created that sky, who created people, who created happiness for people. Daryush (Cyrus) the Great

"its sexier not to smoke than to smoke!" - Gita Sabharwal

Dideii baayad ke baashad shah shenas
Shah shenasad az geda dar har lebas
Safi Ali Shah

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Copy to Clipboard
  --  Eleanor Roosevelt

People wish to be settled. Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Emerson

You can tell more about a person in their eyes rather than their words. A. C. Toms

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Aldous Huxley

Do not cherish the unworthy desire that the changeable might become the unchanging. Buddha.

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it. J. Krishnamurti

Silence is the garden of meditation. Hazrate Ali

Yeki bood yeki nabood, zire gonbade kabood ...

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -- Chinese proverb

"The key to success in everything—whether in health, work, intimacy, fulfilling sex, or thriving during hard times—comes with cultivating the ability to be energized and relaxed at the same time."
Stella Resnick

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be awake, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. Will Rogers

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.  -Arthur Schopenhauer

“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” John 4:8

Never dismiss small acts. Unknown forces may be working to allow the smallest deed to open door to your greatest accomplishment.

 If you never take risks, then you risk everything and will never accomplish any significant thing.

Remind yourself that many of the advances of civilization have been built on the unfailing belief of a single person as others laughed at their ideas.

Remember Calvin Coolidge’s famous words that nothing takes the place of persistence; not talent, not education, not genius. Persistence alone is omnipotent.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold onto them. Goethe

Nothing is more simple than greatness. Indeed, to be simple is to be great. Emerson

You snooze, you lose. You trade, you fade.

The Tao’s principle is spontaneity. Lao Tzu

People should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Bertrand Russell

“Predictability is more important than time to market... With the right people and right attitude we can achieve any goal.” Claude Honegger, Credit Suisse

To enjoy – to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason. Leonardo Da Vinci

"If we can understand the rules and protocols used in neurobiological systems, we should be able to apply the same concepts and constructs to manmade systems. That will lead someday to communication systems with true speech recognition capability and computers that can actually learn from their mistakes and modify their behavior. It will be artificial intelligence that isn't artificial, but, rather, quite natural." - Partha Mitra

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. Albert Camus


How shall we seek real knowledge? By renouncing knowledge. How shall we seek salvation? By renouncing our own salvation. How shall we seek Existence? By renouncing our existence. Rumi

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased... This is true not only of competition with others, but competition with oneself. K

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience, but in their capacity for experience - George Bernard Shaw

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous individual may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool. Albert Einstein

God gives every bird its food but he doesn't throw it in the nest. Joshua Holland.

I was made to work. If you're equally industrious, you will be equally successful. J.S. Bach

He only is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor command in order to be something. Johann Goethe

He deserves paradise who can make his companions laugh. The Koran

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. Johann Goethe

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years. Prophet Mohammad

As and it shall be given unto you. Seek and ye shall find. Luke 11:9

Whether you think you can or you can't -- you are right. Henry Ford.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open. Tagore.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be, custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. Pythagoras

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. J. Krishnamurti

Joyously participate in the sorrows of others. Buddha

“We wrote our slogan – a very modest slogan – ‘a computer in every home and on every desktop’ – in 1975” – Bill Gates

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power, and fear of the scourge of those who wield it. Aung Sung Sui Qi

Swiss people sometimes speak really bad german. A. Jaggi

Be as good as I should be. “Joni Bader in response to RG saying Johnny Be Good”.

Keep the fire low but still burning. Eva Maria Joelli

One has to be aware, concentrated (havashes-jaam) and have enough resources for the late stage of life. The wheels do not always turn in one manner. One’s wheel has to be such that if it dropped one one does not get destroyed. Manna

All the strongest and longest-lived animals on earth are vegetarians.  Andrew W. Saul.

Life is made hard sometimes. I guess it’s to make us appreciate the good parts. Postman LA.

pressure is the enemy of every development. that's what I've experienced with my voice. sarah satz


He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. I John 4:16

"the deepest human trait seems to be gossiping" Jurgen Brand

"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on." - Sir Terry Pratchett

by God, when you see your own beauty, you will be the idol of yourself. Rumi

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed. Brian Tracy

This technology is not undo-able anymore – Larry Deack

"I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy" Ludwig van Beethoven

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. Wilma Askinas

"There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other."  Machiavelli

"In art, practice always comes before theory." Pablo Picasso

Causeless hatred is the source of most of the unhappiness in the world. David Ganezer

This E-mail just in from Eagles management honcho Irving Azoff: "In response to your [recent] memo, in 1976, during the writing of the song 'Hotel California' by Messrs. Henley and Frey, the word `colitas' was translated for them by their Mexican-American road manager as 'little buds.' You have obviously already done the necessary extrapolation. Thank you for your inquiry."

You get what you get when you get it. Mark Barnes

"No principle is better settled than that a party who raises an issue for the first time on appeal will be deemed to have waived the issue, even if the issue is one of constitutional law."  Cyr v. Cyr, 432 A.2d 793, 797 (Me. 1981).

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." ~ Aristotle (384-322 BC)

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank zappa

_"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." Plato [427-347 BC]

It's diffcult to make predictions, specially about the future. A Sage (as quoted by John Major)

A woman will forgive a man who makes a move on her when she is not ready. A woman will never forgive a man who fails to make a move on her when she wants him to. David G.

Power is energy the instant it’s used.  Matt

'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind ... Neil Armstrong

"home is where the heart is,  where you can connect with people". michael mendizza

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win!"   Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. -Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind. -John Adams, 1765

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest by right, belonged to the state. – Benjamin Franklin

Despite having taken this technical weight, at the end of the day what people need to hear from you is the simplest emotional content. Phil Maynes.

Old chicken has all the juice. Greek saying.

"If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world and nation building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road, and I'm going to prevent that." - George W. Bush, 10/03/00

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have."
-Emile Chartier, philosopher (1868-1951)

Pain is the body’s way of ridding itself of weakness. Dean Karnazes, ultramarathoner.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.   You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Take a chance! All life is chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie

Linda and I are both retired old folks. Except for a few aches and pains, I still feel and think like a 20 yeard old. Albeit a much wiser 20 year old.

"Don’t believe it buddy and don’t pass it on. Gossip is a grapevine that grows only sour grapes. Don’t eat them. Produce better. Live better." [unknown]

All the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. Helen Keller

You want  to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you. J. Krishnamurti

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Emerson

He who can not obey himself will be commanded. This is the nature of living creatures. Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life. Nietzsche

"When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page." Bill Clinton, 42nd US-President

"Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination." Hypocrites, 500 BC

Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th Century Philosopher ..."All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident."

The work of art is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product. Paul Klee

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

For man is by nature an artist. Tagore

Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. Confucius

Put all your eggs in one basket and – watch that basket. Mark Twain

Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present.

The only real valuable thing is intuition. Einstein

The most sublime act is to set another before you. William Blake.

When we quit thinking about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. Joseph Campbell

When your thinking arises above concern for your own welfare, wisdom which is independent of thought appears. Ha Gakure

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. Martin Luther King, Jr.
See you in the line of life. Lucky Garenamotse from Maun (bushman in Botswana)

The greatest poem ever known is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, of being only four years old.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
ROLLO MAY

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty.
JOHN MICHELL

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
- Plato -

The essence of strategy is differentiation. [well-known consulting wisdom].

"If music be the food of love, play on:
give me excess of it..."
- William Shakespeare -

"I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us."
- Martin Luther -
"The software industry would have been very happy if the processor industry could have been able to double performance every two years without having to go to this parallel world," said Marc Tremblay, chief technology officer for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s microelectronics business, where he oversees the server and software maker's processor roadmap. "Unfortunately people ran into roadblocks, and the winners will be the people who can actually leverage this disruption."

“If it’s not this way it must be that way”! A Napolitan citing a German’s binary outlook on life

The one realistic result of the ad that I'd like to see would be for someone to investigate Howard Scher's obvious conflict of interest issues. When you chair the scientific advisory board of a competitor that is showering money on your employer, you shouldn't be a voting member of an FDA advisory committee that is reviewing a product that would compete with your benefactor's...and when the panel vote goes against you, you shouldn't be able to influence the final decision-making process with disingenuous letters to the FDA that you know will be leaked.
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The key is total relaxation of body – then you open rivers to brain and everything. Derwent Hannon

It all started with a big whisper [instead of the Big Bang] – Dr. Keith Critchlow

An Irish man is asked for directions. He said: I wouldn't start here.

Too much communication kills communication. Yasmin f

A liberated man is not liberated all the time. Albion patterson


“everybody cares about what they’re doing so passionately to the point of uproar all the time. It’s a very Mediterranean type of scene. Emotions are very close to the surface

u know exactly what people think. Whatever picture one might have had of the calm over disciplined German musician has certainly been blown out of the water for me.” Sir Simon Rattle about Berliner Philharmoniker.
<>"What could I say about my life that seemed worthy of song," Walter Liniger mused in liner notes for his 2000 CD "Better Day." "After all, I come from a society which has dedicated its soul, generation after generation, to making things work like cogs on wheel, brutally accurate and precise, even if the price is an emotional ghetto." Famous swiss blues musician.

dar kolbeye ma ronagh agar nist safa hast. [if in my hut there is no luxury there is joy] -- Persian

The King advised Alice in Wonderland “to begin at the beginning, continue to the end, and then stop.”

Sherlock Holmes :  "When one has eliminated every possible explanation, one is naturally left with the impossible."


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“work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love
but only with distaste
it is better that you should leave your work
and sit at the gate of the temple
and take alms of those who work with joy” Khalil Gibran

I would take his advice if I knew anyone that liked their job - Rik G.

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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
- Elvis Presley -

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
- Van Morrison -

"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."
- Igor Stravinsky -

If you want to be successful in life you have to work with joy. If you work without this joy and energy it's like sailing without wind. -- Sarah's Grandpa

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
- John Lennon -

“I want to go to college, [then] get a job, to support my music.” Geovanni (highschool student on Santa Monica beach)


"As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place."
-Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz


They don’t know where they’re going but they’re going and they have to get there fast. Amber Kandarian about Los Angeles.
"Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause." John F. Kerry

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
- Ludwig van Beethoven -

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception." (When asked about his theory of relativity)
- Albert Einstein -

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
- Igor Stravinsky

"The mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension" anon

The greatest poem ever known is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, of being only four years old.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY


Our beauty has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. - Katherine Anne Porter
Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, said, "Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food."  It's amazing how far we've drifted from this sound advice.
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu (The Art of War)
 
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. - J. Ruskin

Yesterday is a canceled check, Tomorrow is a promissory note, Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.

guitar and women must first be tuned. pavel.

Mr. Putin said he would not discuss hypothetical questions. "If a grandmother had certain gender characteristics," he said, "she would be a grandfather."
The three wishes of every person: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. - Plato

Talk as if you’re talking to your granny – kate Williams (BBC)

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
MOTHER THERESA

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
EDWARD R. MURROW

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"I am Al Gore, I used to be the next president of the Unites States of America." :-)
"Fear drives out reason. It suppresses the politics of discourse and opens the door to the politics of destruction."
"Where there is leadership with vision and moral courage, the people will flourish and redeem Lincoln's prophesy at Gettysberg: that government of the people: by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth".
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Hunger is the best cook (Swiss (German?) saying).

  
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran"

"That's a woman's word: Always..............." Angela.


well "right" or "wrong"  enlightenment for me has always been the
journey! Paul Collett

I am only as good as my children are. Michele Obama.

Einstein was so disgusted by the whole notion that he made his famous remark, "Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secrets of the Old One. I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice".

Bob Schieffer’s mother: Go vote now. It will make you feel big and strong

Lennon 'Peace' lyrics sell at auction for $833,654

Rowling said she has stopped work on a new novel because the lawsuit in federal court has "decimated my creative work over the last month."

"I've been disappointed," Dodd said. "We had Chris Cox before the Banking Committee, back more than a month and a half ago when he talked about the naked short selling, and yet I haven't seen any actions being taken by the SEC. And there's an awful lot of that going on out there that's contributing to exactly what occurred over the last several days."

"Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music." santana
the more fragile harmonics can survive in a vacuum tube, where they seem to be eliminated or squashed in a solid state crystal lattice. ..Electronics can survive in a free space vacume where they have trouble in a solid state lattice. Dr. Alexander Dumble

We outsourced the last system to E. We spend same man days to do the integration. Dr. Xia

"Jerome Corsi is a discredited liar who is peddling another piece of garbage to continue the Bush-Cheney politics he helped perpetuate four years ago," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.

I am just Swiss not Alien. Pia (CS)

"Lord — Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will," reads the note published in Maariv.

I only write when I have something to say and I can not not write. (Neda's fiance)

“It seems to me that people here are free to live their lives, as long as they do no harm to anyone else,” he said.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived. Einstein

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

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. English Proverb

There is no sugar cane that is sweet at both ends. Chinese proverb

Prince Liu An (179-122 BCE), grandson of the founder of the Han dynasty, developed tofu while searching for a substance to help him achive immortality. Chinese legend

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Indian Proverb

Water is the only drink for a wise man. Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint, plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.  Anthony Norvell

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts that decided to stand their ground. Unknown
You saved my day saying thank you. I already opened 5 doors no-one said thank u. (tram driver) He is a nobody who pesters everybody in order to be accepted as somebody. [...]

"We - even we here - hold the power, and bear the responsibility." Lincoln
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Dr P. Krishna [edited by Reza] : without sensitivity there is no wisdom and without wisdom innocence is perishable.
The ego is a begger. it's always asking for sonething for itself in all relationships.
Indeed seeing what is can bring change. seeing - understanding - learning - change.  thanks for inserting 'learning' in the chain - it's implied but explicit reference to it strengthens the chain.
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I’m always to see what’s coming up [neighbour about the magnificent flower garden]
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Writer)

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Einstein
You can not kill someone w/o killing a part of yourself. US soldier in Iraq.

phil maynes: the most imp thing is not be serving the music but let the music serve you expressing something.

Access is power.

"Don’t believe it buddy and don’t pass it on. Gossip is a grapewine that grows only sour grapes. Don’t eat them. Produce better. Live better." [unknown]
 
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Writer

Shanti’s dharma teacher: imagine if you never had to prove anything to anyone anymore. That’s where peace lies.

Diver Dave: if I’m not directly involved in creating value, it’s bad – best thing to do are things you’re directly involved in – it’s spiritually correct and most constructive.

Diver Dave: Murphy’s law works because there are so many ways things can go wrong, but only a small number of way things can go right.

Diver Dave: I’m not scared of making the commitment – I just haven’t found anything that makes sense.

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"All I need is a job." JeanMichael Frederick (a month before comitting suicide). [2004 - thanks to millions of job losses under Mr. GWBush's administration]

The SEC was too stupid to be crooked. It was systemically incompetent which is far worse than being crooked. (Madoff whistle blower)

I’ve eaten more cake than I’ve done washing up in my life. Yannick

Don't enter it - when you're insulted. Mary Z.
Maybe it's life itself that insights comes from because life is new every moment. Vern
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Bill Miller Beats S&P 500 for 14th Year [IN 2004]

Miller's forte is sticking by his stock picks. He makes big bets, typically holding a mere 35 stocks. He trades as few as one or two stocks in a year, and will hold onto a stock even after the share price has more than doubled.

"What I admire about (Miller) is there are too many portfolio managers who are chasing near-term performance, and they're not successful," said Tom Brown, a hedge fund manager at Second Curve Capital who has known Miller since the 1980s.

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     "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip

            the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed

            a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it

            narrows the mind...And when the drums of war have reached a

            fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is

            closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of

            the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and

            blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto

            the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I

            have done. And I am Caesar."

            William Shakespeare


Great traders don't anticipate. Great traders react to price movement. by Michael Covel . [investors do anticipate].

 "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the Citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. -- Julius Caesar

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith

"It does not matter how slowly you go...

So long as you do not stop!"

Confucius (551 - 479 BC)

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Love has no other desire but to fulfull itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Kahlil  Gibran

gole bi khare jahan mardome saaheb honarand - Persian 

"I plan to live forever. So far, so good." Steven Wright

I think betsy quoted: "we do not inherit the earth, we caretake it for our children"

Virtual:

> Wayne Gretsky always says that the most important thing to play great
> hockey is not to know where the puck is, but to know where the puck is
> going to be.

>> "the filter is bliss" - Jon Wolfe

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Eli:
For me, all books bring a stone to the mosaic of my understanding of Life.

Christmas is a difficult moment in the social life. The "family" is a very egoistic notion and shut.
He was happy to have an excuse not to be happy.

A woman who is not been happy in bad is a dreadful enemy of her children.
When you accept to do the humbliest work (I said "dirtiest" but in a quotation humble is nicer) then etc ...

Only [there is hope in] the artists ... the politicians are hostages of their political party who allowed their career.
Yes, only love will cure humanity

Once you realize that it’s 50/50 you know that you are not guilty. ...

Life is a deadly adventure ! eli

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Markus:

Complete loyalty is just an illlusion (Markus Schmit)

what do you do when hot water pours on your laptop?

markus: you pour cold water on it.

treat her like a woman but don't take her to the shower.

 

nobody's perfect not even computers.

 

to the tune of all u need is love: all u need is a computer... / the net / the web

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we [in Switzerland] could't change the time to daylight saving time b/c of cows. they're used to normal time.

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- what time do you wakeup?
- every two hours

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She traveled all over the world. When she got to LA she thought: what the heck? What’s the deal? Am I in the right place? A fxxxxxx sxxxhxxx. And you can get killed anywhere.

"There's only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp
it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny
portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass
through and get nothing out of it." Isaac Asimov

An ambitious man, worldly or otherwise, needs time to gain his end. Mind is the product of time, as all thought is its result; and thought working to free itself from time only strengthens its enslavement to time.  Time exists only when there is a psychological gap between what is and what should be, which is called the ideal, the end.  To be aware of the falseness of this whole manner of thinking is to be free from it - which does not demand any effort, any practice.  Understanding is immediate, it is not of time.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic – Nigel Kennedy

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40 rupees gives you a good meal. 100 rupees is a luxury meal. Mula

90% of the wrinkles and aging skin we treat on the neck is the result of the sun, not chronological aging.

"The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there." -Yves Saint Laurent (1983)

"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." Ancient Indian Proverb

Sometimes things fall apart so that they can come back together in a new and better way! In Joy, Jinjee

we are german and we always have to criticize everything. after they come from holiday you ask how was it he says i had a problem with the hotel and the bus - then he says what was good. CS german consultant "Seek thirst, not water." SADI

"Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. -Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887

- In discussing the risks of the project… “Today, without this project, we’re at risk.”

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius

it's easy to hide behind the computer. Angela jaggi

Back in the early 2000’s, Diane White emerged on the scene in Ojai. Like many others she came to live there, I suppose, in retirement, bought a house there, and joined the KFA board as Trustee.

The “American Dream” of big car big house lots of suits in the closet is NONSENSE. I’m glad you know that. You are a success.

One never goes further than not knowing were one is going. Goethe - Maxims 901

the world will breath a sigh of relief once he’s gone. We all know that. [Hillary Clinton regarding George Bush]

We have a triplets and they are 1 yr and 2 months old. 1 girl and 2 boys (spontaneous triplets). I always wanted three kids and our 3rd baby turned triplets, so we have 5 kids. MGR

shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars. R. Tagore

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Alfred Brendel on 4 characters of pieces:

"There are pieces which are very atmospheric/float

Those that are more liquid like water

There are the earthy ones and there are the fiery ones and sometimes there
are mixtures of several.because in music things are possible which are
actually impossible. And if I were to name a distinguishing characteristic
of a masterpiece it's exactly those - it combines things which you thought
were not combinable."
 
“In this day and age with all the restructuring, particularly in so many industries, you don’t find the [talent]

depth that you used to find in any company.” — Board member of a $30+ billion financial services company

“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.” —- George Orwell, 1984

“How are managers supposed to create an ethical identity for a corporate entity that itself is a legal

construct created to serve economic ends? The answer, to borrow from Henry David Thoreau, is that ‘a

corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.’ ”

Tehran has increasingly turned to the former Soviet Union for its planes. Many Iranian passenger planes are now Tupolevs or Ukrainian Antonovs. But from 2002 to 2003, three Soviet-made planes crashed in Iran, killing more than 400 people. (AP)

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SIA

Nothing is impossible; you have to put your heart into it.

In negotiation always think the other person is smarter than you. if you think you’re smarter you lose. When light turns green don’t look at the light look at the car; the light never hits you, the car does.

You have to have a good partner for business. Your business partner has to have money in it. ½ and ½ - and if he runs it you take 40/60. Or if he wants salary then give 2k and that comes off the bottom line before splitting 50/50.

Always buy a business for the potential of it then you don’t pay too much. Ask: what can I do to make it better. Current books are meaningless because you’re not him. He might be very good and experienced and so have great books and you can’t do the same, vice versa…

Having your own business means you have to be on top of it and there yourself.

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