The test of a first rate intelligence is to hold two opposed ideas in your mind at the same time and still retain your capacity to function. You should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin
When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. -- Duh....
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw
back, always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one
elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas
and splendid plans: The moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise
have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and
meetings and material assistance which no person could have
dreamt would have come his way.
As Goethe said, "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin
it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -- Channing
The law of work does not seem utterly fair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: The higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in money also. --Samuel Clemens
When you find yourself standing at the edge of your world looking across the unknown, don't be afraid to admit that it's scary, and know that the billions of souls before you who have stood where you stand felt the same chill of excitement and left the same warm glow of courage when they lept from the spot you now occupy. -- Roger Henry
Cigarettes smoked my stunt. -- Renee Gilbraith, 1974
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can not
make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people
who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin
There are people who make a rule of creating chaos so that once
the chaos is underway they can then be elected as the people who
take care of the chaos. - Jack Kerouac
I have not studied with the view of making money by my profession;
rather, I have held that a slight fortune with good repute is to be pursued
more than abounding wealth accompanied by disgrace.
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, 1st Century B.C.
For tyrants to be laughed away the people need buffoons.
-Victor Hugo
Television is trouble spelled sideways. - Fred Allen
Television is for people who don't have anything
to do to watch people who don't do anything.
- Fred Allen
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they
consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move
against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
-- Aristotle