Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts
I have my own little world. But it's okay - they know me here.
~ Unknown
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
~ Roger Crawford
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
~ Winston Churchill
There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.
~ John Dewey
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.
~ Robert Brault
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
~ Roger Crawford
Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.
~ Unknown
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
~ Anonymous
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he is talking about.
~ Sam Ewing
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~ Dennis Roth
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~ B.F. Skinner
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Proofread carefully to see if you any word out.
~ Unknown
Why do we tend to love actors' portrayals of misery when we would never wish such suffering upon ourselves?
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
The Distraction Addiction: When you are constantly interrupted by external things - the phone, texts, people with 'just one quick question', clients, children - by self-generated interruptions, or by your own efforts to multitask and juggle several tasks at once. The chronic distractions erode your sense of having control of your life. They don't just derail your train of thought; they make you lose yourself.
~ Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Dad's idea of adventure was driving his Ford Taurus to town without the wiper fluid filled to the top.
~ Monique Parsons
Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.
~ C.S. Lewis
An intellectual is a person who is knowledgable in one field but speaks out only in others.
~ Tom Wolfe