“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
—FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
April 2009
32 posts
“Don’t take yourself too seriously. No one else does.”
—UNKNOWN
“If you don’t buy paper, the trees win.”
—NBC ANNOUNCER GUY (before The Office, 4/16/09)
“Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.”
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“How much do we learn proving other people are wrong? Nothing. How much do we learn defending that we’re right? Nothing.”
—MARSHALL GOLDSMITH (best-selling author, professor, consultant and executive coach)
“Just to do your thing’s the hardest thing to do.”
—CASS ELLIOT
“Few of us can trace our ancestry to the Mayflower. But it’s worth noting that, from a Native American perspective, those Massachusetts Bay pilgrims were illegals.”
—TIMOTHY EGAN, in his New York Times blog post about new Commerce secretary — and first Chinese-American governor — Gary Locke, whose grandfather lied to get into the U.S. (Source: The New York Times)
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
“In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
—ERIC HOFFER
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”
—ISAAC ASIMOV
“You can tell you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
—ANNE LAMOTT
“Wag more. Bark less.”
—BUMPER STICKER
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
—ARISTOTLE
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”
—PEARL S. BUCK
“One dares not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”
—BRUCE LEE
“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
—HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
