Misc Quotes
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
-James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
-Woody Allen
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."
-Richard Bach
"I hope I never get so old I get religious."
-Ingmar Bergman
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
-Benjamin Franklin
"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature."
-Sigmund Freud
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
-Sigmund Freud
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
-Aldous Huxley
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
-Horace
"A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'.'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had."
-Guy Kawasaki
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato
"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself."
-Plato
"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
-Henry David Thoreau
"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 which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
-Anna Freud
"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
-Calvin Coolidge
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
-Dalai Lama
"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
-Dave Barry
"Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
-Josh Billings
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