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Thanks to better technology, we are already doing more with less, but it only makes us want to do more.
The artist, the priest of the imagination, articulates the journey of the depths for people.
Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.
Drink your coffee slowly and reverently as if it were the axis on which the earth revolves, slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. For only this moment is life.
We have examined closely our resourcing plans for aviation and concluded that some of the capabilities those funds would provide are no longer consistent with the changed operating environment.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
It's absolutely necessary for foreign governments to doubt the word of the American government.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
I feel calm. I feel ready. I can only conclude that's because I don't have a full grasp of the situation.
Studies of homicide victims, especially the increasing number of younger ones, suggest they are frequently criminals themselves and/or drug addicts or users. It is quite possible that their deaths, in terms of economic consequences to society, are net gains.
Knowing when to turn and when things are cooked is the whole Art of Grilling. Everything else is recipes and tricks.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
If you try to take a cat apart, to see how it works, the first thing you'll have on your hands is a non-working cat.
Long live the passionate revolution of creative imagination.
Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift
from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Everybody dies; not everybody lives.
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today?
Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
I am drawn to music that entrances, enchants and transforms me, rather than entertains me.
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Nothing can be more useful to a person than the determination not to be hurried.
The great good news is the fact that our leaders are so spineless that they scare easily.
Don't throw an angry cat straight up.
Confusion is a word we’ve invented for an order which is not understood.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
If the people lead, the leaders will follow.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
I believe that governments exist to serve the people, not the people to serve the government.
I want to be the ruler of my own mind, what's left of it.
With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?
It's not too late at all. You just do not yet know what you are
capable of.
Drum with the wise, and you will become wise.
It'll feel good to be on offense!
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Speak boldly, and speak truly. Shame the devil.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President—or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong—is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people.
The bottom line is I don't trust this president and his advisors.
When I am busy the mountain looks at me.
When I am at leisure, I look at the mountain.
Though it seems the same, it is not the same,
For busy-ness is inferior to leisure.
Adversity does not build character; adversity reveals character.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Always bring along a small pocketknife and a wine opener and a warm blanket, just in case.
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
I play an old Japanese trap set. Young drummers these days place too much emphasis on equipment, and not enough on technique and tuning.
There go my people, I must run to catch up with them for I am their leader.
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
Contrary to popular opinion, facts are not established by popular opinion.
The sword does not recognise the head of the blacksmith who made it.
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.
Life is pleasant, Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.
There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty.
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept,
things we don't want to know but have to learn,
and people we can't live without but have to let go.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
What would you dare to dream if you knew you would not fail?
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Anyone who owns property owns a piece of the earth, and can choose to steward that land in a healthy, productive way.
Anyone who waits to be struck with a good idea has a long wait coming. If I have a deadline for a column or a television script, I sit down at the typewriter and damn well decide to have an idea.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.
My style of playing the tabla is very different, and hence others come to watch my style. It is something I have developed. Attitude is all important and has played a big role in my life.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
The biggest challenge is going to be how to best utilize taxpayer dollars to the benefit of industry, in my opinion.
There was a cemetery behind the house that I used to cut through on my way to and from school. Since I always carried drumsticks I got into the habit of playing the gravestones. This earned me a neighborhood reputation as a strange and unsettling boy.
If you follow your bliss, doors open and guides appear, though probably not the ones you expect.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it.
Often one's best work is at the time considered inadequate or incompetent.
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
A god could hardly love and be wise.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
I had my moments of wanting to sound like Hendrix, or Eric Clapton, or Jeff Beck. Eventually, I got to like the way I sounded, and I think things got better from that moment, really.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Dodgers announcer Vin Scully told the Chicago Sun-Times about former big-league infielder Gene Freese:
``He once got back to the hotel after a night on the town, and he called the front desk and asked for a 7 a.m. wake-up call. The operator said, `You just missed it.' ''
When spring comes, the grass grows by itself.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
No person is your enemy, no person is your friend, every person is your teacher.
You can just as easily laugh and play while you grow as become serious and overwhelmed.
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Almost anything that you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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