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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the read

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

"Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The lib

"Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the current tight real-estate market allow you to put there." In The Black Swan by Nassim N. Talebon, about Umberto Eco's library, describing visitors reactions to Eco's personal library of 30,000 books.

"Goodness is easier to recognize than to define." -W.H. Aude

"Goodness is easier to recognize than to define." -W.H. Auden

The covers of this book are too far apart.

The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like t

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. dalai lama

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. I

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. Margaret Thatcher

Anecdote of the Jar

Anecdote of the Jar I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee. - Wallace Stevens

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is con

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -AA Milne

I love deadlines, I like the whooshing sound they make as th

I love deadlines, I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -Douglas Adams

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the ri

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, to

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. Robert Half

"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of

"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools" -Napoleon Bonaparte

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomin

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. - Margaret Halsey

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and sus

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. - H. Mumford Jones

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a w

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. - Marshall McLuhan

"Por qué los árboles esconden

"Por qué los árboles esconden El esplendor de sus raíces?"
Pablo Neruda, Libro de las Preguntas

Suddenly I realize that if I stepped out of my body I would

Suddenly I realize that if I stepped out of my body I would break into blossom. -James Wright

"I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which

"I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties." - Charles Olson

"Nature is a haunted house --

"Nature is a haunted house -- but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted." - Emily Dickinson

"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me th

"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Ghandi

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." Paul Gauguin

What we become depends on what we read after all of the prof

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. - Thomas Carlyle

"Books are… My books? They're the center of my life! They're

"Books are… My books? They're the center of my life! They're the center of my guts! The center of my ganglion! The center of my antennae! The center of being alive! That's what my books are." -Ray Bradbury, Forbes 12.01.06

“Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation." - Henry D

“Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn som

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei

To see a world in a grain of sand

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. -William Blake

To fly, we have to have resistance. - Maya Lin

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is m

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln

“Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries…”

“Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries…” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1900

Information about money has become almost as i

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself. -Walter Wriston (banker and former chairman of Citicorp)

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture the

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand." - Mark Twain

Only through curiosity can we discover opportu

Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. - Clarence Birdseye

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, That's as good as they're going to feel all day." Frank Sinatra

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. " From T. H. White's The Once and Future King

....knowing how a typewriter works does not make you a write

....knowing how a typewriter works does not make you a writer. Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information. - HBR article (1994) The Post-Capitalist Executive: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker

Hebdomadal [heb·dom·a·dal] adj. Weekly, appea

Hebdomadal [heb·dom·a·dal] adj. Weekly, appearing or occurring every seven days

keep 'em coming - loving these quotes... - cmd 10/21/

keep 'em coming - loving these quotes... - cmd 10/21/2007

Commitment is the enemy of opportunity.

Commitment is the enemy of opportunity. - Stephen Allen Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes - but no plans. - Peter F. Drucker

Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools sp

Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something. - Plato

All great spirits have always encountered violent opposition

All great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't le

"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination." - Sam Levenson

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"The number of books will grow continually, and one can pred

"The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes." - Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

"It's important to begin a search on a full stomach."

"It's important to begin a search on a full stomach." - Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inabil

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up wher

If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed. - Chinese Proverb

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defe

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather

"Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do)." - Stephen Jay Gould

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” - Ray Bradbury

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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have t
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” - Oscar Wilde

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." -GK Chesterton