My wife's not too smart. I told her our kids were spoiled. She said, all kids smell that way. —Rodney Dangerfield More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. —Paulo Coelho More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you... You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. —John Gardner More about this quote Tags: life meaning past experience affection uniqueness loyalty controll Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow More about this quote Tags: knowledge sadness sorrows coldness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes. —Jack Handey More about this quote Tags: humor perspective criticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape. —George Gurdjieff More about this quote Tags: freedom society prison self-knowledge awakening wake-up-call Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. —George Gurdjieff More about this quote Tags: freedom self-knowledge slavery self-governance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. —J. M. Barrie More about this quote Tags: memory past safety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. —Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh More about this quote Tags: wonder curiousity gifts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. —M. Scott Peck More about this quote Tags: truth discomfort answers searching renewal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: politics God school boards Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. —Wernher von Braun More about this quote Tags: uncertainty research exploration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom in not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment. —Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent More about this quote Tags: freedom security prosperity luxury enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought. —Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent More about this quote Tags: danger thought diversity absent-mindedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email