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~ The first of earthly blessings, independence. ~ ~ Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ~ ~ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. ~ ~ Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee ~ ~ No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living. ~ ~ Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ~ ~ Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. ~ ~ Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. ~ ~ Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. ~ ~ I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ~ ~ I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ~ ~ How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business. ~ ~ Blogging is using a new medium for what it is good for - connecting and interacting. ~ ~ In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. ~ ~ Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ~ ~ Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. ~ ~ Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly — hurt, bitterness, grief, and, mostof all, fear. ~ ~ Expressing anger is a form of public littering. ~ ~ The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~ ~ Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send. ~ ~ A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ ~ A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ ~ Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. ~ ~ The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. ~ ~ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ~ ~ Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim. ~ ~ Racism has been an integral component of American culture since its founding upon the genocide of Native Americans, and the forced slavery of Africans and Afro-Americans. ~ ~ True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. It is a great virtue: it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin. ~ ~ A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. ~ ~ Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. ~ |
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