Quotable Quotes

2011-12-24T04:34:00.000-05:00

Of course truth is stranger than fiction; after all, good fiction must make sense.
- Samuel Clemens

2011-11-24T04:33:00.000-05:00

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi

2011-10-24T04:31:00.000-04:00

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- T.S. Eliot

2011-09-24T04:30:00.000-04:00

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
- Solomon Short

2011-08-24T04:29:00.000-04:00

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
- Augustine Birrel

2011-08-14T04:40:00.000-04:00

You see things and say 'Why?'; but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'
- G. B. Shaw

2011-08-04T04:41:00.000-04:00

When you take stuff from one writer, it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner

2011-07-24T04:28:00.000-04:00

Any fool can write, but it takes wisdom to know how to erase.
- Rabbi Israel Salanter

2011-07-14T04:39:00.000-04:00

There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde

2011-07-04T04:39:00.000-04:00

There is nothing more obnoxious than someone else's good luck.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

2011-06-24T04:28:00.000-04:00

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
- Kenneth Tynan

2011-06-14T04:37:00.000-04:00

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
- H. L. Mencken

2011-06-04T04:37:00.000-04:00

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot

2011-05-24T04:27:00.000-04:00

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- Mark Twain

2011-05-14T04:35:00.000-04:00

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson

2011-05-04T04:35:00.000-04:00

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain

2011-04-24T22:54:00.001-04:00

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

2011-04-24T04:24:00.001-04:00

Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.
- A.J. Leibling

2011-04-14T04:34:00.000-04:00

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

2010-11-01T21:54:00.000-04:00

In death I can rest in peace, but I prefer to be tired.
-Paolo Coelho

2010-04-27T06:51:00.000-04:00

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie

2010-04-09T06:57:00.000-04:00

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
- Janet Lane

2010-04-07T06:48:00.000-04:00

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi

2010-03-27T06:47:00.000-04:00

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
- Martha Beck

2010-03-19T06:56:00.000-04:00

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2010-03-17T06:46:00.000-04:00

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

2010-03-09T06:55:00.000-05:00

The past does not define you, the present does.
- Jillian Michaels

2010-03-07T06:46:00.000-05:00

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
- W. Clement Stone

2010-02-27T06:45:00.000-05:00

Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.
- Martha Burgess

2010-02-19T06:53:00.000-05:00

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.
- Jim Rohn

2010-02-18T09:57:00.000-05:00

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

2010-02-18T06:50:00.000-05:00

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
- Peter Drucker

2010-02-17T06:43:00.000-05:00

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2010-02-09T06:52:00.000-05:00

Only a fool makes threats. Only another fool feels threatened.
- Paolo Coelho

2010-02-08T09:55:00.000-05:00

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

2010-02-07T06:54:00.000-05:00

All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle.
- St. Francis Of Assisi

2010-02-07T06:40:00.000-05:00

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles Schulz

2010-02-05T18:44:00.000-05:00

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Sir Francis Bacon

2010-01-29T13:35:00.000-05:00

Accept joy, even though you're afraid it might end one day.
- Paolo Coelho

2010-01-28T09:52:00.000-05:00

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey

2010-01-26T13:30:00.000-05:00

Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson

2010-01-19T13:34:00.000-05:00

Where you are doesn't determine who you are.
- Paolo Coelho

2010-01-18T09:50:00.000-05:00

Money without brains is always dangerous.
- Napoleon Hill

2010-01-16T13:29:00.000-05:00

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein

2010-01-15T18:42:00.000-05:00

If we truly have faith in something, it is accompanied by peace inside of us.
- Bryan Hawn

2010-01-09T13:33:00.000-05:00

The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

2010-01-08T09:49:00.000-05:00

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
- Peter Drucker

2010-01-06T13:28:00.000-05:00

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
- Jim Rohn

2010-01-05T18:40:00.000-05:00

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

2009-12-29T13:33:00.000-05:00

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
- Peter Drucker

2009-12-28T09:48:00.000-05:00

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
- Jim Rohn

2009-12-26T13:28:00.000-05:00

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

2009-12-25T21:49:00.000-05:00

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
-Kahlil Gibran

2009-12-25T18:39:00.000-05:00

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.
- Donald Trump.

2009-12-24T21:48:00.000-05:00

There really is only one fruitcake in the world. It is passed from family to family.
- Johnny Carson

2009-12-24T10:15:00.000-05:00

"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool created to define who we are.
- Paolo Coelho

2009-12-21T05:31:00.000-05:00

Listening is arguably the most important aspect of the selling process, yet it's usually the weakest part of a sales professional's skills.
- Jeffrey Gitomer

2009-12-20T15:18:00.000-05:00

Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2009-12-19T13:32:00.000-05:00

The only requirement to achieve success is to be willing to invest in yourself.
- Diana Hendrix

2009-12-18T09:47:00.000-05:00

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2009-12-17T20:22:00.000-05:00

"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.”
- Hannah Arendt

2009-12-16T13:27:00.000-05:00

Maturity doesn't come with age. It begins with the acceptance of responsibility.
- Ed Cole

2009-12-15T18:38:00.000-05:00

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

2009-12-14T15:53:00.000-05:00

Entrepreneurs don't need degrees like lawyers and doctors do. They are credentialed by virtue of their track record.

-Fred Wilson

2009-12-14T09:30:00.001-05:00

If you have a dream, don't waste your energies explaining why.
- Paolo Coelho

2009-12-13T20:48:00.000-05:00

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
- Benjamin Franklin

2009-12-11T05:27:00.000-05:00

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
- Jim Rohn

2009-12-10T14:49:00.000-05:00

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical.
- John Steinbeck

2009-12-08T09:45:00.000-05:00

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
- Vince Lombardi

2009-12-07T20:21:00.000-05:00

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself It means thinking of yourself less.
- C. S. Lewis

2009-12-05T18:37:00.000-05:00

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln

2009-12-04T15:51:00.000-05:00

We need to rediscover government as an enabler, not a solution provider; as a platform for our own innovation, a lever for our own work, not as the deus ex machina that we've paid to do for us what we could be doing for ourselves.

-Tim O'Reilly

2009-12-03T20:45:00.000-05:00

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
- Paolo Coelho

2009-12-01T05:21:00.000-05:00

I am writing a book on the subject of time management. The title is You already know what to do, you're just not doing it.
- Jeffrey Gitomer

2009-11-30T14:46:00.000-05:00

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck

2009-11-29T08:16:00.000-05:00

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

- Robert Collier

2009-11-28T09:51:00.000-05:00

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

2009-11-28T09:44:00.000-05:00

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
- Thomas Becon

2009-11-27T20:20:00.000-05:00

When one returns to simplicity one is saved from destruction by confusion.
- Daodejing

2009-11-25T18:42:00.000-05:00

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

2009-11-25T12:51:00.000-05:00

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.

-Albert Einstein

2009-11-24T19:15:00.000-05:00

Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

2009-11-24T15:47:00.000-05:00

Failure is just a normal phase of one's career.

-Craig Newmark

2009-11-23T20:44:00.001-05:00

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
- James Goldsmith

2009-11-23T09:57:00.001-05:00

If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
- Mark Twain

2009-11-20T07:00:00.000-05:00

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

- Aristotle Onassis

2009-11-19T07:33:00.001-05:00

Slander cannot destroy an honest man – when the flood recedes the rock is there.

– Chinese Proverb

2009-11-18T09:10:00.000-05:00

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

2009-11-15T04:28:00.001-05:00

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
-Horace Greeley

2009-11-14T15:42:00.000-05:00

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

-Winston Churchill

2009-11-09T06:07:00.000-05:00

In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay,but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.

-Chris Anderson

2009-11-08T06:49:00.000-05:00

A person's ability to accept and roll with the tides of change, are at the fulcrum point of his or her ability to succeed.
- Jeffrey Gitomer

2009-11-07T00:55:00.000-05:00

When you're not sure where you're going, you'll never know when enough is enough.
- David Allen, Getting Things Done

2009-11-06T00:36:00.000-05:00

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.
- Horace

2009-11-05T23:39:00.001-05:00

Books are the carriers of civilization.

- Barbara Tuchman

2009-11-05T15:40:00.000-05:00

I find hope in the darkest of days and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

-Dalai Lama

2009-11-05T04:18:00.001-05:00

With death comes honesty.
-Salman Rushdie

2009-11-04T03:12:00.000-05:00

And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires.

- Paolo Coehlo

2009-11-03T11:05:00.000-05:00

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

- Benjamin Franklin

2009-11-01T14:24:00.000-05:00

The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fall.
- Confucius