Fountain of Ideas

Published on 11 November 2024 at 14:38

FOUNTAIN OF IDEAS:

" A hero is an ordinary person who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of the overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve

 " Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

 "Know your circle of competence, and stick within it. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital." - Warren Buffett

 " Charity is not substitute for justice withheld." - St. Augustine

 " I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." -

  Writer Joanna Maciejewska

 "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

 " Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine

 " There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.' - Karl Marx

 " The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."  - G.K Chesterton

 " Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."  - John Stuart Mill

 " Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

 " The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."  - Margaret Thatcher

 " One small crack does not mean that you are broken. It means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart." - Linda Poindexter

 " Trust is like the air we breathe - when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices."  - Warren Buffett

 

HELLO, HERE ARE MORE QUICK AND CLEVER IDEAS

"One should be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized." - Environmentalist Rachel Carson

" A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

" Do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!" - Soren Klerkegaard

" Nagging is the repetition of  unpalatable truths truths." - British lawmaker Edith Summerskill

" A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain." - Graham Norton

" The only way to prove that you are a good sport is to lose." - Ernie Banks

" Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." - Iris Murdoch

" Decline is a choice." - Charles Krauthammer

" Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way." - British TV host David Frost

" A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us." - Franz Kafka

" Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do." - Zsa Zsa Gabor

" If we took ourselves  more lightly, we could fly like angels and birds." - Pope Benedict XVI

" Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is." - Banker Walter Wriston

" Storytelling will never be the same as action. But action depends on a perception of possibility, which only arises from the tales we tell ourselves." - Novelist Lydia Millet

" Be most slow to believe what we most wish should be true." - Samuel Pepys

" The good were defeated not because they were good, but because they were weak." - Bertolt Brecht

" Second place is the first looser." - Dale Earnhardt

" It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win."  - Muhammad Ali   

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