"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." Mark Twain.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
"A promise made is a debt unpaid."
- Robert W. Service.
Friday, January 01, 2021
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Thomas Huxley.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
"The observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge."
Alfred Nobel.
Monday, March 30, 2020
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."
Robert Capa.
Sunday, March 29, 2020
"Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out."
Paul Kagame.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
Marcel Proust.
Friday, March 27, 2020
When planning for a year, plant corn.
When planning for a decade, plant trees.
When planning for life, train people.
Chinese Proverb
Thursday, March 26, 2020
"The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment."
Justin Langer.
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
"The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay."
Henry Ford.
Monday, March 23, 2020
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
Aristotle.
Sunday, March 22, 2020
"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
Charles Dickens.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
"No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it."
Peter Drucker
Friday, March 20, 2020
"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
Milton Berle.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
Mark Twain.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
Oscar Wilde.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
"Love is the bane of honour, the death of duty."
George RR Martin.
Monday, March 16, 2020
"The things we love destroy us every time. Remember that."
George RR Martin.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."
George RR Martin.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
"Swift as a deer, quiet as a shadow, quick as a snake, calm as still water, fear cuts deeper than swords.
George RR Martin.
Friday, March 13, 2020
"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone."
George RR Martin.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
"People die at their dinner tables, die in their beds. Everybody dies, sooner or later. Don't worry about your death. Worry about your life. Take charge of your life, for as long as it lasts."
George RR Martin.
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
"The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted."
George RR Martin.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
"No one can survive in this world without help. No one."
George RR Martin.
Monday, March 09, 2020
"A lion does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep."
George RR Martin.
Sunday, March 08, 2020
"Love is the death of duty; sometimes, duty is the death of love."
George RR Martin.
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Saturday, March 07, 2020
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
George RR Martin.
Friday, March 06, 2020
“Respect is how the young keep us at a distance, so we don’t remind them of an unpleasant truth - nothing lasts."
George R. R. Martin.
Thursday, March 05, 2020
"A very small man can cast a very large shadow."
George R. R. Martin.
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
"Any man who must say 'I am the King' is no true king."