If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
“It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.”
I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.
"Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine."
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
"It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world."
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
"The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be."
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
"Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?"
"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
“It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.”
The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
"All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge."
I love the sea.
"I think going from laughing to crying to laughing to crying - making those quick turns adds years to your life."
"Joy is not in things; it is in us."
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
"It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that."
But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."
Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
"True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man."
“Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.”
Nature always has something amazing in it.
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
"You can't have a physical experience without there first being a vibrational one."
We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.
"Where I live, everything is very small."
I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
"Women's glances express what they dare not speak."
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."
Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
A sign of a smart person is being able to consider an idea without immediately agreeing with it.
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
"According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family"
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
"You are eternal Beings who have chosen to participate in this specific physical life experience for many wonderful reasons. And this time-space-reality on Planet Earth serves as a platform in which you are able to focus your perspective for the purpose of specific creation."
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.
"A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory."
"Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone."
Quality isn't a single act; it's a regular practice.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
"There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories."
"It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service."
Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another."
Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.
"If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard."
I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.
"What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning."
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future
"Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault."
“The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.”
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
"What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things."
The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
