Quotes I Like

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. -Albert Einstein

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E.B. White

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. -Douglas Engelbart

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. -Charlie Parker

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. -Vincent van Gogh

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. -Aldous Huxley

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. -Socrates

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. -William Shakespeare

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. -Ray Charles

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. -Henrik Ibsen

Wanted: for hazardous journey. small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. honour and recognition in case of success. -Sir Ernest Shackelton

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. -Napolean Bonaparte

To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures. -John Stuart Mill

[T]he happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world -Ernest Fitzgerald

If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him, he isn't worth a crap. -Evel Knievel