Quotes

Re: Photography - “Only snipers shoot in centre”

"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan."
Irving Townsend

'Wordsmiths who serve established power…castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.' John Ralston Paul, 'Voltaire's Bastards.'  

'Some folks are wise, some are otherwise'. Tobies George Smollett

'It is impossible to soar like an eagle if you are surrounded by turkeys' Anon

'Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.' Edward de Bono 

 'Much educational change is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic'. Anon 

In the end we will have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.' Vincent van Gogh 

'Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.' Aristotle 

'Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each others errors….Only a sailor can set them straight'. John Ralston Saul, 'Voltaire's Bastards'. 

'Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.' Einstein 

'Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.' Buddha 53 BC -483 BC 

'Do I generate more energy when I walk into a room or when I walk out of it?'' Steve Farber, President of Extreme Leadership 

'Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.' Dr Seuss 

'Hire Rembrandt to do the painting and don't tell him how to paint.'

'Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.' Chris Agyris 

'Teachers who do a bad job with old tools are likely to do a worse job with strange new tools.' Anon Educator 

'Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence'. Jerome Bruner 

'Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer it to be postponed.' Winston Churchill 

'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.' Thoreau 

'Thinking is past experience guiding present actions.' William Kilpatrick Educator

'It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.' Carol Ann Tomlinson 'The Differentiated Classroom' 

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. Lord Chesterfield 

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!  ~Author Unknown

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.  ~James D. Miles

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.  ~Author Unknown

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.  ~Frank Moore Colby  

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." 

H.L. Mencken 

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." 

Stuart Chase  

“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny.”  

John Hobbes

“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.” 

Mahatma Ghandi  

There is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit  Al Pacino ( Scent Of A Woman )

 

"The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land—all things born of the soul that can only be felt."

Anthony De Sa

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
C.S. Lewis

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Apple Computer Inc.

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
Douglas Adams

“Reality is that which exists independently of your perception and beliefs.”
"Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire knowledge of things—authority, reasoning, and experience—only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect."
Roger Bacon