Tag Archive for: quotations
Edith Wharton wrote:
"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
Quote for October from Rita Emmet
A clean house is the sign of a broken computer.
"Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is… It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best."
-- Sir Laurence Olivier
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
-- Francis Bacon
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
William Penn
"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind
the whole world burns and sparkles with light."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm brings a nurturing rain that allows life to flourish, so too in human affairs times of advancement are preceded by times of disorder. Success comes to those who can weather the storm.”
-- I Ching No. 3
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
