Quotes I Like
Man In The Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), "Man in the Arena" Speech given April 23, 1910
Another version:
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat”
“One experiment is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
-Unknown, similar, but not identical attributions to Albert Einstein, Wernher Von Braun, and Adm. Grace Murray Hopper
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“Without the data you’re just another person with an opinion.” - W. Edwards Deming
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten thousand angels swearing I was right would make no difference. -Abraham Lincoln
Charles Babbage (Considered Father of Modern Computers)
"...Propose to a man any principle, or an instrument, however admirable, and you will observe the whole effort is directed to find a difficultly, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple."
“You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known and existed before it is generally received and practiced on.” Benjamin Franklin
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."
Norman Vincent Peale
"I'm often in trouble for talking too clearly."
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“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
John Gilmore, American entrepreneur and civil libertarian
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
Ego leads to suffering, but only suffering can tame ego.
-Unknown
The past is never dead. It not even the past. - William Faulkner
“In a world divided between haves and have-nots, between postmodern and pre-modern, and between those for whom God is dead and those for whom God remains omnipresent, expecting coercion to produce reconciliation, acceptance or submission represents the height of folly,” – Andrew Bacevich .
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Who fight for the right, not for the wrong
Going there, I'm growing there
Helping the weak against the strong
Soon you will find out the man
I'm supposed to be"
-Toots Hibbert, RIP
“Silver bullets are for werewolves.” - Tonya Matthews, vice chairwoman for National Assessment Governing Board
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence” - Albert Einstein
"When our heart is filled with loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, its capacity becomes boundless, immeasurable. With such an expansive heart, immense as the wide-open sea, those blatant injustices and suffering cannot overpower us, just as a small handful of salt cannot make a great river salty." - Thich Nhat Hanh
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"There's no time I would go back and say, "Do this differently." Experiencing mistakes has been devalued in our culture. They want people to make the right decisions at all times. Well, there's?a saying in research science: If you're not making mistakes then you're not on the frontier of discovery. I'm the sum of the correct decisions I've made and the incorrect decisions I've made; each one of those shapes the wisdom that I carry today." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"If you protect your paperclips and diamonds with equal vigor, you'll soon have more paper clips and fewer diamonds." - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State, 1961-1969
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“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for an urge to rule.” – H.L. Mencken
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity” – Horace Mann
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When William Macy was recently asked by Men's Health magazine how a man should handle criticism, he said, "Like he handles compliments. Good information, but not the complete picture."
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“…exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.” Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor E. Frankl
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Examine your assumptions constantly, or you become nothing more than an echo of the time you used to think. – Dan Kaminsky
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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. – Unknown right now
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“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson:
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“You need to be brave first in order to do good.” – character in 2018 Hearts Beat Loud movie
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving," Einstein
From actor David Duchovny no less:
“One of my favorite mottos is from Nietzsche – amor fait, love of fate. Whatever happens to you, fall in love with it, because there’s really no other option. You can think, “Oh, I’m a victim!” or “Oh, woe is me!”. But it happened. So love it. And see what the good is coming out of it.”
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better wether[sic] by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.” John Mills Stuart
Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister: What all the wise men promised has not happened. And what all the damned fools predicted has come to pass
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.“
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." -First appeared in print in the 1986 book Pascal: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming by Walter J. Savitch (https://www.snopes.com/quotes/berra/practicetheory.asp)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. – Robert Schuller
Arthur Clarke said, “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”?
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.”
-- Niccolò Machiavelli
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
“I’d rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
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Gerry Spence, author of How to Argue & Win Every Time
"It ain't what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you know that ain't so."
-- Satchel Paige.
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
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“Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman.
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First, set down what you need. Requirements are the father of invention.?
Arent Kits Van Heyningen
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Christopher Hitchens
“Heat is not the antithesis of light but rather the source of it.”
The very things that held you down are the things that will carry you up.
Dumbo
If you get all passengers off a plane in the tarmac to have them visually inspect the plane, most likely it won’t prevent it from crashing. Not sure who, but argument against the many eyes theory
What is to give light must endure burning.
Victor Frankl
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Victor Frankl
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"Bias aren't always weaknesses. The key is in recognizing when.” -from University Central Florida speaker (name not known)
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Ethan Hawke’s recommendation for writers:
“Write every day. Not every other day. Not tomorrow. Not after the party. But before. The more you write, the more comes out of you. If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.”
-from Ethan Hawke’s AMA on Reddit
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If it is to be, it is up to me
-Aaron Hernandez
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To the last minute, to the last second, to the last man we fight.
-Red Tails movie
Herb Brooks. He was the coach of the 1980 U.S. Ice Hockey team that beat the Russian Hockey team for the gold medal: “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
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Quotes I like from Aldous Huxley:
“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
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“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.”
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“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored”
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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
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“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable”
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“Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.”
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Steven Soderbergh has said: “Talent + Perseverance = Luck
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"People need to be reminded more than instructed" - Not always true, but probably more true than not
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“What you have to do is easy, but doing is hard”
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Hemingway- "There is no nobility to being better than your fellow man. Nobility is gained by being better than your formal self"
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Sylvester Stallone - 90% is mistakes, 10% not. It's the 10% that counts.
Nothing is impossible if you really go for it
2 年One i use often "He who doesn't listen will face the consequences".