Cumulus

Quotes…


Edison "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas A. Edison

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson

Pascal "Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

'An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.'
Repoman

Sobchak “You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in ‘Nam’ of course.”
Walter Sobchak

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Berenson "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
Bernard Berenson

"The best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire

King "The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
Stephen King

Bacon "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Sir Francis Bacon

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby

Army "You will not rise to the occasion, you will sink to the level of your training."
US Army

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
Fred Allen

'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

'I am a Doctor, not a Bricklayer'
Doctor McCoy

'A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.'
Segal's Law

Army 'In command and out of control.'
US Army

'It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.'
Abraham Lincoln

Possibilities

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few”
Shunryu Suzuki (Japanese Zen priest, ?-1971)


… someone you don’t like …

‘An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.’
Dylan Thomas, in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
Welsh poet (1914 – 1953)


Deep Thinking

‘The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.’ – Nikola Tesla


YKK

“No one prospers unless he renders benefit to others.” Tadao Yoshida


Impossible

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)


Actions

“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)


Consistency

‘Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.’
Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959)


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