Quality of reading
Want to improve your quality of life? Improve the quality of your reading. Jyoti Guptara – English writer and business consultant (b. 1988)
All Quotes
Решение
Решение всегда простое. Вы просто должны найти это. Мудрость, приписываемая Александр Исаевич Солженицын – русскому писателю и диссиденту, Нобелевская премия по литературе 19170 г. (1918-2008), , Котировочная книга 2024 The solution is always simple, you just have to find it. wisdom, attributed to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn -Russian writer and dissident, Nobel Prize for Literature...
Live right, because by living well you change the times
“Mala tempora, laboriosa tempora”, hoc dicunt homines. bene uiuamus, et bona sunt tempora. nos sumus tempora: quales sumus, talia sunt tempora. “Bad times, hard times”, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. Augustine of Hippo – known as Aurelius Augustinus, early...
Understand
We rarely understand what we see – so instead we see what we can understand. wisdom – Quotations book 2023
Read new
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami – Japanese writer (b. 1949), from “Norwegian Wood” (“ノルウェイの森”, 1987), Quotations book 2023
Freedom of press
The press must have the freedom to say anything so that certain people do not have the freedom to do anything. slogan of free journalism – attributed to renowned politicians and journalists such as Stewart Allsop (American journalist, 1914-1974), Louis Terrenoire (French journalist and politician, 1908-1992) and Alain Payrefitte (French politician, diplomat and journalist, 1925-1999),...
Responsibility
Responsibility is the price of freedom. Elbert Hubbard – American writer (“Message to Garcia”) and publisher (1856-1915), quoted by his wife Alice Moore Hubbard (American writer and feminist, 1861-1915) in “An American Bible” (1912)
Sean bheannacht na h-Eireann
May God give you for every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile, for every care, a promise, and a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share, for every sigh, a sweet song, and an answer for each prayer. old Irish blessing – Quotations book 2023 Go dtuga Dia daoibh: Tuar ceatha le gach stoirm Meangadh gáire le gach deor Gealltanas le gach buairt...
Christmas
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. Ruth Carter Stapleton – American evangelist (1929-1983), sister of James Earl “Jimmy” Carter jr. (American politician, 1977-81 39th President, Nobel Peace Prize 2002, b. 1924), Quotations book 2023
Want
Who cannot do what he wants, has to want what he can do. Chi non può quel che vuol, quel che può voglia. Leonardo da Vinci – Italian polymath (1452-1519), from a sonnet of disputed origin
Look at God
If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God, you’ll be at rest. Cornelia Arnolda Johanna “Corrie” ten Boom – Dutch writer, member of the resistance (1892-1983), from “The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom” (1971), Quotations book...
Felix
Felix, qui quod amat defendere fortiter audet. Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. Ovid – born Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet (43 B.C. – c. 17 A.C.), from his love poems “Amores”, book II, poem V (16 B.C.), Quotations book 2023
Sin dolor, no hay ganancia
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando. Pablo Picasso – born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish artist (1881-1973), Quotations book 2023
Curiosity pays of
Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Steve Jobs – American company founder: Apple (1955-2011), from his commencement address at Stanford University (12 June 2005), Quotzations book 2023
Ordre
The beauty of the world is the order of the world that is loved. Simone Weil – French philosopher and social reformer (1909-1943), from “Awaiting God” (“Attente de Dieu,” 1950) La beauté du monde, c’est l’ordre du monde aimé. Simone Weil – philosophe et réformatrice sociale française (1909-1943), extrait de “Attente de Dieu”...
Change
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. C. William Pollard – American entrepreneur, investor and author (b. 1938), from “The Soul of the Firm” in “The Implementation of the Abstinence Education Provisions in the Welfare...
Responsibility
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. C. William Pollard – American entrepreneur, investor and author (b. 1938)
From the inside
If you want to strike the right note, you have to hear it inside yourself first. wisdom of saxophone players
Goals
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. Leslie Calvin “Les” Brown – American motivational speaker (b. 1945), Quotations book 2024
Change
It’s actually easier to make big changes than small ones. Dr. Dean M. Ornish – American physician, author and researcher, president and founder of the “Preventive Medicine Research Institute” in Sausalito, California (b. 1953), from “Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease” (2010)