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Permalink Reply by Corwin Evans Sharp on February 17, 2013 at 11:37pm

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Heinlien

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Permalink Reply by Jake D. Ripley on February 18, 2013 at 5:11am

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro". Hunter S. Thompson. My interpretation for this quote is to be different from everybody else, not enough to be institutionalised tho.

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Permalink Reply by Sean Michael Bach on February 18, 2013 at 1:03pm

"Good thoughts, good words, good deeds."

In other words, a man lives his life thinking good thoughts, of himself, of other people, and of the world.  Those good thoughts allow good words to be spoken to his fellow man, words that can inspire himself and others to, in turn, do good deeds.  During a Catholic Mass, there comes a part of the ceremony where one blesses himself with the sign of the cross on his forehead (good thoughts), then on his mouth (good words), and finally, on his heart (good deeds).

But it is not just Catholics or even Christians that can benefit from these words; this simple phrase can be seen by anyone as an easy recipe for one to create love in the world.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Monster on February 18, 2013 at 1:32pm

"Be Yourself, and be it well." - St. Francis DeSalles

"Maybe it's time to stop not doing what you pretended you can do and can't, and start doing the thing that you can't do, but can no longer pretend that you can."
-Jerri Blank

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Permalink Reply by Davis on February 18, 2013 at 1:41pm

Regarding missing a day of piano practice when piano playing is your profession:

"Miss one day of practice and you know it. Miss two days of practice and your teacher knows it. Miss three days of practice and your audience knows it."

--quote from my major professor in college and graduate school

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Permalink Reply by Ed.K. on February 18, 2013 at 2:22pm

To be the Leader of the Pack, you must go slow enough for the pack to keep up.

-- Ed

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Permalink Reply by Will M. on February 18, 2013 at 4:20pm

My all-time favorite, but I don't have anybody to credit it to. It really hits you hard if you stop and think:

"Someone once told me the definition of Hell: On your last day, the person you became will meet the person you could have become"

This is another great one, because I've found it applies to my life in many ways:

"Be like a duck, remain calm on the surf but swim like hell underneath." -Michael Caine

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Permalink Reply by Big Bad Moose on February 18, 2013 at 7:05pm

"The best thing to do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing but the worst thing to do is nothing." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Permalink Reply by Alexei Bublik on February 18, 2013 at 9:59pm

“All men dream but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in the day to find that it was vanity;
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”
— T.E. Lawrence

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Permalink Reply by The Original Cody on February 18, 2013 at 10:05pm

"Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk"

- Shaq

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Permalink Reply by Gerry Clowes on February 20, 2013 at 1:30am

I keep this at my computer at work because it helps me out:

"WINNERS Look at what they want,

LOSERS Look at what they are afraid of.

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Permalink Reply by Gerry Clowes on February 21, 2013 at 3:22pm

"My Greatest Revenge ... Is to Live a Good Life!   I believe that, but it's hard when I get Really angry!

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