inspirational quotes

[zstairlessone]

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
-Walt Disney

And here in the Golden State, we are marching, or is that charging, into failure as we furlough teachers and increase class size

 

[goofy8275]

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-Thomas Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Edison

 

[Kaykaykay]

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius

I doubt Confucius said this.

As this post from another forum says:


Quote:
Originally Posted by Deegeea

None of the Google Book hits are from anything serious and all are from the last few years; I would not be at all surprised if all those authors are merely spreading a misattributed quote from an internet site. Surely, if it was a real Confucius saying, it would have been mentioned in print earlier than 2003? Compare it to the Google Book search for "When he chooses the labors which are proper, and makes them labor on them, who will repine?" which gets 85 hits, not a mere 8?

Evidence against Confucius saying it:

1. It's not in the Analects.
2. It doesn't fit Confucian thought.
3. It doesn't fit the world as it existed when Confucius lived.
4. It relies upon English word play.

The problem with it being a poor translation is that there aren't many people out there translating ancient Chinese.

 

[goofy8275]

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
-Lewis Carroll

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
-Lewis Carroll

 

[Kaykaykay]

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

 

[Iriana]

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
-Douglas Jerrold

 

[goofy8275]

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln

 

[scifan57]

"The time is always right to do the right thing." - Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[J. A.]

"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is." (Winston Churchill)

 

[Roy Rob]

A couple from Mark Twain:

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

 

[Kaykaykay]

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

From Mark Zuckerberg, but I think this resonates way beyond tech

 

[Iriana]

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~Leo Buscaglia

 

[AdmiralAdama]

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Atticus Finch (words by Harper Lee)

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[goofy8275]

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.
-Usaine Bolt

 

[zstairlessone]

'Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha... '

Vizzini - while 'dueling' with the Dread Pirate Roberts (Wesley)

Thanks to Iriana for reminding me of one of life's great secret pleasures.