There is a lack of curiosity today because people believe that stuff happens randomly.
You can say that I am an idiot but you can't say I don't try. The only real failure is to not try.
Dan Janowsky
You find out who you really are when you have to compete against someone else in front of a crowd.
Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
The most beautiful experience we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them—these are the best guides for man.
People like you and I, though mortal of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
| Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. |
| I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. |
| Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. |
| “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. |
Louis L'Amour
A good beginning makes a good end.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Pete Seeger
This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
I have been singing folksongs of America and other lands to people everywhere. I am proud that I never refused to sing to any group of people because I might disagree with some of the ideas of some of the people listening to me. I have sung for rich and poor, for Americans of every possible political and religious opinion and persuasion, of every race, color, and creed. The House committee wished to pillory me because it didn’t like some few of the many thousands of places I have sung for.
A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.
A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.
I have been singing folksongs of America and other lands to people everywhere. I am proud that I never refused to sing to any group of people because I might disagree with some of the ideas of some of the people listening to me. I have sung for rich and poor, for Americans of every possible political and religious opinion and persuasion, of every race, color, and creed. The House committee wished to pillory me because it didn’t like some few of the many thousands of places I have sung for.
A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.
A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.
Woody Guthrie
If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
All you can write is what you see.
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine, and any song that says, the pleasures I have seen in all of my trouble, are the things I never can get — don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race.
I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. ... I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
All you can write is what you see.
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine, and any song that says, the pleasures I have seen in all of my trouble, are the things I never can get — don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race.
I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. ... I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.
As You Like It
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts
I do desire we may be better strangers
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal,
who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal
Neither rhyme nor reason
Can one desire too much of a good thing?
No sooner met but they looked;
no sooner looked but they loved;
no sooner loved but they sighed;
no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason;
no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts
I do desire we may be better strangers
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal,
who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal
Neither rhyme nor reason
Can one desire too much of a good thing?
No sooner met but they looked;
no sooner looked but they loved;
no sooner loved but they sighed;
no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason;
no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools
More Twain
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them
Mike Tyson
Once you help yourself, people will help you. That’s just how it goes, and I found out late. People are just waiting for you to change so they can participate in cultivating your life.
John Wayne - The Train Robbers
I hate to have to tell you this, but whether you like it or not you're a man and you're stuck with it. You'll find yourself standing your ground, and fighting when you ought to run, speaking out when you ought to keep your mouth shut, doing things that will seem wrong to a lot of people, but you'll do them all the same... You're going to spend the rest of your life getting up one more time than you're knocked down, so you better start getting used to it.
Elmore Leonard
You might be shocked a little bit, but when you get to heaven you're going to see a lot of faces you never expected to see. Folks who got up there on God's standards and not man's.
He's a good boy, but he's got an idea life's just a big can-can dancer with four fingers of scootawaboo in each hand.
If there is no way to tell when death will come, then why should one be afraid of it?
He's a good boy, but he's got an idea life's just a big can-can dancer with four fingers of scootawaboo in each hand.
If there is no way to tell when death will come, then why should one be afraid of it?
Lou Holtz
This is the beginning of a new day
God has given me this day to use as I will
I can waste it or use it for good
What I do today is important because
I’m exchanging a day out of my life for it
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever
Leaving in its place that which I have traded
I want it to be gain, not loss
Good, not evil
Success, not failure
In order that I should not regret the price I paid for it
Because the future is just a whole string of nows
God has given me this day to use as I will
I can waste it or use it for good
What I do today is important because
I’m exchanging a day out of my life for it
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever
Leaving in its place that which I have traded
I want it to be gain, not loss
Good, not evil
Success, not failure
In order that I should not regret the price I paid for it
Because the future is just a whole string of nows
C. S. Lewis
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)