Economy
"Economy
does not consist in saving the coal but in using the heat while it burns."
-
Emerson
"I
favor the policy of economy not because I wish to save money, but because
I wish to save people."
-
Pres. Calvin Coolidge
Education
"Education
is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper
or your self-confidence."
-
Robert Frost
"Education
would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time
they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they do not
know and be imbued with a life-long desire to know it."
-
William Henley
Encouragement
Enemies
"Never
underestimate your enemy even if that enemy is an imagined one; neither
must you over-estimate your friend even if the only friend you have is
yourself."
-
AGP
"He
who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpen our skills. Our
antagonist is our helper."
-
Edmund Burke
"If
you want to know your enemy, you must know what he thinks, not what he
says."
-
from the movie "Brain Machine"
"We
never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy
by getting rid of enmity."
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
Enthusiasm
"I
don't see life depending on how many years you have but on how much enthusiasm
you have."
-
Julio Iglesias
Excellence
& Perfection
The
difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection:
"The
first is attainable, gratifying and healthy; the second is often unattainable,
frustrating and neurotic."
-
Edwin C. Bliss, Management Consultant
Experience
"One
thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
-
James Russell Lowell
Expressing
Oneself
"It
is better to talk than shout, but shouting is better than shooting. I would
rather have someone say to me, "I hate your guts and mean it than have
them lie to me.""
-
Dow Aung San Sun Kyi ; 5-yr. now (1994) prisoner of conscience in Burma
& Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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