Quotes that hit home

[edo]

This isn't a quote but lots of them. In fact it's my favourite motivational speech of all time. Helps that I worship the ground that Arnie walks on  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJ4hbkLiY0

[dogboy]

"To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

- Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

[dogboy]

[dogboy]

From a letter to my cousin...

Look, this is going to sound like it's coming out of nowhere, but it is what it is... someday you are going to die. And everyone you know will be affected by it - some more than others. And then, someday THEY will die, and the same thing will happen to them. And NO MATTER HOW IMPORTANT YOU BECOME, in time, you will be forgotten, and for all intents and purposes it will be as if you never have existed. So live for today. Enjoy it. It is your day. Do what you want with it. If you want to just waste it, go ahead, it doesn't matter. But I suggest you ENJOY it. Because if there is one goal you should have in life it is to enjoy yourself. So do that. Let that sh## drop off your back, and do whatever the f### you want. Because in the long run, no matter WHAT you do will matter. So make it matter now, and enjoy it:)

- dogboy

[dogboy]

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

[littleman]

This one goes against my sarcastic nature, but it hit me as truth today.

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein

[rcjordan]

There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.   --Jeffrey Goines character in Twelve Monkeys (1995)

[ergophobe]

"There's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
-- Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act II, I believe"

[rcjordan]

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." ― Henry Ford

[IrishWonder]

[rcjordan]

"This is only temporary, unless it works."  --Red Green

[rcjordan]

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." -- Terry Pratchett, Jingo

[rcjordan]

My mom called me gifted because she would not have paid for me.  --stillragin on reddit

[rcjordan]

The difference between smart kids and dumb kids is that smart kids don't get caught when they cheat. --anon

[rcjordan]

The difference between poison and medicine is almost always merely dosage.