Recent Work
- The internet and attributions:
It turns out that the Frank Outlaw quote is actually an adaptation from
Dhammapada Sayings of the Buddha-"The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become."
Quotable Wisdom
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that know not victory nor defeat. "
- Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not just the mountain ahead, but the grain of sand in your
shoe that wears you
down."
- Japanese Proverb
"We are alone,
absolutely alone on this chance planet: and,
amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog,
has made an alliance with us."
-Maurice
Maeterlinck
"Regret for the things we did can
be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is
inconsolable."
-
Sidney J. Harris
"No worthwhile research project
is ever finished, only abandoned."
-Paraphrased from Paul Valery
"When I was a kid I used to pray
every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized
that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to
forgive me."
- Emo
Phillips
"Every
increased possession loads us with new weariness."
- John Ruskin
"As an adolescent I
aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for
a meaningful vision of human life- so I became a scientist. This is
like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
-M. Cartmill
"Believe
those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
- Andre Gide
Lovaglia's Law: The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it.
"Watch your
thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
- Frank Outlaw
"There is no easy way from the Earth to the Stars."
- Seneca
"It is the same with people as with riding a bike, only when one is moving
can one easily maintain balance."
- Albert Einstein to his son
"It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world,
it's the troubles that cause the rebels."
-Carl Oglesby
"Vision without action is a daydream,
Action without vision is a nightmare."
-Japanese Proverb
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