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- When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
- Michael Bridge
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
- Emerson
- Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
- Russell L. Ackoff
- When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.
- Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life
- When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
- Plumpick: Don't you understand, the whole town will blow up in three minutes!
Columbine: Yes--they will be wonderful, those three minutes. - "The King of Hearts"
- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
- He doesn't have the greatest smarts in the world. His main interests in school were broads and booze.
- J. Danforth Quayle's Father, 08/23/88
- It's our fault. We should have given him better parts.
- Jack Warner, on hearing that Ronald Reagan had been elected governor of California
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