Thought for the Day

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
:: Pablo Picasso

Jump into the Fire

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
:: George Santayana

Be True to Yourself

The superior person is distressed by the limitations of their ability; they are not distressed by the fact that other people do not recognize the ability that they have.
:: Confucius

Explore the Wide Open Spaces

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
:: Gertrude Stein

No Going Back

Irrevocable as a haircut.
:: Lynwood L. Giacomini

Quote of the Day

The wise man will be slow to speak but quick to act.
:: Confucius

Write on, Write on, Write on

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
:: Flannery O'Connor

Good Advice for the Day

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
:: Confucius

Thought for the Day

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
:: G.I. Gurdjieff

Quote of the Day

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
:: Sir Francis Bacon

Where Did They All Go?

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
:: Sir Barnett Cocks

Where Real Men Buy Lumber

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
:: Dave Barry

Quote of the Day

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
:: Winston Churchill

The Price of Fame

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
:: Robert Benchley

Thought for the Day

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
:: George Lucas

Quote of the Day

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
:: Sir Francis Bacon

The Sad Truth

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
:: Shana Alexander

Quote of the Day

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
:: William James

Quote of the Day

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
:: Voltaire

Thought for the Day

Do you believe in life before death?

Quote of the Day

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
:: Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

When Noah is captain, what is there to fear?
:: Ibn El-Arabi

I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
:: Confucius

Thought for the Day

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
:: Jean Kerr

Quote of the Day

The secret of being boring is to say everything.
:: Voltaire

Quote of the Day

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
:: Anonymous

Isn't it obvious?

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
:: Buckminster Fuller

Thought for the Day

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
:: Henry David Thoreau

Thought for the Day

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
:: Francis Bacon

Quote of the Day

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
:: Niels Bohr

Thought for the Day

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
:: Conficius