As Collected Throughout the Years
Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them. – Albert Einstein
I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light. – John Coltrane
I’m sure critics have their purpose, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did. – Duke Ellington
I never sing a song the same way twice. – Billie Holiday
It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play. – Dizzy Gillespie
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald
I’m famous. Ain’t that a bitch? – Thelonious Monk
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. – Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. – Flannery O’Connor
Those who want milk should not sit in the middle of a field and wait for a cow to back up to them. – Lillian Katz
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. – Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish. – Albert Einstein
Life is humbling. – Jason Barrett
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. ― John Lennon
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. – W. Somerset Maugham
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading”. – Thomas Jefferson
Chess Quotes (Not sure who said them):
The mistakes are there waiting to be made.
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Some part of a mistake is always correct.
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. – Sir Joshua Reynolds (Often wrongly attributed to Thomas Edison)
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his true friend. – Abraham Lincoln
Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest? – Ezekiel 15:2
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. – Steve Jobs
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. – Ayn Rand | The Fountainhead
We’ve always been here and we’ll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn’t we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you’re able to is almost impossible to comprehend. – Jeffrey Rowland
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. – Barry Switzer
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. – Calvin Coolidge
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson
Good motivational quotes:
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Coach [Bob] Knight taught me: “Losers have the biggest voice because there are so many of them; there aren’t a lot of champions.” Via Isaiah Thomas in an interview about him helping Lebron James
Game recognizes game. – Stuart Scott (ESPN)
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. – Will Rogers
The way we respond to an event, person, or situation will determine our health, happiness, and growth. It’s all about the response. A response requires control. It requires thought. You are craving a path, breaking a pattern, and defining self. You are behind the driver’s wheel.
Most people don’t respond. They react. They vomit. They walk without a filter and complain about how they are treated. They see themselves as a victim, which makes them powerless. They become back seat drivers and wonder why they are unhappy.” – The Angry Therapist
Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. – Grace Hansen
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t set sail on someone else’s star. – African proverb
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde
You don’t love someone because they are perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. – Jodi Picoult
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. – Og Mandino
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. – Karen Sunde
We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know. – Stephen King
Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack. – Unknown
You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. – John Mason
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln
