Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
~ Abraham Maslow
“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”
~ Lin Yutang
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”
~ Goethe
“Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.”
~ Washington Irving
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
About how Beethoven created Ode to Joy and heard it in his head even when he was deaf (he had mapped hearing so well in his brain):
“[Beethoven] heard it in a way that demonstrates our hunger for human adaptability. … The brain yearning to find a path to the outside world.”
~ John Hockenberry, journalist
At the human2.0 conference at the MIT Media Lab, ten minutes ago.
The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t have steak.
~ Robert Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon
Did you ever hear anyone say, “That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?”
~ Joseph Henry Jackson
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
~ Potter Stewart
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
~ Henry Steele Commager
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
~ Federico Fellini
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
~ Marilyn Monroe
“Too many rules get in the way of leadership. They just put you in a box . . . . People set rules to keep from making decisions.”
“The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don’t want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader—and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion.”
~ Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K)