Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Quotes

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to
pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental,
bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many
times in its fight against depression.
- E. M. Cioran

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict
myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
- Walt Whitman

"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is
say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
- Richard Feynman

"I had a monumental idea this
morning, but I didn't like it."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"You get the best out of others when
you get the best out of yourself."
- Harvey S. Firestone

"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent
scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates
beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
- Nicholas Chamfort

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