Showing posts with label Richard Nixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Nixon. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2009

Quote (#557)

"Become who you are."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people
together to collect wood and don't assign them
tasks and work, but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"We ought to be more focused on enemies without
than preoccupied with finding them within."
- Alan Wolfe

"A patriot must always be ready to defend
his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal,
has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and
is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Winston Churchill

"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotaria

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi

True greatness consists in the use of
a powerful understanding to enlighten
oneself and others.
- Voltaire

Taking a new step, uttering a new
word, is what people fear most.
- Dostoyevsky

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the
word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger;
the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
- Richard Nixon

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew
before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac, English physicist in US (1902 - 1984)

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a
difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing
it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?
- Brady