Good Quotes 2016

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."
     Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale

Tempered Radicals:  Cautious catalysts whose small victories, won over time, lay the groundwork for something grander.
     Kathryn Winters, as found in Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner


Sunday's a day of rest. 
all important things should be forgotten. 
From "dead dog" by Charles Bukowski


"Those who will not risk cannot not win."
     John Paul Jones


"I knew I had more in the tank, and to be able to go out there and put the pieces together and pull it out."
    Michelle Carter, 2016 Gold Medalist


I decide that the only definition of 
Truth (which changes) 
is that it is that thing or act or 
belief which the crowd 
rejects 
From”people as flowers” by Charles Bukowski


Billy Strayhorn's "four major moral freedoms": freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from self-pity (even through all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might possibly help another more than it might himself and freedom from the kind of pride that might make a man think that he was better than his brother or his neighbor.


From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoesky

"I know she would sooner go to the plantation as a negro slave, or live like a Latvian serf in a Baltic German household, than degrade her spirit and her moral feeling by a union with a man whom she does not respect and with whom she has nothing in common."

"Men of business are not shame-faced."


"I instantly love Naples.  Wild, raucous, noisy, dirty, balls-out Naples.  An anthill inside a rabbit warren, with all the exoticism of a Middle Eastern bazaar and a touch of New Orleans voodoo.  A tripped-out, dangerous and cheerful nuthouse."
From Eat, Prey, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Epigraphs from Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson

In his book Eleven Rings, Phil Jackson start each chapter with a great quote.  Here are several of them.


Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is open.
 --Jim Butcher

 The greatest carver does the least cutting
--Lao-Tzu

 Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.
 --Charlie Parker

 And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it
--Roald Dahl

 The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
--Tom Waits

 It is more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy
--Steve Jobs

 When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
--Tuli Kuperberg

 To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
--George MacDonald

 Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
--Will Durant

 Connection is why we’re here. It’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
--Brené Brown

 Fall down seven times. Stand up eight.
--Chinese proverb


Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, Eleven Rings:  The Soul of Success (New York, The Penguin Press, 2013)