Good Quotes 2019

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”
--Winston Churchill

"Human beings make life so interesting.  Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom."
--Terry Pratchett in Hogfather

"Hatred is nothing more than our immature avoidance of dealing with reality; it is stimulating but useless."
--Richard Chamberlain in Shattered Love

“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters."
--Epictetus

Epigraphs from Michael Gerber's "The E-Myth Manager"

Epigraphs from Michael Gerber's "The E-Myth Manager: Why Management Doesn't Work--and What to Do About It."

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self . . . .And to venture in the highest sense is precisely to become conscious of one's self. --Soren Kierekegaard

Intellectually, people may aspire for emancipation or enlightenment but emotionally they love small bondages around them . . . They feel satisfied by knowing about liberation, reading about it, imagining it. They feel satisfied about this because the word liberation has its own intoxication, the emotional feel about the meaning of the word has an intoxication. --Vimala Thakar

. . . the passions that enslave us, the hidden motives that can pervert us, and the illusions that can blind us. --Douglas Labier

New ways of thinking about familiar things can release new energies and make all manner of things possible. --Charles Hardy

Where people once sought information to manage the real contexts of their lives, now they had to invent contexts in which otherwise useful information might be put to some apparent use. --Neil Postman

. . .anybody who wants anything need only do the work. --Swami Chetanananda

Do you have a definition of human purpose you would have me consider? I would have you consider that the highest purpose of the human species is to justify the gift of life. --Norman Cousins

Only when a man makes use of his power of self-awareness does he attain to the level of a person, to the level of freedom. At that moment he is living not being lived. --E.F. Schumacher

In martial arts we say, "Put it on the mat," which means to take your philosophy and see what it looks like in action and deed. -- Richard Strozzi Heckler

Our sun is one of 400 billion other stars in the galaxy we call the Milky Way. Astronomers say there are a bout a hundred billion of such galaxies in the universe and each of these galaxies consists of about a hundred billion stars. You're making me dizzy." --Jostein Gaarder

Truth and change have a powerful similarity. They both deal with a constantly unfinished task. It is the perennial pursuit of this unfinished task to which both the philosopher and the chief executive's inspiration must be directed. --Theordore Levitt

The nature of every bureaucracy is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. --Hannah Arendt

When we express our true nature, we are human beings. When we do not we do not know what we are. we are not an animal, because we walk on two legs . . . we may be a ghost; we do not know what to call ourselves. Such a creature does not actually exist. --Shunryu Suzuki

Marketing is not just a business function. It is a consolidating view of the entire business process. -- Theodore Levitt