Smart people are very good at rationalizing things they came to believe for unsmart reasons.
– Michael Shermer
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost
The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.
– Tara Ploughman
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
– Mark Twain
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
– Mark Twain
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
– Danish Proverb
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
– Richard Feynman
Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
– David Mamet
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
– Kurt Vonnegut
not so sure about G.W. but that may be my left-leaning politics. David Mamet is what I teach at home, but in these words, “Stick to what you’re good at, it’s too hard to remember a lie.” Always good to talk to you, Marc. Getting cold here on the soccer fields, getting chilly there too, I presume?
Obviously the GWB quote was illustrating how utterly clueless the guy was but I know what you mean, it pains me a bit to even include a mocking quote here. I may replace it with a positive one. There’s no shortage of great quotes upon which to draw. Yup, getting chilly here too, in a nice gentle sort of way. Always nice to talk with you too, Gail. :)