Brainy Thoughts

Brainy Quote – The oil is running out

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:05:38 +0000

“My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet aeroplane. His son will ride a camel.”

Saudi saying
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Brainy Quote – Good timber does not grow with ease

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:21:51 +0000

“Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees”

Douglas Malloch

Brainy Quote – Excellence then, is not an act

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:03:40 +0000

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist

Brainy Thought – Buying cycle

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:02:56 +0000

“Too many people buy things they don’t even need, with money they don’t even have, to impress people they don’t even like.”

Ali-Azri Hassan

Brainy Thought – Wisdom & Knowledge

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:59:42 +0000

“Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of ass”

Japanese Proverb

Brainy Thought – Inclusive leadership

BrainyThoughts.com — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:41:51 +0000

“None of us is as smart as all of us”

Japanese Proverb

Brainy Quote – Persevere against objections

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:20:16 +0000

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.

Brainy Thought – firewood & the fire of knowledge

BrainyThoughts.com — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:08:15 +0000

“As a blazing fire turns firewood into ashes, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.”

The Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the ancient Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, but is frequently treated as a freestanding text. It is considered among the most important texts in the history of literature and philosophy.

Bhagavad Gita

Brainy Quote – Forgiveness

BrainyThoughts.com — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:27:35 +0000

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

Author: Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) Pseudo-name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens – US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit; wrote novels “Tom Sawyer” 1876, “Huckleberry Finn” 1884, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” 1889

Brainy Thought – Courage to persevere

BrainyThoughts.com — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:25:51 +0000

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

Mahatma Gandhi (October 2 1869 – January 30 1948) Describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism.

Brainy Quote – Thomas Edison & Discontent

BrainyThoughts.com — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:19:55 +0000

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Edison

American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed “The Wizard of Menlo Park” by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but improvements of earlier inventions, or were actually created by his numerous employees working under his direction. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:24:20 +0000

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) German philosopher.

Schopenhauer’s metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known thinkers including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Gustav Jung, Leo Tolstoy, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Brainy Thought – Failure is not falling down

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:06:39 +0000

“Failure is not falling down, but staying down. Get up. Act!”

Author: Unknown

Brainy Quote – Worry; fumbling way of looking at little things

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:16:07 +0000

“Worry is spiritual near-sightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things and magnifying their value.”

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1864–1948) American author, and the first woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brainy Quote – Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:28:17 +0000

“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”

Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135) Greek Stoic philosopher.

Brainy Thought – Adversity

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:19:11 +0000

“Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.

Brainy Quote – the price you paid to get what you used to want

BrainyThoughts.com — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:23:17 +0000

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983) American journalist and author.

Mignon McLaughlin

Brainy Quote – Wealth is not his who has it

BrainyThoughts.com — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:08:22 +0000

“Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.”

Benjamin Franklin

Brainy Quote – what dies inside

BrainyThoughts.com — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:00:49 +0000

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

Albert Einstein

Brainy Quote – Apathy

BrainyThoughts.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:08:20 +0000

“Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.”

Author: Bodie Thoene

Brainy Quote – Plato & Laws

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:26:54 +0000

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”

- Plato (428 – 348 BC)

Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy.

Brainy Thought – If you want to become whole

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:04:25 +0000

“If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything,
give everything up.”

Author: Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing. Written around 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, “Old Master”).

Brainy Thought – normal

BrainyThoughts.com — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:16:47 +0000

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, the car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.”

Ellen Goodman (1941 -)

Ellen is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.

Brainy Quote – Art washes away

BrainyThoughts.com — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:49:48 +0000

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)

Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.

Brainy Thought – diet advice

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:04:11 +0000

“Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper”

Author Unknown

Brainy Thought – waking rational abilities

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:13:36 +0000

“The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams.”

Author: Unknown
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Brainy Quote – Thomas Edison, vision

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:23:22 +0000

“Vision without execution is hallucination.”

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847, October 18, 1931)

American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed “The Wizard of Menlo Park” by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but improvements of earlier inventions, or were actually created by his numerous employees working under his direction. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

Brainy Quote – Khalil Gibran – Stand together

BrainyThoughts.com — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:23:51 +0000

“Stand together, yet not too near together;
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Author of The Prophet, a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923.

Khalil Gibran was Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon, as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career.

Brainy Thought – Exec Frontal Lobes

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:34:35 +0000

“Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960 – )

A specialist in financial derivatives, he held a “day job” in a lengthy senior trading and financial mathematics career in a number of New York City’s Wall Street firms, before starting a second career as a scholar in the epistemology of chance events to focus on his project of mapping how to live and act in a world we do not understand, and how to come to grips with randomness and the unknown – which includes his black swan theory of unexpected rare events.

Brainy Quote – you are the window

BrainyThoughts.com — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:10:13 +0000

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than sixty plays. He was uniquely honoured by being awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for Pygmalion. He was a strong advocate for socialism and women’s rights, a vegetarian and teetotaller, and a harsh critic of formal education.

Brainy Thought – Fate

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:22:47 +0000

“Fate does not always call upon us at the time of our own choosing.”

Author: Unknown

Brainy Thought – It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly…

BrainyThoughts.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:43:44 +0000

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection”

The Bhagavad Gita (5th – 2nd Century BC)

Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita is revered as a sacred scripture of Hinduism, and considered as one of the most important religious classics of the world. The teacher of the Bhagavad Gita is Krishna, who is regarded by the Hindus as the supreme manifestation of the Lord Himself, and is referred to within as Bhagavan—the divine one. The Bhagavad Gita is commonly referred to as The Gita for short.

Brainy Thought – Think deeply, speak gently

BrainyThoughts.com — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:50:58 +0000

“Think deeply, speak gently, love much, laugh often, work hard, give freely, pay promptly, be kind”

Author Unknown

Brainy Thought – Luck

BrainyThoughts.com — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:24:44 +0000

“Luck is: labouring under correct knowledge”

Author Unknown

Brainy Quote – By the yard

BrainyThoughts.com — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:05:35 +0000

“By the yard its hard, but inch by inch it’s a cinch.”

Author Unknown.

Brainy Quote – Stop for gas

BrainyThoughts.com — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:42:58 +0000

“Saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying that you don’t have time to stop for gas because you are too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.”

Robin Sharma (1965 – )

Brainy Quote – Don’t compromise yourself

BrainyThoughts.com — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:32:01 +0000

“Don’t compromise yourself; you are all you’ve got.”

Janis Joplin (1943 – 1970) was an American singer, songwriter, and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Brainy Thought – Better, Harder, Faster, Sooner

BrainyThoughts.com — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:06:04 +0000

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but do it better, do it harder, do it faster, and do it sooner.”

Author: Brainythoughts.com

Brainy Quote – deliberate and voluntary reduction

BrainyThoughts.com — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:06:52 +0000

“Civilisation, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment.”

Gandhi

Brainy Thought – hold your own

BrainyThoughts.com — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:22:37 +0000

“Hold your own, know your name, go your own way.”

Jason Mraz (1977 – ) American grammy-nominated singer-songwriter.

Brainy Quote – idleness

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:37:16 +0000

“He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who may be better employed.”

Socrates

Brainy Quote – multitudes

BrainyThoughts.com — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:54:33 +0000

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Walter Whitman (1819 – 1892) American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism.

Brainy Quote – trueness

BrainyThoughts.com — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:16:40 +0000

“To thine own self be true”

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English playwright and poet.

Brainy Thought – unrecognised talents

BrainyThoughts.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:17:42 +0000

“I have many unrecognised talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant)

Brainy Thoughts – Hope (Barack Obama Quote)

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:44:29 +0000

“Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.

It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.“

Barack Hussein Obama II (1961 -) President-elect of the United States, and the first African American to be elected President of the United States

Brainy Quote – Einstein on challenges

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:10:25 +0000

“The significant challenges we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

Albert Einstein

Brainy Thought – What your enemy fears most

BrainyThoughts.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:53:17 +0000

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983) was an American social writer. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan.

Brainy Thought – Stupidity

BrainyThoughts.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:05:52 +0000

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

Author Unknown

Brainy Quote – Make your own luck

BrainyThoughts.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:36:04 +0000

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

Author Unknown

BrainyThoughts.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:08:47 +0000

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) American essayist, philosopher, poet.