http://www.brainythoughts.com Brainy Thoughts & Brainy Quotes. Famous Thoughts - a daily prod to see if you are alive. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:26:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-plato-laws-470.html "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-if-you-want-to-become-whole-464.html "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-normal-461.html “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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-art-washes-away-458.html "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper" Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-diet-advice-456.html "The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams." Author: Unknown . http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-waking-rational-abilities-453.html "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-thomas-edison-vision-450.html "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-khalil-gibran-stand-together-430.html "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-exec-frontal-lobes-427.html "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-you-are-the-window-424.html "Fate does not always call upon us at the time of our own choosing." Author: Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-fate-421.html "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) [caption id="attachment_418" align="alignnone" width="250" caption="Krishna, Bhagavad Gita"][/caption] The Bhagavad Gita is revered as a sacred scripture of Hinduism, and considered as one of the most ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-it-is-better-to-live-your-own-destiny-imperfectly-419.html "Think deeply, speak gently, love much, laugh often, work hard, give freely, pay promptly, be kind" Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-think-deeply-speak-gently-415.html "Luck is: labouring under correct knowledge" Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-luck-413.html "By the yard its hard, but inch by inch it's a cinch." Author Unknown. http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-by-the-yard-411.html “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 - ) http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-stop-for-gas-408.html "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-dont-compromise-yourself-405.html "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 http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-beter-harder-faster-sooner-401.html "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 http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-deliberate-and-voluntary-reduction-399.html "Hold your own, know your name, go your own way." Jason Mraz (1977 - ) American grammy-nominated singer-songwriter. http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-hold-your-own-396.html "He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who may be better employed." Socrates http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-idleness-394.html "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. http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-multitudes-391.html "To thine own self be true" William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) English playwright and poet. http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-trueness-388.html "I have many unrecognised talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition." Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant) http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-unrecognised-talents-385.html "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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thoughts-hope-380.html "The significant challenges we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-einstein-on-challenges-376.html "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. http://www.brainythoughts.com/what-your-enemy-fears-most-372.html "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-stupidity-370.html “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-make-your-own-luck-368.html “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American essayist, philosopher, poet. http://www.brainythoughts.com/365-365.html "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-decent-egg-362.html "To know that you do not know is best." Author: Lao Tzu (4th or 6th century BC) Philosopher of ancient China and central figure in Taoism. "As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know. There are known unknowns. That is to say we ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-know-that-you-do-not-know-330.html "It's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900 - 1965) American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-stand-up-for-principles-329.html "Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving." Attributed to Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-beggars-328.html "No credit can be given for predicting rain - only for building arks." Louis V Gerstner, Jr. Former CEO, IBM http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-predicting-rain-327.html "Some men are born with greatness, some men achieve greatness, and some men have greatness thrust upon them." 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. He is often called England's national poet. His surviving works consist ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-greatness-326.html "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat." Robert Anson Heinlein (1907 - 1988) American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-unimportant-protocol-325.html "Courage is the capacity to go from failure to failure with increased enthusiasm!" Paraphrased Winston Churchill http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-courage-failure-324.html "The truth is merely a matter of fact whereas honesty is a question of attitude." Tim Maher-DeTroyer http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-truth-vs-honesty-323.html "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant) http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-shoot-first-322.html "You are neither right nor wrong because others agree with you. You are right because your facts are right." Warren Buffett (1930 - ) American investor, businessman and philanthropist. He is regarded as one of the world's greatest stock market investors, and is the largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-first-principles-321.html "The energy and anxiety that you invest in putting off an activity can consume more energy than is required to perform the activity." Jeff Davidson http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-procrastination-320.html "Problems are those things we see when we take our eyes off the goal." Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-problems-319.html "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher. He is often regarded as the most influential scientist in history and is best known for discovering the Laws of Gravity. http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-shoulders-318.html "Life is an attitude. It's what you choose to believe, always." Dr. Wayne Dyer (1940 -) American author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have "brought humanistic ideas to ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-attitude-317.html "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." Andre Gide (1869 - 1951) - French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-new-oceans-316.html "A rat, even if he gets out of the rat race, is still a rat" Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-rat-race-315.html "A fool with a tool is still a fool" Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-software-314.html You can choose your family but you can't choose your friends. Or is it the other way around? Brainy Thought 2008 Longevity, like intelligence or good looks, is largely a matter of heredity: choose your parents with care. Author: Edward Paul Abbey http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-choose-your-family-313.html "Nothing is true, but that which is simple." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) German writer of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-simple-312.html