http://www.brainythoughts.com Famous Quotes & Thoughts for the day (TFTD's) - a daily prod to see if you are alive. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:08:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American essayist, philosopher, poet. http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=365 "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/?p=362 "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/?p=330 "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/?p=329 "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/?p=328 "No credit can be given for predicting rain - only for building arks." Louis V Gerstner, Jr. Former CEO, IBM http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=327 "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/?p=326 "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/?p=325 "Courage is the capacity to go from failure to failure with increased enthusiasm!" Paraphrased Winston Churchill http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=324 "The truth is merely a matter of fact whereas honesty is a question of attitude." Tim Maher-DeTroyer http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=323 "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant) http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=322 "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/?p=321 "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/?p=320 "Problems are those things we see when we take our eyes off the goal." Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=319 "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/?p=318 "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/?p=317 "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/?p=316 "A rat, even if he gets out of the rat race, is still a rat" Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=315 "A fool with a tool is still a fool" Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=314 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/?p=313 "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/?p=312 "I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=311 "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Original Author: Upton Sinclair More recently used by Al Gore (born 1948) in the documentary movie "An Inconvenient Truth" 2006. Al Gore was forty-fifth vice president of the United States, serving from 1993 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=310 "You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you." Dr. Wayne Dyer (born 1940) Popular American author and lecturer. Dyer spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage. He has a Doctorate of Education in counseling, and was a guidance counselor in Detroit at the high school level ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=309 "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." Author: Carl August Sandburg (1878 - 1967) American poet, historian, novelist, journalist, biographer, and autobiographer. During the course of his career, Sandburg won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) and one ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=308 "No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals." Brian Tracy http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=307 "It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly." Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970). British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=305 "Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand." "See one, do one, teach one." Authors Unknown. http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=304 "Spoon feeding in the long-run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=303 "I find my mistakes interesting, my confusions even more so -- they are like windows into my thinking." Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=302 "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen" Sir Winston Churchill http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=301 "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences." Sir Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=300 "It is not the will to win that counts, it's the will to prepare to win that makes all the difference." Author Unknown. http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=299 "If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don't If you like to win, but you think you can't, It is almost certain you won't. "If you think you'll lose, you're lost For out of the world we find, Success begins with a fellow's will- It's all in the state ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=298 "People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, they make them." George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist, literary critic, ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=297 "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for today. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to learn, and he will not always have to eat fish." Author Unknown. http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=296 "Chance favours the prepared mind" Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895) was a French chemist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in microbiology. His experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, also reducing mortality from puerperal fever (childbed), and he created the first vaccine for rabies. He is best known to the ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=295 "What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=294 "Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens), was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=293 "The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along. " Famous Quote, author unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=292 "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." Mother Teresa, (1910 - 1997), was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=291 "I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Brainy Quotes from Mother Teresa "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." Brainy Quotes from Mother Teresa http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=290 "The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!" Brainy Quotes by: Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant) "My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read." Brainy Quotes by: Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant) "I am irrevocably committed to being permanently indecisive." Brainy Quotes by: Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=289 "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985) American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist. http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=288 "No fear, no surprise, no hesitation, no doubt." Miyamoto Musashi (1584 - 1645) also known as Shinmen Takezo, Miyamoto Bennosuke, or by his Buddhist name Niten Doraku, was a famous Japanese samurai. Miyamoto Musashi is considered by many to have been one of the most skilled swordsmen in history. Musashi, as he ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=287 "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse. " Henry Ford http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=286 "Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice." Henry Ford http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=285 Not only do I not know the answer, I have no idea what the question is! Author Unknown http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=284 "Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service." 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 ... http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=283 "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903). An English poet, critic and editor. http://www.brainythoughts.com/?p=282