„If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” – Desmond Tutu
- “They say drugs aren’t the answer, but really, what is the question?” – Janet Fitch
- “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.” – Salvador Dali
- “All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.” – Thomas Szasz
- “Don’t do drugs because if you do drugs you’ll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.” – John Hardwick
- “Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.” – P.J. O’Rourke
- “If God dropped acid, would he see people?” – Steven Wright
- “I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.” – Unknown
- “Avoid all needle drugs – the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.” – Abbie Hoffman
- “Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.” – Lily Tomlin
- “Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they’re the scenic route.” – Unknown
Recognize you can be whatever you desire to be
Know that performance does not equal identity
Realize that you are the equal of everybody
Realize that you are the better of nobody
Appreciate you did the best you could
Face the future, live for the moment
Understand suffering is part of life
Accept you will make mistakes
Breathe from your diaphragm
Smile when things get tough
Always be kind to yourself
Think before your answer
Visualize Your Success
Take time for yourself
Make time for others
Listen with interest
Suspend disbelief
Embrace change
Still Your Mind
Be curious
Exercise
Laugh
Love
Cry
Be
- “All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
- “An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
- “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
- “He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”
- “How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?”
- “How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.”
- “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
- “I don’t even like old cars. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
- “I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
- “I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
- “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
- “I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
- “I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
- “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”
- “If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.”
- “It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it.”
- “It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”
- “Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.”
- “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
- “People never believe you.”
- “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”
- “A hard man is good to find.”
- “A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
- “A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.”
- “A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
- “A man’s kiss is his signature.”
- “A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.”
- “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
- “An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”
- “Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.”
- “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
- “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
- “Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.”
- “Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
- “Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.”
- “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.”
- “Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”
- “He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
- “He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
- “A closed mouth catches no flies.”
- “A person dishonored is worst than dead.”
- “There is a time for some things and a time for all things; a time for great things and a time for small things.”
- “A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”
- “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
- “Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.”
- “Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”
- “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
- “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”
- “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”
- “Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”
- “Every man is the son of his own works.”
- “Fair and softly goes far.”
- “Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
- “For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”
- “Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”
- “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”
- “God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
- “Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”
- “He had a face like a blessing.”
- “He preaches well that lives well.”
- “A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”
- “Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”
- “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”
- “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”
- “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
- “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
- “I don’t think there’s a punch-line scheduled, is there?”
- “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
- “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”
- “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”
- “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
- “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”
- “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
- “It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.”
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
- “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”
- “Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
- “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”
- “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
- “People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
- “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.”
- “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”
- “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.”
- “Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”
- “Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
- “Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.”
- “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
- “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
- “If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.”
- “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”
- “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”
- “Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”
- “No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.”
- “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”
- “Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”
- “The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”
- “The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”
- “There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”
- “There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
- “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”
- “A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
- “Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.”
- “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
- “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
- “Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”
- “For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”
- “I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
- “I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
- “Ideas shape the course of history.”
- “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”
- “In the long run we are all dead.”
- “It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”
- “It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.”
- “Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.”
- “Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
- “Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”
- “Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”
- “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”
- “The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”