Thrive Quotes - Page 21

• When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Distance, Smartphones

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jesus, Powerful, Church

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Theology News Interview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the contributions of the intelligentsia to enhancing their own power and the power of those they serve.

  Noam Chomsky

  Simple, Issues, Effort

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.345, AK Press

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• There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is.

  Noam Chomsky

  Dark, Energy, Mass

  "Science in the Dock". Science & Technology News Intreview, chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

  Og Mandino

  Desert, Dry, Green

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• Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

  Og Mandino

  Art, Practice, Haste

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• So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Laughing, Poor

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.99, Bantam

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• I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

  Og Mandino

  Men, Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World".

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• The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Creative, Mind, Fields

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

  Plato

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.333, Penguin

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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Perception, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.234

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• So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Cells, Blood, Years

  "Q&A: Kurzweil on tech as a double-edged sword". Interview with Natasha Lomas, www.cnet.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.

  Richard Hugo

  Hard Work, Waiting, Lucky

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• Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

  Rumi

  Kings, Shadow, Sun

  "Masnavi I Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí". Book edited by Edward Henry Whinfield. Book IV, Story IV: "Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself", 1898.

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• Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

  Rumi

  Heartbroken, Pain, Love Is

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• A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.

  Rumi

  Moving, Shadow, Sun

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• All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

  Rumi

  Rain, Angel, Thinking

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• Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Struggle, Home

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Tyranny, Delightful

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.54

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• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Giving Up, Science

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

  Seneca the Younger

  Strong, Praise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Powerful, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

  Arthur Eddington

  Arrows, Physics, Entropy

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Language, Feels

  Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”, p.2, Verso

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