Johannes Kepler

"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
Johannes Kepler

Chaim Weizmann

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Chaim Weizmann

Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts."
Shakespeare

Charles Dickens

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

Charles Dickens

Pindar

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

Pindar

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НИШТО НЕ Е ПОСЛОЖЕНО ОД ЕДНОСТАВНОСТА

Alfred Hitchcock

If I won't be myself, who will?

Alfred Hitchcock

Walt Disney

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Woody Allen

"I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me." — Woody Allen

George S. Patton

"If everybody's thinking alike,
somebody isn't thinking."

George S. Patton

Richard Nixon

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

Richard Nixon

Tom Sharp

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot,
we must strike it until it is hot.

Tom Sharp

Pearl Bailey

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey

Robert Schuller !

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."

Robert Schuller

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves".

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967), Argentinian revolutionary

William James

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Denis Diderot

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Denis Diderot

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944)

Miguel de Unamuno

"Thoughts must be felt,
and feelings must be thought"

Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), Spanish philosopher. 

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Carol Burnett

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

James Dewar

"Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open."

James Dewar

Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jack Grant

Often we need a mirror to find the causes of our troubles
Jack Grant

Pierre Beaumarchais

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Stephen Leacock

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Leacock

John McEnroe

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

John McEnroe

Marcus T. Cicero

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus T. Cicero

Akira Kurosawa

"In a mad world only the mad are sane."

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)

Geoffrey F. Albert

The most important thing about goals
is having one.

Geoffrey F. Albert

Ruth E. Renkel

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel

Isaac Asimov

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) US science fiction writer. 

Fidel Castro

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."
Fidel Castro

Groucho Marx

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...         well, I have others." 
              Groucho Marx (1890-1977); US actor 

Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

Friedrich Nietzsche

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.


Friedrich Nietzsche

Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments.


Cesare Pavese

Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

Carl Orff

"Tell me, I forget; show me, I remember; involve me, I understand."

Carl Orff

Tom Hanks

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.
It's the hard that makes it great."

Tom Hanks (1956), US actor

William Blake

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Jean de La Fontaine

"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

Jean de La Fontaine

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Arthur C. Clarke

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke (1917); English physicist & science fiction author.

G. K. Chesterton

An adventure is only
an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only
an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. Chesterton

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pablo Picasso

"Everything you can imagine is real".

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish painter.

Donald Trump

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
Donald Trump

Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin.

-Cesare Pavese

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Plautus

"He means well' is useless unless he does well."
Plautus

Robert F. Kennedy

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
Robert F. Kennedy

Francis Bacon

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)

Ambrose Bierce

"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), US writer

Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

Lee Iacocca

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
Lee Iacocca 1924-, Father of the Ford Mustang and CEO of Chrysler

Spanish proverb

Among the safest courses, the safest of all is to doubt.

Spanish proverb

Antonio Porchia

“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
Antonio Porchia (Italian poet, 1886-1968)

Charlie Batch

5P

Charlie Batch
(“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.”)

mr right

“He who fails to plan, plans to fail”

Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

Albert Einstein

X

Always remember that you're unique . . . just like everybody else.

Alan Kay

The best way to predict the future
is to invent it.

Alan Kay

Spanish Proverb

I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap.
Spanish Proverb

Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Stanley Kubrick

Barbara Coloroso

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem -- it's reality.

Barbara Coloroso

Burton Robert

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

Burton Robert

Spanish proverb

"Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso."

(Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick.) Spanish proverb

Spanish Proverb

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.
Spanish Proverb

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)

"Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor."



(When love is not madness, it is not love.)

Will Rogers

“Never miss a chance to shut up”

Will Rogers quotes (American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun humour, 1879-1935)

Spanish Proverb

It is a beautiful thing, to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.~Spanish Proverb

Yogi Berra

"You gotta be careful if you don't know where you're going, otherwise you might not get there."


Yogi Berra

Sigmund Freud

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

Sigmund Freud

Rutger Hauer

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.

Rutger Hauer at the end of Blade Runner

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

cool head, warm heart and clean hands

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

VBTA

TODAY I have a day less to count

R.D.Laing

I know you believe you understand what you think
I said, but I'm not sure you realise that what you
heard is not what I meant.

R.D.Laing - Knots

William Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

William Shakespeare

Queen Elizabeth II

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom."

Queen Elizabeth II

Michael Landon

"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." - Michael Landon

Joan Miró

"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."

Joan Miró

John F. Kennedy

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

John F. Kennedy

Leonardo da Vinci

 "Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
           Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Barbara Jordan

When do any of us ever do enough?

Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Politician

Martin Luther King Jr.

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.

Jim Valvano

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

Jim Valvano

Samuel Beckett

"Ever tried. Ever failed.
No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

Susan Carlson

"Why compare yourself with others?
No one in the entire World can do a better job of being you than you do."

Arabic

The fruit of silence is tranquility.

Macedonian

The fox is wise, but wiser is he who catches him.

Michael Jordan

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule,

and any fool will mind it.

Akiro Kurosawa

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Artnik

I DOUBT , therefore I am.

Heraclitus

No man ever steps in the same river twice,

for it's not the same river and

he's not the same man.

Oliver Goldsmith

We are all sure of two things, at least;
we shall suffer and we shall all die.
Oliver Goldsmith

Marcel Marceau

"It's good to shut up sometimes."
- Marcel Marceau

Greek

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
-Greek saying

Ovid

"The causes are hidden. The effects are visible to all."
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Roman poet

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681)

[es]

¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.

¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,

una sombra, una ficción,

y el mayor bien es pequeño;

que toda la vida es sueño,

y los sueños, sueños son!!!.





[en]

What is life? A frantic moment,

What is life? But an illusion,

but a shadow, but a fiction,

and the greatest good is small:

for life is all but a dream

and dreams are just that, they're dreams.



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Што е животот ? Само лудило.

Што е животот ? Само илузија ,

само сенка, само фантазија.

и кога најголемото е мало

тогаш сиот живот е само сон,

и соновите се само тоа, сон .

Giuseppe Garibaldi

"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Ben Weininger

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Ben Weininger

Carl Sagan

 "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Carl Sagan

?

"He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions."
- Unknown

Guillaume Apollinaire

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
- Guillaume Apollinaire

?

«puıɯ ɹnoʎ uәdo»

Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Luke 23:34

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them;
for they know not what they do.
Luke 23:34

Niccolò Machiavelli

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
   Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527); Italian politician and writer.

Muhammad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

Wilbur Wright

It is possible to fly without motors,
but not without knowledge and skill.
Wilbur Wright

replace:
knowledge and skill = imagination

Isaac Asimov

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Isaac Asimov

Chuck Reid

"In theory
there is no difference between theory and practice,
but in practice, there is."

Chuck Reid

Richard Bach

I gave my life to be the person I am today. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach

Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Carlos Castaneda

'"Your problems is that you think you have time"
Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda

LORD BYRON

'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;

Stranger than fiction.

LORD BYRON, Don Juan

Miguel de Cervantes

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jonathan Swift

"There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy."
       
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)-Irish politician and writer

Theophrastus

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

Theophrastus (372BC-287BC); Greek botanist, humorist, & naturalist

Marquis de Sade

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others."

Marquis de Sade

Unknown

Life isn't measured
by they number of breaths we take,
but by the moments
that take our breath away.

Unknown

Carlos Castaneda

"It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos."

Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda

“No! I am never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don’t feel that way any longer.”

Carlos Castaneda, The teaching of don Juan

Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.


Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda

““Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.””
Carlos Castaneda

Stephen Hawking

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined,
and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

Stephen Hawking

?

Remember the Golden Rule:

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

?

Life sucks, but it's better than the alternative.

Franklin P. Jones

"You can learn many things from children.
How much patience you have for instance."
- Franklin P. Jones

Lav Tolstoi

"Nowadays everybody designs laws, 
 it is easier writing than doing"
      Lav Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russian writer.

Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin