The Quote Board: Some are profound, some are stupid, and some are both
"Not all those who wander are
lost." –JRR Tolkien
"Pilgrim, it's a long way to find
out who you are." –Enya
"If you can find a path with no obstacles,
it probably doesn't lead anywhere." –Frank A. Clark
"Never try to teach a pig to
sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig." –Paul Dickson
"The greater the
obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." –Jean Baptiste Moliere
"Effort only fully releases its
reward after a person refuses to quit." –Napoleon Hill
"From there to here
and here to there, funny things are everywhere." –Dr. Seuss
"If it could be said in words,
there would be no need to dance it." –Anna Pavlova
"Ambition without knowledge
is like a boat on dry land." –Anonymous
"He who never made a mistake
never made a discovery." –Samuel Smiles
"Only those who risk going too far
can know how far one can go." –I don't remember but I like the quote
anyway
"Seven days without laughter
makes one weak." –Joel Goodman
"The price of greatness is
responsibility." –Winston Churchill
"No one can be right all the time,
but it helps to be right most of the time." –Robert Half
"Rather fail with
honor than succeed by fraud." –Sophocles
"Do or do not. There is no
try." –Yoda in Star Wars
"Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding." –Albert Einstein
"You cannot shake hands with a
clenched fist." –Indira Ghandi
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"Only a fool tests the depth of
water with both feet." –African proverb
"Success consists of getting up
one more time than you fall." –Oliver Goldsmith
"Honesty is the first chapter in
the book of wisdom." –Thomas Jefferson
"Small chance of
success...certainty of death...what are we waiting for?" –John
Rhys-Davies, Gimli in The Lord of the Rings
"In the middle of
difficulty lies opportunity." –Albert Einstein
"Your legacy should be that you
made it better than it was when you got it." –Lee Iacocca
"Perseverance is a
great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the
gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Before you build a better mousetrap, it
helps to know if there are any mice out there." –Yogi Berra
"The man who has no imagination
has no wings." –Muhammad Ali
"Shut up and talk." –Dad
"The cure for boredom is
curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." –Ellen Parr
"A person who walks
in another's tracks leaves no footprints." –Anonymous
"Truly nothing is to be expected but
the unexpected." –Alice James
"Only when we are no
longer afraid do we begin to live." –Dorothy Thompson
"Even if you are on the right
track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." –Will Rogers
"We have met the
enemy and he is us." –Pogo
"Trust yourself. You know more
than you think." –Benjamin Spock
"The time to repair
the roof is when the sun is shining." –John F. Kennedy
"Research is formalized
curiosity." –Zora Neale Hurston
"The very essence of
leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain
trumpet." –Theodore Hesborgh
"Good name and honor
are worth more than all the gold and jewels ever mined." –Harry S Truman
"The nice thing about teamwork is
that you have others on your side." –Margaret Corty
"It's hard to remember the easy
stuff." –Erin Mack
"The person who knows
how will always have a job. But the person who knows why will be his
boss." –Carl C. Wood
"I am a man of fixed
and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all
times." –Everett McKinley Dickson
"Failure is not an
option." –Unknown
“I am often asked what I am studying to be,
and the answer is: educated. I am
studying to be educated.” –Kenny Pearce
“What’s zero times infinity? Anything you want.” –Michael Haugh
“Oh…wait…I lost my variable.” –Dan
Hoang
“The World is a book, and those who do
not travel read only a page.” –
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“Physicists spend a large part of their
lives in a state of confusion. It’s an
occupational hazard.” –Brian Greene
“When you’re doing mathematical research,
90% of the time you’re being dumb, 5% of the time you’re being brilliant, and
5% of the time you’re wondering how you could be so dumb 90% of the time.” –Dr.
Dennis DeTurck’s thesis advisor
“Even if there is only one possible unified
theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the
equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing
a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a
universe for the model to describe. Why
does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” –Stephen Hawking
“It was fun for everyone who has low
standards of fun.” –Rafi