Sunday, January 04, 2009
Quotes for Today
Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
William Shakespeare
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
Seve Ballesteros
I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.
Karl Kraus
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Eric Hoffer
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Arnold Bennett
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Luciano Pavarotti
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Denis Watley
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Leonardo DaVinci
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Philip Sheridan
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.
More Quotes
Revisiting some memorable quotes from '08 - Dayton Daily News
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:12:00 GMT
"(B)eing 99 percent honest is no longer enough." After his reported affair with Rielle Hunter became public, 2004 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards issued a press release that tried to explain how he was mostly honest to reporters ...
Intesa, UniCredit consolidation players in 2009 - Rothschild - Forbes
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:53:00 GMT
MILAN, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Intesa Sanpaolo SpA and UniCredit SpA could merge operations with troubled European banks in 2009, the chief executive of Rothschild Italia Alessandro Daffina said, in Il Sole 24 Ore on Sunday. 'I think that in 2009 both ...
UPDATE 1-China develops gas fields in East China Sea-report - Forbes
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:37:00 GMT
BEIJING/TOKYO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - China has drilled a gas field in the East China Sea in violation of a June agreement, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday, a charge Beijing dismissed because it said the area does not lie in disputed waters. The ...
Iran bases budget on oil price of $37.5 per barrel - WTOP Radio
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:12:00 GMT
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran 's state television says the country is planning next year's budget based on an oil price of $37.50 per barrel. The Sunday report quotes Iranian oil minister Gholam Hossein Nozari. He says the government and parliament have ...
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man - Guardian Unlimited
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:04:00 GMT
More than other figure in English literary history, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) demolishes the distinction between creative artist and critical commentator. He was the exemplary critic as artist (Wilde was an admirer) and a peerless prose stylist who ...
¶ 4:15 AM
Today's Quotes:
Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
William Shakespeare
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
Seve Ballesteros
I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.
Karl Kraus
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Eric Hoffer
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Arnold Bennett
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Sigmund Freud
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Luciano Pavarotti
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Denis Watley
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Leonardo DaVinci
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Philip Sheridan
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.
More Quotes
Revisiting some memorable quotes from '08 - Dayton Daily News
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:12:00 GMT
"(B)eing 99 percent honest is no longer enough." After his reported affair with Rielle Hunter became public, 2004 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards issued a press release that tried to explain how he was mostly honest to reporters ...
Intesa, UniCredit consolidation players in 2009 - Rothschild - Forbes
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:53:00 GMT
MILAN, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Intesa Sanpaolo SpA and UniCredit SpA could merge operations with troubled European banks in 2009, the chief executive of Rothschild Italia Alessandro Daffina said, in Il Sole 24 Ore on Sunday. 'I think that in 2009 both ...
UPDATE 1-China develops gas fields in East China Sea-report - Forbes
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:37:00 GMT
BEIJING/TOKYO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - China has drilled a gas field in the East China Sea in violation of a June agreement, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday, a charge Beijing dismissed because it said the area does not lie in disputed waters. The ...
Iran bases budget on oil price of $37.5 per barrel - WTOP Radio
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:12:00 GMT
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran 's state television says the country is planning next year's budget based on an oil price of $37.50 per barrel. The Sunday report quotes Iranian oil minister Gholam Hossein Nozari. He says the government and parliament have ...
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man - Guardian Unlimited
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:04:00 GMT
More than other figure in English literary history, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) demolishes the distinction between creative artist and critical commentator. He was the exemplary critic as artist (Wilde was an admirer) and a peerless prose stylist who ...
¶ 4:15 AM
