Quotes…
“Everyone on this planet is given the same 24 hours in the day. The question is what do you choose to do with yours?”
Anno Sensei, Summer 2002 (not exact quote - still researching it)
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There’s a way to do it better…find it.”
Thomas A. Edison
“Why of course the common people don’t want war… But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country”
Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg trials.
Go to the people.
Live with them, Learn from them, Love them.
Start with what they know, build with what they have.
But of the best leaders, When the work is done, The task accomplished,
The people will say, “We have done this ourselves.”
Lao-Tzu (Chinese poem, 700 B.C.)
“In Aikido, we do not train to become powerful or to throw down an opponent. Rather, we train in hope of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to humankind around the world.”
Osensei, founder of Aikido
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“The best reason to go into business - because you feel strongly that you can change things.”
Richard Branson, The Virgin Group
It is far better to have seen it once than to have heard of it a thousand times
Mongolian proverb
“It is easier to begin a war than it is to end it.”
Napoleon
“No one starts a war - or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so - without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”
Carl Von Clausewitz, 1780-1831
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”
Buddha
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Arthur C. Clarke
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Changes and chances favour the prepared mind”
Pierre Haren, ILOG founder
“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”
Martin Luther King
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call today his own;
He who, secure with, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Roman poet, 65 BC - 8 BC)
“Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life.”
Confucius
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.
Anonymous