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Quotes April 08, 2023

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
Pete Seeger
 
 
 
 
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
There is only one rule for being a good talker: learn how to listen.
Christopher Morley,
journalist, writer, poet
 
 
 
 
I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances.
Generosity is key, in my experience, to fulfilling the potential of a part or a story.
Pedro Pascal,
actor
 
 
 
 
If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, ‘Collecting material’. No one can object to that.
A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious.
Stella Gibbons,
writer
 
 
 
 
Life seems to be a series of accidents.
John Jakes
 
 
 
 
If things don’t go as expected, make the unexpected work in your favor.
Jose Andres,
chef, restaurateur
 
 
 
 
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Gustav Mahler,
composer, conductor

Quotes April 01, 2023

When you choose to collect experiences rather than things, you never ever run out of storage space.
Joshua Becker – Author-Writer-Philanthropist-Pastor
 
 
 
 
When you focus on problems, you’ll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you’ll have more opportunities.
Zig Ziglar – 1926-2012 – Author-Salesman-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
“The most fundamental principle of all in gambling is simply equal conditions, e.g. of opponents, of bystanders, of money, of situation, of the dice box, and of the die itself. To the extent to which you depart from that equality, if it is in your opponent’s favor, you are a fool, and if in your own, you are unjust.”
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, in 1564
 
 
 
 
“The problem is not the mistake per se, but all the algorithms and stops that were triggered. It shows the market is always vulnerable to human error and that algorithms and various [systematic traders] are far too present in markets.”
John Plassard, director, Mirabaud & Cie, after a Citigroup banker’s fat-finger error caused European markets to crash in 2022.
 
 
 
 
The spirit of an artist’s gifts can wake our own.
Lewis Hyde
 
 
 
 
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.
W.S. Merwin
 
 
 
 
We bring forth our worlds through the networks of conversation within which we participate.
Humberto Maturana
 
 
 
 
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
“You are walking this life. Make sure you leave beautiful steps behind.”
Morne Pretorius

Quotes March 30, 2023

Life seems to be a series of accidents.
The race is to the driven, not the swift.
John Jakes, writer 1932-2023
 
 
 
 
The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens.
Some things may have been tried before their time, but if these things don’t violate the laws of physics they are likely to prove possible the next time around.
Gordon Moore, entrepreneur, Intel co-founder, creator of Moore’s Law 1929-2023
 
 
 
 
People don’t talk about the soul very much anymore. It’s so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Anna Quindlen,
writer, journalist, columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard – Playwright and Screenwriter
 
 
 
 
It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
Queen Elizabeth II – 1926-2022 – Queen of the United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
Booker T. Washington
 
 
 
 
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
 
 
 
 
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts
 
 
 
 
You are not lost, you are redirecting. You are not a failure, you are learning. You are not behind, you are preparing.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes March 27, 2023

THE ONLY SUBJECT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IS MYSELF, AND I DON’T KNOW THAT TOO CLEARLY.
WILLIAM SHATNER.
 
 
 
 
I’m going to enjoy what I’ve got as long as it lasts.
Though all we have known is only a beginning.
Patricia Highsmith,
writer
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier – 1885-1950 – Author
 
 
 
 
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar – 1926-2012 – Author-Salesman-Motivational Speaker
 
 
 
 
“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, ‘Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.'”
Quentin Tarantino
 
 
 
 
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
Margaret Thatcher
 
 
 
 
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotes March 20, 2023

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
Georgia O’Keeffe,
artist
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
“I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.”
Shaquille O’Neal
 
 
 
 
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
Stanley Kubrick
 
 
 
 
“A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.”
Joe DiMaggio
 
 
 
 
“We didn’t know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.”
Barbie inventor and businesswoman Ruth Handler
 
 
 
 
“There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
Harriet Tubman
 
 
 
 
“The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.”
Sir Alexander Fleming
 
 
 
 
“For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.”
Selma Lagerlöf
 
 
 
 
“Independence is happiness.”
Susan B. Anthony
 
 
 
 
“Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”
Mia Hamm
 
 
 
 
“If you’re having fun, that’s when the best memories are built.”
Simone Biles
 
 
 
 
“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”
Vanessa Williams
 
 
 
 
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant to be your own person, be independent.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
 
 
 
 
“The greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.”
Mister Rogers

Quotes March 18 & 19, 2023

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
 
 
 
 
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
Indira Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“My pride fell with my fortunes.”
William Shakespeare
 
 
 
 
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.”
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
 
 
 
 
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry van Dyke
 
 
 
 
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
Frederick Douglass
 
 
 
 
“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”
Kin Hubbard
 
 
 
 
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration, and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quotes March 15 & 16, 2023

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.
Dwight Howard – Basketball Player
 
 
 
 
You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.
Jennifer J. Freeman – Actress
 
 
 
 
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton – Singer – Actress – Author
 
 
 
 
Those who lack humor are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James,
critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer
 
 
 
 
If I had to say one thing, it would be to not underestimate your audience. Children will figure things out; it’s what they do best — sorting out the world.
Reading never wears me out.
Ian Falconer,
writer, illustrator, set designer
1959-2023
 
 
 
 
Solitude is all right with books, awful without.
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
Martha Gellhorn,
writer, journalist, war correspondent
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
Betty Friedan,
writer, women’s rights activist
March is Women’s History Month

 
 

Quotes March 09, 2023

The work was the top priority so I was certainly willing to sacrifice my personal life.
Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.
Tu Youyou,
pharmaceutical chemist, malariologist, Nobel Prize winner
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it’s where we’re meant to be.
To live is more than just to sustain life — it is to enrich, and be enriched by, life.
Shashi Tharoor,
politician, writer, diplomat
 
 
 
 
I didn’t think I would have this amazing second act as an actor in my early 50s, and I hope my story inspires someone to not give up on their dreams.
Ke Huy Quan,
actor
 
 
 
 
One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.
We realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
Malala Yousafzai,
education activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
March 8 is International Women’s Day

Quotes March 05, 2023

I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
 
 
 
 
When you have dreams, you know when they come from the creator.
Jim Miller
 
 
 
 
Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
 
 
 
 
My goal in medicine is to help provide a way to navigate and sort through health information based on an entirely new way of thinking about health and disease.
Mark Hyman
 
 
 
 
The moment of change is the only poem.
Adrienne Rich
 
 
 
 
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers
 
 
 
 
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
 
 
 
 
I think I’m in rather honest company in asserting that there is an authentic self that’s got nothing to do with your life history. You can lose contact with it, but you can never destroy it, and it’s always been there.
Gabor Mate
 
 
 
 
Kinship is the recognition of shared fate and intersecting purposes.
Richard Powers
 
 
 
 
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Quotes March 02, 2023

“People don’t slip. Time catches up with them.”
Nat King Cole
 
 
 
 
“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.”
John McEnroe
 
 
 
 
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
 
 
 
 
“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
 
 
 
 
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”
Jeannette Rankin
 
 
 
 
“We are more fulfilled when we are involved in something bigger than ourselves.”
John Glenn
 
 
 
 
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear.”
Nina Simone
 
 
 
 
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Andy Warhol
 
 
 
 
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
 
 
 
 
“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
Dean Smith
 
 
 
 
“Power doesn’t have to show off … When you have it, you know it.”
Ralph Ellison
 
 
 
 
“Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.”
Wilt Chamberlain
 
 
 
 
“History is one long processional of crazy ideas.”
Phil Knight
 
 
 
 
“You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.”
Andre “Dr. Dre” Young