Zen, Work, Goals, Conversation Quotes

ZEN
Mevlani Rumi
Sell all your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

WORK
Barbara J. Winter
For the few who are passionate in their work, that passion is basic to their emotional well-being – and to their financial success.

GOALS
David Viscott
Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

CONVERSATION
Ludwig Wittgenstein
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Ideas, Knowledge, America, Conversation Quotes

IDEAS
Laurence Sterne
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

KNOWLEDGE
Rutherford D. Rogers
We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

AMERICA
Thomas Eugene Robbins
McDonald’s is a reductive kitchen for a classless culture that hasn’t time to dally on its way to the next rainbow’s end.

CONVERSATION
Oscar Wilde
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments.

Cognition, Society, Go For It, Conversation Quotes

COGNITION
Jean Rostand
As well as thoughts of which are unworthy of us, we have thoughts of which we are unworthy.

SOCIETY
Will Rogers
We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

GO FOR IT
Neale Donald Walsch
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

CONVERSATION
Edgar Saltus
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

Metaphysics, Academia, Problems, Conversation

METAPHYSICS
Carl Gustav Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

ACADEMIA
John C. Maxwell
The problem with most educational institutions is that they try to teach people what to think, not how to think.

PROBLEMS
Phillip C. McGraw
… while the pain of dealing with your problems is an acute, easy-to-identify pain, the pain of avoiding them is also profound, even if more subtle.

CONVERSATION
Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

Zen, Education, Change, Conversation

ZEN
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

EDUCATION
Peter McWilliams
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

CHANGE
William Edwards Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

CONVERSATION
Ben Jonson
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

Art, Democracy, Excuses, Conversation

ART

Gustave Flaubert
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

DEMOCRACY

Henry O. Dorman
Democracy means not “I am equal to you” but “you are equal to me”.

EXCUSES

Doug Hall and David Wecker
Excuses are apologies for not having courage.

CONVERSATION

Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.