Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Ezra Pound
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Wars are made to make debt.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Either move or be moved.
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
American Indian Proverb
Confidence is always overconfidence.
Robert Byrne
Though thou loved her as thyself,As a self of purer clay,Tho' her parting dims the day,Stealing grace from all alive,Heartily know,When half-gods go,The gods arrive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
Carl Gustav Jung, The Meaning of
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
Lord Alfred Douglas, Collected P
I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
Edward Abbey
There is a weird power in a spoken word. . . . And a word carries far--very far--deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim 1900, Ch
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Anon.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tombs of A
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.
Wallace Stevens
There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place
George Santayana, letter to Mary
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
The big thing is that you know what you want.
Everything begins with an idea.
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