Those who do not find time for exercise now will have to find time for illness.
The Earl of Derby, 1873 (via Hacker’s Diet)
Tag: Quotes
Things rare or things beautiful, here are wisely assembled, they instruct the eye to look at all things in the world as if never seen before.
Paul Valéry, 1937. Much to my amazement and delight, this was the opening quote in Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht.
In every field, there comes a time when we stop paying attention to examples of technical success. With the first telephones, televisions, and personal computers, people passed through an early stage of fascination with the medium itself, rather than the information being communicated.
Galen Rowell
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
John F. Kennedy
Learn to appreciate as an artist things as simple as the day; sleep; walking and running – a room – an ordinary phrase; to read an instinct; to drink, to gaze at oneself or speak to oneself – to see afresh, in other words, what has been seen so often – but in its place.
Paul Valéry
Well done is better than well said.
Ben Franklin
Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad of interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you’ve got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you’re learning to say it better.
David Mamet
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu (thanks @BobLarrivee)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.