Category: Quotations

  • Good Fortune

    Good judgement comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgement.Fortune cookie from Shuang Cheng Restaurant, 11 Apr 2005

  • The Art of Life

    All the arts we practice are apprenticeship.  The big art is our life.M. C. RichardsWhere you’re from and what you do aren’t who you are.  People judge you by your actions, and you judge you by your intentions; these two things are not always the same.

  • Paradigm Shifting

    Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen

  • Or a big stick

    Speak softly and carry a small phone.Cingular Billboard

  • Life

    Growth is the only evidence of life.John, Cardinal Newman

  • Fear

    A man who is afraid to make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.Monty Python comedian-turned-business consultant John Cleese, at a conference on outsourcing in Los Angeles during the week of 4 April 2005

  • Death

    Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.Epicurus (341-270 B.C.), from Diogenes Laertius, “Lives Of Eminent Philosophers”