3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
3 December 2020 Booker T. Washington I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
3 December 2020 Jack Kilby I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
3 December 2020 Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
3 December 2020 Tom Shadyac Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
3 December 2020 Zelda Fitzgerald We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
3 December 2020 Kim Stanley Robinson We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
3 December 2020 Nick Offerman It’s funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
3 December 2020 Simon Travaglia Death is inevitable, but Life – that’s the tricky bit where things happen.
3 December 2020 Gina Carano Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in ‘Colombiana. ‘
3 December 2020 Deborah Bull It’s not about weight, it’s about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.
3 December 2020 Stephen Covey We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
3 December 2020 Daisy Donovan My dad always said, ‘Don’t worry what people think, because you can’t change it.’
3 December 2020 Jessica Hagedorn My identity is linked to my grandmother, who’s pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that’s how I identify.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
3 December 2020 Ben Nicholson Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It’s not about stabbing each other in the back it’s about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Keller Hopefully, imparting what’s important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.
3 December 2020 Red Cloud I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
3 December 2020 Jane Smiley There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
3 December 2020 Jackie Kennedy You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
