If a man does only what is required of him,
he is a slave.
If a man does more than is required of him,
he is a free man.
Chinese Proverb

Learn from yesterday,
live for today,
hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.
Desiderius Erasmus

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do,
and then do it.
Henry Ford

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

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The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.
Hubert de Givenchy

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the ’80s women used suits
with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable
with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.
Donna Karan

There is no fashion for the old.
Coco Chanel

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Respect is love in plain clothes.
Frankie Byrne

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel

The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Aesop

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
Jonathan Swift

When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I
am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
Albert Einstein

Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
Herbert Harold Vreeland

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never
notice what they wear.
Anatole France

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
Seneca

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who
owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence – which,
I believe, does make the woman.
Mary Kay Ashe

Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut
jeans; it’s an open mind.
Gail Rubin Bereny

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.
Pierre Cardin

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
Katharine Hepburn

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.
Napoleon Bonaparte

What a deformed thief this fashion is.
William Shakespeare

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand,
produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

Originally posted 2009-09-13 03:34:03.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Elliot

Originally posted 2009-05-07 02:19:07.

Fashion is merely a form of ugliness
so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Fischer

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
- Malcolm Forbes

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism 
that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
- Carl Segan

It is better to have enough ideas with some of them to be wrong than to be
always right by having no ideas at all.
- Edward De Bono

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of them.
- Linus Pauling

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Originally posted 2009-09-29 03:33:02.

Pretty soon it’s gonna be National Smile Week, and what better way to get those grins cracking than with some humorous and funny quotes? Get ready for your checks to hurt the whole week through. Here are twenty-five funny quotes to get you started.

1. “If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment.” ~ Dave Allen

2. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” ~ Albert Einstein

3. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” ~ Mae West

4. “I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” ~ Fred Allen

5. “The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.” ~ Dave Barry

6. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” ~ Josh Billings

7. “Things ain’t what they used to be and probably never was.” ~Will Rogers

8. “Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy.” ~ Gary Busey

9. “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” ~ Walt Disney

10. “Hippies, hippies… they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!”   ~ Eric Cartman

11. “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”   ~ Flip Wilson

12. “If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

13. “I’m Jewish. I don’t work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.” ~ Joan Rivers

14. “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” ~ Emo Philips

15. “There’s no half-singing in the shower, you’re either a rock star or an opera diva.” ~ Josh Groban

16. “I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades…or a game of fake heart attack.” ~Demetri Martin

17. “Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.” ~ Ruth Gordon

18. “It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.” ~ Ben Bergor

19. “Have no fear of perfection–you’ll never reach it.” ~ Salvador Dali

20.”It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.” ~ Oscar Wilde

21. “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.” ~ Ethel Barrymore

22. “I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.” ~ Jim Morrison

23. “I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” ~ Winston Churchill

24. “Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.” ~ Jason Hutchison

25. “Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.” ~ Benny Hill

Are you smiling yet? Great! Now you’re ready for National Smile Week. Know someone else who needs to exercise their face muscles before the big week actually hits? Why not take these twenty-five funny quotes and share them?

http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/funny-quote.html

Originally posted 2009-09-21 03:33:39.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
-George Patton

Leadership Rule:
Take time to confer with yourself and tap your supreme thinking power.
The successful person uses solitude to do his super-thinking.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of
instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
- Albert Einstein

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that
one is constantly making new discoveries.
- A.A. Milne

Creativity is a type of learning process 
where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
- Arthur Koestler

There is nothing in the caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.
- Buckminster Fuller

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Education is an admirable thing, 
but it is well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
-Anna Freud

Everything comes to the man who hurries while waiting.
-Thomas Edison

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Bagehot

Push. One of two things mainly conducive to success. The other is Pull.
-Ambose Bierce

Make everything simple, but not simpler
-Albert Einstein

A measure of a leader’s true worth is how much he would be worth 
if he lost his position.
- Anon

If Columbus had an Advisory Committee, 
he would probably still be at the dock.
- Arthur Goldberg

A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head.
-Anon

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein

“Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.”
- L.J. Cardina Suenens

“In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.”
- Albert Einstein

“If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.”
- Will Rogers

“The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.”
- Roger Babson

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”
- Sir William Osler

“The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than  doing things right.”
- Peter Drucker

“Man is what he believes.”
- Anton Chekhov

“Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.” -
Oprah Winfrey

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts,
we make the world.” – Buddha

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and
then do it.” – Henry Ford

“It   is   not  what  we   get.  But  who  we   become,  what  we   contribute…   that   gives
meaning to our lives.” – Anthony Robbins

“Dream  lofty dreams,  and as you dream,  so you shall  become.  Your vision  is  the
promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at
last unveil.” – James Allen

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins

“Begin with the end in mind.” – Dr. Stephen Covey

“Develop an attitude of  gratitude, and give thanks  for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger
and better than your current situation.” – Brian Tracy