Age Quotes

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken, Growing a Business

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Charles A. Beard

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Coleman Young

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - They neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Imam Ali - Ibn - Abi - Talib, Nahjul - Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

H. L. Mencken

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

The most essential factor is persistence - The determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott - Maxwell

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Henri de Montherlant

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

Black Hawk

This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax - 11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the C compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983)

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

Loren

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

French Prove

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.

Becky Rodenbeck

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey