My mom got this calendar about left-handed people this year, and the following is just about all of the quotes from that calendar from the weekend of July 23/24 onwards."I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions, they will be moved to act."~Bill Gates ( Read more... )

All quotes in this post come from Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku."If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it."~Albert Einstein ( Read more... )

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."~William James ( Read more... )

"I know it is hard to accept, but an upset in your life is beneficial, in that it tells you that you are off course in some way and you need to find your way back to your particular path of clarity once again."~Susan Jeffers ( Read more... )

"I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about."~Sean Astin ( Read more... )

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."~Henry David Thoreau

"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."~Arthur C. Clarke, from First on the Moon"People only worry ( Read more... )

"In a time of dramatic change, it is the learners who inherit the future."~Eric Hoffer ( Read more... )

"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?"~Will Rogers ( Read more... )

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."~John Donne ( Read more... )

"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."~William E. Henley ( Read more... )