"Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?"

"Talent is God given; be humble. Fame is man given; be thankful. Conceit is self given; be careful."

John Wooden

Kareem Abdul Jabbar also has a nice web site with a post honoring Coach Wooden. 

"Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once."

Evan Esar

 

"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion." 

G.K. Chesterton

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."



Wilson Mizner

"Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier."



Blore's Razor (need to look up who this Blore dude is... Occam's cousin?)

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."


Mark Twain

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."


Robert A. Heinlein



thanks to Lorin and elise's quotes ; now I need to somehow fit it into my "1000 Important Things..." list

"Skip the Sugar"

arrowhead water bottle

(obviously, I need to get some inspiration!)

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

Sir Joshua Reynolds


"Art is to society what dreams are to a person"

Laliberte and Kehl (who???)


"I shut my eyes in order to see."

Paul Gauguin


"Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it!"

Danny Kaye


"A line is a dot that went for a walk."

Paul Klee


Thanks to my Humanities text; better get something out of it besides the bill for $135.00 + tax!!!!

Q: Are you a mod or a rocker?

A: I'm a mocker.


Ringo Starr A Hard Day's Night

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

Abraham Maslow

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

James Baldwin

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."



Robert Benchley

"If he [/she; an author] invites you to go flying with him, the very least he can do is to build a strong pair of wings."


Patricia Wrightson, author

"Absolute power corrupts; substitute teachers are corrupted absolutely."

Anonymous

"A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin."


Elizabeth Alexander, Inauguration Poem 2009


I like a lot about her poem, but for some reason that caught my ear and has become my mantra for the new year...

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Jack London




"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."


Don Marquis


Ah yes, my old friends (Procrastination and Inspiration, not Jack and Don), how appropriate this week as I complete 2 months worth of projects in 3 days...

"I was able to become a manager, I believe, because of my mom's wisdom as much as anything else I ever did in the game."

Frank Robinson


Now that's a Hall of Famer!