Jacob Vizel > Jacob's Quotes

“Understanding is a two-way street.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.”
― Wilson Mizner

“When the well is dry we know the value of water”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother in law to hear at your trial”
― Sydney Biddle Barrows , Uncensored Sales Strategies: A Radical New Approach to Selling Your Customers What They Really Want - No Matter What Business You're In

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.”
― Adlai Stevenson Samper, Pacho Galan: El Rey del Merecumbe

“Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure.”
― Knute Rockne, Coaching

“We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-”
― Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, jane austen, CHARLES DICKENS, Victor Hugo, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.”
― Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author

“We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

“To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

“It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”
― Apple Inc., Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

“E=mc2”
― Albert Einstein, The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays

“God does not play dice with the universe.”
― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”
― Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

“Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames