Richard > Richard's Quotes

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!”
― Sylvester Stallone

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Life is growth, and the more we travel, the more truth we can understand. Understanding the things that surround us is the best preparation to understand the things that lie beyond.”
― Hypatia

“My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously.”
― Emmy Noether

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh

“Like generations before us, we have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom.”
― George W. Bush

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
― Albert Einstein

“Modernism deliberately abstracted Nature and glamorized convenience, and this is why we have ended up seeing the natural world as some sort of gigantic production system seemingly capable of ever-increasing outputs for our benefit. … We have become semi-detached bystanders, empirically correct spectators, rather than what the ancients understood us to be, which is participants in creation. This ideology was far from benign or just a matter of fashion. The Marxism of the Bolshevik regime totally absorbed, adopted and extended the whole concept of Modernism to create the profoundly soulless, vicious, dehumanized ideology which eventually engineered the coldly calculated death of countless millions of its own citizens as well as entire living traditions, all for the simple reason that the end justified the means in the great ‘historic struggle’ to turn people against their true nature and into ideological, indoctrinated ‘machines.”
― Charles III, Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”
― Émile Zola, The Masterpiece

“It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“etat kṛtvā priyam an|ucita|
prārthanā|vartmano me,
sau|hārdād vā vidhura iti vā
mayy anukrośa|buddhyā
iṣṭān deśān vicara, jala|da,
prāvṛṣā saṃbhṛta|śrīr;
mā bhūd evaṃ kṣaṇam api ca te
vidyutā viprayogaḥ!”
― Kālidāsa, The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa

“كيف نضجر وللسماء هذه الزرقة ، وللأرض هذه الخضرة ، وللورد هذا الشذا ، وللقلب هذه القدرة العجيبة على الحب ، وللروح هذه الطاقة اللانهائية على الإيمان. كيف نضجر وفي الدنيا من نحبهم ، ومن نعجب بهم ، ومن يحبوننا ، ومن يعجبون بنا.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
― Albert Einstein, Selected Writings

“الحكم نتيجة الحكمة والعلم نتيجة المعرفة فمن لا حكمة له لا حكم له ، و من لا معرفة له لا علم له”
― محيي الدين بن عربي

“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.”
― Honore de Balzac

“History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.”
― Eca De Queiroz, The Mandarin and Other Stories

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“Os dois amigos lançaram o passo, largamente. E Carlos, que arrojára o charuto, ia dizendo na aragem fina e fria que lhes cortava a face:

—Que raiva ter esquecido o paiosinho! Emfim, acabou-se. Ao menos assentamos a theoria definitiva da existencia. Com effeito, não vale a pena fazer um esforço, correr com ancia para coisa alguma...

Ega, ao lado, ajuntava, offegante, atirando as pernas magras:

—Nem para o amor, nem para a gloria, nem para o dinheiro, nem para o poder...

A lanterna vermelha do «americano», ao longe, no escuro, parára. E foi em Carlos e em João da Ega uma esperança, outro esforço:

—Ainda o apanhamos!

—Ainda o apanhamos!

De novo a lanterna deslisou e fugiu. Então, para apanhar o «americano», os dois amigos romperam a correr desesperadamente pela rampa de Santos e pelo Aterro, sob a primeira claridade do luar que subia.”
― Eça de Queirós, Os Maias - Volume II

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.”
― Voltaire

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.”
― John von Neumann

“Had I the time to keep a diary, I’d use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda.”
― Sōseki Natsume, I Am a Cat

“Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.

Give orders that whatever may be lacking for the current year be supplied; that what is superfluous be sold; that whatever work should be let out be let. Give directions as to what work you want done on the place, and what you want let out, and leave the directions in writing... The master should have the selling habit, not the buying habit.”
― Marcus Porcius Cato, Cato and Varro: On Agriculture