Quote Of The Day

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Peter Drucker

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

Gloria Steinem

The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we dont have to bother saying so.

Richard Dawkins

The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies synonyms and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

Edmund Burke

Its not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Franklin D Roosevelt

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

W Somerset Maugham

Its always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

Rick Riordan

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

Cassandra Clare

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

Veronica Roth

Change is freedom, change is life. Its always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Dont make changes, dont risk disapproval, dont upset your syndics. Its always easiest to let yourself be governed. Theres a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. Im going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. Im going to go unbuild walls.

Ursula K Le Guin

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, Well, isnt that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and Ill figure out what were going to do about your stuff.

Anne Lamott

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Thomas Jefferson

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Henry Ward Beecher

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think youre going east, and you will be walking east when you think youre going west.

Malcolm X

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together

Marcus Aurelius

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Ayn Rand