Company - Moment of Wisdom


		Music Quotes


There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer I think that music has an endless life. Anne Dudley Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. Fred Frith The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. Hunter S. Thompson The gods who have been appointed to be our companions in the dance, have given us the pleasurable sense of harmony and rhythm; and so they stir us to life, and we follow them, joining together in dances and songs Plato


		Responsibility Quotes


Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass Healthy responsibility is defined as taking 100 percent responsibility for yourself while inspiring others to take 100 percent responsibility. Gay Hendricks We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good. Pope Paul VI Creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy Unknown The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness, and in human responsibility. Vaclav Havel The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill


		Success Quotes


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage Arie de Gues The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli There are no gains without pains. Benjamin Franklin Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Bernadette Devlin The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre Chet Atkins How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises Demosthenes If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right Henry Ford I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. Jack Benny You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one James A. Froude The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness John C. Maxwell The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. Lloyd Jones


		Silence Quotes


No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker Silence is the true friend that never betrays. Confucius Silence is the virtue of fools Francis Bacon We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter Martin Luther King You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut. Sally Berger It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levenson No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say Will Durant


		Trust Quotes

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement
Alfred Adler

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Arthur Eddington

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else
Cardinal De Retz

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
Cicero

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Frank Crane

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near
Helen Rowland

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do
Henry David Thoreau

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love all, trust a few.
William Shakespeare


		Creativity Quotes

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Edwin Land

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Nietzsche


		Revolution Quotes


The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. Adrienne Rich It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Frederick Douglass The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution Huey Newton Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable John F. Kennedy Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress. Wendell Phillips


		Maturity Quotes


The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same Carlos Castaneda Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. Mark Twain If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. Mary Beth Danielson You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. P. J. O'Rourke All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we stop saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." Sydney J. Harris


		Hope Quotes

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
Christopher Reeve

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Don Quixote

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Dorothy Thompson

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams
Elizabeth Gilbert

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Henry Ward Beecher

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
Jane Wagner

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
Molly Ivins

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity
Robert G. Ingersoll

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill