GOD & PHYSCIS
Einstein had qualms about quantum physics and couldn’t stand Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, hence his famous dictum, “God doesn’t play dice with the universe,” to which Stephen Hawking remarked years later, “God not only plays dice with the universe, but he cheats.”
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GREATNESS
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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FUN!
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
(1863 – 1952), Soliloquies in England, 1922, “War Shrines”
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
- Rita Mae Brown
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Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
- Johnny Carson
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
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A message we get is that life is hard work and we should NOT have fun.
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
- A. P. Herbert
I disagree with Mr. Herbert. I believe we were created to enjoy life.
The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. That is too long a period to not have fun.
- Author unknown
THOUGHT: How many hours does the non-average person have?
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HONEY
You can catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar.
In my ten years working in art museums, I had nine different directors (bosses). The good ones understood the importance of honey. Those who didn’t understand were doomed from the start. It is impossible to stay at the top of your field without playing the game well.
- Alyson Stanfield,
Artist Coach
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ART
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1923-2007
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
- John Ruskin
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These are from a series of quotes I have collected for years. I’ll be adding more every once in a while.
