What are some of your favorite sayings?

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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
-Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)

a couple that i think regularly:

"irrelevant"

"I have nothing in hard-copy i should be ashamed of."

I think it is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find one's place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his/her environment, I've yet to meet.

Roger Bannister, on growing up

The person who can keep going once the effort gets painful is the one who will win.

Roger Bannister

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."
- Malcolm Forbes

Draft Beer Not Soldiers

"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."
-Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline

I love the Tony Attwood quote. I like his work and I'm a cat lover.

"The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now."
-S. G. Tallentyre, referring to Voltaire. Often attributed to Voltaire.

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. For sucess, the necessary ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, from the simply practical, an ability to re-think a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways, with all abilities canalized into the one specialty.
~ Hans Asperger

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston Churchill

"You've got be careful about getting locked into open systems."
-IBM salesman

"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck".

"Trying is the first step towards failure..."

- Homer Simpson

"I may not be as trim as the rest of my family members, but my heart is as big as my stomach, and my health is better than their health, and I'm full of Cockney Spirit!" A proud saying, created by CockneyRebel on Wednesday, Janaury 10th, 2007.

"The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair,to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions."
- Carl Jung

A picture is worth a thousand words.