Jeff's Quotes

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:05:21 -0500

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

- George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden..."

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:46:15 -0500

“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”

- James M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (1860-1937)

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better..."

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:16:52 -0500

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.”

- Benjamin Franklin (via theimpossiblecool)

"豊かな感情を楽しみ、複雑な感情と格闘しないのならば、そういう人は動物に戻ってしまえばいい。"

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:37:04 -0500

“豊かな感情を楽しみ、複雑な感情と格闘しないのならば、そういう人は動物に戻ってしまえばいい。”

- “If we yearn to live affluent lives without complexity or fighting, we should return to being animals.”

(via ysugano)

"What you are comes to you."

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:18:21 -0500

“What you are comes to you.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via psychotherapy)

"I don’t believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that..."

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:53:44 -0500

“I don’t believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that someone should become a person like other people.”

- Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976)

"After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box."

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:58:26 -0400

“After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.”

- Italian Proverb

"Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great..."

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 06:00:12 -0400

“Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government.”

- Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

"If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you..."

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:08:54 -0400

“If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.”

- Rudyard Kipling
(via reluctantbuddha)

"As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it."

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:16:12 -0400

“As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it.”

- Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, philosopher and author (1879 -1955)

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:35:30 -0400

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

- Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

"In matter of style, swim with the current. In matter of principle, stand like a rock."

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:40:30 -0400

“In matter of style, swim with the current.
In matter of principle, stand like a rock.”

- Thomas Jefferson

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable,..."

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:23:56 -0400

“In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.”

- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

"An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone..."

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:00:00 -0400

“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”

- ~J.D Salinger (via theimpossiblecool)

aconversationoncool: “You gotta love living, baby. Dying’s a...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:27:55 -0400

aconversationoncool:

“You gotta love living, baby. Dying’s a pain in the ass.” ~Frank Sinatra

"The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not..."

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:41:51 -0400

“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”

- Daniel Boorstin

"Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness."

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:56:45 -0400

“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.”

- Ouida [pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee], novelist (1839-1908)

"The people I admire most have an insatiable curiosity and a tremendous amount of impatience."

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:14:29 -0400

“The people I admire most have an insatiable curiosity and a tremendous amount of impatience.”

- @scottbelsky

"In the words of industry analyst Jerry Michalski, a consumer was no more than “a gullet whose only..."

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:53:38 -0400

“In the words of industry analyst Jerry Michalski, a consumer was no more than “a gullet whose only purpose in life is to gulp products and crap cash.””

- the cluetrain manifesto - chapter four (via merlin)

"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:48:13 -0400

“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”

- Cicero