var arrQuotes = [ ["To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. ", "Farmers’ Almanac, 1978"], ["I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ", "Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)"], ["Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. ", "unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949"], ["What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. ", "Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses"], ["Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy ", "Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)"], ["You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. ", "Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )"], ["There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me.’ ", "Andre Gide (1869 - 1951) "], ["Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ", "Arnold Bennett"], ["Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. ", "Arnold Palmer (1929 - )"], ["Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ", "Shakti Gawain"], ["Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ", "Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)"], ["I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. ", "Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)"], ["Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ", "Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader’s Digest, 1979"], ["A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger. ", "Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C."], ["Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ", "John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)"], ["Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. ", "John Wayne (1907 - 1979)"], ["A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ", "Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)"], ["Fortune favors the brave. ", "Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid"], ["Fortune favors the brave. ", "Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid"], ["So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ", "Brenda Ueland"], ["The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ", "Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)"], ["Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. ", "Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)"], ["Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. ", "George Lois"], ["To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ", "Joseph Chilton Pearce"], ["Creativity is...seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. ", "Michele Shea"], ["Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ", "Scott Adams (1957 - ), ‘The Dilbert Principle’ "], ["Every time we say, \"Let there be!\" in any form, something happens. ", "Stella Terrill Mann "], ["Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one’s chosen form. ", "Stephen Nachmanovitch"], ["If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. ", "Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Secretary of Defense "], ["To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ", "Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)"], ["How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. ", "Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860"], ["The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ", "Ellen Parr "], ["Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ", "Eugene S. Wilson"], ["America’s greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. ", "Anthony Walton"], ["America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. ", "John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories"], ["Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. ", "George F. Will (1941 - ), Statecraft as Soulcraft"], ["Drive thy business or it will drive thee. ", "Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) "], ["The chief business of the American people is business. ", "Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925"], ["Nothing endures but change. ", "Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers"], ["The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ", "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations"], ["Engineering is the art or science of making practical. ", "Samuel C. Florman "], ["If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. ", "Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics"], ["Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. ", "Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947"], ["To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. ", "Anatole France (1844 - 1924) "], ["Hope is a waking dream. ", "Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers"], ["You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, \"Why not?\" ", "George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), \"Back to Methuselah\" (1921), part 1, act 1"], ["We need men who can dream of things that never were. ", "John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963"], ["It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ", "Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)"], ["Only the educated are free. ", "Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses"], ["This England never did, nor never shall, .Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. ", "William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), \"King John\", Act 5 scene 7 "], ["It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. ", "Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics"], ["You always pass failure on the way to success. ", "Mickey Rooney (1920 - )"], ["Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ", "Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)"], ["There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ", "Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)"], ["The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ", "Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)"], ["They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ", "Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759"], ["People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ", "Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)"], ["The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ", "Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891"], ["There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ", "Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles"], ["Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ", "Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper’s Monthly, 1932 "], ["Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. ", "William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)"], ["Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ", "Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), ‘Pro Plancio,’ 54 B.C."], ["What is left when honor is lost? ", "Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims"], ["Imagination is more important than knowledge... ", "Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)"], ["It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. ", "Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)"], ["When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. ", "Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects"], ["A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ", "Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu "], ["He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.", "Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu"], ["He who knows others is wise; he who know himself is enlightened. ", "Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu"], ["Knowledge is power. ", "Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597 "], ["The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ", "Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)"], ["Whoso neglects learning in his youth,.Loses the past and is dead for the future. ", "Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus "], ["The wisest mind has something yet to learn. ", "George Santayana (1863 - 1952) "], ["Much learning does not teach understanding. ", "Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe"], ["Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ", "Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)"], ["There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. ", "General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)"], ["A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ", "Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) "], ["Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ", "Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)"], ["If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. ", "Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )"], ["The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny ...’ ", "Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)"], ["I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ", "Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)"], ["The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. ", "William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)"], ["Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. ", "Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)"], ["I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ", "Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic"], ["Death is not the worst than can happen to men. ", "Plato"], ["The life which is unexamined is not worth living. ", "Plato, Dialogues, Apology"], ["Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. ", "Plato, The Republic"], ["The beginning is the most important part of the work. ", "Plato, The Republic"], ["The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. ", "Plato, The Republic"], ["When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. ", "Plato, The Republic"], ["Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ", "Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)"], ["What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. ", "Bob Dylan (1941 - )"], ["The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. ", "Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects"], ["Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ", "Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), \"Technology and the Future\""], ["The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ", "Alan Kay"], ["The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. ", "Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943"], ["All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ", "Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) "], ["Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ", "Bible, John 8:32"], ["All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ", "Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)"], ["Love truth, and pardon error. ", "Voltaire (1694 - 1778) "], ["Truth is truth ", "William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), \"Measure for Measure\", Act 5 scene 1"], ["To the end of reckoning. ", "William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), \"Measure for Measure\", Act 5 scene 1"], ["Be great in act, as you have been in thought. ", "William Shakespeare"], ["I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. ", "Homer, The Iliad"], ["A small rock holds back a great wave. ", "Homer, The Odyssey"], ["Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ", "Henri-Frédéric Amiel"], ["There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. 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