As he travels and meets people and learns from them, he comes to know more about life, living, and becoming the person he's meant to be. Walker is a parable for all of us who wonder what might be the purpose of life, why bad things happen with almost as much regularity as good ...
Since most people don't take the time to think systematically about the future, those who do, and who base their strategies and actions on their visions, have inordinate power to shape the future."--Burt Nanus "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very ...
We’ve made an abortive effort to turn women into people. We’ve sent them to school and put them in slacks. But we’ve focused on wifehood and reproductivity with no clue about what to do with mother after the children have left home. We’ve found no way of using the resources of...
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson: He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Fear defeats more people than any other ...
to discern how useful mathematicks may be made to physicks, I have often wished that I had employed about the speculative part of geometry, and the cultivation of the specious Algebra I had been taught very young, a good part of that time and industry, that I had spent about surveying ...
"We are not going to apologize for any small role we may have played in helping to remove a dictator who made his people suffer for 20 years, carried out horrific acts and didn't care about democracy. He is gone now, and thank God for that." ...
Quinn: I really care about you, Puck, you know. And I know that after Beth was born we weren't really close, but when two people go through what we've been through, you're bonded for life. ” —Quinn and Puck, Goodbye “...
I’ve met these people, the ones from the glossy magazines. I’ve walked among them. I have seen, firsthand, their callow, empty lives. I have watched them from the shadows when they thought themselves alone. And I can tell you this: I’m afraid there is not one of them who would...
There was a story told about a man who always put on his spectacles when he ate cherries so they would look bigger and more tempting. That is a fine idea. Why not look through the large end of the telescope when you are looking at trouble, so it will look smaller and farther away?
Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book wasAnd To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street(1937,) which features a small boy who makes up a tall story about what he sees on the way home from school. In 1957, Seuss began to write and draw a sequence of “Beginner Books” starting withTh...