| Success lies not in achieving what you aim at but in aiming what ou ought to achieve. | ||||
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Dwie rzeczy wytrącają człowieka ze spokoju umysłu: praca nie skończona i praca jeszcze nie zaczęta. |
Two things rob people of their peace of mind: work unfinishedand work not yet begun. | |||
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| Don't let your leardning lead to knowledge, Let your learning lead to action. | ||||
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| The block of granite which was an obstacle in pathway of the weak becomes a stepping stone in pathway of the strong. | ||||
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| A person is never what he ought to be until he is doing what he ought to be doing. | ||||
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| The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you. | ||||
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Jeśli ludzie mają o tobie złe zdanie, postępuj tak, żeby nikt im nie uwierzył. |
If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them. | |||
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| Dreams don't work unless you do. | ||||
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To niesamowite ile pracy możesz wykonać, jeśli nie robisz niczego innego. |
It is amazing the amount of work you can get done if you don't do anything else. | |||
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Słabi są niewolnikami wydarzeń. Silni są panami wydarzeń. |
Weak man are slaves of what happens. Strong man are masters o what happens. | |||
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| The road to success run uphill, so don't expect to break any speed records. | ||||
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| A person may fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he blames somebody or something else. | ||||
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| It is better to die for something than to live for nothing. | ||||
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| Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are rare. | ||||
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| A genius is someonewho shoots at a target no one sees and hits it. | ||||
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| One person with passion is greater than ninety nine who have only an interest. | ||||
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| Nothing dies quicker than a new idea in a closed mind. | ||||
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| One half of knowing that you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. | ||||
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| You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. | ||||
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| Tym co inspiruje pracę geniusza nie są nowe pomysły, lecz raczej obsesja, że wyjaśnienie nie jest wystarczające |
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| – Eugene Delacroix | ||||
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| Prawdziwa siła rozumienia polega na tym, żeby nie dopuścić do skrępowania naszej wiedzy przez to, czego nie wiemy |
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| – Ralph Emerson | ||||
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| Gdybym wiedział co robię, to przecież nie była by praca badawcza |
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| – Albert Einstein | ||||
| Nie istnieją głupie pytania i nikt nie staje się głupi dopóki nie przestaje ich zadawać. |
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| – Charles Steinmetz | ||||
| Niektórzy widzą rzeczy takie jakim są i pytają – dlaczego. Ja śnię o rzeczach, których nigdy nie było i pytam – dlaczego nie? |
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| – George Bernard Shaw | ||||
| Zdrowy rozsądek jest zbiorem uprzedzeń nabywanych w wieku lat osiemnastu |
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| – Albert Einstein | ||||
| Tak naprawdę geniusz oznacza mniej więcej zdolność do postrzegania w niewyuczony sposób. |
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| – William James | ||||
| Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. | ||||
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缺乏知識的正直,是軟弱無益的; 而缺少正直的知識, 顯的危險又可怕. |
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| – Samuel Johnson | ||||
| Odkrycie polega na patrzeniu na te same rzeczy w podobny sposób jak inni ludzie, ale myśleniu czegoś innego. |
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| – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi | ||||
| Przywiązanie jest wielkim twórcą iluzji; rzeczywistość może być poznana, tylko przez kogoś kto jest go pozbawiony |
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| – Simone Weil | ||||
| Nikt nie odkrywa nowych lądów, widząc jednocześnie przystań z której wypłynął. |
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| – Andre Gide | ||||
| Prawdziwy geniusz stanowi umiejętność oceny niejasnych, niebezpiecznych czy sprzecznych informacji |
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| – Winston Churchil | ||||
| Geniusz nie unika dysonansu poznawczego czy nowych pytań, lecz stara się je wyjaśnić. |
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| Kreatywność to cud połączenia dziecięcej, niczym nie ograniczonej energii z czymś przeciwnym i wrogim – poczuciem porządku wynikającym ze zdyscyplinowanej inteligencji dorosłego. |
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| – Norman Podhoretz | ||||
| Całe moje życie uczyłem się głównie poprzez pomyłki i fałszywe założenia, nie zaś przez wiedzę lub mądrość |
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| – Igor Stravinsky | ||||
| Jedyną pewną metodą unikania porażek jest nie mieć żadnych, nowych pomysłów |
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| – Albert Einstein | ||||
| Nie jest ważne miejsce w którym stoimy, lecz kierunek w którym się poruszamy. |
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| – Goethe | ||||
| Przeszkody pojawiają się, gdy spuszczasz wzrok z celu |
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| – Hannah More | ||||
Każda nowa idea na początku wygląda na niedorzeczną |
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| – Alfred North Whitehead | ||||
Jeśli idzie łatwo, strzeż się – może schodzisz w dół. |
If it goes to easy, beware! You are going downward. | |||
| Greg Taunt | ||||
Okręt jest bezpieczny w porcie, ale przecież nie po to buduje się statki |
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| –Grace Hopper | ||||
Geniusz jest w jednym procencie inspiracją a w 99 poceniem się |
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| – Thomas Edison | ||||
Prawdziwa podróż ku odkryciu składa się nie z poszukiwania nowych pejzaży, lecz obserwacji nowymi oczami |
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| – Marcel Proust | ||||
Wszystko to rozpala moją duszę i sprawia, że znużenie nie ma do niej dostępu, mój temat sam z siebie rośnie, staje się uporządkowany i określony, a całość, choćby i długa, jest prawie kompletna i zakończona w mym umyśle, tak że mogę obejrzeć ją jak jakiś znakomity obraz czy piękna statuę. I nie słyszę w wyobraźni poszczególnych głosów, ale słyszę je, jak były, wszystkie razem. Jaka to radość – nie potrafię opisać. |
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| – Z listu Mozarta napisanego w roku 1789 za: NLP – wprowadzenie do programowania neurolingwistycznego. O’Connor, Seymour. | ||||
Wyobraźnia pozwala ujrzeć rzeczy, które niestety mogą się wydarzyć. |
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„Ceną wyobraźni jest strach„ |
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| Hannibal Lecter z filmu 'Czerwony Smok' | ||||
Oryginalny pisarz nie jest tym, który nikogo nie naśladuje, lecz tym kogo nikt nie jest w stanie naśladować. |
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| Francois Rene Chateaubriand | ||||
Czym jest oryginalność? Niewykrytym plagiatem |
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| Dean Inge | ||||
Oczywiste jest zawsze najtrudniejsze do zrozumienia |
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| Prince Metternich | ||||
Tworzenie z prostego rzeczy skomplikowanych jest dość powszechne, natomiast tworzenie prostego z rzeczy skomplikowanych jest kreatywnością |
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| Charles Mingus | ||||
Nawet jeśli jesteś na właściwym szlaku, przegonią cię, gdy będzies tylko na nim siedział |
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| Will Rogers | ||||
Niczego w życiu nie należy się bać, należy to tylko zrozumieć. |
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| Maria Skłodowska Curie | ||||
Najlepszą metodą przewidywania przyszłości jest jej tworzenie. |
The best way to predit the future is to invent it. | |||
| Peter Drucker | ||||
Przyszłość ma wiele nazw. Dla słabych oznacza nieuchronność, dla bojaźliwych nieznane, zaś dla odważnych oznacza szansę |
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| Victor Hugo | ||||
Mamy dość czasu, jeśli wykorzystujemy go właściwie. |
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| – J. Wolfgang Goethe | ||||
Czas jest bramą, przez którą przyszłość odchodzi w przeszłość. |
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| - Leonardo da Vinci | ||||
| It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for. | ||||
| – Will Rogers | ||||
| Earlier Romans knew what it was to be Roman, why it was at least better than the alternative, and why their culture had to be defended. Later, in ignorance, they forgot what they knew, in pride mocked who they were, and in consequence disappeared. | ||||
| – Victor Davis Hanson | ||||
| A man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition. | ||||
| – Rudyard Kipling | ||||
| Give a man the secure possession of bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it to a desert... The magic of property turns sand into gold. | ||||
| – Arthur Young | ||||
| I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two men are called a Law Firm, and three or more are called a Congress. | ||||
| – John Adams | ||||
| Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. | ||||
| – Ronald Reagan | ||||
| There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. | ||||
| – F.A. Hayek | ||||
| Fear is the foundation of most governments. | ||||
| – John Adams | ||||
| Professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. | ||||
| – USMC Gen. (ret.) Richard E. Hawley | ||||
| Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. | ||||
| – Edmund Burke | ||||
| Not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed. | ||||
| – Daniel Polsby and Don Kates | ||||
| Four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. | ||||
| – Calvin Coolidge | ||||
| If you are Christians and love peace,' said a New Zealand savage to a civilized Englishman, 'why do you bring us gunpowder and muskets?' | ||||
| – House of Commons, Hansard, 1845 | ||||
| That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. | ||||
| – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | ||||
| Rule 044: Never confuse wisdom with luck. | ||||
| – Ferengi Rules of Acquisition | ||||
| He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. | ||||
| – John McCarthy | ||||
| Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle – - before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime 'get out of jail free' card, exempting you from responsibility for what you do thereafter. | ||||
| – Thomas Sowell | ||||
| When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. | ||||
| – P.J. O'Rourke | ||||
| The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. | ||||
| – Thomas Jefferson | ||||
| Never, ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. | ||||
| – Lois McMaster Bujold | ||||
| Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. | ||||
| – Ronald Reagan | ||||
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. | ||||
| – George Bernard Shaw | ||||
| A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. | ||||
| – Winston Churchill | ||||
| Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. | ||||
| – Margaret Thatcher | ||||
| There is no 'balance of nature.' Ask the dinosaur. | ||||
| – L. Neil Smith | ||||
| Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. | ||||
| – William Feather | ||||
| Life is tough. Life is tougher if you're stupid. | ||||
| – John Wayne | ||||
| Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. | ||||
| – Demosthenes | ||||
| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. | ||||
| – Aldous Huxley | ||||
| In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. | ||||
| – Larry Summers, president of Harvard | ||||
| How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. | ||||
| – Abraham Lincoln | ||||
| Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. | ||||
| – Patrick Henry | ||||
| Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off. | ||||
| – Stewart H. Holbrook | ||||
| Bill Gates' greatest achievement was conditioning the average PC user to anticipate, expect, and accept mediocrity as the gold standard. | ||||
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| I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. | ||||
| – H.L. Mencken | ||||
| The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. | ||||
| – Robert Lynd | ||||
| Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech. | ||||
| – Benjamin Franklin | ||||
| The First Rule in a Gunfight: Have a gun. If you violate this rule, no other rules apply. | ||||
| – Jeff Cooper | ||||
| Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a moan who won't cheat, then you know he never will. | ||||
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正直 一詞沒有條件。它既不隨風擺盪(蕩),也不隨氣候改變。正直是你心中的影像,如果你看見自己內心有著一位誠實的人, 那麼你將永遠都不會說出謊話. |
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| – John. D. MacDonald | ||||
| The fervent belief that saving money and making money are somehow equivalent is the great innovation delusion. | ||||
| – Michael Schrage | ||||
| If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. | ||||
| – Gus Grissom (who died in the Apollo 1 fire) | ||||
| Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk. | ||||
| – J. C. Penney | ||||
| Based on the substantial amount of money pumped into the [DC public schools] and the resultant test scores, I do not believe that money alone is going to solve the problem. | ||||
| – Sen. Dianne Feinstei | ||||
| Did you ever notice that, if you eliminate punctuation, 'The I.R.S.' spells 'THEIRS'? | ||||
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| It's not that I am smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. | ||||
| – Albert Einstein | ||||
| There's not a place in the universe that's safe forever; the universe is telling us, 'Spread out, or wait around and die.' | ||||
| – Buzz Aldrin | ||||
| An ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the *last* invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control. | ||||
| – Vernor Vinge | ||||
| No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. | ||||
| – Abraham Lincoln | ||||
| 'Status quo,' you know, that is Latin for 'the mess we're in.' | ||||
| – Ronald Reagan | ||||
| To the television program we need only bring an empty mind and sit torpidly while the display of sound and image fills us, requiring nothing of our imagination. The book, on the other hand, demands cooperation from the reader. It insists we take part in the process. – - Isaac AsimovA people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. |
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| – Anatole France | ||||
| 1: What has happened in the past will happen in the future. 2: Consider the obvious seriously, for few people will see it. 3: Consider the consequences. |
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| – Isaac Asimov, Three Laws of Futurics | ||||
| The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. | ||||
| – James Branch Cabell | ||||
| A Liberal believes that schools should teach children about self esteem, the environment, diversity, etc. A Conservative believes that schools should teach children reading, writing, math and history. | ||||
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| A man who is not a liberal by the time he's 20 has no heart, and a man who is not a conservative by the time he's 40 has no brain. | ||||
| – Winston Churchill | ||||
| The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other type of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to permit uprising. | ||||
| – Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1558 | ||||
| We are not liked, we have few friends; therefore we should quit being afraid, stand up and assert ourselves. The only friends we will lose thereby are those we never had. | ||||
| – Robert A. Heinlein | ||||
| 'One World' means a concept in which the United States is not sovereign, any more than one of our states is truly sovereign. That means that the United States would be outvoted . . . which just as certainly means that they would swarm over us immediately aver counting the votes. | ||||
| – Robert A. Heinlein | ||||
| Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive... Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. | ||||
| – C.S. Lewis | ||||
| A society which maintains that the interest of the individual is neglible compared to the interest of the nation is a lawless society. | ||||
| – Alexander Zinoviev | ||||
| When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. | ||||
| – Thomas Jefferson | ||||
| Fifty-odd years ago [circa 1930] astrology was commonly regarded as a ridiculous former superstition, one all but a tiny minority had outgrown. It is now the orthodoxy of many, possibly a majority. This pathological change parallels the decay of public education. | ||||
| – Robert A. Heinlein | ||||
