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Quote of the day

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 10:17 pm
by NHE
"Now, here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

Lewis Carroll

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 5:33 am
by Panther123
Sure does seem true on many days.

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:11 pm
by MSKarateka
Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future.

Jigoro Kano

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 10:15 am
by MSKarateka
Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back!

Mal

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:59 am
by MSKarateka
“Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.”
― Gichin Funakoshi, Karate-Do: My Way of Life

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:53 pm
by NHE
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

Noam Chomsky

https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary. ... +furiously

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 3:43 pm
by NHE
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”

Joseph Juubert

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 8:51 am
by NHE
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 8:54 am
by NHE
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:55 pm
by NHE
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:35 pm
by NHE
"Modesty undermines your perceived intelligence so much that even insulting the person you are working with makes you seem more competent to that person than criticizing yourself."

Clifford Nass

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:54 pm
by ArthurJ
“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:06 pm
by NHE
“A poor teacher tells.
An average teacher explains.
A good teacher demonstrates.
A great teacher inspires.”

Tifalla - A Malawi Teacher

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 9:20 am
by ArthurJ
"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2023 4:18 am
by ArthurJ
"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)