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This week, each morning, we are posting some of our favourite political quotes. Enjoy – by George, Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. – Ambrose Bierce Since a politician never believes what he says, he is…
This week, each morning, we are posting some of our favourite political quotes. We trust these quotes will not only add a little levity to the headline political news, but also prove that politics has changed little in the thousands of years of man. Enjoy – by George, The best argument against democracy is…
This week, each morning, we will post some of our favourite political quotes to add a little spice to the on-going theatrics unfolding both on Parliament Hill and at Queen’s Park. The quotes revel that politics has changed little in the thousands of years of man. Enjoy – by George Politics are a labyrinth…
Creative thinking is work. You must have passion and the determination to immerse yourself in the process of creating new and different ideas. Then you must have patience to persevere against all adversity. All creative geniuses work passionately hard and produce incredible numbers of ideas, most of which are bad. In fact, more bad…
Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone…
Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Success demands singleness of…
Here are a dozen quotes from perhaps our greatest, modern-day genius. Imagination is more important than knowledge; for knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is…
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress. – Henri Frederic Amiel And from the discontent of man / The world’s best progress springs – Ellia Wheeler Wilcox The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress…
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others. There is only one duty, only…
This week By George Journal posted one hundred of our favourite quotations of the provocative genius Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here are our Top Ten Emerson Insights: What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal…
Ralph Waldo Emerson has formed the core notions of many of our great intellects from the 1800’s. He influenced his American contemporaries, such as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and William James, as well as notable thinkers the stature of Friedrich Nietzsche, and more recently Harold Bloom and Barack Obama. Once asked to sum up…
Through this week By George Journal is posting one hundred of our favourite quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson – a deep, provocative 19th century author and, we believe, one of the most remarkable of thinkers of our modern age. Here are the next 25 RWE-gems to reflect upon: The reward of a thing well done, is to have done…
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet and lecturer. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a founding father of the Transcendentalist movement (expressed first in his 1836 essay Nature). Emerson authored dozens of published essays and conducted more than 1,500 public lectures across the U.S. through the mid-1800s. He wrote on the core…
This week the By George Journal salutes Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), who is argumentatively the greatest, modern day thinker and wordsmith of our ages. Each morning, we will bring readers remarkable quotes from this remarkable man – leading to Friday’s list of our “Top-Ten RWE Insights.” BGJ has chosen a hundred of our favourite gems. Today, here are 25 of our…
Follow the three R’s: respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality….
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has…
I’ve put my genius into my life; I’ve only put my talent into my works. A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Good artists exist simply in what…
These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to four-letter words. When writers and speakers pondered upon words and weighed each of them before making a sentence. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. – Winston Churchill I have never killed a man,…
Citius, altius, fortius (Faster, higher, stronger) – Olympic Motto The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. – Pierre…
In By George’s endless search for the most remarkable thoughts and moving quotes, we came across the “Top 10 Inspirational Quotes” from the About.com Guide. Here are a great “top 10” bons mots. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did…