A vigorous five-mile walk will do more
good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and
psychology in the world.
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Thomas Jefferson
Take a two-mile walk every morning
before breakfast.
- Harry S. Truman
The sum of the whole is this: walk and
be happy; walk and be healthy. The
best way to lengthen our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have
staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking—hale fellows, close
up on ninety, but brisk as boys.
- Charles Dickens
You may not be interested in war, but
war is interested in you.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozol
I have seen war. I have seen
war on land and sea. I have seen
blood running from the wounded . . . I
have seen the dead in the mud. I
have seen cities destroyed . . . I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives.
I hate war.
It
is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to
win it.
- Douglas Mac Arthur (1880-1964), general, U.S. Army
In war there is no substitute for victory.
In war, you win or lose, live or die—and the
difference is just an eyelash.
- Douglas Mac Arthur (1880-1964), general, U.S. Army
War
does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Caloric
balance (calories in vs. calories out), rather than macronutrient composition,
is the major determinant of weight loss.
- Report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that was written by an expert
panel assembled to review the evidence on diet and weight. Cited in Newsweek,
p. 53, January 22, 2001.
Standards of living are raised not by
working harder, but by working smarter.
If you want to see people working hard, go to any third-world country.
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It
is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.The wise judge by what they see, the
foolish by what they hear.
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Be wise with speed
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
If you would thoroughly know anything,
teach it to others.
- Tryon Edwards
Better to be wise by the misfortunes of
others than by your own.
- Aesop
In youth acquire that which may requite
you for the deprivations of old age; and if you are mindful that old age has
wisdom for its food, you will so exert yourself in youth, that your old age will
not lack sustenance.
Be
not in haste to marry, nor to engage your affections, where there is no
probability of a return. Do not
fancy every woman you see the heroine of a romance . . . Avoid this error as
you would shrink back from a precipice. All
your fine sentiments and romantic notions will (of themselves) make no more
impression on one of these delicate creatures, as on a piece of marble.
Their soft bosoms are steel to your amorous refinements, if you have no
other pretensions. It
is not what you think of them that determines their choice, but what they think
of you.
- William Hazlitt
Say all you have to say in the fewest
possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest
possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
- John Ruskin
Words have weight, sound and
appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that
is good to look at and good to listen to.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Grasp the subject, the words will
follow.
- Cato the Elder
1.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
2. If it is possible to cut out a
word, always cut it out.
3. Never use the passive where you
can use the active.
4. Never use a foreign phrase, a
scientific word or jargon word if you can think of an everyday English
equivalent.
5. Break any of these rules sooner
than say anything barbarous.
- George Orwell, Politics and the
English Language
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it
into small jobs.
- Henry Ford
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
There is joy in work . . . . There is no
happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
When
I work, I relax; doing nothing makes me tired.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), artist
Nothing is particularly hard if you
divide it into small jobs.
Do pleasant things yourself, but
unpleasant things through others.
- Baltasar Gracian
"Try to handle each piece of paper
only once." Every time you
pick up a piece of paper needing your action, failing to act only means you'll
have to double your time and energy spent on it by picking it up again.
- Michael LeBoeuf
Serva
me, servabo te.
(Serve me and I will serve you.)
Worry
a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years.
If something is wrong, fix it if you can.
But train yourself not to worry. Worry
never fixes anything.
- Mary (Mrs. Ernest) Hemingway
Worry
doesn’t help tomorrow’s troubles, but it does ruin today’s happiness.
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish proverb
One may write from the outside of his
mind, as it were; write and write, learnedly and eloquently, and make no
impression; but when he speaks from real insight and conviction of his own, men
are always glad to hear him, whether they agree with him or not.
Get down to your real self . . . and let that speak.
One's real self is always vital, and gives the impression of vitality.
- John Borroughs
You
don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got
something to say.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), writer
Admit you’re wrong when you’re wrong and you’ll be right.
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