* Job Quotations (Quotes at Davar Web Site) 05/26/2011-09/15/2011
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If the traveler cannot find
Master or friend to go with him,
Let him travel alone
Rather than with a fool for company.
#[Buddha Gautama] (563-483 BC)
5. The Fool, "The [Dhammapada]"
Translated from [Pali] by Thomas Byrom
Want nothing.
Where there is desire,
Say nothing.
@Happiness or sorrow --
Whatever befalls you,
Walk on
Untouched, unattached.
#[Buddha Gautama] (563-483 BC)
6. The Wise Man, "The [Dhammapada]"
Translated from [Pali] by Thomas Byrom
Never speak harsh words
For they will rebound upon you.
Angry words hurt
And the hurt rebounds.
#[Buddha Gautama] (563-483 BC)
10. Violence, "The [Dhammapada]"
Translated from [Pali] by Thomas Byrom
The winner sows hatred
Because the loser suffers.
Let go of winning and losing
And find joy.
#[Buddha Gautama] (563-483 BC)
15. Joy, "The [Dhammapada]"
Translated from [Pali] by Thomas Byrom
With gentleness overcome anger.
With generosity overcome meanness.
With truth overcome deceit.
#[Buddha Gautama] (563-483 BC)
17. Anger, "The [Dhammapada]"
Translated from [Pali] by Thomas Byrom
It is an old saying --
"They blame you for being silent,
They blame you when you talk too much
And when you talk too little."
Whatever you do, they blame you.
@The world always finds
A way to praise and a way to blame.
It always has and it always will.
#[Buddha Gautama] (563-483 BC)
17. Anger, "The [Dhammapada]"
Translated from [Pali] by Thomas Byrom
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
#[Plato] (427-347 BC)
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater
ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural
gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
#[Plato] (427-347 BC)
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
#[Epicurus] (341-270 BC)
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs,
neither cast ye your pearls before swine,
lest they trample them under their feet,
and turn again and rend you.
#[Jesus] (2 BC - AD 30)
"[Gospel of Matthew]", [KJV], (7:6)
Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
#[Jesus] (2 BC - AD 30)
"[Gospel of Matthew]", [KJV], (7:7)
Enter ye in at the strait gate:
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat:
@Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life,
and few there be that find it.
#[Jesus] (2 BC - AD 30)
"[Gospel of Matthew]", [KJV], (7:13-14)
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
@Ye shall know them by their fruits.
#[Jesus] (2 BC - AD 30)
"[Gospel of Matthew]", [KJV], (7:15-16)
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
#[Plutarch] (AD 46-120)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
#[Leonardo da Vinci] (1452–1519)
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
#"Zenrin-kushu" (published in 1688),
"Collection of Sayings from the Zen Forest"
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
#[Benjamin Franklin] (1706-1790)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting
different results.
#[Benjamin Franklin] (1706-1790)
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge
of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if
three or more are employed therein.
#[George Washington] (1732–1799)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried
before you give them your confidence.
#[George Washington] (1732–1799)
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
#[Abraham Lincoln] (1809-1865)
Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening
the axe.
#[Abraham Lincoln] (1809-1865)
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on the way down.
#[Wilson Mizner] (1876-1933)
If you are going through hell, keep going.
#[Winston Churchill] (1874-1965)
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
#[Albert Einstein] (1879-1955)
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
#[Albert Einstein] (1879-1955)
Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things
should be done.
#[Will Durant] (1885-1981)
"[The Story of Civilization]" 1(11), Our Oriental Heritage, 1935
God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference.
#[Reinhold Niebuhr] (1892–1971)
"[Serenity Prayer]", 1934
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving
things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
#[Lin Yutang] (1895-1976)
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man
is wise by his questions.
#[Naguib Mahfouz] (1911–2006)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget,
the naive forgive and forget,
the wise forgive but do not forget.
#[Thomas Szasz] (Born 1920)
"The Second Sin", 1974
When you are doing one thing -- talking on your phone, texting, whatever -- you
are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the
world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.
#[Martin Cooper (inventor)] (Born 1928)
"Did cell phones unleash our inner rudeness?", 2011
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But, in practice, there is.
#[Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut] (1953-1994)
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