"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Real Estate Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Real Estate
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Real Estate I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Real Estate
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Real Estate Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Real Estate
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Real Estate "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Real Estate
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Real Estate What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Real Estate
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Real Estate If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Real Estate
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Real Estate The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Real Estate
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Real Estate "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Real Estate
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Real Estate "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Real Estate
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Real Estate Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Real Estate
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Real Estate We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Real Estate
