Part 4 - A collection of Quotes, One-Liners, Dialogs, Thoughts, Proverbs, Sayings....

Part 4 - A collection of Quotes, One-Liners, Dialogs, Thoughts, Proverbs, Sayings....

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From 'To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee'

If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it
~ Atticus Finch

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.
~ Atticus Finch

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
~ Atticus

“Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him”
~ Atticus

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Memorable Quotes from
As Good as It Gets

Melvin Udall : I've got a really great compliment for you, and its true.
Carol Connelly : I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful.
Melvin Udall : Don't be pessimistic, it's not your style. Anyway, here goes: I've got this, what, ailment. Now, my doctor, this shrink I used to go to all the time, says that in fifty to sixty percent of cases, a pill really helps. I HATE pills, hate them. I'm using the word "hate" about pills. Anyway, my compliment to you is the night after you came over and said that you would never... well, you were there, you know what you said. Anyway, the very next morning, I started taking the pills.
Carol Connelly : I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me.
Melvin Udall : You make me want to be a better man.


Melvin Udall : I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence," and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that's all about being straight and good. I think most people miss that about you, and I watch them, wondering how they can watch you bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good, about me.

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Comfort and pleasure are closely related. Pleasure is the reward we receive for scratching a biological itch. Whereas comfort is simply the feeling of not having any itches in need of a damn good scratching.

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As the ancient chinese proverb states:

To be happy for a day, get drunk.

To be happy for a week get a pig (i.e. become wealthy)

To be happy for a year, get married.

But to be happy for life, become a gardener.

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The Unabomber Manifesto:

"In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert very modest effort needed to hold a job. The only requirements are a moderate amount of intelligence, and most of all, simple OBEDIENCE. If one has those, society takes care of one from cradle to grave"

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Like William Blake said, all things in moderation, including moderation.

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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- The Bible

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The Speed-of-Light Limit
Neither matter nor energy can travel through space faster
than the speed of light.

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The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other. -Marya Mannes, writer (1904-1990)

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"Quite often, people who mean well, will inquire of me whether I ask myself, in the face of my disease, `Why me?' I never do. If I ask `Why me?', as I am assaulted by heart disease and AIDS, I must ask `Why me?' about my blessings and my right to enjoy them. ... If I don't ask `Why me?' after my victories, I cannot ask `Why me?' after my setbacks and disasters."

- Arthur Ashe (Tennis champion on being diagnosed with AIDS)

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Fate determines who comes into our lives.... heart determines who stays.

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Gambling is the worst form of addiction, because there is a limit to how much coke or heroin you can put into yourself but there is no limit to how much money you can piss away in a casino. The same place that takes your money on average ten cents a hand at the $5 table will happily arrange to take it $100 a hand at a private, ten thousand dollar minimum table opened just for you.

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Casinos "work" (in the sense that they are effective tools for separating customers from their money) by exploiting two universal human misperceptions. The first of these is a tendency to perceive patterns in randomness. As Knuth wrote with regard to random number generators, if your RNG can't pump out a string of 20 zeroes then it really isn't random. That is a perfectly valid result which must happen just as often as any other arbitrary string of 20 results. But when it happens, we don't think "hmmm, that is a perfectly valid if unusual result." We think the game is fixed or biased, and if we're gambling we might smirk and place a bet.

The second misperception has to do with the house edge. It seems so reasonable, just a few percent tax to pay the dealer and build the casino. But most of us think of that percentage with regard to the drop rather than action. The typical 25-cent slot or $5 blackjack player thinks of the $100 he's bought in for, not of the thousands upon thousands of dollars in individual bets he can make before losing that stake. The exponential nature of the math turns that tiny percentage into an all-devouring black hole, which can eat the world a nibble at a time.

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”. Thomas Jefferson

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Do more than try...STRIVE , Do more than believe...TRUST.

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist
(1883-1931)

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And none will hear the postman's knock / Without a quickening of the heart.
/ For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)

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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. -French proverb

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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. -Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (1847-1922)

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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this. -Emo Phillips, comedian, actor
(1956- )

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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer

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There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth. -Chinese proverb

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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

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When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself.

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MAVEN:

The word Maven comes from the Yiddish and it means one who accumulates knowledge.

Generally, an early adopter or individual who is particularly "invested in understanding, knowing about and seeking out new knowledge about a particular field, product or discipline. Mavens are valuable in the replication strategy of a meme since they generally become known as the trusted token in an environment.

Mavens tend to exhibit outlier behavior. On a bar of Ivory Soap, the phone number listed that is to be called in the event of questions is a Maven trap designed to isolate Mavens for Soap.

Gladwell M. (January 2002): The Tipping Point, (Back Bay Books).

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Investing ( n-vsting)

The act of committing money or capital to an endeavor with the expectation of obtaining an additional income or profit.

It's actually pretty simple: investing means putting your money to work for you--actually, it's a different way to think about how to make money. Growing up, most of us were taught that you can earn an income only by getting a job and working. And so that's what most of us do. There's one big problem with this: if you want more money, you have to work more hours. But there is a limit to how many hours a day we can work--not to mention the fact that having a bunch of money is no fun if we don't have the leisure time to enjoy it.

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Peter Lynch, one of the greatest investors of all time, has said that the "key organ for investing is the stomach, not the brain." In other words, you need to know how much volatility you can stand to see in your investments. Figuring this out for yourself is far from an exact science; but there is some truth to an old investing maxim: you've taken on too much risk when you can't sleep at night because you are worrying about your investments.

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"Knowledge is the only resource on earth that multiplies when shared."

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"If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler." - Warren E. Buffett

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"I think it's much easier to predict the relative strength that Coke will have in the soft drink world than Microsoft will in the software world," Buffett said. "That's not to knock Microsoft. If I had to bet on anyone, I'd bet on Microsoft. But I don't have to bet."

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"In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine."


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"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it." Peter Lynch

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"If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks." John (Jack) Bogle

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"[O]ur mandate is to find the 200 best companies in the world and invest in them, and find the 200 worst companies in the world and go short on them. If the 200 best don't do better than the 200 worst, you probably should get in another business."
Julian Robertson

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"In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys."
"our fund's risk factor can, at least in theory, vary from plus 200% to minus 200%."
Michael Steinhardt

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"It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong."
George Soros

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"The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell."
"the only investors who shouldn't diversify are those who are right 100% of the time."
John Templeton

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Compound interest is "the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.
Albert Einstein

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old stock market saying:

Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs just get slaughtered!

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Economics may appear to be the study of complicated tables and charts, statistics
and numbers, but, more specifically, it is the study of what constitutes rational
human behavior in the endeavor to fulfill needs and wants.

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A management team distracted by a series of short term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half hour.

We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google. This empowers them to be more creative and innovative. Many of our significant advances have happened in this manner. For example, AdSense for content and Google News were both prototyped in “20% time.” Most risky projects fizzle, often teaching us something. Others succeed and become attractive businesses.

LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS

“AN OWNER’S MANUAL” FOR GOOGLE’S SHAREHOLDERS1

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"The market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses."
- Warren Buffet

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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
- Warren Buffet

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According to the writer Jorge Luis Borges, the idea of the Zahir comes from the Islamic tradition and probably arose in the eighteenth century. In Arabic "zahir" means "visible", "present", "incapable of going unnoticed". It can refer to an object or a person, and that object or person gradually takes over our every thought, until we are unable to think of anything else. This could be considered a state of holiness or a state of madness.

- Paulo Coehlo in 'Zahir'

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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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“We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.
The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled
catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have
their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of
the wind?....... We make our own destiny.”
Swami Vivekananda

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“Heart has its reasons, that reasons don’t understand” – Pascal.

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