Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 4

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

No man however great is greater than his people

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he believes, and argues, has done much damage to the message of the Quran. His work provides many thought-provoking insights and should be a significant contribution to the 'Quran only' movement in modern Islam.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities. Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought. Read this book.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.