21 January 2015

Favourite Quotes

"The greatest danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to achieve them; it's that they are too low and we do." - Michelangelo

"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." -Jer 29:11

"We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." - Isaac Asimov 

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." - Anon

"It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." - Anne Frank


"The stump of a tree can fell a running man." -Anon


"Neurons that fire together wire together." - Donald Hebb


"The Universe is far more spectacular an author than we could ever hope to be." - Beau Taplin


"A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd