Sunday, August 15, 2010
0444
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock.
~Graham Greene & Orson Wells, The Third Man, movie
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express results of his thought in clear form.
~ A. Einstein
Should have, could have, would have, will not change your current situation in any way. As a matter of fact, a person worthy of their brains will not use said words when solving a problem.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
~ George S. Patton
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
