Robert Wilensky Famous Quotes
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."
Robert Wilensky Quotations
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale."
William Shakespeare
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
"And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying."
Marcel Proust
God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.
Arabic Proverb
"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."
Sydney Harris
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience."
George Santayana
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
Henry Ward Beecher
"I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt