#motormill — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #motormill, aggregated by home.social.
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I would prefer to lose the power of movement than that of usefulness. I would prefer death to inactivity. . . . I never tire of being useful.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
Life need not be easy provided only that it is not empty.
-- Lise Meitner -
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell -
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.
-- Dale Carnegie -
"Hacking" comprises anything that requires creativity and resourcefulness to accomplish a task....It's the lifeblood of progress.
-- Ron Poulton -
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montague -
Two Problems with Whining. The first is that it doesn't work. You can whine about the government or your friends or your job or your family, but nothing will happen except that you'll waste time. Worse... far worse... is that whining is a reverse placebo. When you get good at whining, you start noticing evidence that makes your whining more true. So you amplify that and immerse yourself in it, thus creating more evidence, more stuff worth complaining about. If you spent the same time prattling on about how optimistic you are, you'd have to work hard to make that true...
-- Seth Godin ((Seth's Blog)) -
The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life.
-- Paul Theroux -
I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
-- Peter Cooper -
When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits -- despotic in his ordinary demeanor -- known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty -- when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity -- to join in the cry of danger to liberty -- to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion -- to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day -- It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may "ride the storm and direct the whirlwind."
-- Alexander Hamilton (Correspondence August 1792)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Government #Opportunism #Politics #Tyranny
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Medicine is a science which hath been more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in a circle than in progression.
-- Francis Bacon (1610) -
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
-- Sherwood Anderson -
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
-- William Arthur Ward⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamArthurWard #Optimism #Pessimism #Reality
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To be intelligible is to be found out.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The process of innovation is a process of failure.
-- Peter Senge -
Learning primary care in a hospital is equivalent to learning forestry in a lumber yard.
-- Hilliard Jason -
Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.
-- Hermann Goering (Nuremberg Trial)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HermannGoering #Disinformation #Government #History #Patriotism #War
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-- John Ruskin -
It is hard to fail but worse never to have tried to succeed.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
-- Hermann Hesse -
You can never be sure you have a correct problem definition, but don't ever stop trying to get one.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DonaldGauseGeraldWeinberg #ProblemSolving #Technology
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
-- James Russell Lowell -
In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
-- Richard FeynmanRT @wisdom
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In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
-- Richard Feynman -
One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Cynicism #Lies #Politics #Totalitarianism
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The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming -
The greatest problem with communication -- via any means -- is the illusion that it has been achieved.
-- Judith Huerta (loss prevention manager) -
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RainerMariaRilke #Answers #Life #Questions
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
-- John F. Kennedy