“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”-Pablo
Picasso
“A work of art is above all an adventure of the
mind.”-Eugene Ionesco
“Art expresses who we are, where we are going, where we have
been, and what we might be. It compels
us to engage our minds, think in new ways, and to use our most precious gift,
our imagination.” –University of Alberta
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“A home cannot be truly beautiful unless it functions in
harmony with who we are.”-Clodagh
“So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten,
even by ourselves, so it’s gratifying to have something you have done linger in
people’s memories.”-John Williams, film composer
“The brain is not fragile; the brain is adaptive. The question is whether or not those
adaptations will allow you to cope with the world you are then going to live
in.” –Dr. Clyde Hertzman
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask
questions, never know too much to learn something new.”-Og Mandino
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”-Neale Donald
Walsch
“Turn your wound into wisdom.” –Oprah Winfrey
“The deed is everything, the glory is naught.” –Goethe
“The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply
helping or hurting.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally
look at the results.”-Winston Churchill, British politician and statesman
(1874-1965)
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance
to work hard at work worth doing.” –Theodore Roosevelt,
US president, (1858-1919)
“There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth,
when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.”-Isaiah Berlin,
British philosopher (1909-1997)
“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”- Peter De
Vries, US
novelist (1910-1993)
“The value of sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are
prepared to make for it.” –John Galsworthy, English novelist (1867-1933)
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own
private opinion.” –Henry David Thoreau
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” –John Quincy Adams,
US President (1767-1848)
“Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than
by our lack of knowledge.”-Stendahl
“Before someone will acknowledge your criticisms, you need
to acknowledge their strengths.” –David Rabner
“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always
beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon
you.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (1804-64)
“To revel in the wonders of life, to think, to remember, to
dream; this is to know happiness.” –Giancarlo Di Gratsi
“Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the
tides and gravity…we shall harness the energies of love- then, for the second
time in the history of the world, men will have discovered fire.”-Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin (19th century French philosopher)
“The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience
is the sensation of the mystical. It is
the sower of all true science. He or she
to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in
awe, is as good as dead.” –Albert Einstein
“Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the
things themselves that anger or annoy us.” –Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (AD
121-180)
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man
the reflection of his own face.”- William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist
(1811-63)
“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we
use to conceal them.”-Rochefoucauld
“Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.”-
Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher (5 BC-65 AD)
“Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their
reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see
them.”-Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist (1865-1946)
“Life is like a B-movie.
You don’t want to have to leave in the middle of it, but you don’t want
to see it again.”-Ted Turner, US
media mogul (1938-)
“Knowledge is a vehicle…designed to take you from one place
to another.”-Marc L. Dorcean
“I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have
become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools
of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”-Bill Gates
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our
aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving
our mark.” -Michelangelo
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the
courage to continue that counts.” –Winston Churchill
“Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has
that ability to comfort.”-Norman Kolpas
“Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying
of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.”-Craig Claiborne
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not
danced at least once.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let us read and let us dance- two amusements that will
never do any harm to the world.”-Voltaire
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are
family happinesses.” –Joyce Brothers
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”-Mahatma
Gandhi
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the
way.”-Frank Smith
“Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.”-Roger
Bacon
“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where it’s people come from and
where they are going.”-Rita Mae Brown
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a
somewhat different world.”-Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”- Karl
Albrecht
“Law is order, and good law is good order.”-Aristotle
“Many of life’s circumstances are created by three basic
choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with,
and the laws you choose to obey.”-Charles Milhuff
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat
than in his own soul.”-Marcus Aurelius
“Your body is a beautiful manifestation powered by
spirit.”-Mike Dolan
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you
get.”-Michael Phelps
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to
great things.”-Denis Diderot
“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the
overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”-Francois de La
Rochefoucauld
“I do not understand how anyone can live without one small
place of enchantment to turn to.”-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”-Eudora
Welty
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about find something interesting in an
ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and
everything to do with the way you see them.” –Elliot Erwitt
“You are responsible for creating the life, the
relationships, and the business you want.
Everything else is just drama.”-Marlene Chism
“The more success you have, the more people decide they want
to hate you. You spend your time looking
for the next project and as each project ends, you think there’s not going to
be any more. When this opportunity came
up, which I thought was terrible, my wife convinced me to do it. The thing I didn’t want to do most garnered
me the most success.” –Howie Mandel on his TV show Deal or No Deal
“I recognize that Hollywood
is not about seniority. Often it’s not
even a meritocracy. It’s about what you
did yesterday. You have a couple of
misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and
navigated it as such.” –Ben Affleck
“…The value of work, and of always learning something new,
and what it takes to achieve excellence.
I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and
spend time, that excellence is elusive.
It’s a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your
life, and I don’t succeed all the time.
But I do try.” –Ben Affleck on the film Jiro Dreams of Sushi
“You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.” –Ben Affleck
“I was walking to Madison
Square Garden
when the second plane hit-you can prepare for everything, but you can’t expect
everything. Forty-eight hours later, we
were back on the ice, because no matter where you are in the world, what
you’re experiencing is a hockey rink- that’s where you’re at home.” -Dr.
Kimberley Amirault-Ryan (She is the lead
of sport psychology for the Canadian Olympic Committee. This is about working for the New York
Rangers on Sept.11, 2001.
“But even everyday pressures- the self-doubt, setbacks and
confusion- can be put in balance by a workout routine. Forget the release of endorphin; even the
hour of quiet reflecting coupled with a sense of accomplishment can create a
sense of calm.”-Ben Kaplan (journalist for the National Post)
“When you’re not happy with how things are going and you’re
trying to get back on track, that’s when it’s wise to fall back on healthy
routine.”-Peter Jensen, sports psychologist.
He has worked with Canada’s
gold medal-winning women’s hockey team.
“Finding more meaning in life and things that are more
important than your problems pull you towards life rather than
death and help to promote wellness.”-Dr. Ian Manion, the executive director of
the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
2010 Vancouver
Olympics Joannie Rochette:
“You set goals for yourself every week and you achieve them,
which is great for your self-esteem.”
“In skating there’s a whole team with you, but at the same
time you’re by yourself. You have to be
willing to spend a lot of hours with yourself, it can get pretty lonely at
times, but you become to be your own best friend and you get know yourself a way
you wouldn’t if you didn’t go through that.”
What have you learned from the sport? What are some of the life skills competitive
skating has taught you?
“To set goals for yourself, and not to procrastinate. You learn to push yourself to do things when
you don’t want to-hell, some days you can’t even climb up the stairs because
your legs hurt so badly from the previous day.
But you kick yourself in the butt and you keep going! I think I learned that kind of discipline,
that kind of will to achieve your goal, even if it means suffering one day. It helps to keep that big goal and the big
picture of it.”
“Just set goals for yourself, it keeps you from trouble and
that intimidation at school.”
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