Tribe of Light

1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen
Unless you delegate.
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2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
As long as there is something left – or would that be the highest form of perfection?
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3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author
While still capable of doing.
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4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky
But this is not an excuse for taking bad shots.
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5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon
Or the realization that everything else is more important than FEAR. FEAR is, in fact, merely an illusion.
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6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi
Or its catalyst, model, inspiration …
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7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi
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8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
Sadly, a deadly error – showing our preoccupation with intellect. Thank God our minds can be joyous, peaceful, loving – full of the essence of life – in Meditation, Contemplation, Prayer … – any Communication with the Ultimate Source of all intellect.
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9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow
Fortunately, we have minds which can choose alternative imagery regardless of external constraints.

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10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle
As are lack of excellence, sloth and many of the ‘easy choices’ that have risen above excellence in our society.

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11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian
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12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho
Men of old and old men.
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13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze
Watch your destiny; it becomes you.
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14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Or brighter ideas occasionally. Or truly illuminating ideas – ever.
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15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin
Do only our actions have consequences? I think not. We must be very careful what we think about – our thoughts can be self-fulfilling prophesies. What we think we know – or believe – can limit the scope of our possibilities. But we must be most vigilant about the WORDS of our mouths – they participate in the creative power that set all of our universe in motion.
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16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
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17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author
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18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson
Perhaps a fourth time to determine whether you need to do it – like it or not.
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19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
GUARANTEED!
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20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
Until it becomes a habit.
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21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot
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22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant
‘GENIUSES WITH HUMILITY’ may be redundant.
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23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
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24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective
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25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
—Norm Crosby
One of the saddest facts about our ‘Legal System’ (could ‘Legal System’ be an oxymoron? Is it not generally ‘Systematically Stupifying’?)
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26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan
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28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
—Jean Rostand
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29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin
I am concerned about same in a rapidly deteriorating less-than-mediocre world. Reinforcement of the lowest-common-denominator is accelerating the rate of our descent.
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30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
—Richard Lewis
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31. 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
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32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
—Scott Adams
What is a stupid person? Never met one. Plenty of people do stupid things and some people have been convinced that they are stupid, but a truly stupid person wouldn’t survive in this world.
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33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
—Anon
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34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow
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35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower
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36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly
Been there – didn’t do that, but this was a ‘real’ consideration – neighbors, family, friends – final legacy.
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37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
—Dick Cavett
The converse is true – the ‘HUMAN COMEDY’ on the streets ‘CAUSES’ or creates a need for comedy on TV.
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38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken
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39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo
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40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen
Sorry you didn’t get it.
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41. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein
A rare instance of apparent faulty logic from the original brain. There is a full spectrum of brain/mind engagement in the ‘ART OF READING’ Is he viewing reading as a one-dimensional scientific methodology?
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42. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide
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43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
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44. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
—Aryeh Frimer
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45. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
—Bill Vaughan
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46. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
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47. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
—Cale Yarborough
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48. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
—Charles F. Kettering
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49. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton
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50. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly