A Collection of Inspiring & Wise Quotations

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." -- John Lennon

"Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. " --- Mark Twain

"The largest living land mammal is the absent mind." --- Capt. Beefheart

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success --- Helen Hayes

"Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart." --- Joni Mitchell
When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it hitched to the rest of the Universe." --- John Muir

"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores." --- W.Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale)

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of those." --- George Washington Carver

Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something --- Thomas Edison
"The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist." --- Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941) Bengali poet, novelist, composer. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature

"How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the Top Ten birds." --- Dan Bennett

"The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away." --- Ronald Reagan

"Everything you read in the newspaper is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you have first-hand knowledge." --- Erwin Knoll

"Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement." --- Frank Zappa
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." --- Voltaire

"I would rather play 'Chiquita Banana' and have my swimming pool, than play Bach and starve." --- Xavier Cugat

"I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not." --- Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic." --- submitted by friend of the list

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." --- Carl Jung

"I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's "It was a very good year." Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically." --- Iggy Pop

"Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?" --- Peter Thomas, student
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." --- Albert Einstein

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." --- Orson Welles

"I would like to be able to admire a person's opinions as I would their dog - without being expected to take it home with me." ---- Frank A. Clark

"Never play a thing the same way twice." --- Louis Armstrong

"If everything is under control, you are going too slow." ---- Mario Andretti

"Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength" --- Eric Hoffer NEW: Complete Hoffer Quotes

"Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food." --- Proverbs 12:9

"Dietrich would never do that" --- Marlene Dietrich

"I wish a bag of money would fall on my head. Even if it hurt." --- Mary Fernwood

"In the coming years I would like to see politicians wear maintenance uniforms instead of business suits, because when they wear business suits they represent business. When they wear maintenance uniforms they are the servants that they are supposed to be." --- Danny Hoch

"In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out." --- Gary Shandling
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free outselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ---Albert Einstein

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." --- Bertrand Russell

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." --- Lao-Tzu

"Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill." --- Danish proverb
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." --- Chinese proverb

"A memorandum isn't written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer." Dean Acheson
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." --- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

"Death should not be seen as the end - but as a very effective way to cut down expenses." --- Woody Allen

"The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up."--- Jay Leno

"New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, - most of it unsolved." --- Johnny Carson

"You cannot put the same shoe on every foot." --- Publilus Syrus

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." --- Katharine Hepburn

"What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds." --- David Grohl (Foo Fighters, and former Nirvana drummer)

''These days, what isn't worth saying is sung." --- Pierre De Beauumarchais

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

CHAINSAW CONSULTANT: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands. --- source: Dilbert's New Dictionary (submitted by Tim Bensch. Thanks Tim)

"The biggest mistake you can make is to always be right." --- Steve's Fortune Cookie, Bethesda Chinese Restaurant,1998

"Every library should be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads." --- Oliver Wendall Holmes

"To arrange a library is to practice- in a quiet and modest way - the art of criticism." --- Jorge Luis Borges

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." --- Winston Churchill 1874-1965

"Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively." --- R. D. Clyde

"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do." --- Lin Yu-t'ang (1895-1976) Chinese writer

"Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows." --- Al Unser, Jr., U.S. Auto Racer

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." --- Richard Bach

"Is it a really good acid, or just a half-acid?" --- R. Friesen (Chemistry 124)

"The 21st century invention should be teleportation. And for the 20th century Time Capsule we should just include the entire Frank Zappa catalog." --- Jewell

"The computer will become the hub of a vast network of remote data stations and information banks feeding into the machine at a transmission rate of a billion or more bits of information a second. Laser channels will vastly increase both data capacity and the speeds with which it will be transmitted. Eventually, a global communications network handling voice, data and facsimile will instantly link man to machine--or machine to machine--by land, air, underwater, and space circuits. [The computer] will affect man's ways of thinking, his means of education, his relationship to his physical and social environment, and it will alter his ways of living... These forces] will coalesce into what unquestionably will become the greatest adventure of the human mind." --- David Sarnoff, President of RCA, **1964**

"I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." --- Gracie Allen (1906-1964) US comedienne

"It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy." --- Jane Fonda
"If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." --- Woodrow Wilson

"Dogs do not dislike poor families." --- Chinese Proverb

"No pressure, no diamonds." --- Mary Case

"The beginning is the most important part of the work. --- Plato (427-347 B. C.), The Republic
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up --- Harold R. McAlindon

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." --- Samuel T. Coleridge

"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors.... Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." --- Albert Einstein

"Having served on various committees, I have drawn up a list of rules: Never arrive on time; this stamps you as a beginner. Don't say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as wise. Be as vague as possible; this avoids irritating the others. When in doubt, suggest a subcommittee be appointed. Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular; it's what everyone is waiting for." --- Harry Chapman

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. --- John Locke

"The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have." --- Anna Quindlien

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." --- Anais Nin

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? --- Abraham Lincoln

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." --- Janis Joplin

"Don't tell your friends their social problems: they will cure the fault and never forgive you" --- Logan Pearsall Smith

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" --- Hunter S. Thompson

"My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot" --- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." --- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"People only see what they are prepared to see" --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos". --- Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th edition

"Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse." --- Alex Pushkin (submitted by Erwin. Thanks!)

"Necessity never made a good bargain." --- Benjamin Franklin

"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them." --- Agnes Repplier

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." --- Tao Te Ching

"Not all those who wonder are lost." --- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh --- Voltaire

" There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out" --- Lou Reed

"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd" --- From the I Ching

"If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever!" --- Anonymous

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." --- Bertrand Russell

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." --- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf." --- Liz Carpenter

"If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you...If you pursue truth, people will be true to you." --- Arthur Twining Hadley, President of Yale University, 1903

"Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others." --- Ann Landers

"If you ever think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito." --- Anita Roddick (founder of The Body Shop)

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain" --- Dolly Parton
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before" --- Stephen Wright

"Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black" --- Marlene Dietrich

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by neglect of many other things" --- Robert Lewis Stevenson

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change about you, but your dream will not. It will always be your link with the person, young and full of hope. If you hold on to it you may grow old but you will never be old. And that is the ultimate success" --- Tom Clancy

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" --- Gandhi

"Money often costs too much." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way" --- Harry S. Truman, 1952

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one" --- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment." --- Paul Martin (1906)

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." --- Erica Jong

"Some minds are eager for change, and some are angry at any" --- M. Woolsey Stryker, 1894

"Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating." --- J. Martin Klotsche, 1952

"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. --- Unknown

"Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer, or a good sculptor, or geneticist, if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and un-aggressive. --- Elizabeth Dole

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" --- Frank Zappa

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it." --- Clarence Darrow

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on." --- Robert Byrne

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." --- John Wooden, UCLA Basketball coach

"Forget injuries; never forget kindnesses --- Chinese Proverb

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions." - -- Dag Hammerskjold

"The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance." --- Peter Drucker

"If we had no defects ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others." --- La Rochefoucauld

Learn English Fast - 5 English Learning Tips

1. Use A Language Learning Software. More interactive than your typical language course and cheaper than taking a real class, language learning software offers the most cost-effective medium of instruction for anyone studying English as a second language. The participatory nature of a software course coupled with the flexibility it offers in scheduling and time makes it an obvious choice for anyone serious about learning new languages.

2. Talk to yourself. There's no faster way to learn English than to speak it and you can do it even when there's no one around by practicing with yourself. Take a phone book and read the numbers aloud using the new language, watch TV and make comments in English or pick random words out of a dictionary and translate them.

3. Talk to English speakers. Spend time with English speakers and communicate with them using the vernacular. Not only will you be practicing your own speaking skills but you'll be picking up nuances they might have learned along the way.

4. Listen to English songs. Listening to songs are a great way to improve upon your English, allowing you to hear the language used in both a specific context along with helpful demonstrations of proper delivery. Just make sure to exercise discretion when trying to copy the language used in rap songs and you should be fine. A'ight?

5. Unleash your English skills to the world. When someone converses with you in English, don't hesitate to respond in kind. Start a free blog and write posts in the English language. You'll make mistakes but that will only help accelerate your development. Use the language freely and watch yourself improve by leaps and bounds.

Why is English so important?

Humans were not meant to spend our life alone. Our experiences, abilities to learn from those experiences, and our capacity to share the lessons learned are part of what fuels human progress. Think about it: today, the development of technology is accelerating. This is mainly because our ability to communicate has also received a huge boost, thanks to the development of mobile phones and the Internet.

Of course, the technology to communicate would be useless without a shared language. People actually use many different languages in order to communicate. There are two methods that people use to communicate today. They are:

1) Non-verbal - This is communication without the use of words. Although people immediately think of body language when they encounter the term "non-verbal" communication, there are actually other means that people use to express their ideas and share their experiences without using words. Take music and painting, for example. People create art and music in order to share their vision of the world with others. This is communication. Another common way that people communicate non-verbally is through their appearance - what you wear and how you present yourself depends on how you wish to be perceived by others. Non-verbal communication is important in that it allows people to communicate instantly and unconsciously. As they say: a picture is worth a thousand words.

2) Verbal - Of course, words form a very important part of communication today. It is through words that people best explain their ideas and share knowledge. It is through the use of words that people are able to clearly communicate concepts that lead to progress and development.

In order to truly be a part of the world and its progress, you need to learn how to effectively communicate verbally, and today this requires learning English.

Role of SEO in Internet Marketing

Search engines are the most popular way people look for the information they are looking for on the Internet. Google, Yahoo and MSN are the most popular search engines. Hence, people go to these websites first to hunt for products and services. If you have an online business, you will realize that these search engines play a major role in the popularity of your website. After all, users won’t know which website is selling what and would thus approach these search engines for help. Thus Internet marketing is one of the best marketing tools and it can make a huge difference if you want to make money fast.

But there is a catch here. Your product or service is not the only one available online, is it? Say, you are dealing in cosmetics. When you put this keyword in any of the popular search engines, you will find there are millions of other fish in the water. So how do you ensure that your website is at least among the top ten websites displayed on the search engine? After all, people are bound to check only the first page results. To achieve this you need to follow good SEO [Search Engine Optimization] practices. This is the best way to make money fast and easy.

Search engines follow certain rules to determine which websites are more relevant for a particular keyword that the user has typed. Therefore, it becomes imperative that if you want to make money, you optimize your website for certain keywords that the user is most likely to use when searching for that product. When you do that the search engines will give your webpage a higher webpage ranking. You will benefit by this since the webpage traffic on your site will increase dramatically and you can then make easy money online.

There are many things which go into making a webpage SEO friendly. Keyword density is the most important factor which will get the traffic to your site. Other factors include inbound links given in descriptions, titles, META tags and the keyword rich content. Keyword density is the answer to how to make money online. It is the king of SEO content.

A description is content which gives information about the products or services offered by your site in about 250 characters and has inbound links in it which make it possible for the user to access the webpage they are interested in. They need not surf on all your web pages to find what they are looking for. These inbound links are a part of affiliate marketing where your website links feature on other websites or blogs. It is important that to earn passive income this way, you ensure that the other website or blogs where you are putting up your links are high traffic and high page ranking ones since the search engines take this into consideration too.

Hence, invest your money in good SEO content and see your webpage rankings soar. Make money fast; hire a qualified SEO content writer. When you do that you will realize the importance of SEO in Internet marketing.

What is an Rss Feed?

A common term seen online is “RSS Feed”. However, just what do the letters RSS stand for and what is all the rage surrounding this frequently used term? RSS actually stands for really simple syndication. In this case they are referring to web syndication, which is making the content of a website or blog available for others to use. It is making the feed of a website available for others to access and read elsewhere rather than just from the main web site.

RSS feeds are the way in which a series of blog posts, news stories or headlines, podcasts or other similar content is distributed or syndicated on the Internet. Using a feed makes it easier for a person to access the information in an automated way, using a feedreader or aggregator, such as Google Reader.

There are also desktop readers that will download the information to your computer desktop. Both are merely a type of software that allows you to read RSS feeds all in one place rather than having to hop from blog to blog or news site to news site.

RSS feeds really can simplify the way that you access content across the web. Using an RSS feed reader or aggregator can save you a lot of time when you are wanting to access information. You can subscribe to specific feeds and even categorize them and file them so that you can have easily access to that particular information later, when you’re ready to read up on the news, your favorite blogs, or specific topics related to your business or life.

And, after all that is what the use of RSS feeds is all about making it really simple for people to access the information that they need or making the information that you have for others available to them in a simple manner.

What is SPAM | Affordable SEO Services

It is really difficult to define spam. But generally speaking, spam is unsolicited information, which is forced upon the reader and is purported to advertise some service or product. The unsolicited information is not provided just once or twice; the reader is, in fact, so much bombarded with the same kind of information that he gets exasperated. Here are some of the important features of spam. Spamming through emails The spammers consider email as the best medium for sending spam. They try to remain anonymous and send mails in massive quantities. The sender addresses are generally spoofed or harvested to conceal the identity of the real senders. You may also receive political messages, appeals for charities, chain letters and spam to spread malware. All unsolicited mails are not spam. For example, you have given your email id with a permission to receive messages, newsletters and business proposals. If the sender also sends legitimate business proposals, charity appeals, invitation to seminars, e-books through his emails, they are not considered spam. The reason is that the sender has already sought your permission to send you mails. Sometimes the unsolicited messages of genuine nature may come from senders who have not sought your permission. Let us say you have only one supplier of certain product that you are trading. You wish you could know some other supplier for a competitive buying. Suppose you get a message from an Asian producer of the same product who quotes lower rates, then you would not consider this unsolicited message as a spam. The key word for spam is ‘bombardment’ with unsolicited messages. Spam has spread its tentacles in other forms of internet marketing especially article marketing. Most article writers tend to cater to the search engines rather than the searchers of information through search engines. Search engines accord prominent display to popular websites on their first pages. Their criterion for popularity of a website is the number of links that connect to that website. So the article marketers fill up their articles with large number of links to their websites to hoodwink the search engine robots called crawlers. Not only that, they submit the same articles to hundreds of article directories through automatic submission software. The strategy is to create a deluge of links to fool the search engines. Since their only objective is to create links, the articles mostly contain duplicate or copied content. Though prominent article directories such as Ezine Articles discourage such articles, there are numerous other article directories that turn a blind eye to such submissions. This type of spamming is called link spamming through articles. How to treat the spam? Though you cannot stop the link spamming through articles, as it is for the article directories and search engine robots to devise methods to discourage their submissions, there are several ways you can stop spam in your emails to some extent. Do not post your email ids on the public forums, newsgroups, chat rooms or websites. Do not open messages that appear spam Email service providers usually offer effective tools and filters to stop the spam mail. Yahoo, probably the most popular email service, provides options to do so. You can select all the messages that appear spam and click on the Spam button. They will stop appearing in your inbox. Yahoo also offers spam filters. You should add the spam mail’s id in the prescribed filter box and you will stop receiving mails from that sender.