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On hauska huomata, kuinka useimmat asiat joita tulee pohtineeksi, joku viisas on jo tiivistänyt sanoiksi ja usein vieläpä yhteen virkkeeseen. Tarkoitus on kerätä tälle sivulle muutamia mietteitä eri henkilöiltä, jotka ovat jääneet mieleeni. Toivottavasti nämä herättävät ajatuksia muissakin.
   
"Everyone wants to change world, but
no one thinks how to change myself"


Leo Tolstoi
"Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.“

Albert Einstein

"There are three types of people: Ones who make it happen, Ones who let it happen, Ones who wonder what happened"

Ronald Reagan
“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem“

Woody Allen
 
“Don’t try to be logical, try to think“

Niels Bohr to Albert Einstein
“Stone age did not end due to the lack of stones“

Fred Flintstone
 
“Some see things as they are and say ‘why?’ I dream things that never were and say ‘why not?’”

Robert Kennedy
“I haven’t failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”

Thomas Edison
 
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up”

Vincent Lombardi
 
“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar ”

Abraham Lincoln
 
“Do or do not, there is no ’try’ ”

Yoda
 
“If you are going through hell,
keep going ”

Sir Winston Churchill
 
“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down ”

Jimmy Durante
 
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ”

Xenocrates
 
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. ”

Socrates
“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. ”

Mario Andretti
 
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ”

Mahatma Gandhi
 
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers . ”

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
 
¨"100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."

Wayne Gretzky

wayne-gretzky-21 "I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details."

Albert Einstein

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

M.K.Gandhi

"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short."

Blaise Pascal

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."

Sir James Dewar, Scientist

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana (1863-1952)

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones."

John Cage