Robert A. Creo Arbitrator & Mediator

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Daily Quotations
QUOTES & NOTES

I hate quotations–just tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts of Robert A. Creo
This seems like a fitting quote to start a daily series of quotations. Sometimes, what you do know, or wish you knew, can be concisely conveyed accurately by the words of another person, usually, but not always, long dead. My quotation concept is to view famous quotes or other noteworthy words in the mediation context. Please feel free to email me your own comments, or potential quotations, in response to the quote or comments.

25 MARCH 2007  Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.  Robert lindner, "Homosexuality and the Contemporary Scene," Must You Conform? (1956)

24 MARCH 2007  It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.  W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (1919), 14

23 MARCH 2007  Do as adversaries do in law--strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.  Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (1593-94), 1.2.278

22 MARCH 2007  We learn not for life but for the debating-room.  Seneca, Letters to Lucilius (1st c.), 106.12, tr. E. Phillips Barker

21 MARCH 2007  Competitions are for horses not artists.  Bela Bartok, Saturday Review, August 25, 1962

20 MARCH 2007  People who know how to act are never preachers.  Emerson, Journals (1844)

19 MARCH 2007  Action should culminate in wisdom.  Bhagavadgita, 4, tr. P. Lal

18 MARCH 2007  He that is everywhere is nowhere.  Thomas Fuller, M.D., Gnomologia (1732), 2176

17 MARCH 2007  It's alright to hesitate if you tehn go ahead.  Bertolt Bercht, prologue, The Good Woman of Setzuan (1938-40), tr. Bentley and Apelman

16 MARCH 2007  The great end of life is not knowledge but action.  Thomas Henry Huxley, "Technical Education" (1877)

15 MARCH 2007  Men need some kind of external activity because they are inactive within.  Schopenhauer, "Further Psychological Observations,"  Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), tr. Bailey Saunders

14 MARCH 2007  "I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work.  "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.  Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds (1916), 138

13 MARCH 2007  Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.  Pascal, Pensees (1670)m 129, tr. W.F. Trotter

12 MARCH 2007  Renunciation and activity bother liberate, but to work is better than to renounce.  Bhagavadgita, 5, tr. P. Lal

11 MARCH 2007  Who never climbed high and never fell low.  Thomas Fuller, M.D., Gnomologia (1732), 5713

10 MARCH 2007  If you take big paces you leave big spaces.  Burmese Proverbs (1962), 100, ed. Hla Pe

9 MARCH 2007  Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.  Longfellow, "Table Talk," Driftwood (1857)

8 MARCH 2007  Most do violence to their natural aptitude and thus attain superiority in nothing.  Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Wordly Wisdom (1647), 24, tr. Joseph Jacobs