Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: Quotes

  • Collected Quotes May/June 2012

    My main page on quotes is Quotes to Make You Think. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag. The future is here; it’s just not evenly distributed. — William Gibson (source) Shatner’s portrayal [of Kirk in Star Trek] is a little boy’s idea of what a captain is. He’s handsome, heroic, dashing, gets all the ladies. He…

  • Collected Quotes March/April 2012

    My main page on quotes is Quotes to Make You Think. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. — Jimi Hendrix Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built…

  • Collected Quotes January/February 2012

    My main page on quotes is Quotes to Make You Think. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag. Think before you speak. Read before you think. — Fran Lebowitz We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by…

  • Weekly Roundup for Jan 20, 2012

    This is my first attempt at something like a weekly roundup like I said I should try in To Blog Or To Share?. Hopefully I can maintain it. Martin Luther King Jr on education: Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life. Education…

  • Some Stats

    According to Google Analytics, between Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2011 this blog saw: 146,718 Unique Visitors 208,520 Pageview 174,104 for Quotes to Make You Think Sources: 138,144 Google 20,055 No referrer (application like desktop email? Twitter?) 8,445 Bing … 843 Facebook … 68 Twitter These could be somewhat under reported depending on the rates by…

  • Quotes That Make You Think: Collected for Second Half 2011

    More quotes for Quotes to Make You Think collected over the past year. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag. Treat everyone as a gentleman. Not because they are, but because you are. — Ed Sabol. I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals. — Salvador Plascencia…

  • Quotes That Make You Think: Collected for First Half 2011

    More quotes for Quotes to Make You Think collected over the past year. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward (1921-1994) Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Charles Mingus The…

  • A hard thing

    A hard thing is never done by reading an article about doing it. From Michael Kopp of rands in repose fame on Twitter. I have relearned this the hard way over the past few months. Documentation and sales pitches are the same as an article. Don’t get me wrong, articles, documentation, or sales pitches are…

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. : Quotes to Make You Think

    Various Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes my Facebook friends posted today. Strangely enough I did not already have any on the Quotes to Make You Think page. The time is always right to do what is right. Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see…