Thursday, December 27, 2012

Success, Confucius

仁者先難而後獲。

- 孔子

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

- Confucius (551BC–479BC)

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Creativity·Ideas, George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Life, Peter Boyle as Wizard from Taxi Driver (1976)

Look, look at it this way, you know uh, a man, a man takes a job, you know, and that job, I mean like that, and that it becomes what he is. You know like uh, you do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a, I've been a cabbie for seventeen years, ten years at night and I still don't own my own cab. You know why? 'Cause I don't want to. I must be what I, what I want. You know, to be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab.

- Peter Boyle as Wizard from Taxi Driver (1976)


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver

Monday, December 24, 2012

Study, Confucius

學而不思則罔思而不學則殆。

- 孔子

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

- Confucius (551BC–479BC)

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Art, Francois Cavanna

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

- François Cavanna (1923- )

Friday, December 21, 2012

Knowledge·Wisdom, Zhuangzi

吾生也有涯,而知也无涯。

- 莊子 養生主

There is a limit to our life, but to knowledge there is no limit.

- Zhuangzi (莊子), Nourishing the Lord of Life (養生主)


http://ctext.org/zhuangzi/nourishing-the-lord-of-life