Shello's quotes

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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,301 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,568 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,615 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,367 people liked it

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
1,509 people liked it

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
1,397 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
2,058 people liked it

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
1,615 people liked it

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein

tags: mistakes
1,885 people liked it

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, science, systems
496 people liked it

"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: thinking
227 people liked it

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "
— Thomas A. Edison

101 people liked it

"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: opportunity, work
120 people liked it

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
— Thomas A. Edison

58 people liked it

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,571 people liked it

"There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something."
— Thomas A. Edison

20 people liked it

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
— Thomas A. Edison

29 people liked it

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: work
21 people liked it

"Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t."
— Thomas A. Edison

21 people liked it

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
— Thomas A. Edison

27 people liked it

"Vision without execution is hallucination."
— Thomas A. Edison

18 people liked it

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. "
— Thomas A. Edison

20 people liked it

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
— Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding
118 people liked it

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
— Marie Curie

24 people liked it

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
— Marie Curie

tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
13 people liked it

"Scientist believe in things, not in person "
— Marie Curie

tags: chemistry
4 people liked it

"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. "
— Marie Curie

5 people liked it

"All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child."
— Marie Curie

3 people liked it

"We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something. "
— Marie Curie

5 people liked it

"When life throws you lemons ... grab a bat and swing hard!"
— Kimberly McKay

tags: humor
2 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
329 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love
277 people liked it

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: dogs, poetry
90 people liked it

"Wot Wot"
— Brian Jacques (The Long Patrol)

34 people liked it

"Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill."
— Brian Jacques (High Rhulain)

tags: honor, skill, weapon
10 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,157 people liked it

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
— Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, reading
195 people liked it

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
— Joseph Addison

tags: mind, reading
177 people liked it

"Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire."
— Joseph Smith Jr.

tags: god, mormonism, religion
51 people liked it

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
— Joseph Campbell

49 people liked it

"A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge"
— Joseph Smith Jr.

39 people liked it

"We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!'"
— Spencer W. Kimball

tags: lds, religious
35 people liked it

"Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God."
— Joseph Smith Jr.

tags: god, happiness, inspirational, mormonism, religion, virtue
44 people liked it

"Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come."
— Joseph B. Wirthlin

tags: lds, religious
42 people liked it

""For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19"
— Joseph Smith Jr. (The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ)

tags: inspirational
27 people liked it

""And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29"
— Joseph Smith Jr.

29 people liked it

"The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord."
— Joseph Smith Jr. (The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ)

15 people liked it

"It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound. "
— Joseph Smith Jr. (History of the Church)

13 people liked it

"We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Christ is true"
— Joseph Smith Jr.

19 people liked it