In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God

Aeschylus

In darkest shades if she appear, 
My dawning is begun; 
She is my soul's bright morning star, 
And she my rising sun. 

George Eliot

Little else need be said

All Advice is true,
Let's go!

All Sayings are true,
Let's go!

All Truisms are true,
Let's go!

Let's go,
and Do!!!

Excerpt..

I give back to the earth what the earth gave
All to the furrow, nothing to the grave.

Be twice as productive and twice as nice!!

James Q Wilson

People do not object to artists deserving success - only to their getting it

- Max Harrison

Difference between success and failure may just be enthusiasm

Bern Williams

- Philip K Howard

Most things happen through the usual process of trial and error by which we feel our way to success

- Michael Polanyi

We all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

- Abraham Lincoln

within which men should be inviolable.

- Isaiah Berlin

- Fred Brooks on process responding to an interview in Aug 2010, Wired.

In the same interview he speaks of Edwin Land, inventor of Polaroid, having quoted

More advice from Fred Brooks

Blaise Pascal

As much as I enjoy ice climbing it's one of those activities that I often wish were over while I'm actually doing it

Not sure who said it or what the origin is

Grace, wisdom and beauty you may enjoy, but beware pride, which alone can tarnish all the rest

- A latin inscription at "Crac des Chevaliers" of Western Syria

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. ...Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool i've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."

- 2005, Steve Jobs

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do,"

Steve Jobs - While delivering a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University

To make memories, step out of your comfort zone

-John Sexton, President, NYU

in a conversation with Bill Moyers

Reference to the program

Goal Insufficient,
Courage seem to waver.
Sweep and gather heart,
For To Try is the Goal.

Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What acceptable audit canst thou leave?

- Shakespeare, Sonnet IV