C. F. Powell Quotes
One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don't do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.
Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
An exceedingly well-informed report, ' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.
The most important thing I can do for my children is to protect them and to teach them. After that, it's up to them to be and do their best in life.
Excerpts from Life, Simplified can be found on my website.
In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.
What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight, " he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.
I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.
Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.
The greatest trick Christianity ever pulled was convincing the world that Satan exists.
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.
In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.
Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa
...in those days children were rather out of fashion.
I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.
These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)
Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.
Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed by the undergraduates' relentless snobbery and unremitting emphasis on money.
To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
It's time to calculate your risks make amends to reduce errors and increase your successes
Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.
When you have no preconceived notion of what you are good at, you are open to life's many possibilities.
Unfortunately, we spend more time teaching our daughters how to avoid becoming rape victims than teaching our sons not to become rapists.
The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.
What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.
