Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Diary 1994

Quotations and facts........from the diary of 1994

"I am always ready to learn but I do not always like being taught" ( Churchill)

I feel rather low and don't have the energy.
Bang
A
Nasty
Job
Off

Real exile begins when you no longer pine for home, when it has been lost forever, buried in the recesses of the psyche, and the only home you have is memory.
( Susha Guppy from her book A girl in Paris)

Because humor involves ambiguity and newness, and because the mechanical thinker avoids ambiguity, he misses a great deal of the charming absurdity in the world around him. ( Brain Power)

When a custom, belief, value, or practice is defended and worshipped for its own sake instead of for the definite benefits it offers, it has become Crap-with a capital C. ( Brain Power)

Intimacy is often frightening because itinvolves risk. In an intimate relationship people are vulnerable and many times it seems easier to pass time or to play games than to risk feelings either of affection or rejection. Winners risk genuine intimacy.

If there is no wind, row.

No body is 100%.
To a snale a turtle is fast.
Sidewalks don't always go where you want to go.

Italian merchant Fra Luca Pacioli is the Father of modern accounting.

It's not the name that we are called, but the name that we answer to is important.

A nova, blazing out of deep space is remarkable, but, except by astronomers, unremarked.

A person who isn't busy living is busy dying.

The spark of genius travel a non linear path.

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