http://www.elise.com/quotes/ elise's collection of favorite quotes en-us elise@elise.com 2011-10-10T14:43:26-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/steve_jobs_on_criticism.php "By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize other's work and belittle their motivations?” -- Steve Jobs... 10120@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2011-10-10T14:43:26-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/st_paul_to_romans_-_for_i_am_convinced.php But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39... 10111@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Prayers 2011-08-21T11:50:36-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/maya_angelou_-_you_can_only_become_accomplished_at_something_you_love.php You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. Maya Angelou... 10011@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2011-01-03T16:33:41-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/shopenhauer_-_talent_vs_genius.php Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Shopenhauer... 10010@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2011-01-03T16:31:32-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/sense_of_place.php "A place is not a place until people have been born in it, have grown up in it, known it, died in it. ... Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for." Wallace Stegner... 9880@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2010-07-12T00:14:59-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/more_things_in_heaven_and_earth.php There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet, I:5 William Shakespeare... 7383@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2008-12-25T09:19:13-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/henry_ward_beecher_-_perseverance_and_obstinancy.php The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~ Henry Ward Beecher... 7142@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2008-02-15T01:03:00-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/laurence_shames_-_success_and_failure.php Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. ~ Laurence Shames... 7141@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2008-02-15T01:02:01-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/hermann_goering_-_the_people_can_always_be_brought_to_the_bidding_of_the_leaders.php “Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the... 6232@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2008-01-02T11:52:01-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/arianna_huffington_-_whittled_and_sandpapered.php We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are. Arianna Huffington On Becoming Fearless: ...in Love, Work, and Life, pg. 159... 6179@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-11-26T18:56:13-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/fernando_flores_-_we_human_beings_belong_to_language.php We human beings belong to language. In language we love and hate, we admire and despise. We interpret our crises as individual and social. We suffer, and exalt, and despair. In language, we receive the gift of being human. All the feeling, the thinking, the action, and the things of the world as we know it are given to us in language. Fernando Flores... 6178@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-11-26T16:25:43-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/rumi_-_if_you_are_irritated_by_every_rub.php If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? Rumi... 6118@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-10-10T12:51:42-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/fail_early_and_get_it_over_with.php "Fail early and get it all over with. If you learn to deal with failure, you can raise teenagers. You can abide in intimate relationships. And you can have a worthwhile career. You learn to breathe again when you embrace failure as a part of life, not as the determining moment of life." Rev. William L. Swig Stanford 2007 Baccalaureate Celebration... 5207@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-06-26T19:38:13-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/instead_of_making_art.php "Most of us spend many hours each week watching celebrated athletes playing in enormous stadiums. Instead of making music, we listen to platinum records cut by millionaire musicians. Instead of making art, we go to admire paintings that brought in the highest bids at the latest auction. We do not run risks acting on our beliefs, but occupy hours each day watching actors who pretend to have adventures, engaged in mock-meaningful action. This vicarious participation... 5095@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2007-04-22T08:20:09-08:00 http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/heres_to_the_crazy_ones.php Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes - the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. - an Apple Computer Ad, 1997... 1757@http://www.elise.com/quotes/ Quotes 2006-02-12T09:14:13-08:00