Quote from Elon Musk

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks.Every one is trying to optimize their ass-covering.-Elon Musk

Zero-tasking

Zero-tasking:Deliberately doing nothing.

Quote from Elon Musk

It's Ok to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.-Elon Musk

Quote from Stephen King

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.-Stephen King

Interesting quote from Elon Musk

If something is important enough,even if the odds are against you,you should still do it.-Elon Musk

Quote from Patrick Kavanagh

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to.The critic without faith gives unbalanced opinions,usually about second-rate writers.-Patrick Kavanagh,COLLECTED PROSE.

Quote from Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.-Mahatma Gandhi

Quote from Robert A.Heinlein

Women and cats will do as they please,and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.-Robert A.Heinlein

Stimulating quote from Jacob Chanowski

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin,barefoot irreverence to their studies;they are not here to worship what is known,but to question it.-Jacob Chanowski

English proverb

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.-English proverb

Funny quote from Phyllis Diller

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes,and you're barefoot.-Phyllis Diller

Quote from John Updike

Being naked approaches being revolutionary;going barefoot is mere populism.-John Updike

Quote from Brian Tracy

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.-Brian Tracy

War paint

War paint-Makeup applied before a battle by Native Americans.

A motivational quote

Vulnerability+Action+Positive Thinking =Courage.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on paradox

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on humor

I realize that humor isn't for everyone.It's only for people who want to have fun,enjoy life,and feel alive.-Anne Wilson Schaef

Quote on nostalgia

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote from Shannon L.Alder

There is no perfection,only beautiful versions of brokenness.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on belief systems

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.-Shannon L.Alder

Insightful quote from Shannon L.Alder

Being a good person doesn't mean you fit the life of every person you meet.-Shannon L.Alder

Insightful quote from Elaine Cumming

We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society.For the prisoner,the chronically ill,the bedridden ,old and destitute,we reserve the forced collective life.-Elaine Cumming

Quote from James Joyce

My words in her mind:cold polished stones  sinking through a quagmire.-James Joyce

Soulful quote

I am not afraid to die;I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.-Shannon L.Alder

Insightful quote from Shannon L. Alder

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you.If they don't they will find an excuse.-Shannon L.Alder

Some interesting blogs and websites about grammar

1. http://throwgrammarfromthetrain.blogspot.com
2 www.arrantpedantry.com
3 http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
4 http://thelousylinguist.blogspot.com

Quote on blame

Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote from Shannon L.Alder

Live vertically,not horizontally.-Shannon L.Alder

Interesting quote on loyalty

Never be a slave of loyalty to unloyal people.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on the importance of dreaming

If you can't dream big,you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.-Shannon L.Alder

Insightful quote from Shannon L.Alder

Anyone can find the dirt on someone,but few can wipe it from their own shoes.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on true love

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea,but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote from Evelyn Waugh

Ludovic had become an addict of that potent intoxicant,the English language.-Evelyn Waugh,MEN AT ARMS.

Quote on influential people

The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on the high road

Take the high road.People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote from Shannon L.Alder

Learn to be a responder,not a reactor.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on love

Love is stronger than fear.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on courage

Courage can't exist without action.Anything else is a lion without his roar.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on commitment

Commitment is the foundation of focus.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote from Shannon L.Alder

If you're going to love someone or something then don't be a slow leaking faucet---be a hurricane.-Shannon L.Alder

Interesting quote from Shannon L.Alder

The best don't stick around when you treat them poorly,only the desperate do.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on music

Music is feelings in search of words.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on swearing

Swearing doesn't make your argument valid;it tells the other person you have lost your class and control.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote from Wassily Kandinsky

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.-Wassily Kandinsky

Interesting quote on anger

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.-Marshall B.Rosenberg

Quote from Rob Hopkins

In many ways,the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.-Rob Hopkins

Quote from Jan Gehl

If you make more roads,you will have more traffic.-Jan Gehl

Quote from Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.-Jane Jacobs

Quote from Chris Colfer

When people hurt you over and over,think of them like sandpaper.They may scratch and hurt you a bit,but in the end,you end up polished and they end up useless.-Chris Colfer

Quote on slang

Slang is the poetry of everyday life.-S.I.Hayakawa

Quote from Jane Jacobs

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.-Jane Jacobs,urban planner.

Quote on technology

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.-David R.Brower,Environmentalist.

Quote on wilderness

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.-Nancy Newhall

Quote on logic

Logic is neither a science nor an art,but a dodge.-Benjamin Jowett(1817-1893),British scholar.

Quote from Jarod Kintz

The longest 60 seconds in the world occur when someone says,''I'll be there in a minute.''-Jarod Kintz

Quote from Lois Wyse

A good friend is a connection to life---a tie to the past,a road to the future,the key to sanity in a totally insane world.-Lois Wyse

Another quote from Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings.New ideas must use old buildings.-Jane Jacobs,urban planner.

Quote from Jane Jacobs

Designing a dream city is easy;rebuilding a living one takes imagination.-Jane Jacobs,urban planner.

A proverb

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.-Proverb

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature:her secret is patience.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Very interesting quote on Canada

Canada is not the party.It's the apartment above the party.-Craig Ferguson

Quote from Plautus

Nothing is so guilty as a wretched conscience.-Plautus

Quote from Samuel Johnson

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth,and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.-Samuel Johnson

Another quote from Leon Krier

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light,even an ugly city can look like the promised land.-Leon Krier,THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMMUNITY.

Quote from Leon Krier

The rigidity of a bottle's  form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.-Leon Krier,THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMMUNITY

Quote from rock and roll

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.-Vance Packard(1914-1996)

Quote from Mo Ibrahim

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.-Mo Ibrahim

Quote from Robert Venturi

When circumstances defy order,order should bend or break:anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.-Robert Venturi,American architect.

Quote from Robert Venturi

Less is a bore.-Robert Venturi(born 1925),American architect.

Quote from Leon Krier

Horizontal and vertical sprawl ---are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.-Leon Krier

Quote from Jane Jacobs

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.-Jane Jacobs

Quote from Lewis Carroll

If everyone minded their own business,the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.-Lewis Carroll,ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.

German measles

Rubella is another name for German measles.

Measles

Rubeola is another name for measles.

Quote from Leon Krier

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.-Leon Krier

Quote on language

The conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world.-Dan Millman,WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR.

Rabies

Rabies is also called lyssa.

Quote on love

Love makes your soul crawl out of its hiding place.-Zora Neale Hurston

Quote on music

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and contemplation of the invisible.-Victor de LaPrade

Insightful quote from Dan Millman

Never struggle with anyone or anything.When you're pushed,pull.When you're pulled,push.-Dan Millman,WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR.

Another quote from Dan Millman

Embody what you teach,and teach only what you have embodied.-Dan Millman,WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR.

Quote from Dan Millman

If we agree on everything,only one of us is necessary.-Dan Millman(born 1946)

Quote on change

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy,not on fighting the old,but on building the new.-Dan Millman

Fogbows

A fogbow is similar to a rainbow,a phenmenon caused when sunlight shines on fog.