Ways of thinking

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Postby yat_chum » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:17 pm

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Dec 31, 2011 6:26 pm

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:48 pm

“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.”

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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:53 am

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Postby yat_chum » Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:00 pm

"The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will."
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:52 am

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:58 am

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:30 am

Marcus Aurelius Quote;
"From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper. From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich."
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:23 pm

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:51 am

Sextus Julius Frontinus Strategemata Liber Secundus;
"XI. On Ensuring the Loyalty of Those Whom One Mistrusts

When Scipio Africanus was warring in Spain, there was brought before him among the captive women a noble maiden of surpassing beauty who attracted the gaze of everyone. Scipio guarded her with the greatest pains and restored her to her betrothed, Alicius by name, presenting to him likewise, as a marriage gift, the gold which her parents had brought to Scipio as a ransom. Overcome by this manifold generosity, the whole tribe leagued itself with the government of Rome."
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:01 pm

"There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time."
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:55 am

Strategemata Liber Primus;
"XII. On dispelling the fears inspired in soldiers by adverse omens.

As Chabrias, the Athenian, was about to fight a naval battle, a thunderbolt fell directly across the path of his ship. When the soldiers were filled with dismay at such a portent, he said: "Now is the very time to begin battle, when Jupiter, mightiest of the gods, reveals that his power is present with our fleet." "

Strategemata Liber Secundus;
"VIII. On Restoring Morale by Firmness

In the battle in which King Tarquinius encountered the Sabines, Servius Tullius, then a young man, noticing that the standard-bearers fought halfheartedly, seized a standard and hurled it into the ranks of the enemy. To recover it, the Romans fought so furiously that they not only regained the standard, but also won the day."

Strategemata Liber Quartus;
"VI. On Good Will and Moderation

When Alexander was marching at the head of his troops one winter's day, he sat down by a fire and began to review the troops as they passed by. Noticing a certain soldier who was almost dead with the cold, he bade him sit in his place, adding: "If you had been born among the Persians, it would be a capital crime for you to sit on the king's seat; but since you were born in Macedonia, that privilege is yours."
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Feb 04, 2012 4:59 pm

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:04 am

Quote from Isis;
"I impose retribution upon those who do injustice"
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:21 am

"A mind too active is no mind at all."
Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:00 am

Julius Caesar;
"Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish"
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:10 pm

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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:14 am

Confusius;
"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire"
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:19 am

‎"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."
Chinese Proverb
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