Nuggets of Inspiration

Hello there…

I’ve created this page to collect some nuggets of inspiration I come across on my travels in the world and in cyberspace. When I was younger I used to do this by noting them down in a little binderbook which I still have, but I think now that I use this blog I’d like to share them with others who might be interested. So, I’ll update this page whenever I can with nuggets of inspiration that I find funny, uplifting, or thought-provoking.

3 December 2012

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. -Bill Vaughan

29 October 2012

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. -Ron Paul

11 October 2012

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. -Byron Dorgan

24 September 2012

12 September 2012

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. -Plato

5 September 2012

That’s the nature of research – you don’t know what the hell you’re doing. -Doc Egerton

3 September 2012

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue – questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom. -William Orville Douglas

30 August 2012

28 August 2012

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. -George Eliot

27 August 2012

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 quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. -Apple Inc.