Autodidacta Quotes & Sayings

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition. — Marc Andreessen

Since people who "discovered" bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place. — Laurie R. King

The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. — Thomas Carlyle

We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on. — Alexander McCall Smith

The longer you hold on to a person who isn't for you, the longer you will go without receiving the person who is. Get the help you need to break away from these unhealthy attachments. Also, understand it doesn't have to necessarily be a "bad" relationship to validate walking away. The relationship may seem to be going well, but if they're not the right person for you, this relationship is bound to take a bad turn eventually. Ask God for the strength to do what is truly best for you, which is walk away. — Stephan Labossiere

He took comfort in not knowing about the future. — Gloria Steinem

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. — Thelonious Monk

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift. — Christina Stead

Every man is a book in which God himself writes. — Victor Hugo

I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor. — Michael Irvin

The unbiblical idea of "spirituality" is that the truly "spiritual" man is the person who is sort of "non-physical," who doesn't get involved in "earthly" things, who doesn't work very much or think very hard, and who spends most of his time meditating about how he'd rather be in heaven. As long as he's on earth, though, he has one main duty in life: Get stepped on for Jesus. The "spiritual" man, in this view, is a wimp. A Loser. But at least he's a Good Loser. — David H. Chilton

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God. — Frances Farmer

They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I'm the one who falls in love — Bob Marley

It was like - It was like Special Olympics or something. — Barack Obama

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low. — Chase Utley