Hallr Stas Quotes & Sayings

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project. — Douglas Wilson

Teach by works more than words. — Teresa Of Avila

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive. — Ronald Graham

Our world does not exist from its own side
like a dream world, it is a mere appearance to our mind. In dreams we can see and touch our dream world, but when we wake up we realize that it is simply a projection of our mind and had no existence outside our mind. In the same way, the world we see when we are awake is simply a projection of our mind and has no existence outside our mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act ... An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent. — Saul Alinsky

You know, developments here remind me of the Internet. That old computer network, invented by the American scientific community. It was all about free communications. Very simple and widely distributed - there was never any central control. It spread worldwide in short order. It turned into the world's biggest piracy copy machine. The Chinese loved the Internet, they used it and turned it against us. They destroyed our information economy with it. Even then the net didn't go away - it just started breeding its virtual tribes, all these nomads and dissidents. — Bruce Sterling

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. — Italo Calvino

Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
Have you ever loved the body of a man?
Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and all times all over the earth? — Walt Whitman

Beauty is the flower of virtue. — Plutarch

There just seems to be ... I don't know, such a lack of courtesy. A lack of respect between people in general and men and women in particular. Everywhere — Evangeline Anderson

You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every
transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there — Chris Murray

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it. — Bill Murray