Scintillant Hummingbird Quotes & Sayings

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself. — Gretchen Rubin

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well. — Dan Quayle

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create. — Khaled Hosseini

There is no other reality than nature. — Marco Casagrande

Keep your ears open to
the promptings of your destiny, and don't worry too much if
you and your destiny do not agree about what you should have,
and when you should have it. Happiness is always a by-product.
It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know
it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded
from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop
worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from
your own brand of unhappiness. -- Robertson Davies — Robertson Davies

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with. — Ansel Adams

We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that a complex system should be structured as a sequence of levels that are described using a sequence of languages. Each level is constructed by combining parts that are regarded as primitive at that level, and the parts constructed at each level are used as primitives at the next level. The language used at each level of a stratified design has primitives, means of combination, and means of abstraction appropriate to that level of detail. — Hal Abelson

Depressed people avoid people and church commitments, but they can also complain about abject isolation. The answer is to humbly accept your purpose. "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching" (Heb. 10:25). Churches are not perfect. How could they be when we are the church? But the Spirit is with the gathering of his people. Church is where you will know more of God's grace. — Edward T. Welch

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson

You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed. — Yasmin Paige

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches. — Mason Cooley