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| Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. (Robert M. Pirsig) |
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Non Judgment: In our world where it seems we are taught to judge everything all around and about us and we spend so much of our time doing just that, it might be wise to ask if we can judge anything. To judge anything with any degree of clarity and accuracy we would need all the information past, present and future and how it will affect all concerned to make a perfect judgment. Since no one has that skill, ability or information, you might agree, it may be unwise to judge. This idea may be hard to accept, but when you look back over your life and the judgments you made, ask yourself. How many of your judgments, when you made them, were you perfectly sure they were correct, would you want to change now with the benefit of 20
20 hindsight? Since every judgment is only an opinion based on the limited information at hand, filtered through one's personal value system, it might be safe to assume no two people will judge anything exactly the same. Even concepts of right and wrong, good or bad, good or bad morals and ethics are only opinions, for what may be good in one case may be a disaster in another. (Sidney Madwed) |
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| I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. (John D. Rockefeller) |
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| The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster. (Martha Gellman) |
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| Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven. (Tao Te Ching) |
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| Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience! (Chris Thyberg) |
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| Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one. (Gore Vidal Conversations With Gore Vidal - 1981) |
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| When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. (E. J. Smith) |
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| LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune. (Peter Plagens) |
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| Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. (Quentin Crisp) |
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed. (Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu) |
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| Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. (Fran Leibowitz) |
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| No one ever understood disaster until it came. (Josephine Herbst) |
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| I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. (Ansel Adams) |
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| A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity. (Alfred North Whitehead) |
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