And that was many years ago!

You go talk to kindergartners or first grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts.  They ask deep questions.  They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what it the birthday of the world. why is grass green?"  These are profound, important questions! They just bubble right out of them.

Then you go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that.  They've become incurious.  Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.

~ Carl Sagan

Also agreed

It is not that we have too little time, but that we waste too much of it. 

~ Seneca

Agreed

No one ever grew wise by chance.

~ Seneca

Yikes!

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. 

~ Albert Einstein

Indeed...

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned. 

~ Naval Ravikant

New concepts I will apply

 Amy Poehler’s Nine Rules for Improv (and life)

1. Keep saying yes
2. Be a good listener 
3. Find your team
4. Find the game (what is the purpose of this situation)
5. Take up space (believing you belong here, advocate for yourself, don’t shrink, be fearless).  But ask yourself, “does the scene need you?” 
6. Can’t be halfway in (life is a parade, you can watch from the sidelines, waiting to join the perfect float, or you can jump in and rock out!).  
7. Don’t bail on your partners.  Everyone remembers, when things are at their worst, the people who scram.  Conversely, you are closest to the people that go down with the ship with you.
8. Don’t worry about being cool.  
9. Playing with status.  Being aware of status (Who you are in relation to other people) in social or professional situations can be entertaining or elucidating. 

Let’s dance!

Somewhere, there is the ideal soil for growing mangoes. Or the best possible wave for surfing. Or the most romantic sunset for a proposal. 

But it’s not right here and it’s not right now. 

Our success has a lot to do with how we dance with conditions that aren’t quite perfect.

~ Seth Godwin 

They don't write 'em like they used to...

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. 

With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck. 

~ Thomas Jefferson (1822)

Seems reasonable enough

Be stronger than those that hate you, so that they cannot destroy you. Then forgive them.

~ Elon Musk

Indeed

Science is like sex.  Sometimes something useful comes out of it, but that's not why we are doing it.

~ Richard Feynman

Terrifying!

Compulsive liars shouldn't frighten you.  They can harm no one, if no one listens to them.

Compulsive believers, on the other hand - they should terrify you.

Believers are the liars' enablers.

~ Nick Cohen

Good plan!

Bop ‘till you drop.

~ Danny DeVito

Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.

~ Richard Feynman

Been there, done that...

She was the super destructive cruel beautiful dark-haired woman that I eternally write about.

~ Philip K. Dick, author of Blade Runner, describing actress Sean Young, who played the replicant Rachael

Yep

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Decent advice

When your opponent tells you that they will kill you, believe them. 

~ Golda Meir

Yep

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. 

We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. 

 ~ Bishop Desmond Tutu.