Cat Quotes - Page 60

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open...and it's a wild cat.

All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.'

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life.

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly

A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.