Cat Quotes - Page 63

Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.

The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the individual level: beyond that, a vast transformation must occur

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things; it depends on how you feel. You might feel down, and I might be the cat in the same sentence saying, "You need to get up and do your thing." And then I could be the same cat, when you at the top of your game, telling you, "It feel good, don't it?" but with the same words.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

I love the fact that not many people can say 'Oh, I went out and ran 20 miles today.' I love how much dedication it takes and how much you learn a lot about yourself, your physical and mental limits. There's just something about it.

The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.