Cliff Notes

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

2011-11-16T10:17:00.000-08:00

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
John Kenneth Galbraith

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
John Kenneth Galbraith

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith was America's most famous economist for good reason. A witty commentator on America's political follies and a versatile author of bestselling books that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated markets, corporate greed, and inattention to the costs of our military power (among them The Great Crash: 1929, The Affluent Society,and The New Industrial State), Galbraith always made economics relevant to the crises of the day

Ernest Hemingway great quotes

2011-10-13T09:41:00.000-07:00

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

You love me but you don't know it yet.

Oscar Wilde Cliff Notes

2011-09-22T08:17:00.000-07:00

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All art is quite useless.
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
All women become like their mothers; that is their tragedy. No man does; that is his.
Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. From: An Ideal Husband
I live in fear of not being misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde About Love.

2011-09-11T20:33:00.000-07:00

The very essence of romance is uncertainty

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
-Oscar Wilde

Love

2011-09-07T19:25:00.001-07:00

"Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with."
— Woody Allen

Favorite Woody Allen Quotes

2011-08-18T08:12:00.000-07:00

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'

Marriage is the death of hope.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Favorite Oscar Wilde quotes

2011-07-26T11:18:00.000-07:00

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde quotes:

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Children love their parents. Eventually they come to judge them. Rarely do they forgive them.

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything

Time is a waste of money.

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

When a man loves a woman does anything for her except continue to love.

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck, men risk theirs.

Money can not buy happiness, but seeks a feeling so similar, it takes a very advanced specialist to verify the difference.

Talk to every woman as if she were in love with her and to every man as if he was teasing you. And will soon have the reputation of possessing the most exquisite social tact.

Woman inspires us to do great works, but they themselves who prevent us from doing them.

Punctuality is a waste of time.

Mi papa

2009-11-03T19:46:00.000-08:00

2009/11/3 Enrique Araujo <enaralba@yahoo.com>

Cuchi:

Manya estas fotos de Mama Elsa y Papa Pepe, mira las fechas y el parecido contigo en la foto donde está vestido de marinero. Te mando un poco de lectura, espero no te quedes dormido.

Si dices que eres un clon mío y tienes los siguientes síntomas, ve a un shrink.

Fácilmente irritable, quieres trompearte con quien no piensa como tú, no tienes paciencia todo te friega, te deprimes con frecuencia, (tienes que dejar de una vez por todas el cigarrillo, te va a matar porque tienes intolerancia a la nicotina y te eleva la presión al tope, muy peligroso.) No te puedes concentrar y te olvidas rápido de todo o casi todo, memoria inmediata frágil, eres demasiado sensible por lo que te ofendes muy rápido. Todo esto tiene tratamiento y cura definitiva con la medicina moderna. Hace 20 años no se podía hacer casi nada.

Besitos,

Papà

Papi,
I got them all!, I'm going to look for one. Jajajja me he cagado de risa, es increible como puedo parecerme tanto a ti.
Te quiero mucho un beso.

10 Signs: Change Is Happening in Your Life

2009-10-08T21:33:00.000-07:00

In 2007 I went to the Republic of Panama to hear a group of inspirational leaders teach an advanced personal development seminar about change as it relates to our lives. One of the speakers, Ellie Drake, spoke specifically about “signs that show you that change has begun in your life.” This picture was taken on the day of that seminar (Yes, I had blonde hair then).

One positive thing that has come out of this uncertain world economy is that it has paved the road for incredible personal development within us all. Many of us are getting “back to basics” and remembering what is important in life.

I see many people using this time to make changes and grow personally. In times when people are forced to step out of their comfort zone, true personal growth and fantastic breakthroughs can occur. But, how do you know if you’ve actually begun to change?

Some people wouldn’t change anything about themselves and I think that is great! I am not suggesting anyone make changes, but for those that are on a constant journey of growth and change, here are my notes from that pivotal speech.

Here are 10 signs that real change has begun in your own life:

1. Growing craving for nature (when trying to connect with yourself, you inherently crave nature)
2. Growing discomfort (uneasiness about what the future holds)
3. Growing sense of loneliness
4. New skills emerge that you didn’t know you had
5. New relationship with time (instead of psychological time, which is worrying about past or future – You enter clock time, which is living in the moment)
6. You no longer crave for the old bad ways of life
7. The depression and exhaustion doesn’t make sense anymore
8. New sense of self-curiosity
9. Suddenly you feel like everything that happened in the past is irrelevant
10. Instead of praying for “things” you start to pray for “strength” or “truth”

If you are feeling any of these things, you are on your way to achieving more personal satisfaction in your life. Best wishes on your journey!

09/25/2009 | By Diana Adams

De mi papa

2009-09-25T12:11:00.001-07:00

He wrote:

Jesús habla

Está en La Biblia Vulgata reconocida como auténtica por El Vaticano

El Evangelio según San Lucas

12-49

Jesús dijo: “Fuego vine a echar sobre la Tierra. ¡Y cuánto deseo que ya esté encendido!

14-26

Jesús dijo: “Si alguno viene a Mí y no odia a su padre, a su madre, a su mujer, a sus hijos, a sus hermanos y aún también a su propia vida, no puede ser discípulo Mío.”

19-27

Jesús dijo: “En cuanto a mis enemigos, los que no han querido que yo reinase sobre ellos, traedlos aquí y degolladlos en mi presencia.”

El Evangelio según San Mateo

10-34

Jesús dijo: “No creáis que he venido a traer la paz sobre la Tierra. No, he venido a traer paz sino la espada.”

10-35-36-37

Jesús dijo: “He venido, en efecto, a separar al hombre de su padre, a la hija de su madre, a la nuera de su suegra, 36 y serán enemigos del hombre los de su propia casa.” 37 “Quien ame a su padre o a su madre más que a Mí, no es digno de Mí; y quien ame a su hijo o hija más que a Mí, no es digno de Mí.”

Comentario:

Los historiadores de la época en que se supone vivieron paralela a la vida de Jesucristo, no lo mencionan. En caso lo hubieran mencionado, se podría atribuir sus declaraciones como subversivas y blasfemas ante el pueblo judío que creían en Jehová (Dios padre) y que no aceptaron que un vulgar hijo de un carpintero ignorante se proclamase nada menos que “el hijo de Dios”. La reacción en estos tiempos hubiese sido casi igual, en caso que alguien común y corriente declare en la Tele que es hijo de Dios. ¿Dónde hubiera acabado? Por cierto no-crucificado, pero sí internado en un manicomio.

¿Puede alguien de mediana inteligencia y cultura creer en apariciones de la virgen, de Jesús, de santos, creer en el diablo, en la resurrección de los muertos, el juicio final, el cielo y el infierno? El gran Friedrich Nietzsche, uno de los más grandes filósofos, dijo: “Yo soy demasiado exigente, demasiado observador, demasiado meticuloso para aceptar la idea de Dios, lo que pasa es que el tema es demasiado burdo para creerlo”.

Enrique Araujo-Alvarez

De mi papa

2009-09-25T12:11:00.000-07:00

He wrote:

Jesús habla

Está en La Biblia Vulgata reconocida como auténtica por El Vaticano

El Evangelio según San Lucas

12-49

Jesús dijo: “Fuego vine a echar sobre la Tierra. ¡Y cuánto deseo que ya esté encendido!

14-26

Jesús dijo: “Si alguno viene a Mí y no odia a su padre, a su madre, a su mujer, a sus hijos, a sus hermanos y aún también a su propia vida, no puede ser discípulo Mío.”

19-27

Jesús dijo: “En cuanto a mis enemigos, los que no han querido que yo reinase sobre ellos, traedlos aquí y degolladlos en mi presencia.”

El Evangelio según San Mateo

10-34

Jesús dijo: “No creáis que he venido a traer la paz sobre la Tierra. No, he venido a traer paz sino la espada.”

10-35-36-37

Comentario:

If Google can...

2009-08-28T19:22:00.000-07:00

If Google can do it, so you can. Google is seeing problems, solving them, and finding opportunities in them by thinking in new ways. This is all about finding your new worldview.
There are two ways to attack the problems of industries: to reform the incumbents or to destroy them. In some cases, we'll take one path, in others both. But in any case, the wise course is to destroy your own models before some kid in a garage--or in a Harvard or Standford dorm room-- figures out a way to do it for you. Think like Google, succede like Google--before Google does.

From: What Would Google Do? - Jeff Jarvis

Choice is the end of control

2009-08-17T00:28:00.000-07:00

The internet gives us control not just over consumption of media but now its creation.
The internet enables unlimited creation and, because abundance breeds quality, we now have more good stuff.
There is obviously a YouTube video--one featuring a flaming fart or a twirling cat-- and we could argue that the internet opens the door to the creation of crap. That, it does. But it also offers new opportunities for talent and new stages for voices that could not emerge in the old systems of control. There have been always bad books on bookstores shelves next to the gems. There will always be flaming cat videos next to art online. But there is the opportunity to make more art now. The challenge is finding and supporting it. That is where Google comes in. Google can't and shouldn't do it all; we still need curators, editors, teachers--and ad sales people--to find and nurture the best. But Google provides the infrastructure of choice.

From: What Would Google Do? - Jeff Jarvis

The middle man is near extinct!

2009-08-15T10:09:00.000-07:00

The middle man is best known as the car salesmen, advertising agencies, head hunters, government bureaucrats, insurance-office benefit-deniers, travel agents and real state agents.
For all middle man the clock is ticking and the question of value is looming. Every time makes a direct connection, a middleman's value is diminished. Are you a middle man? If the web is hurting rather than helping your business, the answer is probably yes.

From: What Would Google Do? Jeff Jarvis

First Post done

2009-08-14T19:35:00.000-07:00

Elegant Organization

2009-08-14T19:32:00.001-07:00

At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum Intentional Media Council in Davos, Switzerland, as the head of a powerful news organization begged young Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, his secret. Please, the publisher beseeched him, how can my publication start a community like yours? We should own a community, shouldn't we? Tell us how.
Zuckerberg, 22 at the time, is a geek of few words. Some asume his laconicism is a sign of arrogance--that and his habit of wearing sandals at big business conferences. But it's not. He's shy.
He's direct. He's a geek and this is how geeks are. Better get used to it. When the geeks take over the world--and they will--a few blunt words and then a silent stare will become a societal norm.
But Zuckerberg is brilliant and accomplished, and so his few words are worth waiting for.
After this publishing titan pleaded for advise about how to build his own community, Zuckerberg's reply was, in full: "You can't."
Full stop. Hard stare.
He later offered more advide. He told the assembled media moguls that they were asking the wrong question. You don't start communities, he said.
Communities already exist. They're already doing what they want to do.
The question you should ask is how you can help them do that better.
His prescription: Bring them "elegant organization."

From: What Would Google Do? Jeff Jarvis