Quote Of The Day: Confucius on getting great advice...

Quote Of The Day

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."

–Confucius Proverb

Quote of the Day: Plautus On Real Friends...

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." –Plautus

Jake's Quote of The Day: Jerry Seinfeld on Watches...

Why do they call a watch a watch? Nobody watches a watch...You look at a watch or may peek at your watch....Why don't they call it a look? -Jerry Seinfeld

Jake's Quote of the Day...

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.  —Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Jake's Quote of the Day: Mathew Arnold on The Truest Definition of Culture...

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known in the world. —Mathew Arnold

Jake's Quote of the Day: Beating to your own drum...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau

Jake's Quote of the Day: Danny Thomas on Success...

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. "—Danny Thomas.

Jake's Quote of the Day: Robert Pirsig on Stuckness...

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

If you are into Rolex and Quality oriented and you have not read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, run out and buy it and start reading it immediately. If you sincerely appreciate Rolex, you will love Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Here is a great quote from the book:

“Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors. It’s this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.”  –Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

Robert Pirsig with son Chris above at the rest stop on the evening of their first day of their trip

Jake's Time Quote of the Day:

Time is not the hand of a clock moving around, not the Time the man-in-the-street thinks he knows it to be. It is something far greater; a fourth dimension, an integral part of the universe. –From "The Anatomy of Time"

Jake's Quote of the Day: Clint Eastwood on Taking Risks...

Everything worthwhile is risky. —Clint Eastwood

Jake's Quote of the Day: Hellen Keller on Security...

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. —Hellen Keller, The open door, 1957

Jake's Quote of the Day: Plato on knowing thyself...

The first and the best victory is to conquer self. —Plato

Jake's Quote of the Day: Albert Einstein on Giving...

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. —Albert Einstein

Jake's Quote of the Day: The Olympic Creed...

"The most important thing is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." —The Olympic Creed 

Jake's Quote of the Day

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. ~ Harold B. Melchart

Jake's Quote of the Day...

"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." -Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Jake's Quote of the Day: Confucius Proverb...

Doing is easy.  Choosing is what's difficult. –Confucius Proverb

Jake's Quote of the Day: Be Careful What You Wish For...

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants, more than anything else, to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are-and have always been. —Joseph Brooks

Jake's Quote of the Day

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jake's Quote of the Day

The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity! —Albert Einstein