"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
--Marshall McLuhan

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
--Goethe

"The wild life of today is not ours to dispose of as we please. We have it in trust and must account for it to those who come after."
--King George VI of England

"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
--Chief Seattle

Economics
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
--Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990), Canadian-US educator, author

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
--John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-), Canada-born U.S. economist, author, diplomat

"Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations -- six if one went to Harvard."
--Edgar R. Fiedler, U.S. economist, government economic advisor, investment fund manager

"I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college."
--Hubert Humphrey, U.S. Senator

"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper."
--Quentin Crisp, British author

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
--Harry S Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States

Education
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
--John Ciardi

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on Earth."
--Will Rogers

"Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good-naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be…those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes… those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober-minded men."
--Socrates

"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening....The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
--U.S. Commissioner of Education William Harris, 1889

"Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have."
--Mark Twain

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
--Walter Bagehot (1826-77), British economist, journalist

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
--Jacques Martin Barzun, American educator, historian, Dean of Graduate School, Columbia University

"Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality."
--Henry Fielding (1707-1754), British novelist

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
--Walter Bagehot

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
--Mark Twain

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
--John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), English economist

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's, only one begins with an R."
--Dennis Miller

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
--George Bernard Shaw

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
--James Baldwin (1924-1987), American author

Efficiency
"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."
--Peter F. Drucker

"Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing."
--Zig Ziglar

Effort
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
--Mahatma Gandhi {1869-1948 Indian Prime Minister}

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
--Les Brown

Ego
"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
--Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Encouragement
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
--William Arthur

Endurance
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it."
--Ernest Hemingway

"We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance."
--Socrates

"I bend, but I do not break."
--Jean de La Fontaine

"To be somebody you must last."
--Ruth Gordon

Enjoyment
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
--Logan Pearsall Smith

"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
--Samuel Butler

Enlightenment
"Enlightenment is not about imagining figures of light but of making the darkness conscious"
--Carl Jung

Enthusiasm
"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn."
--John Wesley

"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
--Charles Schwab (1862-1939), U.S. manufacturer

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
--Henry Ford

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
--Dale Carnegie

"Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it."
--Thomas Eakins

Environment
"When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands."
--Margaret Thatcher On the Falklands Conflict

"Kellogg's can no longer ignore doctors and scientists who have warned that these foods may not be safe for our children or our environment."
--Charles Margulis, genetic engineering specialist. Kellogg's avoids genetically engineered foods in its products in Europe, but tells consumers in the US that the corn they eat may be genetically altered.

"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment."
--Rene Dubos

"Uh, Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back. Our officials saw there was a problem and they fixed it, didn't they?"
--Homer Simpson

"A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment."
--L. Ron Hubbard

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
--W. Clement Stone

"The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it."
--Ellen Swallow Richards

Equality
"The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use."
--Abraham Lincoln

"At the end of the game the king and the pawn go back in the same box."
--Italian Proverb

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
--Winston Churchill

Error
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
--Winston Churchill

Example
"There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly."
--Anne Sophie Swetchine

"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
--Mark Twain

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
--Catherine Aird

"None preaches better than the ant. And she says nothing."
--Benjamin Franklin

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
--Mario Cuomo (b. June 15, 1932)

Excellence
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves."
--Dale Carnegie

"It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Just do what you do best."
--Red Auerbach, Hall of Fame Basketball Coach

"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment in it."
--Thomas Jefferson

"The path to excellence is made smoother when we support each other"
--Poh Yu Khing

"It is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it."
--W. Somerset Maugham

"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
--Lyndon B. Johnson

"You stop being average the day you decide to become a Champion, because the average person won't make that decision."
--Tom Hopkins

"Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts."
--Nido Qubein

"Always do more than is required of you."
--George S. Patton

Excitement
"Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."
--Denis Waitley {American Author, Speaker & Trainer}

"I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: "What is my exciting thing for today?" Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow."
--Barbara Charline Jordan (b. 1936) American politician, spokes-person, US representative

Executives/Management
"A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch."
--Fred Allen (1894-1956) US comedian, vaudeville juggler "Treadmill to Oblivion," pt. 2, 1954

"Top' management is supposed to be a tree full of owls hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is."
--Robert Townsend US business executive

"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
--Norman Augustine (1935-) US author, business executive

"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks."
--Eric Sevareid

Expectations
"We tend to get what we expect."
--Norman Vincent Peale

"Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured, From evils which never arrived!"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."
--Shannon Miller, Olympic gymnast

"Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations."
--Ralph Charell

Experience
"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
--Franklin P. Jones

"You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."
--Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965) American stock broker, public official, political advisor

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
--Mark Twain

"I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time."
--Josh Billings (1818-85), American humorist, essayist

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
--Aldous Huxley

Expert
"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing."
--Anonymous

"Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world."
--Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Explain
"Never explain--your friends don't need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
--Elbert Hubbard

Exploring
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive from where we started and know the place for the first time."
--T.S. Eliot