“Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided.” TimeResultsStupidOptimismSeedsGardeningConsistentlyNurture Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.” PeopleShouldKindHeavenStupidStupidityBe KindConsistentlyStupid People Author:Honore de Balzac
“I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum . . . .I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours . . . instillers of stodginess.” ThinkingStupidCollegeTablesBoundsConvictionTeaConsistentlyRadicalismDecorum Author:John Dos Passos
“...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.” IfsTryingSaidIdeasTakenSpecialConditionsStupidCallingClaimsBackgroundsObservationIdiotSufficientInsightfulProfessorsAcademicConsistentlyFormalHomeworkQualificationsStupid ThingsCredentials Author:Paul Krugman