Ralph Johnson quotes

Ralph Johnson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good.”
-- Ralph Johnson

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“The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.”
“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.”
“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.”
“I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!”
“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal”
“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
“There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.”
“Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.”
“Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.”

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