Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988) American Science Fiction Author
Quotations are extremely effective at capturing and concisely communicating thoughts and ideas. They can be inspirational but more importantly quotations can help us reveal and assess the assumptions, values and beliefs that underlie the ways in which we perceive the world.
I have compiled over 800 quotations and short excerpts on this website. It is an eclectic mix but most of them are inspirational or insightful in nature and relate to knowledge, learning or personal development in some form.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert Heinlein, (1907 - 1988) American Science Fiction Author
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do.
Robert Heinlein, (1907 - 1988) American Science Fiction Author
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
Robert Heinlein, (1907 - 1988) American Science Fiction Author
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert Heinlein, (1907 - 1988) American Science Fiction Author
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein, (1907 - 1988) American Science Fiction Author
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
(1907 - 1988) American Science Fiction Author
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
