This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.
The statistical method is of use only to those who have found it out.
Walter Gropius, fully Walter Adolph Georg Gropius
Modern man has developed a kind of Gallup-poll mentality, relying on quantity instead of quality and yielding to expediency instead of building a new faith.
The prophet is called to be a child of the tradition, one who has taken it seriously in the shaping of his or her own field of perception and system of language, who is so at home in that memory that the points of contact and incongruity with the situation of the church in culture can be discerned and articulated with proper urgency.
Culture | Future | Imagination | Vision |
Walter Pater, fully Walter Horatio Pater
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Consciousness | Future | Past | World | Old |
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure - something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.
Friend | Future | Price | Uncertainty |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner. [speaking of managers and executive compensation]
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It’s like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don’t do that though. I don’t use very many of those claim checks. There’s nothing material I want very much. And I’m going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.
Warren Bennis, fully Warren Gamaliel Bennis
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.
Behavior | Experience | Future | Hate | Nothing | People | Plan | Rationality | Will |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Our ignorance means we must follow the course prescribed by Pascal in his famous wager about the existence of God. Since he didn't know the answer, his personal gain/loss ratio dictated an affirmative conclusion.
Future | Mathematics | Mind | People | Will |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is, because it’s going up.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
This merger is going to create the greatest consumer products company in the world.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
If you’re an investor, you’re looking on what the asset is going to do, if you’re a speculator, you’re commonly focusing on, what the price of the object is going to do, and that’s not our game.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Go to sleep with visions of what you love. Let your dream vision marinate overnight. Wake up with your positive, hopeful thoughts in place, ready to guide you through a day in which you step ever closer to the life you dream of.
Future |