This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
Lowering consumption need not deprive people of goods and services that really matter. To the contrary, life’ most meaningful and pleasant activities are often paragons of environmental virtue. The preponderance of things that people name as their most rewarding pastimes are infinitely sustainable. Religious practice, conversation, family and community gatherings, theater, music, dance, literature, sports, poetry, artistic and creative pursuits, education, and appreciation of nature all fit readily into a culture of permanence – a way of life that can endure through countless generations.
Appreciation | Conversation | Culture | Education | Family | Life | Life | Literature | Music | Nature | Need | People | Poetry | Practice | Virtue | Virtue | Appreciation |
Thomas Edison, fully Thomas Alva Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Looks | Opportunity | People | Work |
Those very characteristics which are demanded by war – the ability to tolerate uncertainty, spontaneity of thought and action, having a mind open to the receipt of novel, and perhaps threatening information – are the antitheses of those possessed by people attracted to the controls, and orderliness, of militarism.
Ability | Action | Mind | Orderliness | People | Thought | Uncertainty | War | Thought |
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Peter F. Drucker, fully Peter Ferdinand Drucker
The test of organization is not genius. It is the capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.
Capacity | Genius | Organization | People |
The highest moral ideal either for a people or for an individual is to be true to its destiny... to leave the known for the unknown.
Destiny | Individual | People |
The great successful people of the world . . . think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit but steadily building--steadily building.
Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
People | Reputation |
Michael Dell, fully Michael Saul Dell
Believe in what you are doing. If you’ve got an idea that’s really powerful, you’ve just got to ignore the people who tell you it won’t work, and hire people who embrace your vision.
Crazy Horse, formally Tashunca Uitco NULL
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.