This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
Reality alone exists - and that we are. All the rest is only a dream, a dream of the One Mind, which is our mind without the 'our'. Is it so hard to accept? Is it so difficult to assimilate and to live?
Difficulty | Good | Nothing | Wrong |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.
Evidence | Relationship | Thinking | Wrong |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Transformation is the ability and willingness to live beyond your form.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
They are too busy being to notice what their neighbors are doing.
If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then the world is no doubt better for his absence. But in killing my neighbor, though he may have been a terrible man who did not deserve to live, I have made myself a killer—and the life of my next neighbor is in greater peril than the life of the last. In making myself a killer I have destroyed the possibility of neighborhood.
Death | Freedom | God | Good | Heart | Love | Man | Suffering | World | Wrong | God | Old |
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
Absurd | Balance | Change | Education | Fault | Future | Human nature | Inheritance | Looks | Nature | Nothing | Past | Present | Society | Time | Will | Wrong | Theoretical | Society | Fault | Understand |
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy.
Ability | Change | Exploit | Mind | Mistrust | Will | Wrong | Understand |
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There is work that is isolating, harsh, destructive, specialized or trivialized into meaninglessness. And there is work that is restorative, convivial, dignified and dignifying, and pleasing. Good work is not just the maintenance of connections - as one is now said to work "for a living" or "to support a family" - but the enactment of connections. It is living, and a way of living; it is not support for a family in the sense of an exterior brace or prop, but is one of the forms and acts of love.
It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.' The husband, unlike the manager or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.
Discontent | Government | Health | Light | People | Protest | Public | Understanding | Will | Wrong | Government | Crisis | Think |
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.
Wrong |
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
It's a funny old world - a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.
Wrong |
W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone
Work now becomes fun. You are motivated to pay the price. You budget your time and money. You study, think, and plan. The more you think about your goals, the more enthusiastic you become. And with enthusiasm your desire turns into a burning desire.
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
Illness comes from living too small a process or too large a process.
Art | Awareness | Compensation | Experience | Individual | Present | System | Universe | Will | Wrong | Art | Awareness | Value |
W. Edwards Deming, fully William Edwards Deming
Where there is a lack of quality there is a failure to understand variation. Everything varies. Statistics help us to predict how much of which things are going to vary. It is a company's responsibility to know whether problems in excessive variation are in the design of its system or in the behavior of the people. Both can be improved.