Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. It’s very simple in the end.” Johan Cruyffģ2. “Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I’ve forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I’m ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it’s never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.” Jon Jonesģ3. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” Johann Wolfgang von Goetheģ4. “You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.” Snoop DoggĢ0. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt DisneyĢ1. “You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.” Jessica HerrinĢ2. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.” Vince LombardiĢ3. “Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.” Mark Zuckerberg 30. “If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” Eleonora Duseģ1. “It’s like everything in football – and life. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” Arnold SchwarzeneggerĢ9. “Move fast and break things. He is loyal to those who are good to him he bites those who ill-treat him or his friends, and he's not embarrassed to do what he does to live.28. “For me life is continuously being hungry. The dog is honest he is not impressed by grand words, fancy clothes, or titles. When invited to the house of Plato, he trampled upon his carpet, saying that he thereby trampled on the vanity of Plato, to which Plato retorted "How much pride you expose to view, Diogenes, by seeming not to be proud."ĭiogenes claimed to have gotten his morality from a dog, and would supposedly really bite at people's ankles.
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Coming up to him, Plato said, "My good Diogenes, if you knew how to pay court to Dionysius, you wouldn't have to wash vegetables." "And," replied Diogenes, "If you knew how to wash vegetables, you wouldn't have to pay court to Dionysius." When Plato gave Socrates's definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man." After this incident, "with broad flat nails" was added to Plato's definition.ĭiogenes was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Plato allowed himself a few moments to collect his thoughts, but Diogenes reached over and, tapping Plato's head with his finger, said "I think you will find here is the 'emptiness'". "Where is the 'emptiness' which precedes this empty cup?" asked Diogenes. "That's because you have the eyes to see the cup," said Plato, "but", tapping his head with his forefinger, "you don't have the intellect with which to comprehend 'cupness'."ĭiogenes walked up to the table, examined a cup and, looking inside, asked, "Is it empty?" Plato nodded. "I can see the cups on the table," said Diogenes, "but I can't see the 'cupness'". Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and, pointing to the cups on the table before him, said while there are many cups in the world, there is only one 'idea' of a cup, and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups.
Diogenes and Plato had several run-ins, which have sort of been passed down through the ages (so who knows how much of it is real).