Five little monkeys sitting in a tree,
Teasing Mr. Crocodile: “You can’t catch me!”
Along comes Mr. Crocodile
As quiet as can be and…SNAP!Four little monkeys sitting in a tree…
Three little monkeys sitting in a tree…
Two little monkeys sitting in a tree…One little monkey sitting in a tree,
Teasing Mr. Crocodile: “You can’t catch me!”
Along comes Mr. Crocodile
As quiet as can be and….SNAP!
And away swims Mr. Crocodile as full as he can be!Ukila na timsaha, hutapata nyingi raha.
If you want to eat with the crocodile, you will not have much pleasure
Do not be too ambitious; stay with your own people.
Timsaha [dialect], mamba, ngwena: crocodile.
Category Archives: AMBITION
Det kommer inga stekta sparvar flygande i din mun.
No fried sparrows will fly into your mouth.
Ridiculous ambition: the sparrow flying after the hawk.
Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
Arabian proverb
A fish from the river, a staff from the wood and a deer from the mountain – thefts no Gael was ever ashamed of.
http://www.hp.europe.de/kd-europtravel/gaelic/proverb.htm
Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
~Thomas Sowell
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Intuition does not always appear as the ingenious breakthrough or something grandiose. Intuitive thoughts, feelings, and solutions often manifest themselves as good old common sense. Common sense is efficient.
Seperti katak di bawah tempurung – Like frog underneath coconut shell.
Meaning: A frog which leaves under a cocunut shell will think that the shell is the world. So, one who is like the frog will have no knowledge of
things/events/places outside his ‘world’. He refuses to venture out into the world-he remains ignorant but is happy with it.http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Miscellaneous.html
“He who plants a coconut tree plants food and drink, vessels and clothing, a home for himself and a heritage for his children”
– South Seas saying
The aim of literature … is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Fragments of fox fur, sewn together, will make a robe.
Chinese
Even if your words are a lie, your eyes always tell the truth.
Libby Saumur.
http://www.midnightangel308.com/eye_quote.htm
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Take for instance a man driven to incessant work by a sense of deep insecurity and loneliness; or another one driven by ambition, or greed for money. In all these cases the person is the slave of a passion, and his activity is in reality a “passivity” because he is driven; he is the sufferer, not the “actor”. On the other hand a man sitting quiet and contemplating, with no purpose or aim except that of experiencing himself and his oneness with the world, is considered to be “passive”, because he is not “doing” anything. In reality, this attitude of concentrated meditation is the highest activity there is, an activity of the soul, which is possible only under the condition of inner freedom and independence”
― Erich Fromm
Get driven into your ambition, pursue your goals passionately and you will see your dreams come alive.
― Dr Roopleen
” Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand. Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh.”
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” ― Maya Angelou
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
“To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.”
Golda Meir
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
We make love
Dress the kids
Eat and shower
Sweep and clean
Deep in life’s fog
Little knowing
That this is it
It’s simple
It’s special
A soft dream
Hidden by ambition
Fools grant whate’er ambition craves. Pope.
From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful have a craving for violence. (Proverbs, 13:2)
foto – black calf in corral
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