Precker Slap Quotes

#1. If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.

Anna Kendrick

#2. So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist ... If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.

Thomas L. Friedman

#3. There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect.

Laura Miller

#4. Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

Janette Rallison

#5. Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

Orison Swett Marden

#6. Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

Steven Wright

#7. The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

Nicole McKay

#8. It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.

John Steinbeck

#9. Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

David Attenborough

#10. It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

Walker Percy

#11. The books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.

Herman Melville

#12. Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.

Bill Gates

#13. Children observe everything in nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita