Arnold's Quote of the Week: about believing / over geloven

It is always easier to believe than to deny. 

Our minds are naturally affirmative

 

John Burroughs

Arnold's Quote of the Week: over gesprekken / about conversations

"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses"

Margaret Millar

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about the universe / over het universum

Sometimes I think we're alone. 

Sometimes I think we're not. 

In either case, the thought is staggering.

 

R. Buckminster Fuller

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about life / over het leven

 "Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can"

Danny Kaye

arnold's Quote of the Week: about hesitation / over aarzelen

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior

 Henry C. Link

Arnold's Quote of the Week: over gewoon worden / about getting used to

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing

 

Edith Nesbitt

Arnold's Quote of the Week: over leuke dingen / about pleasant things

 "I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure"

L. M. Montgomery

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about doing well / over goed doen

"Well done is better than well said"

Benjamin Franklin

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about pain / over pijn

"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional"

Unknown

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about listening / over luisteren

"Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly"

Plutarch

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about childhood / over de kindertijd

 Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once it grows up

Pablo Picasso

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about forgiveness / over vergeven

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much

Oscar Wilde

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about nostalgia / over nostalgie

 "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be", Peter De Vries

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about courage, friends, and enemies / over moed, vrienden, en vijanden.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends

J. K. Rowling

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about old things / over oude dingen

 "Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives"

Randy K. Milholland

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about forgiveness; over vergiffenis

 "Life is an adventure in forgiveness"

Norman Cousins

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about vision / over visie

"I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight"

Robin Green

"Personal" Weaving just got a lot better thanks to this Arduino-controlled Jacquard loom

 For the more textile nerdy people among us :-)

 Weaving just got a lot better thanks to this Arduino-controlled Jacquard loom

 

 

 

Arnold's Quote of the Week: over opvoeding / about education

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain

Arnold's Quote of the Week: over het goede doen / about doing right.

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

Mark Twain

Is dit dan een aardliefje?

 

Iets voor een STEM opleiding: het principe van logische poorten uitgelegd met katrollen ! Geen electriciteit nodig ;-)

Briljant gevonden !

Zonder electriciteit, en heel visueel, check deze video :-)

 

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about taking action / over actie nemen

"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes" Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne

ed by A. A. Milne

Arnold's Quote of the Week: over harde woorden / about hard words

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about bravery / over dapperheid

 "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about talking / over praten

 A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return

Jewish Proverb

Arnold's Quote of the Week: over zwijgen / about keeping silent

 No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut

Sam Rayburn

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about our life rolling by / over ons leven dat voorbijvliegt.

 "Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should"

Waiter Rant

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about fences / over afsluitingen

 "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up"

G. K. Chesterton

Arnold's Quote of the Week: over gehoorzaamheid vs rebellie (about obedience vs rebellion)

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion"

C. P. Snow

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about the rest of one's life / over de rest van je leven

"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life"

George Burns

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about bad habits / over slechte gewoontes

"A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project"

Abigail Van Buren

Arnold's Quote of the Week: about feeling young / over je jong voelen

 "Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty", Ellen Glasgow