Pastoral Resources

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.