Jonathan Cainer famous quotes

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Life #Trying #Limits

It's easy to feel happy when things are going your way. The trick is to remain inspired in difficult situations. That's where life stops being a game of chance and becomes one of skill. That's when, if you can stay serene in the face of adversity, you get back on track in half the time it might otherwise take.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Wise #Adversity #Games

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Absence #Instinct #Certainty

Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Meaningful #Passion #Essentials

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Happiness #Earth #Picnics

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Understanding #Brain #Cheese

Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Running #Our World #Ideas

The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Bad Mood #Fairy #Annoying

What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.
-- Jonathan Cainer

#Dream #Children #Fun

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.