Life & People: 05/1985

Henry Ford (1863–1947)

Henry Ford (1863–1947)

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.

He was known worldwide especially in the 1920s as promoter of pacifism and antisemitism.

Quotes·Quotations by Henry Ford

Attitude

¶ There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think they can, and those who think they can't, and they're both right.

Business·Employment

¶ It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

History

¶ History is more or less bunk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Herb Kelleher (1931- )

Herb Kelleher (1931- )

Herbert "Herb" D. Kelleher (born March 12, 1931) is the co-founder, Chairman Emeritus, and former CEO of Southwest Airlines (based in the United States).

Quotes·Quotation

Attitude

¶ We are looking for people who have to excel to satisfy themselves and who work well in a collegial environment. We don’t care that much about education and expertise, because we can train people to do whatever they have to do. We hire attitudes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Kelleher

Henry Timrod (1828–1867)

Henry Timrod (1828–1867)

Henry Timrod (December 8, 1828 – October 7, 1867) was an American poet, often called the poet laureate of the Confederacy.

Quotes·Quotations by Henry Timrod

Spring

¶ Spring is a true reconstructionist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Timrod

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century.

Quotes·Quotation by Henry Ward Beecher

Accomplishment

¶ I don’t do more, but less than others. [When He was asked how he accomplished so much more than others]

Art

¶ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Attitude

¶ Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.

Flowers

@ Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. [Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234]

Inspiration

¶ A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch in a railroad track... an inch between a wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.

Self-discipline

¶ Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Study

¶ To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher

Henry Clay (1777-1852)

Henry Clay (1777-1852)

Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852), was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives. He served three different terms as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829.

Clay was a dominant figure in both the First and Second Party systems. As a leading war hawk, he favored war with Britain and played a significant role in leading the nation to war in 1812. Later he was involved in the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824, after which he was appointed Secretary of State by newly elected President John Quincy Adams. He was the foremost proponent of the American System, fighting for an increase in tariffs to foster industry in the United States, the use of federal funding to build and maintain infrastructure, and a strong national bank. He opposed the annexation of Texas, fearing it would inject the slavery issue into politics. Clay also opposed the Mexican-American War and the "Manifest Destiny" policy of Democrats, which cost him votes in the close 1844 election.

Dubbed the "Great Compromiser," Clay brokered important compromises during the Nullification Crisis and on the slavery issue. As part of the "Great Triumvirate" or "Immortal Trio," along with his colleagues Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun, he was instrumental in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. He was viewed as the primary representative of Western interests in this group, and was given the names "Henry of the West" and "The Western Star." A plantation owner, Clay held slaves during his lifetime but freed them in his Will.

Abraham Lincoln, the Whig leader in Illinois, was a great admirer of Clay, saying he was "my ideal of a great man." Lincoln wholeheartedly supported Clay's economic programs. In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Clay as one of the five greatest U.S. Senators, along with Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

Quotes·Quotation

Advice

¶ Prepare! The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

Politics·Government

¶ Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) (pronounced like the word thorough, with emphasis on the first syllable) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist. Though Civil Disobedience seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government – "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" – the direction of this improvement points toward anarchism: "'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." Richard Drinnon partly blames Thoreau for the ambiguity, noting that Thoreau's "sly satire, his liking for wide margins for his writing, and his fondness for paradox provided ammunition for widely divergent interpretations of 'Civil Disobedience.'" He further points out that although Thoreau writes that he only wants "at once" a better government, that does not rule out the possibility that a little later he might favor no government.

Quotes·Quotation

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new. [Fashions]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

Henry James (1843-1916)

Henry James (1843-1916)

Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

James alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life, after which he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He is primarily known for the series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.

James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognisable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting. The concept of a good or bad novel is judged solely upon whether the author is good or bad. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales.

Quotes·Quotations by Henry James

Summer

¶ Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

***

@ It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James

Henrietta (Gunslinger Girl)

Henrietta (ヘンリエッタ) from Gunslinger Girl

Voiced by: Yūka Nanri (Gunslinger Girl) Kana Akutsu (Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino) (Japanese), Laura Bailey (English)

Left for dead after the brutal murder of her family, during which she herself was assaulted, Henrietta suffered severe psychological trauma, making her suicidal. Like the other cyborg-girls, she was brainwashed into forgetting these events by a technique known as conditioning. Henrietta has short brown hair and brown eyes. Henrietta is devoted to her handler, Jose Croce, towards whom she has strong feelings. She even shows signs of jealousy when she feels Jose is paying attention to other women. He encourages her to share his interest in astronomy which she passes on to the other girls. Jose even gives her a diary, but this causes her distress when, as a result of the long-term effects of the conditioning, she begins to forget the events she noted in the book. She's killed by Jose in Chapter 83 as she euthanizes him as part of a suicide pact she had made with him while investigating Elsa's death. Henrietta's preferred weapons are the SIG Sauer P239 Two-Tone, the Fabrique Nationale P90 PDW, and the FN FAL. She and her handler have also used the Walther WA 2000 sniper rifle and Ingram MAC-10.

Quotes·Quotation by Henrietta

Cyborg

¶ Is a girl with a mechanical body ordinary? I’m super strong and can kill a man with my bare hands. I do bleed, but the pain goes away fast. Since I’m a cyborg and have to protect Jose… I can’t be an ordinary girl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gunslinger_Girl_characters

Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881)

Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881)

Henri Frédéric Amiel (27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss philosopher, poet and critic.

Born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

After losing his parents at an early age, Amiel travelled widely, became intimate with the intellectual leaders of Europe, and made a special study of German philosophy in Berlin. In 1849 he was appointed professor of aesthetics at the academy of Geneva, and in 1854 became professor of moral philosophy. These appointments, conferred by the democratic party, deprived him of the support of the aristocratic party, which comprised nearly all the culture of the city.

This isolation inspired the one book by which Amiel is still known, the Journal Intime ("Private Journal"), which, published after his death, obtained a European reputation. It was translated into English by Mary A. Ward at the instigation of Mark Pattison.

Although second-rate as regards productive power, Amiel's mind was of no inferior quality, and his Journal gained a sympathy that the author had failed to obtain in his life. In addition to the Journal, he produced several volumes of poetry and wrote studies on Erasmus, Madame de Stael and other writers. He died in Geneva.

Quotes·Quotation

Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Frédéric_Amiel

Henry Adams (1838-1918)

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)

Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918; normally called Henry Adams) was an American journalist, historian, academic and novelist. He is best known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family.

Quotes

Eternity

@ A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Ch. 20.

Friendship·Friend

¶ A friend in power is a friend lost. [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 7.]

¶ Friends are born, not made. [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 7.]

@ All experience is an arch, to build upon. [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 6.]

@ Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brooks_Adams
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Brooks_Adams

Helen Hayes (1900-1993)

Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes (10 October 1900 – 17 March 1993) American actress; one of the few people who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award; born Helen Hayes Brown

Quotes·Quotations by Helen Hayes

Love

¶ The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Guideposts (January 1960)

***

@ Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Showcase (1966) by Roy Newquist

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Hayes

Helen Slater (1963- )

Helen Slater (1963- )

Helen Rachel Slater (born December 15, 1963) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.

She appeared in the title role in the 1984 film Supergirl. In the following years she starred in several successful comedy-drama films such as Ruthless People, The Secret of My Success, and City Slickers. Since then she has found work as an actress in film, television, and stage projects, including guest appearances on the series Smallville. As of 2012, she currently co-stars as Kristin Mercer on ABC Family series The Lying Game.

In the 2000s, she recorded three albums, singing her own compositions and playing the piano.

Quotes·Quotations by Helen Slater

Helen Slater as Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) from Supergirl (1984)

¶ I am Kara of Argo City, daughter of Alura and Zor-El, and I don't scare easily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Slater

Helen Keller (1880–1968)

Helen Adams Keller (1880–1968)

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled, and was outspoken in her opposition to war. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Wobblies, she campaigned for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and socialism, as well as many other leftist causes.

Quotes·Quotation by Helen Keller

Inspiration

¶ Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

¶ The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "water" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free!

Life

¶ So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Optimist

¶ No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

...

@ One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. [Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (8 July 1896), quoted in supplement to The Story of My Life]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske (October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885), was a United States poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She detailed the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California and attracted considerable attention to her cause,[1][2] although its popularity was based on its romantic and picturesque qualities rather than its political content. It was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times, and contributed to the growth of tourism in Southern California.

Quotes·Quotations by Helen Hunt Jackson

May

¶ O month when they who love must love and wed.

References

[1]^ H.H.Jackson (1884) Ramona (NY: Harper)
[2]^ DeLyser, Dydia (2005), Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt_Jackson

Cynthia Heimel

Cynthia Heimel

Cynthia Heimel is a playwright, television writer, and the author of several satirical books which are aimed primarily at a female readership. To those who have heard of her but have not read her books, her works are probably best known for their unusual titles.
Heimel's first book Sex Tips for Girls, was a semi-satirical take on Cosmopolitan (and other "women's" magazines) and their "how to please your man" approach to feminism. Though she gives actual sex tips, Heimel's main focus was sexual self-confidence for women and the idea that women actually enjoy sex.

Heimel has stated (in Advanced Sex Tips) that she was not accepted by the feminist movement; that being too sexy to be an academic feminist and too angry for "women's" magazines, she sometimes had difficulty finding outlets that would publish her work; and that for this reason, she accepted an offer to work for Playboy and was the writer of its "Women" column for decades. Her column was ended around 2000 when the editors of Playboy expressed concern that Heimel's feminist attitudes would put off male readers.

Quotes·Quotations by Cynthia Heimel

Advice

¶ When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
["Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics" in Village Voice]

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeɔɐ̯k ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈheːɡəl]) (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.

Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework, or "system", of Absolute idealism to account in an integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature, the subject and object of knowledge, and psychology, the state, history, art, religion and philosophy. In particular, he developed the concept that mind or spirit manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other. Examples of such contradictions include those between nature and freedom, and between immanence and transcendence.

Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions, including both his admirers (Strauss, Bauer, Feuerbach, T. H. Green, Marx, Vygotsky, F. H. Bradley, Dewey, Sartre, Croce, Küng, Kojève, Fukuyama, Žižek, Brandom, Iqbal) and his detractors (Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Stirner, Nietzsche, Peirce, Popper, Russell, Heidegger). His influential conceptions are of speculative logic or "dialectic", "absolute idealism", "Spirit", negativity, sublation (Aufhebung in German), the "Master/Slave" dialectic, "ethical life" and the importance of history.

Quotes

What experience and history teach is this - that people and government never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Hector Berlioz (pronounced: [ɛk'tɔʁ bɛʁ'ljoːz]; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a conductor, he performed several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and many others.

Quotes

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz

Heather O'Rourke (1975- )

Heather O'Rourke (1975- )

Heather O'Rourke (December 27, 1975 – February 1, 1988) was an American child actress who played Carol Anne Freeling in the Poltergeist film trilogy and made several television guest appearances. Born in San Diego, O'Rourke also died there in 1988 of cardiac arrest due to medical error.

Quotes·Quotations by Heather O'Rourke

Heather O'Rourke as Carol Anne Freeling from Poltergeist (1982)

¶ They're here!

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