Taylor Lackner:
CLASS OF 2009
Cascade High SchoolClass of 2009
Salem, OR
Taylor's Story
Taylor is from Salem, Oregon. Taylor's schools include Cascade High School. Taylor later attended Phagans Cosmetology College (Hair Design, Nail Tech, Esthetics) .
Music Taylor likes includes Keith Sweat, Garth Brooks, Journey. Books Taylor likes include Crank, Twilight, Bible. Movies Taylor likes include Love & Basketball, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games. TV shows Taylor likes include The L Word, Showtime Networks, Rugrats.
One of Taylor's favorite quotes is:"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
(I love this one. my feelings about war)
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since...Expand for more
for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It's a miracle that our curiosity survives formal education.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
-ALL by Albert Einstein".
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