Robert Obst:
CLASS OF 1971
Brookfield East High SchoolClass of 1971
Brookfield, WI
Robert's Story
Robert is from Brookfield, Wisconsin. Robert's schools include Brookfield East High School. Robert later attended University of Wisconsin-Madison. Robert works(ed) at American Family Insurance.
Music Robert likes includes The River Pigs, The Everly Brothers, Country music. Books Robert likes include The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Jules Verne. Movies Robert likes include Les Misérables, Warren Miller Entertainment, TSO Photography. TV shows Robert likes include Star Trek, Independent Lens | PBS, Washington Week.
One of Robert's favorite quotes is:"* "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you & the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." and "Going to the woods is going home." -John Muir
* "A house divided against itself cannot stand."- Abraham Lincoln
* "A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."-Gandhi
* "Always do right.This will gratify some people & astonish the rest." -Mark Twain
* "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." and "The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." -George S. Patton
* "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."and "The truth is found when men are free to pursue it." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
* "We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things." -John Wesley Powell
"The time is always right to do what is right." and "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." and "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light." -George Washington
"What Washington needs is adult supervision." and ""We've got a story to tell that isn't just against something but is for something." -Barack Obama
"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." and "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." -Helen Keller
* A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. - SiddhÄrtha Gautama or Buddha, Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism
""Adventure is worthwhile in itself. You can do anything you decide to do.....and the procedure, the process is its own reward." -Amelia Earhart
* "All major religious traditions carry basically the s...Expand for more
ame message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives." -Dalai Lama
* "A child mis-educated is a child lost." and "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." -John F. Kennedy
* "In wilderness is the preservation of the world" and * "Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first traveler. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents. They are the natural highways of all nations, not only leveling the ground, and removing obstacles from the path of the traveler, quenching his thirst, and bearing him on their bosoms, but conducting him through the most interesting scenery, the most populous portions of the globe and where the animal and vegetable kingdoms attain their greatest perfections." - Henry David Thoreau
* "Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best." -Edward Abbey
* "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." -Aldo Leopold
* "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
* "Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment." -Ansel Adams
* "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." -William Shakespeare
"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off." -Chuck Yeager
" "Peace begins with a smile." and "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." -Mother Teresa
*"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." and "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." and "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." and "All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual." and "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" and "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." and "If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." -Albert Einstein".
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