1467. That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.~ Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments)
1468. This became a credo of mine, attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.- Bette Davis
Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.~ Unknown
It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset. ~ Erynn Miller
We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. ~ Paul Tillich
This is the law of benefits between men: the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received. ~ Seneca
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.- Charles Dickens
"If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow."- John Wayne
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.~ Gladys Tabor (Still Cove Journal)
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.- Marcus Aurelius
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"-- Jean Cocteau
It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.- Mahalia Jackson
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.- Woodrow Wilson
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.- Igor Sikorsky
In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.~ Allen Klein (The Lift-Your-Spirits Quote Book)
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward. ~ Walter Lippmann (A Preface to Politics)
Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.~ Montaigne ("Of Custom" in Essays)
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.- Cynthia Nelms
Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.- Jeremy Schwartz
Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re - Latin maxim (ie: gentle in manner, forceful in argument or, "grace under pressure." )
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.~ Madame de Stael
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." -Josh Billings
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. -William M. Winan
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. ~ Susan Taylor
A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.~ Dot Richardson
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr."In aging, one becomes more foolish and more wise." -Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.- Cecil B. De Mille
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
-- Ralph Ellison
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt. ~ Thomas Secker
"There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit." -Emerson
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.~ Henry David Thoreau ("Where I Lived and What I Lived For" in Walden)
Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.~ Gerald Jampolsky
"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's." -Frank Sinatra
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.- George Bernard Shaw
Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby. ~ Ruth E. Renkei
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn't taste good. ~ Lucia Capocchione
Among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ~ Maya Angelou
"We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily." -Celeste Holmr
Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out of the impossible.~ Max Weber ("Politics as a Vocation" in Max Weber: Essays in Sociology)
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. Thoreau
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.~ William Greider (One world, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism)
Even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. Chesterfield- letter to his godson
I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (in Gandhi's View of Life)
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ~Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln's Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862)
Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.~ Charles Fillmore
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.- Farrah Fawcett
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.~ Winston Churchill (in Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran)
Love doesn't make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile!- Franklin Jones
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.- Lao-Tzu
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.~ Judy Garland
"We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful what we pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut
Adversity is the first path to truth.- George Gordon Byron, 'Don Juan'
In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.~ Allen Klein (The Lift-Your-Spirits Quote Book)
"To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing"-Author Unknown
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.- Buddha
Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.- La Rochefoucauld
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.- Harry S Truman
If good work came easily, everybody would be doin' it. - Louis Armstrong
Discipline: doing what you have to do and doing it as well as you possibly can, and doing it that way all the time. Bobby Knight
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."- Henry Kissinger
If you can't see it, before you see it, you'll never see it.~ Dr. Jack Graham
Financial statements are like fine perfume: to be sniffed but not swallowed.- Abraham Briloff
"Caveat actor." (Let the doer beware.) -Latin proverb
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~ Emily Dickinson
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.~ Richard M. Nixon (Leaders)
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.- Thoreau
HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT KNOWING THESE THINGS?
1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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2. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
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4. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
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5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska
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6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
( now get this...)
7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
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8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
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9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour:
61,000
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10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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12. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
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13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter:
Tom Sawyer.
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14. Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David,
Hearts - Charlemagne,
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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17. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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18. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
John Hancock and Charles Thomson.
Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
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20. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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21. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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22. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.
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23. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
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Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
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Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song
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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name
requested?
A. Obsession
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
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Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
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Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
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Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
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1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.
Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
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2. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
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3. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down.
It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
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4. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service.
"Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
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5. In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex.
The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consentof the King) on it.
Now you know where that came from.
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6. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
" The apparel industry is based on 4 basic actions: Thermochemistry, Lubrication, Friction, and Muscle Contraction..................The rest is just drama" ---Brad Ellman
It occurred to me that the 70 virgins promised to terrorists who martyr themselves are probably all old ugly lesbian separatists who will demand that they be supported in the manner to which they think they are entitled. -Al Hillix
“The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that’s consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.” -Dean Kamen
All children draw, and for some reason, most of them stop. -Damien Hirst
Lepords don't change their spots. -Brad Ellman
Laughter and grief are two sides of the same coin. -William Shatner
Good things take time. Rome was not built in a day. -Anon
I lost my belief in politicians. They all seem like game show hosts to me. -Sting
Dreams are the subconscious' playground. -Jake
The best defense is a good offense. -Charlie Rose
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." –John F. Kennedy
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." –Winnie the Pooh
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."--- Mencius
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." –Stone Temple Pilots
"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." –Dave Matthews Band
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"
"Everyone hears what you say. Best Friends listen to what you say, and don't say."
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each othereverywhere"–Tim McGraw
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."–Lee Iacocca
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." ---Nigerian Proverb
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."---unknown
Walk a Mile in My Shoes (words & music by Joe South)
If I could be you, if you could be me
For just one hour, if we could find a way
To get inside each other's mind
If you could see you through my eyes
Instead your own ego I believe you'd be
I believe you'd be surprised to see
That you've been blind
Walk a mile in my shoes
just walk a mile in my shoes
Before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Then walk a mile in my shoes
Now if we spend the day
Throwin' stones at one another
'Cause I don't think, 'cause I don't think
Or wear my hair the same way you do
Well, I may be common people
But I'm your brother
And when you strike out
You're tryin' to hurt me
It's hurtin' you, Lord how mercy
Now there are people on reservations
And out in the ghetto
And brother there, but, for the grace of God
Go you and I,
If I only had wings of a little angel
Don't you know, I'd fly
To the top of a mountain
And then I'd cry, cry, cry
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Ruiz Quotes:
In life if you had to go through either in pain or be numb, which would you choose. -Leo Biscallia
There is nothing like a fine chick taking off her panties.
Demenor is everything.
He who gets mad first losses.
Don't drown in shallow water
Never underestimate the power of denial
Just because I'm on a diet does not mean I can't look at the menu-Ruiz (When Patti accused Burt of hustling at a party.)
It was like trying to learn comedy from a book
Life is how you do it. Most people don't live, they exist. -Humberto Ruiz Jr.
He who has friends is never poor.
We mach what we don't understand.
There are those who initiate, those who imitate, and those who go with the flow.
Your either a pimp or a whore.
A fool wanders. A wise man travels.
Yo' we'll design a blender and make it outa 18kt gold. Then we'll put a Mercedes emblem on the front, and a cadillac emblem on the back. You know what I mean? It's gonaa be tight.
Men use love to get sex. Women use sex to get love.
The more you know the less you need.
People learn thier lessons too late.
The more I learn about my fellow man, the more I like my dog.
Artists are messengers.
You don't choose art, art chooses you!.
The essence of the Godfather was really about Loyalty.
We pay one way or another for everything in life.
"That is the price of progress"-refering to the blacks and American Indians.
Burt"I speak German", 'Of Course you do'-German Chick
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Mylady, would you sleep with me for a million pounds? Certainly. . . Would you sleep with me for ten pounds? Certainly not!! What do you think I am a prostitute? Well, we've already established that, now we're just haggling over the price. -George Bernard Shaw (MH)
The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. ~ Helen Keller
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - Ralph Gerard
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." -Eden Phillpotts
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing
change--breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so
that something new and better can take their place.
~ Susan Taylor
"The secret of great art is to leave out all but the essentials" -Oliver Wendell Holmes......... (Brad Ellman)
Faith makes yesterday a stepping stone, today a new beginning, and tomorrow a limitless possibility. -Anon (sent in by Patti Kraft)
"Men and women mix just like vinegar and water. That is why you need to keep mixing them. Otherwise, they will separate". Alan Alda, American actor (1936-) (sent in by Carolyn Hanigan)
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its
writing."
-Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Never explain - your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.- Elbert Hubbard
The astronaut goes to the stars to grasp the experience......... The astronomer looks at them from afar in safety. -Brad Ellman
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am
I? And if not now, when?
- Rabbi Hillel
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
-Rudyard Kipling
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek,
but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue
peaceful ends through peaceful means."
-Martin Luther King Junior
Happiness is not found by searching for it, because you find it only
when you realize you already have it.
~ David Charles
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you
will find strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we
don't like?"
-- Jean Cocteau
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
from."
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. -William M. Winans (MH)
"Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to
doing them."
-Jawaharlal Nehru
Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
- Tobias S. Gibson
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust
your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt. ~ Thomas Secker
"The expert at anything was once a beginner."
-Hayes
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
- Samuel Davies
The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily
and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.
- Cecil B. De Mille(DR)
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the lack of order which makes us slaves; the confusion of today discounts the freedom of tomorrow. -Henri Frederic Amiel, from Order and Freedom(MH)
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. ~ Susan Taylor
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one
another in a spirit of brotherhood.
~ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (U.N. Article 1.10 December 1948)
The only rose without a thorn is frendship. -Anon (sent in by Patti)
-You're best off dancing with who brung ya. -Brad Ellman
Some figures in history, renowned in their day, grow smaller with the passing of time. -George W. Bush
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
> To live is to be slowly born.> - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Put in a book or file, stamp it top secret, and leak it! ---George P. Shultz, on how to handle significant news. (Brad Ellman)
To Realize
To realize the value of ten years:
Ask a newly divorced couple.
To realize the value of four years:
Ask a graduate.
To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.
To realize the value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.
To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.
To realize the value of a friend:
Lose one.
Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.
The origin of this letter is unknown, but it brings good luck to everyone
who passes it on. Do not keep this letter. Just forward it to friends to
whom you wish good luck.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. -Charlie Rose
Things are always at their best in their beginning.
~ Blaise Pascal (QL)
People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external
relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good
fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his
own way.
~ Soren Kierkegaard (QL)
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (QL)
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every
dream precedes the goal.
~ Ralph Vaull Starr (QL)
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we
have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it. ~ Leo Buscaglia (QL)
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is
in it.~ Mark Twain (QL)
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ~ Mahatma Gandhi (QL)
"I love fools' experiments; I am always making them."
- Charles Darwin - (Brad Ellman)
Only the dead saw the end of the war. -Plato (Al H)
Humanity would become totally aligned if all of a sudden we were attacted by aliens from the outside world. -Tony Robbins
We have to take control of our own mind. The first way to take control of your life is to change what you are focusing on. -Tony Robbins
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest
significance.
- Pablo Casals (DR)
You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.
- Alex Morrison (DR)
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Dr. Seuss (MH)
Take your time, think a lot,
Think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not.
~ Cat Stevens (QL)
"Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through
work and struggle."
-Feodor Dostoyevsky (DR)
"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such
an absurd world."
-Georges Duhamel (DR)
"Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those
with which they do not happen to be familiar.''
-Ellen Glasgow (DR)
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley (Al Hillix)
People believe strange things because it makes them feel better. -Chris Rea
"the first five minutes of every day determine the entire day"
-- Tom Haggai -- (chairman and CEO of IGA company) (Brad Ellman)
"The best thing to give your enemy is
forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart; to your child,
a good example; to a father, deference;
to your Mother conduct that will make
her proud of you; to yourself, respect;
to all men, charity."
- Francis Maitland Balfour (Chris Rea)
There is nothing worse than having to clean your own toilet after you are used to having someone clean it for you. -Anon
"Inter arma, silent leges." In times of war the law falls silent. -Cicero Roman Poet 2000 years ago.
When one is threatened, any means of securing safetey is honorable. -Cicero
If you are seeking important advice, only seek it from someone who has been down the path you are on. Otherwise it is probably as waste. -Anon
Living is easy with eyes closed--missunderstanding all you see. -The Beatles (Strawberry Feilds)
It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again. - Vincent Lombardi
Treatury is everywhere.-The Godfather
We live in a society that thrives on chaos.-Anon
I think that one of the things that we morn when people die, whether or not we bring it to the forefront, is our loneliness. -Dave Mathews
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
-Alexander Graham Bell
"People who don't mind their own business either have no mind or no business."
Leopold Fechtner
(1916- )
American humorist(DR)
If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect some blisters.
-Unknown-
"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.- Mohammed, Islamic prophet(DR)
"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can." --Cary Grant
We should try never to let our happy frame of mind be disturbed. Whether we are suffering at present or have suffered in the past, there is no reason to be unhappy. If we can remedy it, why be unhappy? And if we cannot, what use is there in being depressed about it? That just adds more unhappiness and does no good at all.
-Dalai Lama-
"If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies." --Nadine Stair
When things are bad, remind yourself that it could be worse:.
"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
--Alphonse Karr
"A man should always consider... how much more unhappy he might be than he is." --Joseph Addison
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be
discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)(QL)
"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have
wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved
to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the
world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet (1803-1882)(DR)
I would if I could stand on a busy corner, hat in
hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted
hours.--Bernard Berenson(QL)
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus, philosopher (341-271 B.C.)(DR)
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
-Larry Bird-
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink -- under any circumstances. -Mark Twain(MH)
I use not only the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
--Woodrow Wilson (DR)
If Everybody looked the same. We get tired of looking at each other. -Groove Armada (If everybody looked the Same)
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned
population by force of arms forever. There is no
greater power in the universe than the need for
freedom. Against that power, governments and
tyrants and armies cannot stand.--J. Michael
Straczynski ("The Long Twilight Struggle" in
Babylon 5)(QL)
"Superior people never make long visits." --Marianne Moore
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to
eat, if your house is on fire--then you got a
problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
--Robert Fulghum(QL)
You either have to be first, best, or different.
--Loretta Lynn (DR)
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
-Laurence Leamer-
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will- power." --Balzac
Salud, amor y pesetas y el tiempo para gustarlos! Here's to love and wealth and the time to enjoy it all. - old Spanish toast (Maggie)
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple." --Rebecca West
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
-Horace Bushnell
No Stress, No Progress. Kobe Bryant
You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way. -Stephen C Paul
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.--Robert Orben
" Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired and success achieved."- Helen Keller (Chris Rea)
Every day is Chistmas, and every night is New Years Eve. -Sade (The Sweetest Taboo)
When one must, one can."–Yiddish Proverb
A good way to end an era is to give it a name that sticks.
- I. Illich
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
- Roy M. Goodman, U.S senator
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is
like wrapping a present and not giving it.
--William Arthur Ward
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." --Sigmund Freud
"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." --Paul Tillich
"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."
--Pearl Bailey
"A man travels the world in search of what he
needs, and returns home to find it."
- George Moore, author (1852-1933)(DR)
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essays: First Series (Quote Lady)
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are
unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail, businessman (1845-1920)
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Creativity is a great motivator because it
makes people interested in what they are doing.
Creativity gives hope that there can be a
worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the
possibility of some sort of achievement to
everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and
more interesting.--Edward de Bono (Serious
Creativity)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." --H. L. Mencken
Heroism... is endurance for one moment more.
--George Kennan (Letter to Henry Monroe Rogers,
July 25, 1921)
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." --Helen Keller
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One cannot both feast and become rich." --Ashanti proverb
Be concerned, not obsessed, with your health:
"My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become THE imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test."
--Ellen Goodman
"When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans - common sense."
--Vincent Askey
"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead." --James Thurber
The best mind-altering drug is truth."
--Lily Tomlin
Discipline shows they care. -Frank Lay
If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
-Guy Finley-
Great souls have wills; feeble ones only have wishes.
-Chinese Proverb
"You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the
world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality."
Walt Disney
(1901-1966)
American film producer
Validating existance-Frank Lay
Only a person with a positive mind, thinking positive thoughts can get positive results! -Anon
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, Pause and Reflect-Anon
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through
failure." --William Saroyan
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a
steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison (Patti Jo)
"I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'"
--Tallulah Bankhead
View self-control as a valuable personal resource:
"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." --Lao-tzu
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
--Lucille Ball (DR)
All big things in this world are done by people
who are naive and have an idea that is
obviously impossible.--Frank Richards
One very important aspect of motivation is the
willingness to stop and to look at things that
no one else has bothered to look at. This
simple process of focusing on things that are
normally taken for granted is a powerful
source of creativity...--Edward de Bono
(Serious Creativity)(QL)
"You had better live your best and act your best and think
your best today; for today is the sure preparation for
tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
--Harriet Martineau
Did I ever tell you the Dutch expression of a very similar thought? It's
very concise: Goedkoop is duurkoop. Literally, cheap is expensive.
"The secret of life -- is enjoying the passage of time"
James Taylor (sent in by David Rosenthal)
The man of genius inspires us with a bound-
less confidence in our own powers.--Ralph
Waldo Emerson ("Encyclopedia")
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother."
- Theodore Hesburgh, educator (DR)
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
--Charles Schwab
"Live every day as if it is your last...one day you'll be right!" -Chistopher Caen
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile,
nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to
one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to
trust you with a friendship."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)(DR)
The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with.
Success depends on which one we use the most.
--Ann Landers (DR)
The solution to a problem changes the nature of
the problem.--John Peers (1,001 Logical Laws)
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide." --Napoleon
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress.
-Alfred A. Montapert-
If someone has already said it better than you can, quote:
"Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit." --Christian N. Bovee
"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it." --Anatole France
A strong, positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
--Patricia Neal (DR)
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a
net for catching days. It is scaffolding on
which a worker can stand and labor with both
hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-
up of reason and order--willed, faked, and so
brought into being.--Anne Dillard (The Writing
Life
"You can understand and relate to most people
better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they
may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow
up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure,
we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like
adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose
needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy
tales." - Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)(DR)
"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide
forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
- Elizabeth Stone (1749-1828). (DR)
I would rather excel others in the knowledge
of what is excellent than in the extent of my
powers and dominion.--Alexander the Great (in
Plutarch's Lives)
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate
version of someone else."
--Judy Garland
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."
--Jawaharlal Nehru
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
--G. K. Chesterton
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
--Martha Grimes
The world, after all our sciences, is still a miracle: wonderful,
inscrutable, magical and more, to whoever will think of it. - Thomas Carlyle (Sent in by Patti Jo Kraft)
"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad
woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."
- George Burns (Maggie's QOD)
"Money gets things done." --John deCastro, president of the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other
person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
-Eugene Kennedy (sent in by David Rosenthal)
"When you buy a box of cereal, you're paying for the scenery, the weather and the culture. That's the cost of living in or near San Francisco."--Ted Gibson
351. Effort-While some people only dream of worthy accomplishments, others stay awake and achieve them. -Anon (Sent in by Susan Traina.)
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
- Scottish Proverb (sent in by David Rosenthal)
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
-Alexander Graham Bell-
"Live free or die." - New Hampshire state motto
Life is like the seasons. First there is laughter, then those tears. -Frank Sinatra
It's never enough, it's never enough, until your heart stops beating. -New Order.
Age has extremely little to do with anything that
matters. The difference between one age and
other is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.
--Rose McCaulay (Dangerous Ages)
Thunder only happens when it's raining. Players only love you when their playing. -Fleetwood Mac (Rumers)
"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having
new eyes."
- Marcel Post (sent in by Steve Smith)
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the
constant use of four simple words: "I do not know."
--Andre Maurois (French writer)(sent in by Al Hillix)
"Nothing prevents our being natural as the
desire to seem so." -Arthur Schopenhauer (maggie.a.e.huckeba@us.arthurandersen.com)
The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually
busy man does not get much farther.--Sir Heneage
Ogilvie
"You never know what you can do without until you try."
-- Franklin Pierce Adams
(1881–1960)
American journalist (Sent in by David Rosenthal)
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.-Marcus Garvey
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Question:
It is time to elect a new, world leader, and your vote counts. Here
are the facts about the three leading candidates:
Candidate A:
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10
martinis a day.
Candidate B:
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in
college, and drinks a quart of whisky every evening.
Candidate C:
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks
an occasional beer, and hasn't had any extramarital affairs.
Which of these candidates would be your choice? Decide first. No
peeking. Then scroll down for the answer.
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Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt
Candidate B is Winston Churchill
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler
Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.
Remember: amateurs built the ark - Professionals built the Titanic.
(Sent in by Debbie Behrakis)
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"When things go wrong, don't go with them."
--Anon.
"Despair is criminal."
--Samuel Johnson
"When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you
get lucky."
--Armmand Hammer
"This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction."
--Henry David Thoreau
Don't romanticize marriage:
"Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate
embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering
to take out the trash."
--Dr. Joyce Brothers
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the
fear of failure.--Jack Lemmon (interview on
Signiture (television program), 1987)
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real
life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be
gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a
debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that
these obstacles were my life."
---Alfred D'Souza (sent in by Melissa Pritchard)
"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they
should learn the art of making love."
--Ann Landers
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-Dolly Parton-
There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
-Kurt Hahn-
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
-Dennis Waitley-
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All quotes in these lines sent in by david Rosenthal
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand
like a rock."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
-Henry Miller
Treat the light things in life very seriously, and the serious things very
lightly.
--Elsa Maxwell
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper
must awaken."
- Frank Herbert (1920-1986)
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes
life meaningful." - Joshua Marine
"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly
trained certified public accountants."
-- Elvis Presley
(1935 -- 1977)
American singer
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right
in America." - William Jefferson Clinton
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"The trouble with many married people is that they are trying
to get more out of marriage than there is in it."
--Elbert Hubbard
The real test of a company's strength is how it handles bad times. -The Economist
Thunder only happens when it raining. Players only love you when they're playing. -Fleetwood Mac
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence." -Helen Keller
Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.
-Greg Norman-
Service can have no meaning unless one takes
pleasure in it. When it is done for show or
for fear of public opinion it stunts the man
and crushes his spirit. Service which is
rendered without joy helps neither the servant
nor the served. But all other pleasures and
possessions pale into nothingness before
service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
--Mahatma K. Gandhi (Experiments)
Procrastination is the fear of success.
People procrastinate because they are afraid
of the success that they know will result if
they move ahead now. Because success is
heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it
is much easier to procrastinate and live on
the "someday I'll" philosophy.--Denis Waitley
The world lets you be what you make them believe you are, and then you will achieve. -Jake Steinfeld. (Body by Jake)
There is nothing wrong with walking the line so long a you are aware that you are walking the line. It's when you are walking the line, and you are not aware of it, that you get in trouble. -Aini Karkainian
Beware of people who shy away from enlightenment. -Ruiz
If you are not disiplined, you are not free. Lisa Watts
I'm not afraid to die, I'm not afraid to live, and when I'm flat on my back I hope to feel like I did. -U2 (Song: Kite, Album: All that you can't leave behind)
Simplicity is the essence of style-Greg Talley
It's better to burn out, than to fade away. -Vincent Valdes
Your life is the one place you have to spend
yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an
unrationed profligacy of self... And in that
split second when you understand that you
finally are about to die--to uncreate the
world no time to do it over no more chances--
that instant when you realize your conscious
existence is truly flaring nova, won't you
want to have used up all-all-the splendor that
you are?--Robin Morgan
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives
are developed.--Michael Pritchard
What you risk reveals what you value.------Jeanette Winterson (sent in by Melisa Pritchard)
- "It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. If the--if he--if "is" means is and never has been, that is not - that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement." --Willaim Jefferson Clinton - Grand jury testimony, August 17, 1998 (Sent in By Brett Sharkey)
"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."--Anon.
How many cares on loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. -Coco Chanel
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress.
-Alfred A. Montapert-
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be
anything that will assert integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision against the play-it
-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the
slaves of the ordinary.--Sir Cecil Beaton
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill (Sent in by David Rosenthal)
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
- Pablo Picasso, artist (1881-1973)(Sent in by David Rosenthal)
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes (Supreme Court Justice)
The candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long. -Anon
Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain-
The Serenity prayer: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
An active mind is a healthy mind.-Ralph Martin (Barber)
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.--Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed." --Charles de Montesquieu
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. -Anthony Robbins
"I learned something early in life. If you sell, you'll never starve. In any
other profession, you can find yourself out on the street saying, 'They don't
want me anymore.' But if you can sell, you will never go hungry."
George Foreman (1949-) American boxing champion (Sent in by David Rosenthal)
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire, French author-philosopher (1694-1778)(Sent in by David Rosenthal)
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? --Marcel Marceau (Sent in by David Rosenthal)
After the final no there comes a yes, and on that yes the future world
depends.------Wallace Stevens (sent in by Melisa Pritchard)
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
--Vince Lombardi (Sent in by Lisa Watts)
"It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of
taking time to do anything well."
--Joseph Ross (Sent in by Lisa Watts)
Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
--Michael Jordan (Sent in by David Rosenthal)
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by
not dying.
- Woody Allen (Sent in by David Rosenthal)
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubbard, author (1856-1915) (Sent in by David Rosenthal)
Living life on the edge only icreases your balance. -Anon (sent in by Carolyn Hanigan)
Success is not getting what you want--its wanting what you get. -Anon (sent in by Melissa Pritchard)
"The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity, who is himself humbled if necessity compels himself to another: who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company. A man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." -John Walter Wayland, care of Theodore Purcell Jr.
Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and
persistence, is the quality that most frequently
makes for success.--Dale Carnegie
JackieO-baching raising your kids-falure
If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking
risks, and that means you're not going anywhere.
The key is to make mistakes faster than the
competition, so you have more changes to learn
and win.--John W. Holt, Jr. (Celebrate Your
Mistakes)
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary
to popular belief, is more powerful in the
mature than the young.--W. Somerset Maugham
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written by Audrey Hepburn, who was asked to share her "beauty tips." (Sent in by Debbie Behrakis)
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a
day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even
more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and
redeemed; never throw out anyone. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will
discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for
helping others. The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the
figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a
woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her
heart, the place where love resides. The beauty of a woman is not in a
facial mole, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is
the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows.
The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
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The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and
unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.-----Gordon Parks (sent in by Melisa Pritchard)
ZZ Quotes. QOD2
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. -Confucius
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon."- Susan Ertz
Trust, but verify.-Ronald Reagan
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.-Willa A. Foster
Do that which results in taking no action and order will prevail. -Toa Te Ching?
A hard head makes a soft as. -Jacki
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for
everything you gain, you lose something else.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson(QL)
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10
> > empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
> > - President George W. Bush *(Jim Sheppard)
Admiral Yammamoto immediately following Pearl Harbor: "I think we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with terrible
resolve." (David Barsotti)
Mature love is not two people gazing inward toward each other, but two people gazing outward in the same direction together. -Teola Young
men get married hoping the woman will never change
women get married hoping it will change the man
neither ever happens! -Teola
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
-- John F. Kennedy
If you can't be honest in your own house then it is not a home. -Brad Ellman
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. -Henry Miller
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. -Charles Dickens
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is
history in the process of being changed.
~ Jim Wallis (The Soul of Politics: a Practical and Prophetic Vision for
Change)
As children we all possess a natural
uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for
explanations, which seems to die slowly as we
age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to
appear ignorant.--Mahlon Hoagland (Toward a
Habit of Truth)
You're only here for a short visit. Don't
hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the
flowers along the way.--Walter Hagen
The moment may be temporary,
but the memory is forever.
-Bud Meyer
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. -Norman Vincent Peale
Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur(MH)
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. -Roy L Smith
The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do. -Walter Bagehot-
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance. - Barry Bonds(MH)
Veni, Vedi, Vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) - Julius Caesar
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of
cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort
to confer that pleasure on others? Half the
battle is gained if you never allow yourself to
say anything gloomy.--Lydia M. Child.(QL)
"The path to excellence is made smoother when we support each other"
-- Poh Yu Khing (DR)
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
- Madonna
Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference between a date and a job interview is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you'll wind
up naked at the end of it. - Seinfeld
So much there is to catch,
And the years so short,
That there is scarce time to snatch
Pen, palette, or aught,
And to seize some shape we can see,
That others may keep
Its moment of mystery,
Then go to our sleep.
-Lord Dunsany
Sex is like pizza...if it's good, it's great...if it's bad, it's still pretty good. - Chevy Chase
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.--Roger von Oech
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. -James Rogers-
You are worth what you get paid-Anon
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the
heavens above him is nothing but the roof. - Walter Lippmann (MH)
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be." -Socrates, philosopher (470-399 B.C.)(DR)
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't. -Pete Seeger-
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.- Virginia Woolf(DR)
"We are often so caught up in our destination, that we forget to appreciate
the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way."
- Anonymous (DR)
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. -Napoleon Hill-
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is
an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that
important. Just lie down.--Natalie Goldberg
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The
worst thing you can do is nothing."
-Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. president (1858-1919)
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. -Carol Burnett-
Some people who yearn for endless life don't even know what to do with a rainy afternoon. -Harvey H. Potthoff-
Simplicity is. . . a love of the essential and of directness. Simple people put no trimmings on their phrases, nor on their manners; simplicity is not crudeness nor anything like it. On the contrary, simplicity of speech and manners means language in its purest, most limpid form, and manners of such
perfection that they do not suggest manner at all. - Emily Post (MH)
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: Not merely to grasp the
world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson, author (DR)
If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh (MH)
"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin, inventor (1706-1790)(DR)
The world is full of wonders and miracles but man
takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.--Israel Baal Shem
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by
asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.--Edgar Watson
Howe
I realize that nothing is as it seems. -Sting (desert Rose)
I don't know the key to success,but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. - Bill Cosby (1937- )
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies
of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)(QL)
"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail." --John Donne
Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
--Unknown
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are
infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." - Oscar Wilde,
writer (1854-1900)
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of
a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the
grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only
plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France, writer (1844-1924)
"All life is an experiment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, author (1803-1882)
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It moves stones. It charms brutes. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton (MH)
"Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best." --Sir Laurence Olivier
"You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!" --Abe Lemons
"A good garden may have some weeds." --Thomas Fuller
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man; but sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
-Vince Lombardi-
True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular, it lets itself be
touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the
better one knows it, the more one admires it. -Jean de la Bruyere satirist circa 1650's
If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
-Andy Rooney-
After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for
you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply
sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. - P. J. O'Rourke (MH)
If you think you can, or you think you can't, your right!
-Henry Ford-
"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand,
we can open all our own jars."
--Bruce Willis (On the difference between men and women)
"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on
me.
And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan."
--George Burns
"What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere? 'Hold
my purse.' "
--Sandra Bullock
"The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted
sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there.
Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire' and the
computer will ask, 'Specify type of goat.'" --Jason Alexander (George
Castanza on
Seinfeld)
"Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die." --Carmen Boyle (Olympic
Luge Gold Medal winner - 1996)
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole
relationships." --Sharon Stone
"My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the
natural enemy of a tightrope walker." --Dan Rather (News anchorman)
"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, 'Thyroid
problem?'" --Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men.
Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps." --Tiger Woods
"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in
poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are
apparently doing quite well for themselves." --Jerry Garcia (Grateful
Dead)
"I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by
a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot." --Axel Rose
(Guns'n'Roses)
When a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him. ~ Talmud
"I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
--Bernard Berenson
"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."
--Charles Darwin
Remember, nobody wins unless everybody wins.
~ Bruce Springsteen (in Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s by Marsh)
-The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only
through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give
it stability.
~ Paul Valery
-There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps
the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood. ~ Aaron Hill
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
--William James
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
--Francis Bacon
“An economist is a man that can tell you . . . what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s too.”
--Will Rogers
“If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.”
--Norman Augustine
“The instability of the economy is equaled only by the instability of economists.”
--John Henry Williams
Added Octber of 2005
QOD
I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. Their turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. They were going to succeed. Some people make that decision at 15. Some people make it at 50. Most people never make it at all. ~ Brian Tracy
But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. –Aristotle
Education is the transmission of civilization. –Will Durant
“It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing—a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. –Albert Einstein (Furthermore, the equation E = mc?, in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa. The mass and energy were in fact equivalent, according to the formula mentioned before. This was demonstrated by Cockcroft and Walton in 1932, experimentally. “Atomic Physics”. J. Arthur Rank Organization, Ltd. (1948)
Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A library is
a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.
~ Tamora Pierce
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it
is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward
Architecture is Frozen Music. –Goethe
Strength over Time is Power. –Oprah
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. –Oprah
When you know better you do better. –Oprah
Inventiveness leaps beyond competence,
and utilizes a sense of freedom
to venture beyond the known.
It is a personal resource
developed from multiple experiences,
a muscle strengthened with practice and frequent use.
~ Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration 3-12-2004)
Some cause happines wherever they go; others whenever they go. –Oscar Wilde
Sometimes great things are born out of mistakes. –Brad Ellman
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
~ Alan Dershowitz
You can tell a lot about a man, not by the way he treats people he needs, but by how he treats people he does not need. –Jake 3
In questions of science,
the authority of a thousand
is not worth the humble reasoning
of a single individual.
~ Galileo Galilei
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
African proverb
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle [Jake's Favorite]
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
Axel Munthe
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
Barbara Ehrenreich
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.
Claudian
It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.
Denis Fonvizin
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
F.A. Hayek
It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
You can never have a revolution in order to establish democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
G. K. Chesterton
In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.
G. Norman Collie
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, are right.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
-------------------Begin Thomas Edison
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness..... –Thomas Edison
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. –Thomas Edison
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose...
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation.... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value....
Edison's favorite piece of poetry was stanza nine from Thomas Gray's Elegy To A Country-Churchyard, which he perpetually recited within earshot of his many associates:
"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. –Thomas Edison
I start where the last man left off.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Religion is all bunk.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
What you are will show in what you do.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
--------------------------------------------End Thomas Edison
I have been around too long to know that it is never as good as it is and it is never as bad as it seems. –Anon
My country is the world. My countrymen are mankind." –Tom Paine
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. –Anon
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. Anon
I am the worlds greates architect. –Frank Lloyd Wright
If they can get you asking the wrong questions,
they don't have to worry about the answers.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The end is nothing, the process is all. –Willa Chather
Only a city as beautifl as San Francisco could sruvive what you people are doing to it. Frank Lloyd Wright (Autobiography 1950s)
It is the weak man who urges compromise–never the strong man. ~Anon
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.,
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say,
"We've always done it that way."
I try to fight that.
That's why I have a clock on my wall
that runs counterclockwise.
~ Grace Hopper
Look underneath the covers of an ovenight success story and you usually see a lot of work, a lot of years. –Steve Jobs
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. –Steve Jobs
–Every man I meet is my superior to me in at least one way. In that I learn of him. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't fight forces, use them. –Buckminister Fuller
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. –Thomas Edison
Real artists ship. –Steve Jobs
Don't follow leaders. Watch the Parking meters. –Bob Dylan
"All operating systems become cancerous with age." Jean Louis Gassee
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
Will Rogers, 1879-1935
If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther. John Wooden
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. –Robert Collier
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. –Thaddeus Golas
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. –Diana Rankin
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. –Helen Keller
This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. –Ayn Rand
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. –John H. Patterson
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. –Japanese proverb
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. –Marcus Aurelius
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. –Anon
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. –Chinese Proverb
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. –Les Brown
Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world. –Anon
The best vision is insight. –Malcolm S. Forbes
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. –Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. –Robert Collier
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. –Francis Bacon
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. –Henry David Thoreau
Knowing your destination is half the journey. –Anon
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. –Adlai E. Stevenson
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. –George Bernard Shaw
Capital isn't scarce; vision is. –Sam Walton
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. –Napoleon Hill
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.–Julius Caesar
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth. Unknown Author
Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. –Frank Gaines
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. –Henry Ford
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. –St. Augustine
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. –Denis Waitley
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ~Anon
God spelled backward is Dog. Think about the literal and hidden meaning in this fact. –Jake
My interest is in the future; as I'm going to be spending the rest of my life there. –Charles Kettering
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is going. –Wayne Gretsky
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. –Aristotle
If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.–Sir Isaac Newton
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. –Duane Michals
Living a life without limits is the highest state of existence. –Lieh Tzu
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. –Norman Vincent Peale
Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. –Francis Gray
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. –Daniel H. Burnham
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. –Anon
My favorite quote by him is: "If you look around the bargaining table and you don't see the sucker, guess what? It's you." –Mark Cuban
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. –Anon
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anon
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. –Anon
Life cannot go on without much forgetting. –Anon
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see. –Winston Churchill
On Busyness. Let's say you have two people. One always tells people that the reason they have not got something done is because they are sooo busy; the other never tells anybody how busy he is or has been. What is the difference between the person who uses the excuse that they are busy versus the one who does not? The one who does not is obviously more effective. I mean, who does not think they are not busy? –Jake 3
Trail and error is your best freind. –Trey Cannon (note: separating fact from fiction.)
It is better to have a hen tomorrow that an egg today. –Chinese Proverb
I don't know about having too much zeal; but I think it is better the pot should boil over than not boil at all. ~ Unknown
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Patience is the companion of wisdom. –Saint Augustine
Don't believe what you read, and only believe half of what you see. –Lance Armstrong
The wheels of justice grind slowly. –Anon
All that evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Learn from your own experience and find your own voice. –Jim Page
Most people want the deal more than they want the dignity. –Steve Crouch
"I go to computer shops and hang around and listen to people. I find it fascinating. I know it sounds corny, but the biggest kick I get is to see people smiling when they see the iMac. You don't usually see a lot of people smiling in computer stores."
-- Jonathan Ives, vice president of Apple's Industrial Design Group and head of the iMac design team (September 17, 1998)
In an interview, Lenny Bruce was asked how honest he was, and he responded, "I am as honest as I can afford to be." –Lenny Bruce
"Always carve away from yourself" –Charles Y. Pyle
The relationship of the editor to the writer is the relationship of the knife to the throat
--Paul Jacobs
Cassady often said, "If you want to be loved, be lovely." –Ken Kesey, bus driver, author
"Wealth might be acquired by 'luck,' but proper cultivation was the birthright of every child born of cultivated parents. . . . Volumes full of "manners" acquired after they are grown are not worth half so much as the simplest precepts acquired through lifelong habits and through having known nothing else." -Post's Etiquette, 1920
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not the attainment. –Alan Gussow (I would also add Success)
"When a man has a world in his hands, you expect to find a Rolex on his wrist" –Rolex
Books lie in wait for our readiness...Bruno Bettelheim
There is ... only one categorical imperative.
It is: Act only according to that maxim
by which you can at the same time will
that it should become a universal law.
~ Immanuel Kant (Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals)
We teach what we need to learn.
~ Gloria Steinem (Revelation From Within)
We are in truth,
more than half what we are by imitation.
The great point is
to choose good models and to study them with care.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The moment one gives a close attention
to anything,
even a blade of grass,
it becomes a mysterious,
awesome,
indescribably magnificent
world unto itself.
~ Henry Miller
There are no secrets, only information you don't have. –Adam Curry
As long as you got it good, you gota make it good. –Paul Anka
Nothing gives a man
a sense of failure so often
as an overdeveloped sense of perfection.
~ George S. Odiorue
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.,
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.,
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission
can alter the course of history.
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. –Napoleon Bonaparte
You gotta find a good woman. Not too smart, not too dumb. Not too old, not too young. One that can cook and clean. –Saddam Hussein
You are pushing the wall and it ain't moving. –Mark Raddo
To be persuasive, one must be believable.
To be believable, we must be credible.
To be credible, we must be truthful.
~ Edward R. Murrow
"No-one, but no-one, is his equal, or ever will be. He was, and is supreme."
-- Mick Jagger referring to Elvis
The path to the good life is directly beneath you at this exact moment.
Success is creating something original and lasting--
whether it is a company,
a work of art,
an idea or analysis that influences others,
or a happy and productive family.
~ Linda Chevez
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock. –Anon
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. –Anon
"Eventually all mechanical devices fail" –Jason Paycheck
Knowing where you can cheat, that is what success is about in business and life. –John Hanford (July 7, 2005)
To repeat what others have said, requires education;
to challenge it, requires brains.
~ Mary Pettibone Poole
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will.
~ Frank L. Wright
It's not what you don't do that counts in business. It's what you do. –Michael Eisner
"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away, Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference" –Steve Jobs at Stanford Keynote Graduation
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. –Frank Lloyd Right
The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or who has studied international politics, will have discovered that, if he had to prosper, it must, to some degree, become amalgamated with other herds. ~Anon
"You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down and it has made all the difference in my life.
"You have to find what you love. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
"Your time is limited. Don't waste it living someone else's life. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Steve Jobs
The longer I live, the more my mind dwells
upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
~ John Burroughs
The task of worrying
is to come up with positive solutions
for life's perils
by anticipating dangers
before they arise.
If we are preoccupied by worries,
we have that must less attention to expend
on figuring out the answers.
Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies,
propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.
~ Daniel Goleman
Tomorrow is our permanent address.
~ E. E. Cummings
It is true that if we look after others,
God will look after us--
and do a lot better job of it than we can.
~ Arthur E. Yensen
To get this kind of performance, Trevithick said Four Seasons screens applicants to see if they have a "passion for service."
Four Seasons examines new employee applicants first for attitude, and then for knowledge and the ability to learn. The screening is intense: Before hiring, every employee has an interview with the general manager, along with his or her other supervisors.
"We're not looking for the most qualified," Trevithick said. "We're looking for people with a passion to do the right thing."
Only in the oasis of silence
can we drink deeply
from the inner cup of wisdom.
~ Sue Patton Thoele
"Many hands make light work." –Chinese Proverb
The object of the game is to find out the object of the game. –Steve Crouch
No one has ever achieved anything
from the smallest to the greatest
unless the dream was dreamed first.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The hero is known for achievements;
the celebrity for well-knowns.
The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature.
The celebrity reveals the possibilities
of the press and media.
Celebrities are people who make news,
but heroes are people who make history.
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
A library of wisdom,
is more precious than all wealth,
and all things that are desirable
cannot be compared to it.
Whoever therefore claims
to be zealous of truth,
of happiness,
of wisdom
or knowledge,
must become a lover of books.
~ Richard de Bury
Just as you would not neglect seeds
that you planted with the hope that
they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers,
so you must attend to and nourish
the garden of your becoming.
~ Jean Houston
There are three classes of men; lovers of widsom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. –Plato
The greatest difficulty in the world
is not for people to accept new ideas,
but to make them forget old ideas.
~ Tom Peters
The Truest definition of luxury? When you'd rather escape to your life, than from it. –2004 Lexus LS 430 Brochure.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on. –Robert Frost
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ~Anon
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. –Robert Frost (VisaVis Johnathen)
A wise man learns from other peoples mistakes, a fool from his own. –Johnathan Goh
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. –Ronald Reagan
The kind of beauty I want most
is the hard-to-get kind
that comes from within--
strength, courage, dignity.
~ Ruby Dee
Our country--the last remaining superpower on earth--
needs to learn to measure its strength
not by the number of people it can kill
but by the number of people
it can feed, clothe, house, and care for.
~ Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip)
Once you have been confronted
with a life-and-death situation,
trivia no longer matters.
Your perspective grows
and you live at a deeper level.
There's no time for pettiness.
~ Margaretta (Happy) Rockefeller
Experience is one thing you can't get for free. –Oscar Wilde
The process of maturing
is an art to be learned,
an effort to be sustained.
By the age of fifty
you have made yourself what you are,
and if it is good,
it is better than your youth.
~ Marya Mannes
Fashionable and ever changing, it is a different way than the classicism which seeks perfected forms, universality, and timelessness -- but for those who prefer haute couture to pret-à-porter there could be no better choice. –Carlos Perez
All acts performed in the world
begin in the imagination.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
–A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
–The greatest evil a man can do is to stand by and do nothing. –Marci
–Of all these things this is the greatest treason, to do the right thing for the wrong reason. –Marci.
True satisfaction is based on how happy you feel with yourself. This applies for just everything and the happier you are, the less you will want.
Thinking in terms of "class", "taste" and "lifestyle" implies the risk to merely glimpse at what others might think of you. Alas, very few people will notice your $$$ Patek, but many more will think you to be a pretender for wearing a (relatively) cheap Rolex. –Laume
F. Henry Royce (of Rolls-Royce legend) once said "Quality is that which remains, long after the price has been forgotten."
Spend eighty percent of your time
focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow
rather than the problems of yesterday.
~ Brian Tracey
As you go along your own road in life,
you will, if you aim high enough,
also meet resistance....
But no matter how tough the opposition may seem,
have courage still--and persevere.
~ Madeleine Albright
"Tiger includes updates that are at least twice as significant as any single past update. Mac OS X is now getting to the point where significant improvements require a larger time investment. As far as the core OS is concerned, most of the low-hanging fruit has been harvested. Now it's time for Apple to get down to the real work of improving Mac OS X," John Siracusa writes for Ars Technica. –John Siracusa
One can have all the money in the world, give away lots of it, and still be a vindictive, pig-headed, sore loser. It's comforting in a way. Joe Schmo's got an iPod, his wife's got an iPod mini, his kids both have iPod shuffles, and next week he's buying a Mac mini for the family. But, Bill Gates, world's richest man, is forced by his own ego to use some also-ran music player, a third-rate WMA-plying music service, and an OS that's clearly an upside down, backwards, failed attempt at an Apple Mac knock off. Sure, he can afford to have the finest homes and the best cars, but in his very own field, technology, where he made his life, he must settle for second and third-rate hardware and software. Bill Gates is stuck using a Dell running Windows XP and listening to Napster To Go on an iRiver. There is a God. –Mac Daily News (April 26, 2005)
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. –William Congreve
The only people on earth that love Windows are those people who, directly or indirectly, earn a very good living fixing it's problems, writing it's software, making or selling it's hardware or following it's stock. –Al
"Creativity is not a part of its corporate culture, and it never has been. Microsoft made its money doing a better job of executing other people's good ideas. I can't think of anything revolutionary that Microsoft has produced. The next big thing and every other big thing after that will not come out of Redmond. Microsoft leadership lacks vision. Bill Gates is where he is because he is a tenacious and fierce competitor. Neither he nor any of his henchmen have the imagination or social instincts to catch or generate the next big wave. We missed the incredibly high margin business that Google and Yahoo created around search. We missed the music business Apple created around ITunes and IPod. We missed the [freaking] Internet!"
Greatness is all about potential, and you need the right environment to bring it out. Most of the "mediocrity" you see at Microsoft these days is the result of systemic paralysis.–Pogo
It is one of those things where you take a shot and you get lucky, then the more shots you take the luckier you get. –John Hanford
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. –Leo Szilard
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo Szilard
Do you think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth. –Robert Redford
We don't need to reinvent the wheel, we just make sure it's perfectly round before you use it.
Your most valuable asset
can be your willingness to persist
longer than anyone else.
~ Brian Tracey
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." -- Thomas Aquinas
All good books are alike
in that they are truer
than if they had really happened.
~ Ernest Hemingway (Esquire, December 1934)
I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learned. ~Anon
–We are all on the same conveyer belt. –Randolf Chase refering to the inevitability of aging toward death.
–Sweet are the uses of adversity. –Shakespeare.
Through you I learned how great life can be,
how the simple things in life
are really the most important
and how you treat other people
is really all that matters.
~ Lisa Scully-O'Grady
One man's trash is another mans treasure. –Bob Parzick
One glance at a book
and you hear the voice of another person,
perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.
To read is to voyage through time.
~ Carl Sagan
Necessity never made a good bargain. ~Anon
Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. ~Anon
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. ~Anon
Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief. ~Anon
We learn by doing. ~Anon
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. ~Anon
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. ~Anon
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. ~Anon
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Anon
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. ~Anon
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. ~Anon
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action : and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. ~Anon
The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head. ~Anon
Pope John Paul wrote a will. Why didn't he say, instead of all you millions of people coming to Rome, "why don't you do something.' This is one of my big complaints against religion. It is just a diversion of energy towards bullshit. –Bill Maher
Respect is the key determinant
of high-performance leadership.
How much people respect you
determines how well they perform.
~ Brian Tracey
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. ~Anon
Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ~Anon
What you are is God’s gift to you; what you make of it is your gift to God. ~Anon
He who hath many friends hath none. ~Anon
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them. ~Anon
What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read. ~Anon
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. ~Anon
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. ~Anon
Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side. ~Anon
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. ~Anon
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work/ ~Anon
I define self-control, in the beginning of life,
as the choice of achieving what I really want
by doing things I really don't want to do.
Once this becomes a habit,
discipline becomes the choice
of achieving what I really want
by doing the very things I now want to do!
I really believe that a disciplined life
becomes a joy--
but only after we have worked hard to practice it.
~ John Maxwell
"There is Virtue in Action" -Anon
A life without mistakes is not a life. –Lauren Bacall
You can't get a cup of tea large enough
or a book long enough to suit me.
~ C. S. Lewis
Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else,
is powerless against the truth.
~ Thomas Huxley
–The best anti-piracy is to make software, music, and movies inexpensive. –Anon
One thing is certain, and I have always known it--
the joys of my life have nothing to do with age.
~ May Sarton
Money should never be separated from values.
Detached from values
it may indeed be the root of all evil.
Linked effectively to social purpose
it can be the root of opportunity.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
–If we do not know our own history we are doomed to live it as though it was our private fate. –Hannah Erand
–I think it is very important, when you are at my age, to say look, this is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. It is like writing without an eraser. We better get it right. –Jane Fonda in her 60s on death.
Customer acquisition costs a ton more than customer retention. –Anon
"Photography for me is really a matter of observation and perception. Pictures can't tell you everything. Every medium has its own limitations and phototgraphy certainly does have limitations, but a photograph made with integrity by someone on the ground does not tell you the whole truth, but it does not lie to you either. It tells you a partial truth that is true, and that has to be reckoned with and I think that is why it has power.
The great photograph is almost a miracle. I have been working for over 20 years to try and make a great photograph and it's very elusive. It is something that's unpredictable, and it's impovesational, but it would have to contain authentic emotional content, honesty and some kind of formal quality that allows you to feel that emotion and to sense that honesty. Beyond that I can't describe it in words." –Jim Nactway (War photographer)
"even bad pizza is good. It's melted cheese on warm bread." –Ed Levine (Pizza Critic)
Self-responsibility is the core quality
of the fully mature, fully functioning,
self-actualizing individual.
~ Brian Tracey
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties disappear
and obstacles vanish.
~ John Quincy Adams
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~ William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)
Life is a series of experiences,
each of which makes us bigger,
even though it is hard to realize this.
For the world was built to develop character,
and we must learn
that the setbacks and griefs which we endure
help us in our marching onward.
~ Henry Ford
It's tough to build a career, it's tougher to maintain a career. -Donny Osmond
"If you don't get the model exactly right, capitalism can be unforgiving."
--Jerry Kaplan
Co-founder, Onsale
In this world, the optimists have it,
not because they are always right,
but because they are positive.
Even when they are wrong they are positive,
and that is the way
of achievement, correction, improvement, and success.
Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
~ David Landes (The Wealth and Poverty of Nations)
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes
is only the spell of the moment;
the eye of the body
is not always that of the soul.
~ George Sand
You don't have to burn books
to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
~ Ray Bradbury
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. –Dr. Phil
Design is the foundation of everything. –Steve Crouch
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.–John Ruskin
What's one way to combat the effects of falling margins? Build products competitors can't make, and charge a premium for them, at least for a while. ?Richard Shim
Most people achieved their greatest success
one step beyond
what looked like their greatest failure.
~ Brian Tracey
Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense,
the stuff of which reality is made.
It is through our dreams
that we maintain the possibility
of a better, more meaningful life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.
~ Benjamin R. Barber
(Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy)
"Podcasting is like Wayne's World for radio," Jobs said, and the new ITunes functionality is "sort of like Tivo for your radio for your Ipod." –Steve Jobs
You've achieved success in your field
when you don't know whether what you are doing
is work or play.
~ Warren Beatty
He who is outside his door
already has the hard part of his journey behind him.
~ Dutch proverb
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt (You Learn by Living)
"I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
How well are you socializing your children? Are you teaching your children how the world works?
Or, are you letting them get away with things the world won't let them get away with?
Payoffs for the right behaviors, not the wrong. If you teach a child to go on red and stop on green and then
pitch them the keys and send them out in the world, their life is going to be a wreck. -Dr. Phil
When people show you who they are believe them the first time, because they always show you. -Oprahs favorite quote from Maya Angelou
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Depression is rage turned inward.
Business is a dog eat dog world. government is the opposite. Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Don't ever compromise on your standards or your objectives, because the worst thing is to
compromise and lose. -Mayor Michael Bloomberg
When we have arrived at the question,
the answer is already near.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journal, April 1852)
Was it just more fun to start a company than run one? -Anon
Make a game of finding something positive
in every situation.
Ninety-five percent of your emotions
are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
~ Brian Tracey
A library of wisdom,
is more precious than all wealth,
and all things that are desirable
cannot be compared to it.
Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth,
of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge,
must become a lover of books.
~ Richard de Bury
You do build in darkness if you have faith.
When the light returns
you have made yourself a fortress
which is impregnable to certain kinds of trouble;
you may even find yourself
needed and sought by others as a beacon in their dark.
~ Olga Rosmanith
Your best defense on a patent is good marketing. -Howard Mullin
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
~ Joseph Marie De Maistre
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -Anon
The will to originality
is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else;
it means the desire to derive one's consciousness
from its primary source.
~ Nicolas Berdyeav (The Destiny of Man)
The ultimate weakness of violence
is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have always imagined that Paradise
will be a kind of library.
~ Jorge Luis Borges
Time is of no account with great thoughts.
They are as fresh today as when
they first passed through their author's minds ages ago.
~ Samuel Smiles
Cherish your visions and your dreams
as they are the children of your soul,
the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments.
~ Napoleon Hill
When you feel the world is against you
or you give up hope,
you look at your heroes and say,
"They were able to do it.
They had hard times and a lot of opposition,
but they got through it."
Then you feel, "I can do it too."
~ John Leguizamo
("Who Are Our Heroes?" Parade Magazine, Aug. 6, 1995)
Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
~ Frank Gaines (Forbes)
If there were no death, there would be no religion. -Larry King
The path of freedom is blocked
much more by those who wish to obey
than by those who wish to command.
~ M. D. Petre
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
~ Zig Ziglar
I do the very best I know how. The very best I can;
and I mean to keep doing so until the end.
If the end brings me out alright,
what is said against me won't amount to anything.
If the end brings me out wrong,
ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
~ Abraham Lincoln
"In my life, I have loved and been loved.† Everything else has been background music." -Anon
There are no secrets, only information you don't yet have. -Adam Curry
You cannot tailor make the situations in life,
but you can tailor make the attitudes
to fit those situations before they arise.
~ Zig Ziglar
My time is as valuable to me as your time is to you, and I am not going to wait around for you. -Bob Green
All that mankind has done, thought or been:
it is lying as in magic preservation
in the pages of books.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science
instead of its terrors.
Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts,
eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths,
and encourage the arts and commerce.
~ John F. Kennedy (Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961)
No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere. ~Anon
It is well to be alone.
It fertilizes the creative impulse.
~ Max Nordau
Nothing is so wretched or foolish
as to anticipate misfortunes.
What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
~ Seneca
All good books are alike in that
they are truer than if they had really happened.
~ Ernest Hemingway ("Old Newsmen Writes:
A Letter from Cuba" in Esquire December 1934)
Leaders think and talk about the solutions.
Followers think and talk about the problems.
~ Brian Tracey
Whatever we read from intense curiosity
gives us the model of how we should always read.
Plodding along page after page
with an equal attention to each word
results in attention to mere words.
~ Ernest Dimnet
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last--far off--at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam A. H. H.)
To be perfectly just
is an attribute of the divine nature:
to be so to the utmost of our abilities
is the glory of man.
~ Joseph Addison
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul
and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh.
If he laughs well, he's a good man.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Books are the carriers of civilization.
Without books, history is silent,
literature dumb,
science crippled,
thought and speculation at a standstill.
They are engines of change,
windows on the world,
lighthouses erected in the sea of time.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
("The Book", lecture at the Library of Congress 10/17/1979)
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.~Anon
The reading of all good books
is like conversation
with the finest men of past centuries.
~ Descartes (Discourses on Method)
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. ~Anon
With integrity you have nothing to fear,
since you have nothing to hide.
With integrity you will do the right thing,
so you will have no guilt.
With fear and guilt removed
you are free to be and do your best.
~ Zig Ziglar
Love only grows by sharing.
You can only have more for yourself
by giving it away to others.
~ Brian Tracey
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly:
the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals)
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable.
From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.~ John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.~ George Eliot (Silas Marner)
Happiness and high performance come to you
when you choose to live your life
consistent with your highest values
and your deepest convictions.
~ Brian Tracey
You should love what you do; otherwise what's the point? -Clint Eastwood
I have everything Iv'e ever wanted, but I wanted all the wrong things. --Gabrielle (Desperate Housewives)
Positive thinking won't let you do anything
but it will let you do everything better
than negative thinking will.
~ Zig Ziglar
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself;
intellectual honesty and personal courage
are the hallmarks of great character.
~ Brian Tracey
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog. –Anon
The ignorant work for their own profit;
the wise work for the welfare of the world.
~ Bhagavad-Gita
When a company executive speaks, he/she does so as a 'voice of the company', and therefore cannot in essence reveal the truth. Loose lips can plunge entire markets. An honest executive does not a rich share holder make. –Clie2K
Walt Disney said, "I don't make movies to make money. I make money to make more movies."
Our children are our only hope for the future,
but we are their only hope for their present
and their future.
~ Zig Ziglar
You just said a key word that I always hear in big read letters; and it was "but." But means, forget what I just said, I am now going to tell you what I really think. -Dr. Phil
He who would travel happily must travel light. ~ Antoine Saint-Exupery (Wind, Sand, and Stars)
There is no reality; only perception. -Dr. Phil (This is like the saying: "Perception is Reality.")
"Don't assume me wrong, prove me wrong.' –Gavin Newsom
The Blues had a baby and they named it Rock and Roll. -Muddy Waters
Books are the shoes with which we tread
the footsteps of great minds.
~ Unknown
Thank you to all the people in the world
who are always 10% kinder than they need to be.
That's what really makes the world go round.
~ Helen Exley
It's always a good idea to do what is right. Karma is a vengeful b!tch and you dont want her knocking at your door. -Anon
"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981
"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."-- Bill Gates, 1996
It's always better to ask them to assume. -Jason Dunn
The designer can and should participate in the search for meaning, in the construction of a civilized world. -Philippe Stark
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one-thousand percent!
~ Brian Tracey
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle[Jake's Favorite: This one is for Steve Jobs]
–The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. –Benjamin Disraeli
It’s a key truth about design: the questions you ask limit the answers you can come up with. –Michele Tepper
The Labor Theory of Value: There is no value except that created by labor. –Karl Marx
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. –Muhammad Ali
I knew a man who once said "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back." –Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
What we do in life echoes in eternity. ––Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
There are no facts, only interpretations. –Friedrick Nietzsche
A customer who complains is my best friend.–Anon
Pain comes from an expectancy of control. –Anon
"If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme." –Jiminy Cricket
One man's terrorist is another man's hero. –Anon
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.–Anon
The pursuit of truth can only begin once you start to question and analyze every belief you ever held dear. If a certain belief passes the tests of evidence, deduction, and logic, it should be kept. If it doesn't, the belief should not only be discarded, but you must also question why you were led to believe the erroneous information in the first place. –Socrates
You must do it as a necessity but you must not like it -Hemingway
80% of all questions are statements in disguise. –Dr. Phil
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. –Dr. Phil
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.–Anon
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. –Anon
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. –Anon
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.–Anon
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. –Anon
Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.–Anon
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.–Anon
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.–Anon
Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency in our schedule. –Chris Long
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill
That's like building a house on a plate of Jello. It doesn't matter how nice the Ming vase looks next to the Fabergé eggs, or how fast the place heats up; it's all built on a bad foundation so the chances of anyone wanting to live the good life there are next to none." –Dave Girard
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. –Anon
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. –Anon
Abundance consists not so much in material possessions, but in an uncovetous spirit. ~ John Seldon
Success is a journey, not a destination. ~ Ben Sweetland
Doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. –Anon
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.–Anon
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.–Anon
It is unethical to take money for poor quality performance. –Anon
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. ~ Henry David Thoreau
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~ John Lubbock
–Big companies aren't very good at doing new things. They get focused on what they are doing and it ties up all their energy. –Gordon Moore
If you need money, don't go to a person that has it. Go to somebody who needs it and they will find a way to help you. –Beulah Axton (They will help you because of empathy)
–Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.
There is some strength in knowing others are as weak. –Coffeeman
A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.–Anon
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.–Anon
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.–Anon
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.–Anon
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.–Anon
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.–Anon
Rationalizing only works for the rationalizer. –Coffeeman
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. –Anon
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. –Anon
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When buying a cat, I don't care whether it is a white cat or a black cat. I just care if it kills mice. –Dung Chow Ping
Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it. ~ Nido Qubein
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. –Anon
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer. –Anon
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. –Anon
It is the rare person who,looking back over his life and seeing what he has done to it, hasn't sighed for a chance to redeem what he has cheaply used or carelessly ruined. ~ Samuel Howard Miller (The Life of the Soul)
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~ William Feather
There is a hard law...When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ~ Alan Paton
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. –Anon
Never underestimate the power of excellent tools. –Jake
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.–Anon
I believe in liberty for all men:
the space to stretch their arms and their souls;
the right to breathe and the right to vote,
the freedom to choose their friends,
enjoy the sunshine,
and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color;
thinking, dreaming, working as they will
in a kingdom of beauty and love.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. ~ Michael Landon
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~ Immanuel Kant
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. –Anon
So what is courage?
It is simply acting on
what we know we should do,
regardless of any fear we may have.
It is the choice to disregard worry.
It is the choice to do right,
to pursue our dreams,
to be successful people,
to lead the way for others.
~ Chris Widener
The art of communication is the language of leadership. –Anon
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.–Anon
Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all. –Anon
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. –Anon
Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.–Anon
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. –Anon
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. –Anon
Great dancers are not great because of their technique they are great because of their passion.–Anon
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.–Anon
There are three kinds of things to invest: Time, Talent and Treasure. –Mike Markkula
What is a hero without love for mankind. –Anon
Larry King asked Stephen Hawking what he did not understand about the universe. Stephen replied: "Women."
Never take away anyone's hope. That may be all they have. –Anon
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire
I don't ask questions unless I know the answers. –Dr. Phil
Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them. –Anon
True happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great. ~ Willa Cather
You are only a loser if you quit while you are behind. –Dr. Phil
The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another. ~ Kallistos Ware
The is to trick slaughter the holy cows, the well-understood ideas of computer science that dictate how programmers work. In many cases, software vendors design products for difficult problems, an approach that leads to excess complexity. – David Heinemeier Hansson
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ~ Albert Einstein
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement. –Rita Mae Brown
Books are not dead things but do contain a potency of life ...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ~ John Milton
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. –Anon
–Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe–you can't take a taxi.~ Alan Alda
–If you are fighting about everything, you are really fighting about nothing. –Dr. Phil
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.–Anon
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.–Anon
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody. ~ Arundhati Roy (The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire)
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way. –Anon
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.–Anon
Swimming in the deep end is what makes the ride worth while. I don't want it to be easy. I don't want to just float through my life. I want that challenge. I want to learn. I want to ask myself bigger questions, the older I get. I don't ever want to stop that search. I am a searcher at heart. –Charlize Theron
A couple that plays together stays together. –Anon
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Passion & entrepreneurship go hand in hand. –Susie
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. There's no ceiling on effort!–Anon
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. –Anon
Term: Busy being busy
The book you don't read won't help. –Anon
TV doesn’t sell shows to viewers: It sells viewers to advertisers. –Adam Sternbergh
Can you afford to resist adjusting when change is the only constant in life. –Florina Shiller
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
"Jake Jr. It is a dog eat dog world out there. It is every man for himself. You better watch your ass." –Esau Ehrlich (My Grandfather Jake's brother, gave me this advice when I was 18)
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. –Napoleon Bonaparte
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.–Anon
You can no longer look to the past in an attempt to predict your future. A large part of the present is obsolete and, for most people, much of the future is beyond comprehension. ~ Christopher Hegarty
Hate can only flourish where love is absent.–Anon
Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do. –Anon
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. –Anon
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.–Anon
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.–Anon
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. –Anon
Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.–Anon
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. –Anon
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.–Anon
There is nothing better than being rewarded for doing what you love to do. –Jake 3
You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations. –Anon
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.–Anon
Programming languages, when they become popular enough, have a knack for getting more and more features to make up for functionality it sometimes isn't meant to solve, and that eventually results in it becoming more complex, clunky and bloated....here's hoping PHP doesn't fall into this trap like Java and just about everything else. –Jerby Mercader
"PHP is a very pragmatic language, suitable for applications both small and large, simple and complex. It's very approachable, and very easy to get started in. It's designed with the idea of getting an application up and working. Java on the other hand is ideological, and is hampered by that fact. It's not a language designed to be an effective programming solution, but rather a language designed to be ideologically 'pure'.
Java is a liberal arts professor stuck in an ivory tower, crippled into inaction by his own perfection. He is oh-so-much more enlightened about the theory of programming than the 'little people', but he'll never really be anything other than what he is now.
PHP is an aggresive problem solver who drops out of college to start his own company and ends up one of the richest and most influencial men in the world." –Bard Nott
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. –Anon
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. –Anon
What is done to children, they will do to society. –Anon
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.–Anon
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.–Anon
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.–Anon
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.–Anon
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.–Anon
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ Les Brown
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ~Francis Bacon
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.~ Pearl Bailey
Cancer is a Civil War taking place in the body. –Larry King
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. –Anon
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. –Anon
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. –Anon
Where children are, there is the golden age. –Anon
We lead by being human. We do not lead by being corporate, professional, or institutional. ~ Paul G. Hawken
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.–Anon
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.–Anon
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.–Anon
The burden which is well borne becomes light. –Anon
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~ H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. –Anon
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. –Anon
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.–Anon
A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity. –Anon
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. –Anon
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. –Anon
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. –Anon
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. –Anon
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.–Anon
The English language consists of 2 Million words, but most Americans only use 5,000 of them. –Robert Kirosaki
Thinking is the hardest work there is, that is why so few people engage in it. –Henry Ford
Don't waste your chance to only see beauty in the very prime of life. –Anon
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. –Anon
You can judge a man by what he laughs at.–Anon
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. –Anon
You must not do anything that renders you powerless. An essential law of money-that power attracts money and that being powerless repels it-is the crucial point for you. –Suze Orman [Jake's Favorite]
