Quote of the Week

[pitzerwm]

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis

[Fatboy769]

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

[MEP001]

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you hadn't, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?

-Unknown

[Fatboy769]

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

[Dean Taylor]

"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got"

[Dean Taylor]

There is no true appreciation of water until the well runs dry.

- Ben Franklin

[I.B. Washincars]

"Edible panties, you never really appreciate them until they're gone."

Some guy on ebay

[phred113]

A man that hopes for the best and prepares for the worst, gets what he is prepared for.
- I do not know

[Joe Law]

The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that a smart person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
dont know

[Louise]

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

[MEP001]

Wherever you go, there you are.

-Buuckaroo Banzai

[pitzerwm]

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry Truman

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Daniel L. Reardon

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. - Gil Stern

[Eric H]

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss

[MikeV]

When you're stupid, you suffer.
My dear departed Mpther

[pitzerwm]

"Be not simply good; be good for something." ? Henry David Thoreau

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." ? Benjamin Franklin

[Fatboy769]

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

[MikeV]

If you want to get on your feet, you got to get off your ass.
unknown

[phred113]

Something that does everything does nothing well.
-Old timer in the business

_______ is a useful as tits on a bull.
- same old guy.

[Dean Taylor]

Is the glass half full or half empty?

That's easy!

It depends on if you're a drinkin' or if you're a pourin'

-My Grandmother (oh how she loved her scotch!)

[rph9168]

No matter where you go, there you are.

[pitzerwm]

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

[pitzerwm]

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3 - Alice Kahn

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in five years. - John Von Neumann

[MEP001]

"No one will ever need more than 640K of memory." -Bill Gates

My favorite Haiku:

"No keyboard present.
Press F1 to continue."
Zen engineering?

[Waxman]

"The greater danger in life is not that you set your goals too high and fail to reach them; it's that you set them too low, and you do."

[pitzerwm]

?Money ain?t worth having if you have to trade your money for character and your integrity and your honor.?






give up? Don King

[pitzerwm]

" The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? " My http://my350z.com/forum/images/smilies/twocents.gif

[Waxman]

" of all my fabulous qualities, I like my modesty the best"

great scott

[I.B. Washincars]

"I use to be conceited, but now I don't have any faults at all."

Some guy I use to work with.

[MEP001]

"I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken."

-Unknown

[pitzerwm]

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde

[Ben's Car Wash]

Especially for today... and for all of you!

Martin Luther King, Jr.:

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

[Ben's Car Wash]

A great site of great qotes:

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/quote.htm

[Ben's Car Wash]

Will Rogers: (The genius of his quotes are that they need to be read twice: the first time for their humor, a second to pick out the practical advice hidden behind the joke.)


Don't squat with your spurs on.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back in.

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

[Jim L.]

My favorite from Will Rogers:

"The return OF my money is more important than the return ON my money."

[pitzerwm]

"For most people, their present is constantly being re-born from their unresolved past."

[pitzerwm]

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
Og Mandino

[pitzerwm]

"The major force in your emotional pain is a fear-based belief you have about yourself. It is always an idea that is in conflict with your true spiritual nature."

[pitzerwm]

Knowledge does not become power until it is used

[IBFLYIN]

"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most." ;)

[mac]

Never criticize a person till you have walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them, you'll be a mile away, and have their shoes.

[pitzerwm]

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

[pitzerwm]

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire (1694-1778)

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

[pitzerwm]

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Abe Lincoln

[pitzerwm]

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke

[pitzerwm]

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
Carl W. Buechner

[pitzerwm]

Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke (1947- )

Governments never learn. Only people learn. - Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

[Joe Law]

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Adolph Hitler

[Dean Taylor]

A good one I picked up from Bill Consolo- I love this one, thanks Bill.

" the bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."

[Waxman]

"Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you."

[Joe Law]

Blessed are those who give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
Jeremy Fitzgerald

[Waxman]

'a man becomes great to the exact degree that he works for the benefit of his fellow man.' gandhi

[pitzerwm]

"If you think you're too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
Anita Roddick

[Jony82]

"I'll live 5 years like you won't to live the rest of my life like you can't."

-Unknown

[Waxman]

"The road less travelled is nicely paved and has plenty of fast food restaurants."

[pitzerwm]

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

It is better to live rich than to die rich. - Samuel Johnson

[pitzerwm]

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H.G. Wells

He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

I love this last one.

[pitzerwm]

Only Successful People Fail

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

~ James Joyce, writer

[pitzerwm]

Vision

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author

[pitzerwm]

Do Something Different

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

~Eric Hoffer

[pitzerwm]

Only Successful People Fail

"A happy life consists not in the absence but the mastery of hardships."

Helen Keller
Author

[pitzerwm]

Get On The Path

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it."

Vince Lombardi
American Football Coach

[pitzerwm]

be+DO=have

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."

James Cook
Explorer

[I.B. Washincars]

"When get knocked down a lot, you get good at getting back up." Billy Ray Cyrus

[pitzerwm]

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." - Dave Barry

"Opportunity doesn't knock, it only presents itself after you beat down the door." - Bill Cosby

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

[IBFLYIN]

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did." :D

[pitzerwm]

Money is only important when you don't have it, I guess, that is the same as sex:)

However.....you can usually get money quicker than you can sex, well for us guys anyway.

[MEP001]

All I know is that I can't get sex without money.

[pitzerwm]

After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers (1879-1935)

[pitzerwm]

Only Successful People Fail

"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."

Wendell Phillips
Abolitionist

[Fatboy769]

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison," and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

[dreese]

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Mark Twain

[Waxman]

The greater danger is not that you set your goals too high and fail to reach them.

It's that you set your aim too low, and hit your mark.
:D
-Michelangelo

[dreese]

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

[pitzerwm]

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer

[Fabman]

Nobody wants to hear it half as bad as you want to tell it.

[Fatboy769]

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

[Fatboy769]

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood

[dreese]

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy, Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959

[Fatboy769]

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

[rph9168]

Hardwork spotlights the character of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all......

[Fatboy769]

Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain

[Fatboy769]

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see
what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke

[pitzerwm]

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

[pitzerwm]

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasters and economists? - Kelvin Throop III

[pitzerwm]

Learn from the mistakes of others. Life is too short to make them all yourself. -------------

[pitzerwm]

Quote For The Day:







'Whatever you give a woman, she ' s going to multiply.



If you give her a house, she ' ll give you a home.



If you give her groceries, she ' ll give you a meal.



If you give her a smile, she ' ll give you her heart.



She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. '
So....if you give her crap,
You will receive more **** than any one human being can handle

[pitzerwm]

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility. - Newton Minow (FCC chairman)

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. - Joan Didion (1934 - )

[IBFLYIN]

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."

"We always thought we'd look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we'd look back on our laughter and cry."

[rph9168]

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end"

[Waxman]

" you're gonna miss this. you're gonna want this back. you're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast".~Trace Adkins.

This song reminds me that every day is a gift.

[Dean Taylor]

Yesterday is history.

Tomorrow is a mystery.

Today is a Gift.

That's why they call it The Present.

[Eric H]

"Anything worth doing is worth doing well" -from my fortune cookie today

[Waxman]

"A friend in Need is a friend, indeed!"

[MEP001]

"Anything worth doing is worth doing naked." -Ron Jeremy

[pitzerwm]

"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich , a tragedy for the poor."

Sholom Aleichem, Russian author-humorist, (1859-1916).

This was read to me today and I just thought it was worth posting it here.

[MikeV]

When you're stupid, you suffer. - My dearly departed Mom.

[Waxman]

"7/5 of people do not understand fractions"

[MEP001]

"Why isn't there another word for 'thesaurus'?"

[pitzerwm]

The five pillars of success


See (really see) what's possible
Know specifically what you want to achieve
Make good decisions
Understand the tactics to get things done and to change minds
Earn the trust and respect of the people around you It sure seems like we spend all our time on #4.

[Waxman]

"You cannot steal second base and keep one foot on first."

Dr. Lou:D

[Waxman]

"The other day I was so desperate for a beer I snuck into a stadium and ate the dirt on the ground underneath the bleachers."

Homer Simpson.

[Bubbles Galore]

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
US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)

[MikeV]

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you have. unk.

[cebo]

Bill, Its been a while since I lurked around here but this is a great thread:

Government is not reason, it is no eloquence, it is force - George Washington

"Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of mindless sports-fan behavior,
ratgagging gluttony for political office and ideology without ideas....
Democrats are also the party of government activism, the party that says
government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it." P.J. O'Rourke (Excerpt from 1991 Book, "Parliament of Whores")

A reasonable man accommodates himself to the world. An unreasonable man
accommodates the world to himself. Progress depends upon unreasonable men. George Bernard Shaw

This quote is from Alexander Tyler. No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." Here we are - Cebo

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis De Tocqueville.

[cebo]

"The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that still carries any Reward." John Manyard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist.

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin

There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." - - Julius Caesar

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -Mark Twain

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H.L. Mencken

[Waxman]

"We should remember from time to time to live life as a human being rather than a human doing."

~Eckhart Tolle

[cebo]

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you have. This is a quote from Gerald Ford commonly misattributed to the great Thomas Jefferson and sometime Goldwater and RR.

[Waxman]

"When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value."

~Thomas Edison~

[johnny]

'Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle

[pitzerwm]

The shortest distance between two points is ... under construction. - Noelie Altito

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard

[pitzerwm]

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continuously fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. - George Washington (1732 - 1799)

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

[pitzerwm]

"Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom." - Jim Rohn

[pitzerwm]

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.Rule 1:Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

[pitzerwm]

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

[pitzerwm]

Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. - Margaret Peters

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

[Dean Taylor]

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy! -Ben Franklin

[pitzerwm]

Self development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

[Waxman]

Whether you think something is possible or impossible; either way, you'll be right.~ :rolleyes:

~~~Wayne Dyer

[Waxman]

"The quickest way to turn a problem into an opportunity is to do something about it."

Ralph Marston

[pitzerwm]

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many people have thrown up their hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?


In business, prospects may seem darkest when really they are about to turn. A little more perseverance, a little more effort, and what seemed a hopeless failure may turn into a glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying.

[pitzerwm]

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. - Henry Ford

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. - Chuck Daly

[IBFLYIN]

"If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man."

- Mark Twain

[rph9168]

He had delusions of adequacy ? Walter Kerr

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire ? Winston Churchill

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure ? Clarence Darrow

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary ? William Faulkner

Poor Falkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? -- Ernest Hemmingway

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I?ll waste no time reading it -- Moses Hadas

I didn?t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it ? Mark Twain

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends ? Oscar Wilde

[Dean Taylor]

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

[pitzerwm]

It is perfectly acceptable?even occasionally necessary?to disagree with those around you. But you needn't be disagreeable. It's okay to make waves; it isn't necessary to drown the other person. But lose your cool, lose your temper, lose control, and you'll find you are the one who's all wet.
Mackay's Moral: Giving someone a piece of your mind rarely gives you peace of mind.

[I.B. Washincars]

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

[pitzerwm]

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

[pitzerwm]

"Perhaps the most valueable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it needs to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson he learns thoroughly"

.Thomas Henry Huxley, 1877.

[pitzerwm]

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. - Author Unknown

Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though ... that's the problem. - Benjamin Hoff

The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. - Dr. McCoy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

[pitzerwm]

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffett

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot

[pitzerwm]

If they try to rush me, I always say I've only got one other speed and it's slower. - Glenn Ford

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. He needs education to turn him around. - Jim Rohn

[pitzerwm]

Action expresses priorities. - Mohandas Gandhi

Decide what you want. Decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. - H.L. Hunt

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything ... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. - Dan Millman

[I.B. Washincars]

“Vegas: that notorious haven of gambling, drinking, and whoring, or as I prefer to call it, the happiest place on Earth.” - Lewis Black :D

[pitzerwm]

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. - Vince Lombardi

Today, you have 100% of your life left. - Tom Landry

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy. - Mike Ditka

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue. - Hayden Fry

Success is never final, but failure can be. - Bill Parcells

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Darrell Royal

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. - Roger Staubach

[pitzerwm]

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. - J.P. Morgan

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller

High expectations are the key to everything. - Sam Walton

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. - Tom Peters

[Waxman]

"I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that perhaps tomorrow I shall contradict it all."

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[pitzerwm]

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? - Sun Tzu

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George Patton

[pitzerwm]

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson

[pitzerwm]

"A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether."- Roy H. Williams

"A smart man only believes half of what he hears; a wise man knows which half." - Jeff Cooper

"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day." - Samuel Goldwyn

"It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant." - Don Herold

[pitzerwm]

"The ability to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." - Albert Einstein

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." - Ronald Reagan

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent." - Napoleon

[ted mcmeekin]

You be the judge of the wisdom/honesty of this man's quotes:











2008: "Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney's private assassination team."

2011: "I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden."



2008: "Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial."

2011: "I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden."



2008: "Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated."

2011: "Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden."

[pitzerwm]

Quotes of the Week

"Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets." - American proverb

"Life is movement. It's the person who sits on the couch who's living dangerously." - Grete Waitz

"Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness." - Gary A. Freedman

[pitzerwm]

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." - Ayn Rand Don't you just love this one!!!

"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson

"Either you run the day or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn

[pitzerwm]

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. - Cleveland Amory

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." - Jules Verne

"I had been told the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days." - Bill Dana

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

[pitzerwm]

Quotes of the Week
Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Wolfgang Von Goethe

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - Gen. George S. Patton

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

[pitzerwm]

An intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. - Lao Tzu

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. - Michelangelo

[MEP001]

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine."

-Abraham Lincoln

[pitzerwm]

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. - Niels Bohr

[pitzerwm]

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

Action is the real measure of intelligence. - Napoleon Hill

Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense. - Josh Billings

[pitzerwm]

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. - Albert Einstein

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. - Dalai Lama

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

[pitzerwm]

Mackay's Moral: Management by choice will always lick management by chance.