Quote of the Week

[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]

Who said this?

?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

 

[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]

[FONT=Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"For most people, their present is constantly being re-born from their unresolved past." [/FONT]

 

[pitzerwm]

[FONT=Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"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." [/FONT]​

[FONT=Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Og Mandino
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[pitzerwm]

[FONT=Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"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." [/FONT]​

 

[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.