Quote of the Week

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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]

Glorius Insults

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]

Something to think about

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Mackay's Moral: Giving someone a piece of your mind rarely gives you peace of mind.[/FONT]

 

[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]

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

 

[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