Don't complain, 'cause it could be worse.
~ Shaquille O'neal
Live long and prosper!
Life is like a garden.
Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved.
Except in memory.
~ Leonard Nimoy
Basic, but good to review now and then
Human beings have four dimensions and only satisfying the needs of these four areas, so that people unfold their full potential:
- Body: the physical dimension, it needs to live, so it requires a fair retribution.
- Mind: the intellectual dimension, needs to learn and requires creative challenges.
- Heart: the emotional dimension, needs a social environment and requires a dignified and considerate treatment.
- Spirit: the conscience, needs to feel that it contributes and requires a meaningful purpose.
~ Stephen Covey American, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
The trick is finding the one important thing
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog only one important thing...
~ Greek lyric poet Archilochus, 7th century BC
Indeed...
It's terrible to lose a friend when you don't have many.
~ Isola Pribby, in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I'm halfway there!
If you're going to be a smart-ass, first you have to be smart.
Otherwise, you're just an ass.
~ Louisiana Senator John Kennedy
I don't know how!
All you have to do is write one true sentence.
Write the truest sentence that you know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Makes sense to me...
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
~ George Carlin
Oooo, this is SO good!
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.
Think of it! Always.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
This popped my eyes open...
When someone loves you, they way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
~ Jess C. Scott, The Intern
Wise advice...
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms
Widely, but incorrectly, attributed to Socrates (but it sounds like something he might have said)
But it WAS Voltaire who said:
If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.
Agreed...
Not every reader will be a leader, but every leader must be a reader.
~ President Harry Truman
Good advice!
I have a rule about not doing work that could get me KILLED!
~ Jim Rattelsdorf, Lawyer, on Ozark
Abandon ship!
We are built for heartbreak just as we are built for love. To paraphrase the French philosopher Paul Virilio, the invention of the ship is also the invention of the shipwreck.
~ Florence Williams
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