Thoughts 01APR2011

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us - Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it - Irving Berlin (1888-1989) In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed - Charles Louis de Montesquieu (1689-1755)

Thoughts 31MAR2011

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) One is easily fooled by that which one loves - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-1673) The people who think they are happy should rummage through their dreams - Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977)

Thoughts 30MAR2011

Men hate those to whom they have to lie - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) We fear something before we hate it. A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise - Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion - Lester Markel, American editor (1894-1977)

Thoughts 29MAR2011

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences - D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time - Willem de Kooning Integrity needs no rules - Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Thoughts 28MAR2011

The greatest right any nation can afford its people is the right to be left alone - Larry Flynt Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it - Thoreau Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman - Marian Anderson (1902-1993)

Thoughts 25MAR2011

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones - St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
One today is worth two tomorrows - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
When you shut one eye, you do not hear everything - Swiss proverb

Thoughts 24MAR2011

He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave - William Drummond (1585-1649)
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all - Oscar Wilde : Was an Irish writer and poet
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead - Bertrand Russell

Thoughts 23MAR2011

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting - Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. I call leadership the great challenge of life - Jim Rohn, Business Philosopher (Got this from Rozalila Ujang, AFFIN Bank)
To oppose something is to maintain it - Ursula K. Le Guin

Thoughts 22MAR2011

There are two kinds of people in one's life - people whom one keeps waiting - and the people for whom one waits - Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (1893-1973)
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception - Alfred de Musset, French author (1810-1857)
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling - Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)

Thoughts 21MAR2011

If you want to make enemies, try to change something - Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong, no one forgets - Irish proverb
People love to talk but hate to listen - Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942)

Thoughts 18MAR2011

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile, and it smiles, too - Herbert Samuel (1870-1963)
If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now - Russian proverb
Think much, speak little, and write less - Italian proverb

Thoughts 17MAR2011

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to - Bill Vaughn
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other - Author Unknown
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

Thought 16MAR2011

YOU'D BETTER RUN
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes out you'd better be running.
From Siemen Nixdorf Welcoming New Customer Card (got this many many many many moons ago)
My friends, there are no friends - Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

Thoughts 15MAR2011

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common - John Locke (1632-1704)
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been - Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence - Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Thoughts 14MAR2011

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does - Anne Roe (1904-1991)
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers - James Thurber (1894-1961)

Thoughts 11MAR2011

There is nothing so powerful as the truth, and nothing so strange - Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another - John Cage
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection—they have many friends and few enemies - Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)

Thoughts 10MAR2011

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember - Oscar Levant (1906-1972)
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Those who give have all things. Those who withhold have nothing - Hindu proverb

Thoughts 09MAR2011

The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty purse - German proverb
All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move - Arab proverb
He who is learned is not wise; he who is wise is not learned - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Thoughts 07MAR2011

The final lesson of history: 'Let's never go back there again! - Nietzsche
This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him - William Lyon Phelps, American educator (1865-1943)
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)