WORDS OF WISDOM

(Collected over the years from too many sources to mention)

 

Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

 

The problem with the gene pool is there is no lifeguard.

 

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

 

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

 

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect.  It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.

It's not that I don't have opinions, it's rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

 

Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Henry Ford:  Whether you think that you can or you can't, you are usually right.

 

COURAGE is not the absence of fear. It is feeling afraid but keeping those feelings sufficiently under control to be able to act appropriately.

 

Karl A. Menninger:  Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.

 

Helen Keller:  Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering  can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.   

 

Alan Loy McGinnis:  Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

 

Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks Coffee:  Success is not an entitlement, it has to be earned.

 

Unknown:  "All people bring joy to my life...some when they enter and some when they leave."

 

Movie:  The Hours, 2002

Character Virginia Woolf says, "You cannot avoid peace by avoiding life."

 

Fergusonism:  "You cannot avoid life by pursuing happiness."

 

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts

can be counted.

Larry Williams says,  "people who make their living looking into crystal balls
are destined to eat a lot of broken glass.

Edmund Burke said, "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."

 

Adam Bellows,   "If you leave any part of the truth on the ground, your opponent will pick it up and use it against you."  August 5, 2005 , Doubleday Publishing.

 

Jimmy Durante said "Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet ‘em on the way down."

 

The Right Knowledge Is The Key To Success Or Failure. Sometimes That Knowledge Can Be Hard To Find Or Intentionally Kept Secret:  Mark McRae, Author