Thoughts Of The Day. - Page 7

[Ene Uran]

My mentor said,"Let's go do it"not "You go do it."
How powerful when someone says,"Lets!"

Depends a little on the country. In the US "let's (let us) do it" means:
If it works, the boss gets the credit.
If it fails, you get the blame.

[Lardmeister]

Promiscuous girls like C men!

[debasisdas]

In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.

[Lardmeister]

In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.

I like that one!

[Lardmeister]

A sharp tongue does not imply a sharp brain!

[debasisdas]

There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way.

[jasimp]

Live your life now in a way that will let you live the way you want to later.

[cosette_hinds]

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ~ Arthur Koestler

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. ~ Anon

If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns. ~ Anon

[cosette_hinds]

George Bernard Shaw
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

[debasisdas]

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

[debasisdas]

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

Life is a tragedy those who feel,
But its a comedy those who think.
- [unknown]

[Dave Sinkula]

“The punishment of wise men who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.” —Plato

[twomers]

"An old broom knows the dirty corners best."

[debasisdas]

Learning is not compulsory. . . neither is survival.

[Lardmeister]

Veni, vidi, voops! I came, I saw, I tripped.
Veni, vidi, visa! I came, I saw, I bought.

[Dave Sinkula]

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . .
it expects what never was and never will be."
—Thomas Jefferson

[debasisdas]

In some attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

[Dave Sinkula]

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
-- James Madison

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

[bobbyraw]

"The only thing worth stealing from a baby is a kiss"

[debasisdas]

Mysuggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

[Lardmeister]

Mysuggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

That doesn't make any sense! What are these people doing, smoke what?

[Ezzaral]

Mysuggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

You are going to end up at the airport in a robe, head shaved, and handing out pamphlets if you live by that suggestion empirically... or drinking Kool-Aid with a large group in South America...

[Lardmeister]

You are going to end up at the airport in a robe, head shaved, and handing out pamphlets if you live by that suggestion empirically... or drinking Kool-Aid with a large group in South America...

:)
The airports would be really crowded, if 10% of the people would do that head-shaven-thingy!

[Ezzaral]

:)
The airports would be really crowded, if 10% of the people would do that head-shaven-thingy!

Ugh, yeah that is scary to think about =)

I'm figuring many of them have a long chain of such turning away from the 90% though - so it recursively dwindles to just a few fruitcakes there in the long run.

[Lardmeister]

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming:
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it!
2. Whenever you're right, shut up!

[Ezzaral]

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming:
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it!
2. Whenever you're right, shut up!

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[debasisdas]

No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.

[mansa]

Wake up and get going!

[debasisdas]

A Pessimist sees difficulty in every oppertunity.
An Optimist finds sees oppertunity in every difficulty.