Archive for the 'Quotes' Category

Wise Quote

Saturday, March 24th, 2012

“Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.” — Jim Rohn
Very true, you either are in charge or drifting along and more impacted by the gusts of wind that life delivers.

The Things To Do

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

“The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or [...]

Confucius Say

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Confucius Say
Killing two birds with one stone often ends
with hate mail from the humane society.
Confucius Say
The best way to save face, is to keep the
lower part of it shut.
Confucius Say
To make a long story short, don’t tell it.
Confucius Say
A giraffe’s family reunion is called “necks
of kin.”
Confucius Say
A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it
is [...]

Two Gene Rodenberry Quotes

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”
“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes”

Fantastic Writing

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

I’m reading this fascinating book by Kurt Vonnegut ‘Breakfast of Champions’.
I particulary like this paragraph and the final sentence, excellent imagery.
That was the main reason people in Midland City were so slow to detect insanity in their associates. Their imaginations insisted that nobody changed much from day to day. Their imaginations were flywheels on the [...]

Douglas Adams on Money

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is [...]