We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life
when all we need to make us reallly happy is something to be
enthusiastic about.
-Anon
"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good
spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters
get in the wrong places." A. A. Milne (1882-1958)
"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares
that it is his duty." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to
consume wealth without producing it." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether
you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you."
That's the true business precept." Charles Dickens (1812-70)
"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man!
Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted
to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
"It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
Some men give up their designs
when they have almost reached the goal,
while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory
by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.
-Polybius
Far and away the best prize that life offers
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-Theodore Roosevelt
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein
As you ramble through life, brother, no matter what your goal,
keep your eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole
--Dr. Murray Banks, quoting a menu
If A equals success,
then the formula is _ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z.
_ X is work.
_ Y is play.
_ Z is keep your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein
Whether you think you can
or
Whether you think you can't.....
You are right.
-Henry Ford
The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.
-Robert Kirby
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog,
it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx
Quigley's Law:
Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will
attempt to use it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Demosthenes
Anyone can become ANGRY. That is easy.
But to be angry with the right person,
to the right degree, at the right time,
for the right purpose and in the right way-
that is not easy.
-Aristotle
Change is inevitable-
except from a vending machine.
-Robert C. Gallagher
Decision is a sharp knife that cut
clean and straight. Indecision is
a dull one that hacks and tears
and leaves ragged edges behind.
-Ian McKeithen
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps;
for he is the only animal that is struck with the
difference between what things are and what they
ought to be.
-William Hazlitt in his essay On Wit and Humour
in _English_Comic_Writers_ (1819)
Luck is the residue of design.
-Branch Rickey, general manager
of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Confidence is the feeling you sometimes have
before you fully understand the situation.
-Anon
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
-Margaret Thatcher
It is only the souls that do not Love
that go empty into this world.
-Robert H. Benson
Patting yourself on the back
doesn't push you ahead.
-Car Wash Philosophy
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then,
is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
Think where man's glory
most begins and ends.
And say my glory was
I had such friends.
-William Butler Yeats
Remember,
you can't steer a parked car.
-Anon
Brady's First Law of Problem Solving:
When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more
easily by reducing it to the question, How would the Lone
Ranger have handled this?
(From the Henry Cate Life Series)
There was a young poet named Dan,
Whose poetry never would scan.
When told this was so,
He said, Yes, I know.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Discipline is remembering what you want.
-David Campbell
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden
Pessimism never won any battle.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
____________ it, you'll never get the Purple Heart
hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!
-Lieutenant Colonel Henry P. Crowe
Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 Jan 43
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Indecision is the key to flexibility.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Happiness is merely the remission of pain.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
This is as bad as it can get, but don't count on it.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
The trouble with life is, you're halfway through it before you
realize it's a do-it-yourself thing.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Youth and skill are no match for experience and treachery.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
No amount of advance planning will ever replace dumb luck.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
Never pass a snow plow on the right.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
No amount of advance planning will ever replace dumb luck.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
The trouble with life is, you're halfway through it before you
realize it's a do-it-yourself thing.
LESSONS FROM CORPORATE AMERICA:
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
--Sir Winston Churchill
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
--Abraham Lincoln
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence,
we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity
of choices.
--Deepak Chopra
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
--Lao-Tse
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
--Helen Keller
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general;
if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope."
Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
--Pablo Picasso
We have a problem. "Congratulations."
But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."
--W. Clement Stone
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,
is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
--Dale Carnegie
People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a
fire.
--Kim Woo-Choong, Founder and Chairman, Dawwoo
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
--Og Mandino
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity.
I was forced to come up the hard way.
--J.C. Penney
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
--Thomas Edison
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
--Plutarch
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
--Edmund Burke
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Your own gift you can present every moment
with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;
but of the adopted talent of another you have only
an extemporaneous half possession.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
To understand the heart and mind of a person,
look not at what s/he has already achieved, but at what s/he aspires to do.
--Kahlil Gibran
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
--Euripides
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything,
and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
--de La Rochefoucauld
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always;
this occupation ought to last as long as life.
--Christina, Queen of Sweden (1629-89)
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile,
and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
--Lou Holtz
The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration
which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
--Carl Jung
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess,
and no matter how good one's sentiments may be,
if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act,
one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
--William James
Faith is an oasis in the heart
which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
--Kahlil Gibran
Albert Einstein's Three Rules of Work
Out of clutter, find simplicity
From discord, find harmony
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents
which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
--Horace
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
--Elbert Hubbard
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
--Napoleon Hill
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
--Montaigne
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
--John D. Rockefeller
The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution.
And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.
--Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what
you do
so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your
work
will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
--Edward L. Bernays
The biggest mistake people make in life
is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
--Malcomb Forbes
Fortune sides with s/he who dares.
--Virgil
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
--Janice Elice Hopkins
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.
The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
--Agnes De Mille
I don't like work--no man does
--but what I like is in the work--the chance to find yourself.
--Joseph Conrad
One doesn't discover new lands
without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
--Andre' Gide
Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.
--Frank Tyger
Few wishes come true by themselves.
--June Smith
When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
--Helen Keller
When we are not sure, we are alive.
--Graham Greene
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
--William Cowper
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
--Henry Ford
Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt
You must have long term goals
to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
--Charles C. Noble
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
--English Proverb
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
--Elbert Hubbard
To finish first, you must first finish.
--Rick Mears, Indy Car Driver
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
--John W. Gardner
The great question is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with failure.
--William Shakespeare
The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
--Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM
Caring is a valuable business advantage.
--Scott Johnson
Most of my advances were by mistake.
You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
--Buckminster Fuller
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
--Wayne Gretzky, Pro Hockey Player
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
--Karen Lamb
There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
--Trammell Crow
Decide to love and do what you like.
--St. Augustine
Life's most persistent and urgent question is:
What are you doing for others.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Try not to become a person of success,
but rather to become a person of value.
--Albert Einstein
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself.
--Andre Gide
The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential.
When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
--Roger Williams
There has never been another you.
With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set
apart.
What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can
make.
--Dan Zadra
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
--Donald Trump
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last.
Both do the same thing; only at different times.
--Baltasar Gracian
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
--Abraham Lincoln
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
--Kahlil Gibran
"Successes like pleasing results . . .
Failures like pleasing methods"
-- Cavett Robert 1908-1997
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
--English Proverb
"Well done is better than well said."
--Benjamin Franklin
"If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally
we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed
through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of
the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY."
-- Cavett Robert 1908-1997
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life.
Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freer handling.
--Goethe
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul
be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
--Helen Keller
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
--Seen on Poster
Cut not the wings of your dreams
For they
Are the heartbeat
And the
Freedom of your soul
--Flavia
We become what we think about.
--Earl Nightingale
I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world
are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want.
--George Bernard Shaw
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because
you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
--Jerry Gillies
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
--Robert Schuller
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
--Zig Ziglar
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail
than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
--Robert Schuller
It is neither good nor bad,
but thinking makes it so.
--William Shakespeare
The obstacle is the path.
--Zen Saying
The best way out is always through.
--Robert Frost
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
--Robert Schuller
Winners have simply formed the habit
of doing things losers don't like to do.
--Albert Gray
Inches make champions.
--Vince Lombardi
Nobody knows what is the best s/he can do.
--Arturo Toscanini
I could use a hundred people
who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
--Henry Ford
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood.
Heat is required to forge anything.
Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
--Arnold Glasow
Be fanatics.
When it comes to being, doing, and dreaming the best, be maniacs.
--A.M. Rosenthal
Have the courage to say no.
Have the courage to face the truth.
Do the right thing because it is right.
These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
--W. Clement Stone
Many of the things you can count, don't count.
Many of the things you can't count, really count.
--Albert Einstein
You have not lived a perfect day,
unless you've done something for someone
who will never be able to repay you.
--Ruth Smeltzer
Love cures people--both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
--Dr. Carl Menninger
Don't just learn the tricks of the trade.
Learn the trade.
--James Bennis
You are not here merely to make a living.
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply,
with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the
errand.
--Woodrow Wilson
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
--Emerson
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
2. Incoming fire has the right of way.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
4. There is always a way.
5. The easy way is always mined.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
7. Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
8. The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
a. when you're ready for them.
b. when you're not ready for them.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
9. Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
11. The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
12. A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
13. If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
14. Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
15. Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
17. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
20. Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
21. Friendly fire isn't.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
22. If the sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
23. Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never
stay awake when you can sleep.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
24. The most dangerous thing in the world is a second lieutenant with a
map and a compass.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
27. Remember, a retreating enemy is probably just falling back and
regrouping.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
28. If at first you don't succeed call in an air-strike.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
31. The enemy never watches until you make a mistake.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
32. One enemy soldier is never enough, but two is entirely too many.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
36. Field experience is something you don't get until just after you need
it.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
37. Interchangeable parts aren't.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
38. No matter which way you have to march, its always uphill.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
39. If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove ANYTHING.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
47. The tough part about being an officer is that the troops don't know
what they want, but they know for certain what they DON'T want.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
48. To steal information from a person is called plagarism. To steal
information from the enemy is called gathering intelligence.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
51. When you have sufficient supplies & ammo, the emeny takes 2 weeks to
attack. When you are low on supplies & ammo the enemy decides to
attack that night.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
52. The newest and least experienced soldier will usually win the Medal Of
Honor.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
53. A Purple Heart just goes to prove that were you smart enough to think
of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
57. If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
58. When in doubt empty the magizine
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
59. No plan survives the first contact, intact
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
61. The important things are always simple
62. The simple things are always hard
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
66. Things that must be together to work, usually can't be shipped
together
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
68. Tracers work both ways
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
69. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming
friendly fire
MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
71. When both sides are convinced they are about to lose, they're both
right
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
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