Let's try to keep this thread on topic. Just post your favorite quotes. Let's keep the non-contributing banter to a minimum.
I keep a file to accumulate inspiring quotes. I ran across this one today and thought it was worthy of sharing. The author of the article was quoting a taxi driver he met leaving a conference. It would be nice to credit him as this is a particularly good one:
“Learn to face your problems with calmness and dignity. Never compromise your principles. Take the cards you have been dealt and play them as wisely as you can.”
- Unknown
Not sure if I've said this here but my personal favorite
"It's EXACTLY the same! But actually different." Said every Farmer ever
We in the Dept. call it look out hes got another ETSBAD!
Justin
Be careful when you "listen to the wind", it hurts sometimes
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
- - -Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- - -Colette (1873 - 1954), in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
- - -Doctor Who
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
- - -Dudley Moore (1935 - 2002)
WHO? awesome
I have worked at far too many small sized manufacturers who pride themselves in making exactly what the customers order. All of them Ag based.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- - -Jeanne Moreau
If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.
- - -Julie Morgenstern
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
- - -Sister Mary Rose McGeady
My favorite quote of the day comes from this forum:
"...it was just a sad, flailing attempt to inflate a mundane job with a mercaptan-laced air of self-importance."
Roland Schwarz
(Context here: Why is it called a "Bill of Material" and not a "Bill of Part Numbers"? )
Yeah
I had to look it up
To the pessimist the glass is half empty.
To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
This is from Words for Women, but it applies to all.
I'm already in my Friday afternoon. Enjoy!
The computer is a moron.
- - -Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- - -Robertson Davies
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
- - -Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
Molecule 1: I just lost an electron.
Molecule 2: Are you sure?
Molecule 1: I’m positive.
When a man works hard and works crazy hours, this is her quality time with him a lot of times.
Women ask for a provider, a hard working man with a good job but most good jobs have crazy hours.
Can you handle it? Can you wait on him? Do you see and know what time it is and why he is not home where we wishes we was?
I have always worked my back off with my career. It has cost me friendships, family time, and relationships. I don't work like that because I want to be the guy who never sees his lady, his daughter or family, I work like a dog so that I can be a successful man that can make their dreams come true and make sure they live a comfortable life, not because I enjoy working long hours, but because I love them and would do anything for them and never fail them.
One of my favorite 'non-quotes' quotes:
‘Men wanted for hazardous journey to the South Pole. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.’
~ Sir Ernest Shackleton
The story of this expedition is also well worth the read.
All fine and good. But what if their actual dreams start with having a man at home to do things with?
And in case you are wondering I grew up on a dairy so early in my children's lives it wasn't unheard of for me to be at work past midnight. And after six years my takehome was less than when I started. Which was ultimately more valuable?
... that pencil sketch is distracting me,... wait,.. is that coffee?
+1
So simple, yet so very, very true...…….
Dave.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is an excellent teacher. You fail at 100% of the things you never attempt.
When a man works hard and works crazy hours, this is her quality time with him a lot of times.
Women ask for a provider, a hard working man with a good job but most good jobs have crazy hours.
Can you handle it? Can you wait on him? Do you see and know what time it is and why he is not home where we wishes we was?
I have always worked my back off with my career. It has cost me friendships, family time, and relationships. I don't work like that because I want to be the guy who never sees his lady, his daughter or family, I work like a dog so that I can be a successful man that can make their dreams come true and make sure they live a comfortable life, not because I enjoy working long hours, but because I love them and would do anything for them and never fail them.
What no one warns you about is that if you are a tremendous success you will be seen as a hero, but if you merely survive without actually failing you will still be seen as a failure for having tried in the first place.