Thoughts to make you think........
IGNORANCE
"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance." -- Samuel Butler
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace." -- Dalai Lama
"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance." -- Leo F. Buscaqlia
"The most violent element in society is ignorance." -- Emma Goldman
IMAGINATION
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth." -- John Keats
"Imagination is the air of mind." -- Philip James Bailey
"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates." -- Oscar Wilde
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." -- Lauren Bacall
INFLUENCE/ASSOCIATION
"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how ‘You´ made them Feel" -- Maya Angelou
"A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell, where his influence stops." -- Henry Brooks Adams
"The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves." -- Denis Waitley
"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you." -- Henry Drummond
Humor
A man and his wife are sitting in the living room and he says to her:
"Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state dependent on some machine. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." His wife gets up and unplugs the TV.
Perfect Bed
WHEN we put our house up for sale, I stressed emphatically that my sons make their beds each morning. I left for work before they left for school, and I wanted to be sure that the house looked presentable when the agent showed it to prospective buyers. I was surprised and impressed that my 15-year-old son's bed was made perfectly each day. One night when I went into his room, I discovered his secret he was fast asleep on the floor in his sleeping bag.
They're very well behaved.......
As PROPERTY manager of single-family residences, I was showing a unit to prospective tenants and asking the usual questions: "Professionally employed?" "We're a military family," the wife answered. "Children?" "Yes, nine and twelve," she told me proudly. "Animals?" "Oh, no," she said earnestly. "They're very well behaved."
QUOTES: Quotes of The Week
LIFE/LIVING
"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows." -- Jean Anouilh
"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits." -- William Hazlitt
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough." -- Red Skelton
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Shinn
"No person was ever honored for what they received. Honor has been the reward for what they gave." -- Calvin Coolidge
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. -- Oliver Goldsmith
"I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as "making" a life." -- Maya Angelou
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." -- Edward Abbey
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life" -- Sophia Loren
"We sleep but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when the sun comes up tomorrow." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies." -- Nadine Stair
"A good life is a collection of happy memories." -- Denis Waitley
"Life loses its meaning when we get stuck up in comfort zone."
M.K. Soni
"You know the story of the hare and the tortoise. After racing and attaining the lead in the race the hare slept. He thought that I am well ahead so let me rest a while. He got stuck up in the sleep. In the meanwhile the slow moving tortoise overtook the hare and won the race as the hare was still sleeping.
Our life teaches us not to get stuck up in the comfort zone!"
M.K. Soni
"Life is like a freeway one wrong exit and you will be lost for hours to find the right path.
If you drive slowly then the cars will leave you behind and if you drive too fast there might be a crash, so the art is too drive at the right speed and on the right path otherwise you can be lost forever"
Neelam zafar, MD,MHA.
"A real leader or supervisor sees the individual abilities and weaknesses of the people they lead and creates a strong and well-bonded team based on those abilities. A real leader also fully understands their own weaknesses and ensures they do not negatively impact the team."
R. Scott Smith
"A real leader or supervisor's success is not solely measured on their personal ability, but is better measured by the success of the team they lead. This success is based both on the personal and professional growth of the team and the ability to provide the services for which both the team and its clients prosper."
R. Scott Smith
"We are human and have abilities and weaknesses. To recognize both in both our professional and personal lives allows us better utilize our abilities and turn our weaknesses into strengths."
R. Scott Smith
"Inappropriate use of ones abilities is a weakness at best and a deadly sin at worst."
R. Scott Smith
"It's only thru giving, that there's true living."
C Jones
"There's nothing quite like a smile, a song and a good cup of tea!!!"
John McLeod
"I don't know why they call it common sense, because it's not so common."
Ron Belrose (submitted by Gary)
"I don't see the glass as half empty nor half full, I see it as an opportunity to fill it up or empty it out."
Brent Beauchamp (submitted by Gary)
Asking why this won't work, doesn't fix the problem....
asking yourself what can I do to make this work is a much better question!"
Brent Beauchamp (submitted by Gary)
"Curiosity is the soul of the mother of invention."
Brent Beauchamp (submitted by Gary)
"Dream, but don't sleep..."
Eric
"Arise , Awake and stop not till your goal is reached !!!"
Abhik
Avoid The Pressure
by Dalgit
Avoid the pressure, just calm down,
wear a smile instead of a frown,
let life go on in a relaxed way;
for tomorrow is another day
Borrowed from various authors-from my collection! If you'd like to share some of yours please e-mail me and I'll add them to my list. Thank you!
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