Bureaucratic BS

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. - Charles Peters


Be sure your people are not acting like bureaucrats.


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Winds of Change

Politicians are a timid lot, and their backbones are no stiffer than the wind of public opinion. - Gus Van Horn

So, if you want to change the political situation don't work on the politicians, work on changing the wind of public opinion.

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Love Your Neighbor?

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


If your neighbor is a wretch ignore the whole concept of neighbor-love.


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Change Amid Chaos

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred North Whitehead

Easier said than done - that is why change usually occurs amid chaos.

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Perspective

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. - Victor Hugo


Your view depends on your lens.


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Others Mistakes

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. - Sam Levenson


A good reason to let people be free to make their own mistakes.


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You Ain't No Wretch

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Anonymous


And don't be caught singing "a wretch like me...".


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Contagious Company

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. - Charles Caleb Colton


Does this explain the popularity of villainous heroes?


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All or Nothing

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. - Charles Caleb Colton


It is hard to be charitable to someone who's half of a crackpot.


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Game Changers

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. - Herbert Hoover


That's the way it is with governments - they change the rules in the middle of the game.


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Travelers Change

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. - Thomas Fuller 


Some things never change.


(Other posts on Change)

Beauty of Mathematics

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. - Charles Caleb Colton


Sorry Chuck, but the study of mathematics never ends....but is full of magnificence all along the way none the less.


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Do It Yourself Winning

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. - Denis Waitley


If you don't do it yourself you are not a winner.


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Beauty Within

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 


And the unknown.


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Social Change

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. - Emma Goldman 


Oh! If were only so, Emma!


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Moments of Victory

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. - Martina Navratilova


Because women are process oriented (men being more goal oriented) this applies especially to the ladies.


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Living Presently

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. - Bo Bennett


Always be aware of your conscious choice.


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Precocious?

There is a difference between precocious and obnoxious. If every one else but you thinks a kid is obnoxious then you must be the parent. - Lyle


(Other posts on Manners)

The Source of Happiness

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. - Charles Caleb Colton


Happiness must come from within, not from outside.


(Other posts on Emotions)

Magnificent Spacecraft

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. - Denis Waitley 


I think the same could be said for your mind.


(Other posts on Success)

Super Frauds

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. - Charles Caleb Colton


I'm going to remember this fancy sounding excuse the next time I'm duped!


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Light Your Fire

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. - Denis Waitley 


Others get excited to see excitement.


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Resolution

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. - Og Mandino


Be sure your mountain has lots of facets


(Other posts on Achievement)

Fiscal Suicide

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan. - Everett Dirksen


Sorry Everett.


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It's Not Just the Cards

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. - Denis Waitley


To play any hand well you have to learn the rules. Remember you do not make the rules; you follow the rules.


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Boxing Match

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. - Wilson Mizner


Without the fancy footwork you're just a klutz throwing punches.


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Zombies Exist!

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. - Thomas Szasz


Now I'm totally confused..........Zombies are more real than God?


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