Open Your Gift

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package. - Unknown


Management's job.

Sad Truth

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander


Only the incompetent and the insecure get nervous.

Dinner

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz


When I'm cooking dinner there are only two items on the menu; take it or leave it.

Just Don't Paste

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 


It is not the copying which causes a problem it is the ease of publishing the copy which causes a problem in the digital age.

Seeing Things in the Seed

To see things in the seed, that is genius. - Lao-Tzu


The ability of every successful innovator.

Value

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein


To be successful you need to be valuable.

A is A

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. - Tolstoy


Beware of those who will try to convince you anyway.

Beware of False Scientists

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal. - P. J. O'Rourke


You can trust science and still distrust a scientist.

Augmented Post

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. -Kahlil Gibran


I've never understood this "balance" in life thing myself.






Sometimes I have more to say.  I am not known to write in verse so I thought I would (kind of):


Balance Thing


You know 
I've never understood this balance in life thing.
Balance of good and evil?
I think not.


Balance of health and sickness?
I'll stay well, thank you.


Balance of happy and sad?
Give me a smile any day.


Balance of freedom and slavery?
All of the former, none of the latter please.


Balance of food and poison?
Hold the poison for me.


Balance of education and ignorance?  
Balance of intelligence and stupidity?
Balance of justice and injustice?
Balance of law and anarchy?
Balance of life and death?
Balance of winning and losing?
Balance of wealth and poverty?
Balance of pleasure and pain?
Balance of profit and loss?
Balance of praise and ridicule?
Balance of euphoria and depression?
Balance of friends and enemies?
Balance of courage and cowardice?
Balance of honesty and dishonesty?
Balance of love and hatred?
Truth and lies?
War and peace?
Wisdom and folly?
Swim and sink?
Strength and weakness?
Right and wrong?
Adventure and boredom?


No, I think not.
If you insist I must be balanced
Just go away, for you see
My goal is to be unbalanced
As unbalanced as can be.

Getting Stopped

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand


The question is; how am I going to be stopped?

What To Do With Good Ideas

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. - Grace Hopper


The key is knowing if it is a good idea.

Quotables

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn


Besides, your words become quotable.

That's My Story.......

We have a whole religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story. - Greg Giraldo: On Catholicism


Just goes to show what persistence and persuasiveness can accomplish!

Create or Improve?

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? - Peter McWilliams


There are those who create and those who fix. You choose.

You're Hired

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. - Steve Jobs


No matter how pretty it is if it doesn't work, it's crap. If it works like a dream but is ugly, it is just ugly. If it is pretty and works, hire 'em.

Following the Leader

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. - Dennis A. Peer


Any crackpot can raise a following of a bunch of crackpots.

Fire!

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. - Thomas Jefferson


Blame is a leisure time activity not a game-time strategy.

Excess is Good

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. - Kahlil Gibran


I've never understood this "balance" in life thing myself.

Choosing Genres

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman


Explains my taste in movies exactly.

Risky Business

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. - Wilson Mizner


True, but recognize the difference between risk and gamble.

Priorities

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. - Harold B. Lee


Prioritize.

Creating Self

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz


Good or bad.

Tell Me About Your Future

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. - Chuck Palahniuk


Add that to your job interview repertoire.