All Evil

Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw

..... No, lack of opportunity to make money (and keep it) is the root of all evil.

Teaching Technique

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say. - Lawrence Krauss

..... One way to enthrall your audience.

Valuable Mistakes

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect. - Adam Osborne

..... Don't forget what happened to the last guy who was perfect.

The Game of Kings

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb

..... At at least the king didn't get knocked out of the game on the first move.

Preserve Substance

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference. Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.  - Dee Hock

..... Heck with P's and Q's; mind your S's and F's.

Theoretical Path

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. - Albert Einstein

..... Not a clearly visible path anyway.

Cruel Truth

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. - Edward Abbey

First?

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope

..... Moderation is boring.

Limits to Tolerance

Put up with it and you will get more of it. - Lynne Deal

..... The question is where to draw the line. What do you tolerate?

Beautiful Dreams

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

..... Never quash someones dreams - you may be dooming their future.

Celebrate Citizenship

America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, 'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or Turk.' But then he added, 'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.' - Ronald Reagan

..... Few events are celebrated as much as an individual gaining their citizenship.

Accomplishment?

We are not without accomplishments. We have managed to distribute poverty equally. - Nguyen Co Thach

..... Success is in the eye of the beholder.

Pathfinder

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

..... You can.

The Cost of Failure

Failure bothers us, and we focus on the feeling of failure, not the cost. - Seth Godin

..... The cost of failure may be so small that it may be worth the chance.

Thinking Block

You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. - John Rogers

..... Keep on writing.

Shared

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy. - Honduran Proverb

..... Share in the good times and the bad.

Sounds Good

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. - Thomas Sowell

..... Only education can make what used to sound good, sound bad.

Misread Silence

Silence is a text easy to misread. - A. A. Attanasio

..... Make your opinions known else you might be misjudged even worse.

Worth a Try

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. - Dr. Howard Murphy

..... Give it a try the next time you're blue and comment on how it works.

Be Adventurous

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand....Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. - Jacqueline Cochran

..... Boredom is a state of mind, not circumstance.

Sources of Joy

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

..... Positive produces pleasure.

Avoid Guilt

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. - Voltaire

..... There's a lot to do.

Strong Feelings

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. - William Carleton

..... Do not submit to your feelings unless they are positive.

Falderal

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. - Indira Gandhi

..... The joy comes from doing the work; the rest is just falderal.

Noise

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. - Gen Alfred Gray, USMC

..... Shush.

Ship Not In?

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it! - Jonathan Winters

..... That'll get you off the couch!

Anger

Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin

..... Hate is the same way.

Memory Matters

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. - Thomas Fuller

..... I can't remember what I was going to say......

Kind Words

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. - Blaise Pascal

..... Besides kind words are generally more effective than harsh.

The Arts

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elain Heffner

..... The art of living is to teach the art of living to children.

Stumbling

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering

..... Pretty good case for getting off your butt.