Learn To Survive

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. - W. Edwards Deming


And you can't expect one without the other.

Set Sail

Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The last few lines of her poem:

'Tis the set of a soul

That decides its goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

Cowards and Fools

A nation which makes great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools. - Thucydides


We should all know what we are doing, and why.

Kind But Not Just

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. - Samuel Johnson 


It is all too common for the two to be confused.

Going Gaga

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga. - David Ogilvy


Might drive your parents nuts though......

Problem Free Work

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.  - Jim Rohn


Employees should leave their problems at home.

Love of Books

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen


I sure hope e-books don't make a full bookshelf obsolete.

Above The Dirt

I'm going to keep doing what I love as long as I can see above the dirt. - Anon


May you stay above the dirt.

Perceiving Desires

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Steve Jobs.

Your Product

When in doubt, raise money from your customers by selling them something they truly need--your product. - Seth Godin


Produce; don't just prepare to produce.

Few Rivals

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. - Georg C. Lichtenberg


Being humble does not negate self-esteem.

Right Conduct

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain 




Sorry Mark, but laws don't control (or protect) anyone. Philosophy does; that's why it should be taught in the schools. Laws only determine who to punish.

Your Easy Job

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks. - Eden Phillpotts


Make your job look easy.

Getting It Built

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter. If you're brilliant and undiscovered and under-appreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you're being too generous about your definition of brilliant. - Seth Godin


Lack of humble is not just limited to teens.

True Affection

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect. - Kathryn L. Nelson

Speechless

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman


It's not a good idea to tell your spouse that a kiss is a trick.

Radio Explained

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein


Technology can be explained simply, no matter how smart you are.

Going Out

A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended. - Evan Esar


Wives too.

Happiness First

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. - Margaret Young


Happiness is lack of pretense.

Honored Values

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. - Michael Josephson


Such as Life, Liberty and Property.

Lack of Interest

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship. - Raul Armesto


You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. - Olin Miller

Fashion

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau


Following the fashion of your generation into adulthood is a sign of stability rather than lacking perception.

Skeptical Proof

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step towards truth. It must be applied generally because it is the touchstone. - Denis Diderot


All how have accepted some conspiracy theory or another should read and understand this.

Playing Your Hand

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharial Nehru


Thinking is how you play your hand well.

Essential Foods

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. - Katherine Whitehorn


Unless they hate everything but pizza.

Lamb Power!

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin


Think of this when the under-educated refer to our system as a democracy.

Life's Wounds

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare


Patience doesn't mean inaction.

Difficulty or Opportunity

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill


Choose your attitude.