Monday, May 17, 2010

SPLAT goes the fan and other Words of Wisdom.

It has officially hit the fan. You know - that icky brown stuff?

All over some reality television.

Clearly more than one television is needed in our home.

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On to other things.

Work.

There is a mysterious team call at 1:30. Will we hear splat? Or is it just one of those things..

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Since I cannot go into great detail on any of the items I have vaguely referred to, I need some good old fashioned inspiration. You know when this happens, I turn to quotes.

For your reading pleasure, a series of quotes I find VERY inspiring.

Lord knows, I need a little inspiration today:


Every flower must grow through dirt.


-- Anonymous



Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.


-- Anonymous

 
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.


-- Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.


-- Aristotle






Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.


-- Norman R. Augustine






Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.


-- Lauren Bacall






Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.


-- James Baldwin






I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.


-- Lucille Ball






The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.


-- Arnold Bennett






Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.


-- Thomas Arnold Bennett






Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.


-- Josh Billings






He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise


-- William Blake






Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.


-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer






Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.


-- Phillip Brooks






Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars


-- Les Brown






We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may.


-- Jimmy Buffett, Cowboy in the Jungle (song)






Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.


-- Emily Dickinson






Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.


-- Thomas Edison






Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.


-- Albert Einstein






In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.


-- Albert Einstein






It is never too late to be what you might have been.


-- George Eliot






A problem is a chance for you to do your best.


-- Buke Ellington






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


-- Ralph Waldo Emerson






Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.


-- Ralph Waldo Emerson






Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.


-- Ralph Waldo Emerson






Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.


-- F. Scott Fitzgerald






Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.


-- Henry Ford






Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.


-- Henry Ford






One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.


-- Henry Ford






You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.


-- Henry Ford






He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.


-- Thomas Fuller, M.D.






We must become the change we want to see.


-- Gandhi






Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.


-- Gandhi






Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.


-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






What does not kill me makes me stronger.


-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.


-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.


-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Every calling is great when greatly pursued.


-- Oliver Wendell Holmes






The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.


-- Ellen Hubbard






May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.


-- Irish Blessing






Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.


-- Helen Keller






When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.


-- Helen Keller






There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?


-- Robert Francis Kennedy






He who limps is still walking.


-- Stanislaw J. Lec






Whatever you are, be a good one.


-- Abraham Lincoln






It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.


-- Vince Lombardi






Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.


-- Orison Swett Marden






We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.


-- Abraham Maslow






Victory belongs to the most persevering.


-- Napoleon Bonaparte






As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.


-- Andre Norton






Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.


-- Ovid






Remember your dreams.


-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey






To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.


-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume






Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.


-- George Santayana






Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.


-- Semisonic, Closing Time






It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.


-- Seneca






... then the world 's mine oyster


-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor






Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.


-- James Stephens






If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...


-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric






Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.


-- Harriet Beecher Stowe






Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?


-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince






Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.


-- Mao Tse-tung






Opportunities multiply as they are seized.


-- Sun Tzu






The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.


-- Colin Wilson






Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.


-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball






Do or do not. There is no try.


-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back






Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.


-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

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