- "Success not shared is failure"
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" The measure of any relationship is who you get to be when you're
with them". - William Hurt as Macon in the movie Accidental Tourist.
- "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me". - Henry
Ford
- "Keeping good company is the key to success". - Suzie Orman
- Your life is not likely to be any better than you can imagine.
- A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been,
accepts what you've become, and still gently invites you to grow.
- Don't believe everything you think.
- In Chinese, the symbol for crisis is the same as for opportunity.
- "The most important ingredient of success, is failure." - Thomas
Edison
- "[Everybody who knows you has developed a sense of who you are, and
there is no power on earth that can ever change their mind. Their concept
of you can effectively trap you by pulling you back to what they see you as
when you are in their presence. That might have been a time when surrounding
influences were bringing out the worst in you. You may not feel free to evolve
as the unique person that you are . They're perspective could keep pulling
you back to who you were in the past. In some cases this could mean that your
potential may be greatly compromised]". - Don Juan (from the book Journey
to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda)
- "The juicy thing about acting is that you can be whoever you want."
- Jack Nicholson
- "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
- Dr. Johnson, from the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
- "Making music was always a series of changes and explorations for me which
has nothing to do with trend, nothing to do with saleability, it was really
[just] me discovering me." - Eric Clapton
- Those who are honest with themselves know that the more we learn, the more
we realize how little we know.
- "I'm not a democrat or a republican; I'm an independent, but I do still
believe in a two party system; one on Friday and one on Saturday".
- A guy on the Jay Leno show.
- "You can never feel good about life if you don't feel good about yourself,
because from the point of view of the master neuron, it's all the same"
- "... It is contrary to human nature, to sustain appreciation without
resentment, toward capabilities that one does not possess [but that someone
else does posess]." - Karen Horney
- "People will believe what they want to believe, as they sell out to
the peer pressure that rescues them the most effectively from their sense
of inadequacy". - Unknown
- The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. - Unknown
- "If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging"
- unknown
- A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have. (Abraham Lincoln)
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the
right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- "You have to be able to listen with your heart. And it's a rare quality.
Even people, I mean in everyday life, [there are] very few of them [that]
I've met that know how to listen with their heart. And it could be just having
a conversation at lunch where someone is -- we're just talking about the affairs
of the day, and halfway through what I'm saying, they will cut in by saying
oh, yeah, I know what you mean or an interruption or whatever. But there's
not that many people I have met in my life that have that gift. It's not just
a gift, it has to be developed. But it's a question of listening with empathy
to everything and anything, and then applying that. And so even as a [guitar]
player, it's necessary when playing, to be listening to the musicians around
you, or whatever, or to your environment, and to incorporate that in your
playing, because otherwise you can become an incredibly skilled virtuoso but
with absolutely no connection to the rest of the world. You know, I know lots
of bedroom guitar players who are fantastic. I meet musicians who are really
competent, but they have no capacity to play with other musicians because
they don't know how to listen. It's a very, very important, and perhaps the
most important thing." - Eric Clapton in a recent interview - 2002ish
- You don't choose love, it chooses you.
- "The glass is half empty if all you want to do is drink from it. It's
half full if you're willing to [help] fill it."
- Bill Cosby's Dad
- "One must have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing
star." - Nietzsche
- "The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've
never seen anybody really find the answer-- they think they have, so they
stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden
in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is
greater than the need for an answer." -- Ken Kesey
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the
experience. (Elbert Hubbard)
- A fall will always make a wise man wiser. (ancient Chinese)
- "You've got to be willing to give up those things that keep you from
being number one" - Bob Richards the pole vaulter (no known relation)
- "Be the bearer of good news" - Dale Carnegie
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Abraham Lincoln was once talking with a woman about how the North must
treat the South. She disagreed with him, and said that she felt that we
must destroy our enemies. Lincoln replied, "What, madam? Do I not destroy
them when I make them my friends?"
- "[If you walk a mile in their shoes, you won't know how to hate them
-- you will understand them too well]". - Old Native-American saying
- "Then it hit me -- being unhappy was something I'd been doing,
and when I stopped doing it, I reverted to my natural state, which is happy."
- Orson Bean
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"20 years from now you'll be more disappointed with the things you
didn't do, than the things you did do." - Mark Twain.
- "Success is failure turned inside out". - Unknown
- "School is the only way up, that I know of". - Unknown
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"Success comes in a can. Failure comes in a can't" - The Master
Wrench
- "A college degree is the one thing nobody can take away from you".
- Robert David Richards (my uncle)
- Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- "... Nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as
the ends we seek." - Martin Luther King
- He does the work of three men: Larry, Moe and Curly.
- "The ability to inhibit the instinct to go for the short term thrill,
is the modern definition of maturity." - Carrie Bradshaw.
- "[We're sitting on a piece of dirt that is flying through the universe
at 50,000 miles per hour, filled with molten lava-- it's a miracle that anything
good or meaningful EVER happens at all!!! It's completely ridiculous to ever
feel like life isn't good enough. Like the opportunities life offers aren't
worth the pain. We should be amazed and appreciative of what we do
have]". - Alan Watts
- "Know thyself." - Socrates - (The modern day version might be
"realize that the lens you interpret everything through is the result
of your interpretations of every experience you've ever had").
- "Those who will succeed in the 21st century will be masters of two
things: Fueling their own hype, and seeing through the inflated claims of
others". - O'Reilly
- "95% of Manic Depression is caused by people choosing to indulge in
delusions of grandeur". - A Psychiatrist who makes $180 per hour in 1990.
- "[An exhibit of freedom scares the hell out of people. It makes them
realize how little freedom they actually have. When you see the way most people
are bought and sold in the market place, you know that freedom is an ideal
to aspire to, not a reality. Being reminded of that can make them very dangerous]".
- Jack Nicholson in the movie Easy Rider
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"...To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death." - Leon
Redbone
- "Change your personal agreements and you change your life" -
from the book: The Four Agreements
- "It's all a matter of perspective" - Bruce Penney, MSEE
- "If you're not yourself, you eventually hate yourself" - Roger
Smith
- 'The best thing about a person is that which makes them unique.' - Robin
Williams in the movie 'Good Will Hunting'.
- "If you take the time to establish the question in full detail, finding
the answer often becomes a trivial matter" - an Electrical Engineer at
Tektronix Inc. in the old days.
- Virtually everyone has very good judgement. The place people fall short
is when it comes to gathering data. They get what they think is enough, and
it often isn't. - A teacher at PCC in the drug/alcohol counseling program.
- "[I don't think about the actual exercise, but rather what life will
be like and how good I'll feel when it's done]" - Gregg Braden (The Isiah
effect)
- "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." - Oprah
Winfrey
- "You can't recover a fumble if you're not on the field" - Tim
Rossiter's dad
- "Your feeling of remorse validates your humanity." - Anonymous
- "People who lack purpose are unhappy people" - Jackie Gleason
- "Don't offer advice to your kids until they ask for it". - Ozzie
Nelson
- "If we're having fun, the audience is having fun". - Red Skelton
- "I always try to be current to me. I'm not concerned; and I try to
be concerned, with other peoples points of view. It's very difficult to second-guess
what the public want, and actually - to be perfectly honest - I don't much
care. It's much more important that my music works to satisfy me and satisfies
my principles and my concept of what it is all about. Then, if other people
like it, that's fine. Otherwise, it becomes... labored. I think allowing an
audience to experience the artist's vulnerability is probably the most valuable
thing you can give them." - Eric Clapton
- "When angry, she had the rare ability to focus on the action that provoked
her wrath, rather than on the person who committed it. By doing so, she avoided
judging [the person], which is one reason her friendships were long and deep."
- Jodie Foster talking about a friend.
- "Nothing will kill you quicker than unhappiness" - Phyllis Diller
- A ciggarette gives a wise man time to think, and a fool something to suck
on.
- A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- "Cynicism is a self fulfilling prophecy" - Anonymous
- Rule of Projects: The first 90 per cent of any project takes 90 per cent
of the time, and the last 10 per cent of the project takes the other 90 per
cent of the time.
- The Law of Diffusion: In a group of people, some of which are smoking cigarettes,
the smoke will always go in the direction of the non-smoker.
- If Vegetarians eat vegetables, what do Humanitarians eat?
- If Darth Vador married Eli Fitzgerald, her new name would be Eli Vador.
- "I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six
months later you have to start all over again!" - Joan Rivers
- If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
- "Times are more like they are now than they've ever been before"
- Former President Eisenhauer
- A Dutchman was explaining the red, white, and blue Netherlands flag to
an American. "Our flag is symbolic of our taxes. We get red when we talk about
them, white when we get our tax bills, and blue after we pay them." The American
nodded. "It's the same in the USA only we see stars too!"
- "Looks are everything" - Jack Nicholson
- "Things are rarely as they seem" - Perry Mason
- "It isn't a rat-race unless you run with rats" - Perry Mason
- "Acting displaces tired misguided habits and rekindles the concept
of practicing being the person you really mean to and want to be. It develops
focus, creativity and the concept of living by intent rather than by reaction"
- Anonymous
- "Communication is everything" - A marriage counselor
- "A person needs three things in life to be happy: Love, Something to
do, and Something to look forward to". - Anonymous
- "The key to happiness is self delusion" - Dogbert
- "Inside the brain is billions of neurons, each very analogous to an
whole person, looking to us (our soul or conscious self - the master neuron?)
for what to believe, how to feel, a perspective, and with those beliefs and
perspectives that we establish in them at the moment of their birth (neurogenesis),
they try to help us answer questions and function in general in the future.
Neurons are constantly being born and they take on the consciousness of the
moment. They see things through that "lens" from then on. Beware
of self-delusion or darkness by choice. It causes an accumulation of neurons
that always see the bad in everything - Where you put your consciousness,
how you choose to view things; that's what accumulates, that's what grows
and becomes who you are."- Some guy who read 14 books on how the brain
works
- To steal ideas from one person is called plagiarism; to steal from many
is called research.
- The core part of the brain, with our most basic instincts, hasn't changed
much in hundreds of thousands of years that we know of according to Richard
Restak, one of the worlds leading neuro-scientists. Many of our primevil instincts
are optimized for the way life was in our earliest years of evolution (primitive
jungle life). Those "instincts" caused us to survive as a species
through all those years in that environment and up to the present. Because
of the degree to which life has changed in the last century especially, many
of those "survival instincts" have become not only obsolete, but
a source of dysfunction. Those who sell out to certain "survival instincts"
too much can end up in jail, or just not get along well with others (alcoholics,
sex-addicts, etc.). To do well in todays world, we need to use creativity,
faith, understanding, reasoning and will power more than ever, to overcome
certain arguably obsolete instincts with wisdom.
- "Diplomacy is letting the other person have it your way".
- "The road to hell is paved with gold"
- What does your unconscious want you to be doing?
- If you've been good all year, then it's your own darn fault. - Santa Claus
- The Mayor of Bluesville says: "Walk your dog often, but don't
EVER play with your neighbors poodle."
- Social skills aren't just for getting along with others, they're the backbone
of motivation, inspiration, faith, hope and courage in both ones self and
in life in general. Without good spiritual health, nothing good is going to
happen.
- Where Are We Going, and Why Am I In This Handbasket?!!!
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