Thought for the day...

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding who to blame.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. Robert Frost

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Everyone wishes they’d known everything sooner.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.

Where you come from signifies nothing. It’s where you go and what you do when you get there that tells you who you are.

 

You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else’s.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

There is no greater burden than great potential.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are the portals of discovery.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

 

Christopher Columbus was one of the world’s most remarkable salesman: He started out not knowing where he was going. When he got there he didn’t know where he was. When he returned he didn’t know where he had been. He did all this on borrowed money and managed to get a repeat order.

Every morning one wants to wake up being a new person. But every morning you wake up being the same person you created.

“Outside of killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” Mayor Marion Barry

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read.

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.

You can be either part of the solution or part of the problem.

 

I put instant coffee in the microwave and almost went back in time.

If you put a humidifier and a de-humidifier in the same room, which one would win?

A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of planet Earth taken from space. On the back he had written, “Wish you were here.”

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

“…close the hatch. Careful not to lock it on the way out.” Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

 

It is my firm belief that people should not hold firm beliefs.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. Lily Tomlin

It’s a damm poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. Andrew Jackson

Don’t use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

Every morning is the dawn of a new error.

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full

 

I don’t have a solution but I admire the problem.

If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.

When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.

Mental Floss prevents moral decay.

The future isn’t what it used to be.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance. Plato

 

Behind every successful man stands as surprised woman.

Tactics is what you do when there’s something to do; strategy is what you do when there isn’t.

An optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. Ashleigh Brilliant

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire. Anatole France

It is only in the most recent, and brief period of his tenure that man has developed in sufficient numbers and acquired enough power to become one of the most potentially dangerous organisms that the planet has ever hosted. John McHale

 

Does dust count? Maybe trying to hold the pages together?

I still laugh one times someone was here and during our conversation something came up about the Bible and they wanted to know if we had one so they could look it up. Then they gripped about all the loose pages. "Can't you afford a new one?" they asked.