Thought for the day...

Attitudes are contagious: mine might kill you.

Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.

It hurts to admit when you make mistakes, but when a mistake is big enough, the pain only lasts about a second.

No single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood.

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will never know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you’re pretty much doomed.

It’s lonely at the top, but it’s comforting looking down at everybody at the bottom.

 

The best leaders inspire by example. When that’s not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well too.

Consulting: When you’re not part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

As long as we have each other, we’ll never run out of problems.

If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job, the kind robots will be doing soon.

Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can walk.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent, but you’d be a fool to withhold that from your superiors.

 

It’s sometimes best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his lousy goals.

It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn’t take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.

If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.

You aren’t being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.

Nepotism: We promote family values here—almost as often as we promote family members.

Some people dream of success while others live to crush those dreams.

A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.

 

Fair but still kicking. Thank you.

 

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, but it rocks absolutely too.

You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

A journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius

A full moon always rises as sunset.

Velcro was invented by a Swiss fellow who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.

You say a child could understand this? Fetch me that child.

 

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. Galilio Galilei


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Farmer Bill dies in house
Iraqi head seeks arms
Teacher strikes idle kids
Reagan wins on budget, but more lies ahead
Shot off woman’s leg helps Micklaus to 66
Plane too close to ground, crash probe told
Miners refuse to work after death
Juvenile court to try shooting defendant
Stolen painting found by tree
Two sisters reunited after 18 years in checkout counter
War dims hope for peace
If strike isn’t settled quickly, it may last awhile
Cold wave linked to temperatures

 

Remember that some of the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example. John Rushkin

Why is it a penny for your thought, but you have to put your two cents worth in? Somebody’s making a penny here.

The fellow asks, “How can I be overdrawn? I still have checks left.”

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

If I can’t fix it, it ain’t broken.

Gravity always gets me down.

They told her that she was gullible…and she believed them.