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11/11/2005 02:30:25 PM · #1 |
It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long
to learn how to spell it.
-Rocky Bridges
If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect three thousand hits and one
thousand errors.
-George Brett
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
-Yogi Berra
Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or
something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home
run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.
-Roy Campanella
Anyone else have any quotes from someone who influences you that is not in DPC?
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11/11/2005 02:38:34 PM · #2 |
Three of my favorites...
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." -Benjamin Franklin
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask oursleves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our prescence automatically liberates others." -Nelson Mandela, Inaugural Speech (originally written by Marianne Williamson)
EDIT: To give Marianne Williamson credit.
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11/11/2005 03:26:14 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by SJCarter:
Three of my favorites...
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask oursleves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our prescence automatically liberates others." -Nelson Mandela |
^One of my faves, as well. Just an FYI, however...Nelson Mandela didn't write it. Marianne Williamson did. Mr Mandela did use it as part of his speech at his inaugural address so that's why people think he wrote it.
Another one of my faves:
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin
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11/11/2005 03:28:11 PM · #4 |
Don't know if he "stole" it from anybody else, but my first boss always said:
"Anything is easy, if you don't have to do it."
I guess that's why managers always think everything is easy... :-)
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11/11/2005 06:01:53 PM · #5 |
This is my favorite, and reminds me to never give up.
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race"
Calvin Coolidge (American 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)
Message edited by author 2005-11-11 18:02:06.
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11/11/2005 06:44:11 PM · #6 |
'Gabba Gabba Hey' - Joey Ramone
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11/11/2005 06:46:50 PM · #7 |
The best thing that came out of little league baseball is that it keeps the parents off the streets- Yogi Berra
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11/11/2005 07:03:59 PM · #8 |
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
-Robert A. Heinlein
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11/11/2005 07:24:58 PM · #9 |
You can fool some of the people most of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can only fool yourself all of the time. ~ A. Lincoln and I
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. ~ Socrates
Photography is the foreign language that everyone thinks they can speak ~ Phillip- Lorca diCorcia
Message edited by author 2005-11-11 19:32:22.
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11/11/2005 07:29:27 PM · #10 |
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11/11/2005 08:14:05 PM · #11 |
In the time
of your life, live. . .
so that in that good time
there shall be no ugliness or death
for yourself
or for any life
your life touches.
Seek goodness everywhere,
and when it is found,
bring it out of its hiding place
and let it be free and unashamed.
Place in matter
and in flesh
the least of values,
for these are the things
that hold death
and must pass away.
Discover in all things
that which shines
and is beyond corruption.
Encourage virtue
in whatever heart
it may been driven
into secrecy and sorrow
by the shame and terror
of the world.
Ignore the obvious,
because it is unworthy
of a clear eye and
the kindly heart.
Be the inferior of no man,
nor of any man
be the superior. Remember
that every man is a variation
of yourself.
No man's guilt is not yours,
nor is any man's innocence
a thing a part. Despise evil
and ungodliness or evil.
These understand.
Have no shame in being
kindly and gentle,
but if the time comes
in the time of your life to kill,
kill and have no regret.
In the time of your life, live. . .
so that in that wondrous time
you shall not add to the misery
and sorrow of the world, but
shall smile to the infinite delight
and mystery of it.
William Saroyan |
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11/11/2005 08:31:29 PM · #12 |
"And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
- The Prophet Micah
"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
- CS Lewis
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
- CS Lewis
Sorry to get religious on people. Just hoping to show a more humble side of my faith than that being displayed on another thread... |
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11/11/2005 09:09:23 PM · #13 |
My signature...What a great thought provoking thread!
Message edited by author 2005-11-11 21:11:29.
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11/11/2005 09:14:51 PM · #14 |
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11/11/2005 09:25:12 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by doctornick:
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"No man is worth his sweat until he has labored to make himself obsolete." Wm. S. Burroughs
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11/11/2005 10:28:10 PM · #16 |
A rookie is prone to new ideas,
a professional is prone to retirement.- unknown
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11/11/2005 11:30:47 PM · #17 |
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." -Angela Monet
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-'What do you care? You know the truth.'
-'[yeah,] but i gotta live with the world.' " -Risky Business
and an all time favorite: "RIDICULE IS THE TRIBUTE THAT MEDIOCRITY PAYS TO GENIUS."
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11/11/2005 11:42:24 PM · #18 |
"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference." — Elie Wiesel
"He who lives, must suffer:
and even in our sleep,
pain that does not forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
even against our will,
comes wisdom, by the awful grace of God."
— Aeschylus, "Agammemnon"
(It's worth noting that "Agammemnon" was written nearly 2,500 years ago...)
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11/11/2005 11:43:31 PM · #19 |
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?
-From Babylon 5
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from Letter from Birmingham Jail
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe people are really good at heart.
-Anne Frank, from Diary of a Young Girl
The time to make up your mind about people is never.
-From The Philadelphia Story
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
-Billy Joel, quoted by Bill DeMain in The Performing Songwriter
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
-Woody Allen
Life is. I am. Anything might happen.
-Robert Fulghum, from Maybe (Maybe Not)
Good things come to those who wait. Better things come to those who don’t.
-Sekou Sundiata, Philosophy of the Cool, from The Blue Oneness of Dreams
There's no one way to approach art; there's no right way. So long as you apply yourself with honesty and create from the heart, the end result is truthful. It might not be good, per se, but it still has worth. And I think that goes for any creative endeavor.
-Charles de Lint, from Memory And Dream
“Some nights,” he said, “I feel as though there are ghosts out there--not just of people who have died, but of the people we used to be. The people we might have been.”
-Charles de Lint, from Memory And Dream
It has often been said: “If you give them enough rope, they’ll hang themselves.” But why should they? Maybe they’ll create an unbelievably elegant arrangement of rope; an impossibly monumental construction of coiled vision which could only be classified as rope sculpture, stretching a timeless strand of understanding between us and posterity.
-Crosley Bendix, from the liner notes to Negativland, Escape From Noise
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
-Raymond Inmon
Message edited by author 2005-11-11 23:43:54.
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11/11/2005 11:49:02 PM · #20 |
I couldn't decide which of these best-suited the photo, so I made up both versons.
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11/11/2005 11:51:09 PM · #21 |
'Those who see thee in thy full blown pride,
Know little of affections crushed within
and wrongs which frenzy thee.--Talfourd
Best men are often moulded out of faults-- Shakespeare
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11/11/2005 11:55:59 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I couldn't decide which of these best-suited the photo, so I made up both versons.
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I like the Eisenhower with that image. On the subject of dreams:
"All men dream, bot not equally. Some men dream at night int he dusty recesses of their minds, and wake in the day to find it vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they live their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." — T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
Isn't that a lovely take on what it means to "daydream"? jejeje™
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11/12/2005 12:03:37 AM · #23 |
'Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly
Man gotta ask himself 'why, why, why'
Tiger gotta sleep, bird gotta land,
man gotta tell himself he understand'
--Bokonon |
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11/12/2005 12:20:14 AM · #24 |
...but pilgrim you could've gotten somebody killed today and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth, but I won't, I won't......The Hell I won't.--the Duke
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11/12/2005 12:29:31 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by TooCool:
'Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly
Man gotta ask himself 'why, why, why'
Tiger gotta sleep, bird gotta land,
man gotta tell himself he understand'
--Bokonon |
Hahaha!
"Nice, nice, very nice!
Nice, nice, very nice!
So many different people
in the same device!"
— ibid (as written by Kurt Vonnegut in "Cat's Cradle") |
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