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11/21/2005 01:40:43 AM · #1 |
| Friends, please share some motivational, inspirational and great quotations what you know. |
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11/21/2005 01:42:24 AM · #2 |
"Whatever you can do, or think you can, begin it;
boldness has genius, magic, and power in it."
— Goethe |
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11/21/2005 01:51:27 AM · #3 |
This was on my personalized Google page today - one of the rare times I notice it...
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
- Jimmy Buffett |
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11/21/2005 01:57:45 AM · #4 |
"Empty your mind. Be like water.
Put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
Put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
Put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, it can creep, drip or crash!!!
Be water, my friend. "
-Bruce Lee
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11/21/2005 01:59:17 AM · #5 |
OK, some of these may not be very motivational or inspirational...
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W.C. Fields
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I̢۪ve never tried before. - Mae West
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. - Dorothy Parker
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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11/21/2005 02:00:42 AM · #6 |
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
George Carlin
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11/21/2005 02:01:14 AM · #7 |
"A great teacher never strives to explain his vision - he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself."
- R. Inman |
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11/21/2005 02:09:20 AM · #8 |
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching.
Anon. (and didn't he write some good stuff) |
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11/21/2005 02:12:19 AM · #9 |
"'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio." -- ÂÂMarion Evans Cross
"It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." -- Dr. Rob Gilbert
"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for." -- Earl Warren
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable." -- Oscar Wilde
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." -- Robert Heinlein
"Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." -- Confucius
David
Message edited by author 2005-11-21 02:14:55.
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11/21/2005 02:14:38 AM · #10 |
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors... we borrow it from our children.. (native proverb)
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
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Message edited by author 2005-11-21 02:17:16. |
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11/21/2005 02:15:55 AM · #11 |
We are slowly breaking our organic shackles. We are becoming one with our creations. -David Darling
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11/21/2005 02:21:56 AM · #12 |
I don't swear for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. We've got to use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words anybody understands. Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee, 'Inherit the Wind'
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11/21/2005 07:10:53 AM · #13 |
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
-Ferris Bueller |
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11/21/2005 07:48:17 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
-Ferris Bueller |
Message edited by author 2005-11-21 07:58:50. |
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11/21/2005 09:14:07 AM · #15 |
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
—Mary Pickford—
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
—Thomas Edison—
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
—T.S. Eliot—
Message edited by author 2005-11-22 08:24:14. |
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11/21/2005 09:17:04 AM · #16 |
"Less artsy, more fartsy!" - H.J. Simpson
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11/21/2005 12:58:47 PM · #17 |
A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. - Lao-Tzu
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11/21/2005 01:03:09 PM · #18 |
"If your aunt had testicles, she'd be your uncle."
- Unknown |
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11/21/2005 01:07:41 PM · #19 |
"Its not about dying for your country its about making the other mother F&*%#R die for his" General Patton
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11/21/2005 01:27:39 PM · #20 |
"You are a load your mother should have swallowed."
Dairy Queen manager to me, when I worked there as a kid.
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11/21/2005 01:32:13 PM · #21 |
Some of my personal favorites,
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." - Abraham Lincoln
"Live free or Die" - NH's State Motto, General John Stark
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." 2nd Amendment, US Constitution
And perhaps one of the greatest quotes showing someones true colors,
"America is not worth dying for!" Cindy Sheehan, April 2005
Mike
//www.mikefairbanks.com
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11/21/2005 01:36:24 PM · #22 |
"Here's your baby, Mrs. Hitler."
Sorry, that's not a real quote, but it would be a good one if it were.
Message edited by author 2005-11-21 13:37:07.
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11/21/2005 02:14:24 PM · #23 |
A few of my favourite "Bushisms":
"When you have your own money, it means you've got more money to spend"
"I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here"
"Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better"
"You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
And the best one:
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right" |
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11/21/2005 02:48:06 PM · #24 |
"No matter where you go, there you are."
-Buckaroo Banzai |
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11/21/2005 02:58:42 PM · #25 |
My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch
- Jack Nicholson
The universe is made up of stories not atom - (not sure who said that)
Two possibilities exist - either we are alone in the universe or we arent, both are equally terrifying.
Message edited by author 2005-11-21 15:02:35.
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