Quotes
Man
Man is a combination of intellect which is formed by experience and instinct which is a product of creativity. Pg
A man of knowledge lives by acting not by thinking about acting.
Is man made of what he has or what he's missing? If one has everything in life, he may find himself pushed by greed. Instead a man who doesn't eat is hungrier and more aggressive than one who eats well. He is pushed by desperation.
A true man possesses inside beauty without vanity, strength without insolence and courage without ferocity.
Hurt one man and you've hurt all mankind.
Man is a border dweller, living in between divine and non-divine -
Philo of Alexandria 20 BC
Manager
A successful manager does not connect the dots for his employees. He helps them to see the dots and then to do the connecting themselves. 'He articulates the vision'.
Managing a Business
Leveraging a business is like driving your car with a sharp stick pointed at your heart through the steering wheel. As long as the road is smooth, it works fine. But hit one bump in the road and you may be dead.
Man unique
It is the unique gift of a man when he can demonstrate boldness when weak and cautiousness when strong.
Manhood anger
I am angry at man that he hold so dearly to his earthly possessions that he looks on the weak and oppressed with indifference because he fears risking his staged independence. He then is not his own master but a cowardly slave willingly chained to his meaningless possessions, afraid to cut the chain to enter the unknown world of manhood, a place where more exists than his whims and wants. pg
Man's laws
We're so ready to follow man's laws and traditions. When an unexpected guest shows up, by man's tradition he should have called, by God's commandments we should have welcomed him. Love others as you love yourself and do unto others as you'd like them to do to you.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. Roman king & philosopher, the first known stoic.
Marriage
Marriage - the only war where you sleep with the enemy.
Sergio
How can you be friends with the woman you screw? Vango's cousin
Marriage is a pledging of truths' to each other.
Materialism
Materialism is a good weapon to be used against the church. Diderot 1750 French philosopher
MBA
MBA's are people in the Fortune 500 who make careers out of saying no.
Fred Smith. Founder of FedEx
There is no business, that given time a Harvard MBA cannot analyze out of existence.
George Doroit Prof Harvard
Memories
Memories, life is built on these.
Men
If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman to hear him is he still wrong?
The Virginian Restaurant, Jackson Hole Wyoming
Men are not animals standing erect but 'immortal gods.' Francis Bacon
Mental attitude
There are just as many happy faces among the farmers working with primitive tools in the tropics as there are in air conditioned offices in New York Chicago or LA and a heck of a lot less suicides.
Mentor or hero
There's a difference between a mentor and a hero. Karlson Strouse
Mercy
Between the saddle and the ground mercy be sought and mercy be found.
St. Martin of Tours answer to a mother who lost her son thrown from a horse.
Everyone's at the mercy of someone. pg
The Mercy of God is between the bridge and the water. St. Augustine
Message to John
When asked why I try to help anyone that I can even knowing that there are thousands of phony victims. I respond. If I was in a room with a hundred men and I had a hundred dollar a bills and I was assured that 99 of the men had no need of money I'd gladly distribute the bills anyway knowing that the 1 man that had the need received his. pg
Might makes right
What was more inhuman than the slaughter and extermination of the Indian? Isn't the plight of the Palestinians similar. The world watches and witnesses it until we're personally affected. This is much like the thousands of Jews killed before any intercession in WW2. Then intercession came only because the saviors were convinced that intervention was in their best interest.
Middle Class
Ronald Reagan's busting of the Air Traffic Controllers Union signaled open season on the middle class.
Mind
The human mind is the greatest testament to the Creator. It allows you to laugh at the insolence of the weak and shed tears for the death of Voltaire. pg
Miracles
Miracles are for some yet to be explained phenomenon. For others they are miracles.
Misfortune
Misfortune nobly borne is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
Robert E. Lee (the greatest American)
Mistake
Most people remember the big people. They hope that the size of the big people can favorably affect their own personal situation. This is a common mistake. Because instead of looking down to give a little guy a hand, the big are also looking up. They are not stimulated by your situation or what you may do for them? Instead I say "care for the little." First, it's the right thing to do. And you may pleasantly find that in fact the little people have much more regard for you and are often the real big people. Their memories tend to be more efficient. pg
Momentum
How water tosses boulders.
Money
It's strange what a little money will do to so-called big people. pg
Money makes big losers out of small people.
I've sat here for days listening to everyone talk. They've mostly talked about money. Don't they want to talk about anything important?
Life is not about money, sometimes we find out to late. pg
Moon
The moon is red with the blood of unforgiven sins.
Morality
Morality is an invention of the weak to neutralize the strength of the strong. Plato
Kindness to the weak. Jesus Christ
Bravery of the brave. Nietsche
Harmony of the whole. Plato
Morals
Morals are often left outside the door like an umbrella.
Murder
Murder is only murder if you're not wearing a uniform and haven't been authorized by your government. If you're authorized by your government and wearing a uniform it's called an act patriotism.
Jay levin
My dear friend
I'm sorry that our time together was short. Now uninterrupted I'll tell you the things that I never had a chance to say. I respect you as well as like you. When you're not noticing I'm watching the way that you answer your problems with intelligence and consideration. I see that you seek justice and that you're apt to turn your cheek to create harmony. I see that that you tower over those that surround you though you never look from above. I see that you suffer the frustration and guilt of the divorced parent. I'm proud of your efforts. You have a son who in many ways is your equal. However he is a midget to your wisdom in maneuver. I agree with you that love is 90% of the cure though we never know when we're the 10%. But I see that you do love and that you try so hard. And after all is closed and forgotten wasn't this, our effort the most important thing, even more important than our success? The history books remember facts. But our intentions are the true windows of our hearts and therefore the true judge of our lives. So don't you see you can't lose with your son, no matter the outcome. We can only hope that what we want is deemed to be destiny.
Napoleon's defeat
Napoleon's defeat entered Europe into the age of pessimism, the holy alliance between the church and state. The revolution was dead and the son of the revolution was rotting on some rock called Madagascar in a distant forgotten sea. Leopardi in Italy, Byron of England, De Musett of France, Heine of Germany, and Pushkin of Russia were all pessimistic poets. Schubert, Schumann Chopin and later Beethoven were all pessimistic composers.
Victory
Would you consider Wellington or Blucher greater than Napoleon just because they defeated him at Waterloo? Likely would you consider Grant or Sherman Lee's equal because in the end Lee's side lost the American Civil War and their side won?
Nature
Nature cannot be commanded unless obeyed. Francis Bacon
There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars. Paul Virillo
New friend
For the first time in my life I've a new friend. Having always been conscious of the difference between man and woman I never thought it possible to meet on the same plane. But it's nice. It's like cream on the wound of an old dog. MT
New York
It's almost 2 months after the September 11th catastrophe. Here there are American flags all over. The people seem to feel that their existence or at least that their way of life is under attack. There are all sorts of signs, America love it or leave it and Bin Laden wanted dead or alive. The population seem to want to hide their confusion and pain in T-shirts and flags. Almost no one wants to talk about it. They're probably tired. I'm arriving at the WTC stop. Knowing the truth gives me an icy feeling as if I can here the screams of 3,000 people from beyond their reality. I've pulled up in front of the CME and looking at the statue of liberty she seems tired and saying 'I'm still here'. The Edward Moran bar and grill is closed and collecting dust. Buildings are gnarled as if a giant has taken a bite of them. The police are everywhere. It's a war zone. I see the entrance to the towers. There's a sign on the Embassy Suites stating that protective clothing is required to enter. It's not open for business. I see no heroes, only men working and clowning going on with their lives. I'm proud to be an operational engineer, I'm proud to be a New York Police Officer, I'm proud to be a Fireman. No one is going to diminish the spirit of this country. Two months ago those proud police were the brunt of hatred.
There's still dust in the air. The government's not able to regulate it. A New York Police Department tow truck carries a decal '10,000 reward for anyone witnessing and testifying against anyone shooting at a New York City Policeman. This is not the homogenous society portrayed by the films, but some of the most dangerous streets in the world. Today it seems somehow different.
Mc Donald's is doing a brisk business, fattening up tomorrow's diabetes and heart disease victims. The faces of fallen heroes is on windows of stores. America justice bound. Did death create these heroes or life?
The further that you get from the scene the price of patriotism falls the flag prices are cut as you go on. Cabbies are hustling people in and out of the area.
Two miles away two taxi cab drivers are yelling and things are no different than they were 2 months before. I arrived at 345 Park. There are agents all over. The American king arrives here today with 125 other kings from all over the world. The clothing and things from the bums on the side of the church are being moved away for king Bush' arrival. They're being put into trucks with containers. The church is empty now other than 2 people openly talking to themselves. One talks every now and then the other is in a conversation and talks seemingly without taking a breath. She's talking to Marianne, wherever she may be. The churches were full the days after the event. Now they're back to normal, the dollar has again replaced the church as people are sorting out their lies. The important thing is that they're secure in their perceptions. The truth to them is irrelevant. They just have to organize the lies into a semblance of sense. My cab driver is from Los Angeles. He tells me that he thinks that most of our politician's faces should be on the wanted poster along with Bin Laden. He said that he lost a brother in Viet Nam. I get out to leave and he opens his door and exits. " The big money make the politicians who dictate to the public their decisions. Hundred of thousands of poor or working class American sons died in Viet Nam so that the capitalist could today sell them Microsoft products and Pepsi". I smile and contemplate this man's extremism. I gaze back as his car enters traffic and can't help wondering how many are out there who share his concerns.
North Carolina
Less than 10% of the southern states population were North Carolinians , but this state produced more than 20% of the south's soldiers and 25% of southern deaths.
Northern lights-Lee
The Aurora Borealis quote from a Scottish poem rite before Lee died. There was a storm that flooded Virginia with 14 inches of rain in 36 hours. Then the northern lights were seen. The quote, fearful lights , that never beckon, save when heroes and kings die. Lee died the following day.
Nonsense
It makes no sense to stop at a red light at four in the morning when there is no one else at the intersection. It wastes, gas, pollutes and wastes time.
Obesity
It's not the calories. It's the chemicals. pg
Old Age
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. Chuck Fasso
Opression
Everywhere for all time government has strived to enslave its people with laws. Never has a government been so successful as in the United States.
-Ethan Tel Aviv
Our first day
Our first day we started writing the lines that we will read our last day.
Pain
Pain is the absence of love. Francesca
Pain and sadness
Pain and sadness are rivers that we must all pass. Sometimes you wade through them, other times you swim them, sometimes you build a bridge across them and sometimes you drown. pg
Parent's duty
As parents it is our first duty to teach our children how to live without us. Dr. Feruccio Aloe'.
Passion
Passion without reason is blind. Reason without passion is dead. Espinoza
Caution thrown into the wind is the birth of passion. pg
Passion uncontrolled burns down the house where it is guest. pg
Pat g
I'd rather give a 1000 to someone who needs it than spend it on something that I don't need. pg
Woman: Some men are nothing but male whores.
Pat: Everyone's should do what he's good at.
I fucked her with no rubber and no regrets. gp
An Italian's thoughts
You're like a cool breeze on a scorching summer night. You love it while it's here. You'd like to grab it and hold onto it. It's a thought but you know that it's impossible. So you learn to enjoy it's presence and smile when it comes and not cry when it leaves knowing that it will come back.
You know that someday you'll resign yourself to the inside of a temperate abode but that in the loneliness of a full room you'll long for the breeze that represents the best part of you and smile at his careless summer ways.
Patience
Patience is the foundation of strength and is essential to live. Living is the realization of dreams. Patience is the cement that holds together the hope of realizing our dreams. pg
Patience in Business
Lemons are quickly apparent. Pearls take time.
Patriotism
Patriotism is the disliking of every country but your own. Voltaire.
The greatest danger to society is the suspension of critical thought. When we blindly defend our government we are being the least unpatriotic as defending untruths in the name of patriotism bring us closer to the demise of our country.
Peace
Inner peace is often not brought by achieving our desires but by lowering our desires to our achievements for if what you have seems insufficient for you then though you possess the world you'll still be miserable. pg
People
Not all people get further away when they move on. pg
People are precious things carried in fragile containers. Saint Paul
Persuation
When it comes to persuading. It is not important what you want but what the person you are trying to persuade wants...People seldom know what they want.
Philosophy
Thales [640-550] was an astronomer and the father of philosophy.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Logic, the method of thinking and research.
Esthetics, the study of beauty.
Ethics, the study of ideal conduct.
Politics, the study of ideal organization.
Metaphysics, the study of 'ultimate reality..
Philosophy was born roughly 600 BC. Prior to that we found answers in religion and superstition woven into a myth. In Greek a myth is a story about the gods that attempts to explain why life is as it is. Greek philosophers tried to disprove or at least deem mythology as not to be trusted. There are all sorts of mythology.
Philosophy is the study of the pieces that make the whole. We are but tiny pieces. Health means to live harmoniously within the whole.
Philosophy is not logic or learning, but accepting and understanding.
Philosopher Hegel was asked by a French man to state what he believed in one sentence he wrote 10 volumes. He was Germanic and a follower of Kant.
He once entered class with one shoe. He died in 1831 the same time as Beethoven and Goethe. This closed the end of Germany's dominance of the arts.
Planning
Planning is avoiding harm and gaining advantage.
Plato
Do you believe as Plato that the soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas and cut the chains of it's earthly body? Plato
Every man that issues laws should do so to benefit the people that he rules and not his own interests.
Politicians
It's terrible to contemplate how few polititians have been hanged.
G.K. Chesterton
Politicians praise justice because they are cowards. They do not have the ability to rise amongst their peers so they fool the public by praising justice for their positions above the crowds. Plato
Politicians can't rule their households or their wives so they rule the universe with bureaucracy and the masses indifference or ignorance as their weaponry.
Politics
If you don't want to work for a living, Politics is as good a job as any - Congressman John. f. Kennedy.
It's terrible to contemplate how few politicians have been hanged.
G.K. Chesterton
Possible
For me to let you down is about as possible as the waves rolling out to sea and never returning.
Poverty
Poverty is the worse kind of violence but the cure is not for India to embrace the decadence and sadness of the west. Mahatma Ghandi
Power
Absolute power is the power to corrupt the incorruptible.
No earthly power can break the will of a man whose heart is his master. Force cannot persuade them but only make hypocrites of them. Letter of a Huguenot
The power of those that control our societies create injustice and abusive authority. Authority is the consequence of the power that the creature possesses whether she be called a democracy or a dictatorship. It's not how one rules or how a government rules collectively but the compassion and wisdom that the entity utilizes in dealing with it's recipients, whether they be called citizens, serfs, subjects or voters. pg
Some people have loaded guns. Others have to dig. Clint Eastwood 'The Good The Bad and The Ugly'
Prayer
If there is no God no harm done, if there is job well done. Pascal
Prayers
He's the kind of person that says his prayers when no one is looking.
pg, spoken of Walter Hayhurst
Pressure
If you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen.
Harry Truman
Princess
And the princess cried. But I cannot reign without my crown.
And the heavens responded. And now you shall reign.
Problem
The problem is not chasing the dollar, it's chasing the dollar and nothing else.
Ralf Ristau
Problems can be dealt with crisis are more difficult... Problems are normal. Neglecting a problem turns it into a crisis
Prison
Prisons are to protect a country's population not to punish them.
Progress
At the crossroads of progress there are a thousand men guarding the past.
Promises
He broke them easily and was always ready to make another.
Protecting My Watch
"I can't have someone dying on my watch," was the response given by Art Goldberg when asked when why he would not clear a dangerous, but successful trader. Art Goldberg
Proverb
For as a man thinketh in his heart so he is.
Psychiatrist-Psychologist
The difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist is that one gives hugs and one gives drugs.
Laura from Philly
Punishment
Isn't the punishment of a vulgar soul the very vulgarity by which it lives?
Isn't the punishment of a selfish soul it's very existence?
Puppies
Puppies have a fighting courageous heart. But when they attack a vicious adult dog they will perish.
Quality
Quality is only a word until it is joined by harmony, balance, good intention and passion,
Quickness
Quickness is like thunder, it's too late to cover your ears.
Rain
Some people spend their lives moving away from the clouds. But remember, not all clouds carry rain. Sometimes you just need to look up at the cloud and smile, stay put because the most beautiful sunshine is often born when the clouds move away. Other times the sun bursts though raining clouds and you have a rainbow. But if you move away from the raining clouds you'll never see it. pg
Rationalize
If it won't cause WW3 let's talk about it. It can't be all that bad. We should talk about everything because every event is part of a larger thing that we all have our part in. It's important to know that everything is in the right place. Dick Olson Air Force retired officer.
Reasoning and eventually changing one's mind is as natural as the snake shedding his skin. Those who cannot rationalize, call them naked and shameless, hypocrites.
Being rational is a matter of being appropriately responsive to reason.
Harry Frankfurt
Real reason
A person usually has at least two reasons for doing something, the reason he says and the real reason. J Pierpoint Morgan
Reality
We read that there have been 2 deaths and 3 wounded in Kosovo in the last 2 weeks with peace keeping troops and rebels. But how many murders were there in the past 2 weeks in any large American city? Maybe we should keep some of our troops at home. MT
Reason
By reasoning with imagination we transform our experiences into the molding of our future expectation. In this way we choose our path and unchain ourselves from the past. pg
Reason can be offset by feeling. Often millions believe something to be true even though it is false. Why then is it correct to trust reason and not our sense of feeling in determining the validity of a belief? Whether it be Christianity or atheism how certain are we that reason can answer or properly determine the existence of proof behind a concept? pg
When reason is against man it will soon turn him against reason. David Hume
Reason and thought are the wings and rudder of your soul. If your wings break you will fall to the ground and if your guiding tail falters you will glide aimlessly until you crash.
Relationships
If a guy picks up the check for your dinner twice, don't let him pick you up a third time. kev
Religion
Religion binds us to earthly rules. Spirituality frees us from earthly things. Pg
Religion is the guard rails of life. Spirituality is what sets your life free. Pg
Organised religion is an antithesis of Christianity. Attending church and reciting scripture etc has little to do with a religious life. Soren Kierkegaard
The difference between a religious and a spiritual person is that a religious person fears hell. A spiritual person's been there. Corky Perlstein
Do not judge a religion by it's people. Judge it by it's scripture. Read in a notebook in a Tampa chapel.
Remember me
Remember me as a man who helped the little guy, as a man who looked up to all things good in man no matter how insignificant others considered them. For this will have made me a man and I'll have been a good father and companion and friend. pg
Responsibilities
Responsibilities cannot be delegated.
Reward
Giving back is the real pay=back. Pg
Righteousness
Righteousness is advancing one's scope in an honorable manner.
Risk
The falcon cannot carry it's nest with him when he flies to the sun and down again to swoop his prey.
Rommel
Rommel made a remark about the first day of the allied invasion at Normandy. The first day will be the longest. If it is lost the battle will be lost.
Rommel was the greatest German WWII general. Hitler allowed him to commit suicide on a list of possible complotters of Hitler's assassination attempt.
Rotten people
Rotten people are like dogs in that, if they can't eat something then they bury it.
John Doe
Routine
People fall into a routine because they fail to see the blessings that arrive with the dawn of each day.
Rules
The world is constantly changing. The leaders make rules because they have trouble with the chaos that the changes create in their minds. The rules then become our handcuffs.
Sadness
Sadness' only ready company is misery. It's presence shortens life, lengthens discomfort and squeezes short the precious gifts such as friendship and joy.
Is the sadness of the masses more than the sadness of one man? Better, can the sadness of a man be more than all of the sadness of the world? Where do you hide an emotion? Where do you store sadness?
Science
If science answers all aren't we in effect at the end of our road? With technology on one side and the greenhouse effect on the other could it be true that man's thirst for knowledge is in effect his fall from grace?
Scientists according to many philosophers deal with the physical things but forget perception and understanding of these things. You have phenomenon and then the thing itself. pg
Seeing outside
The true talent of seeing things as they are from the outside come from what we are on the inside.
Self
The self is fully realized in death.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Selfish people
It's the individual who isn't interested in his fellow man that has the greatest difficulty and provides the greatest harm to others. Alfred Adler Viennese psych.
Sex
For a bit of sausage a woman will sometimes marry a pig. Vito
Sexual Harassment
I worked for a man at work for about a year who sexually harassed me. He kept me after work to recount and recount the drawers... By myself I took care of him. I married him. We're married for 15 years and have 3 beautiful children.
Kristen Daniel
Sickness
We're only as sick as our secrets. Book of Michael J Fox
There are more things in heaven and earth than dreamed by mortal man.
Silence
What a strange silence is that which surrounds a man and a woman when they are together.
Simplicity
Life was simpler when apples and blackberries were only fruits.
Friend of Paritosh
Sisyphus
Sisyphus heaved a huge rock up a hill only to have it roll down again and again right before the top.
Skiing
When a Swiss acquaintance told me that he liked skiing better than sex I gave him a hundred franc note. He asked me what it was for. I told him that it was for his ski pass. Now I'd like to meet your girlfriend.
Skiing is the most fun you can have with your pants on.
Pat palella
Sky
How high do you have to be to touch the sky? A child touches it from 3 feet. pg
Slave
Who is more a slave? One subservient to his beliefs or one who is a slave to his desires?
Small candle
If you walk into a pitch black room with a tiny candle, isn't it amazing the light that it casts. The same is a good man amongst the masses. pg
Small Business
Dancing with elephants without getting trampled
Warren Buffet
Smile
Nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give.
Majestic Glass Chicago
Your smile is your good will message.
Society
Sometimes to be a friend to someone means becoming an enemy of society.
Pg
When a society is slaved to seeking luxury and material goods it drifts ever farther from the wisdom that was undoubtedly at the roots of its invention. Pg
When man no longer controls his own destiny, he becomes a trapped mouse. Bob Herman
Socrates
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Certain things I'd rather do myself. Pat g
When a boy asked him how to gain wisdom he took him to the river. Submerged his head in the river and held him under. When he finally let the boys head go the boy gasped. Socrates said why did you gasp. I wanted air. When you want wisdom as much as you want air you'll attain it.
Song bird
Marrying a woman for her beauty's like eating a bird for his song.
Sorrow
If through my sorrow others could find joy, then my sorrow becomes pleasure.
Soul
The soul is often the battle field of reason and passion.
When two souls meet and are one distance and time are non consequential. When my soul is that of Napoleon or yours what can separate them? Aren't they really the same. pg
Today's society can try a man's soul. Today when people value thrills and frills over liberty. The frills in fact become our chains. Is the acceptance or living within normalcy so important to us that it cost us our spiritual freedom?
Speed of light
186,000 miles a second
Spirits
In the church you find the religious. In the bar you find spirits. Steve Haming
Spirituality
Religion binds us to earthly rules. Spirituality frees us from earthly things. Pg
Religion is the guard rails of life. Spirituality is what sets your life free. Pg
Spot on your suit
I can see the spots on your suit. The ones that you thought the dry cleaner removed. You walk so proudly. You're so confident that no one can see them. You're respectable and accomplished, worldly and wise. But I can see them and you're a fool who'd be better off going around in a torn rag which more sincerely reflects who you are and what you believe and how you live.
Stoicism
A man is stoic when after the sudden death of his beloved child he can calmly say the phrase. ' My son has returned to from where he came', and then go about with his life.
Choose not what you wish but wish what has happened to you.
I never lose anything. It is returned to it's proper place whether it be a wife or property. Marcus Aurelius
First stoics Marcus Aurelius Epitectus
Strategy
When entering battle in the war of life pick your ground, do not be trapped into fighting elsewhere, and defend it to your last breath.
A well mapped strategy can kill the enemy from 10,000 kilometers.
Strategy is to attack the plans not the enemy.
Know yourself and know your opponent... And you will know the outcome of the battle before it starts. Tsun Zsu
Strength
Who's stronger? Those who stay and fight or those who fight and leave?
By eliminating weaknesses, we become strong.
Strength in human beings is created by the control of passions and to channel this power into a creative force. (Rivers turned into electricity)
-Friedrich Nietsche
Stress
Character is built under stress and strain. So why do we try to shelter our children from it. pg
Success
When people chose their own goals their more likely to reach them.
It's a natural fact that the more successful you are the bigger the challenges you have to deal with.
Success. Put as well under Security
The only real security in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience. Ability and integrity. Henry Ford
Success is guaranteed by a fluid integration of its parts. Pg
Envision and articulate your life to secure your future.
To become a great person you must first act like one.
Tolerance for failure is an intricate part of success.
What I believe is who I am.
Your success has always been there. You just need to find it.
Your success helps has the possibility of helping everyone. Instead your failure helps a select few and not those who love you.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dorothy Stenson
Successful Company
A company of owners will outperform a company of employees any day of the week.
A Successful Man
A successful man brings creativity, chaos, inner strengths and weaknesses with him. How he reacts and balances these things outlines the essence of his effectiveness living. Pg
A Successful Manager
A successful manager lives by his own rules, which are prioritized by other's needs.
A successful manager should be able to instill a sense of ownership pride in his fellow collaborators.
A successful manager will act how he wants his colleagues to act.
A successful manager expects every one of his co-workers to work daily at being the best that they can be.
Suffer
I suffer for your sufferance, I cry for your tears, I laugh for your joy and live for you life. A friend
The fear of suffering is often worse than the suffering itself.
Suffering
Suffering makes murderers of some and saints of others. pg
Superman
Superman is one who rules one's self. He controls his desires and has passion to achieve them. He desires for himself no more than he desires for others. Pg
Talent
Every ignored talent becomes a frustration. pg
Tavern
I saw more clearly the glimpse of the true light in a tavern one night, more clearly than I've ever seen in 100 churches. Calhoun
Teamwork
Teamwork is the thing that allows a group of common people to arrive at grandiose accomplishments
Tears
All of your tears cannot erase one line of your past.
Television
Who needs cable? They already got me brainwashed with the regular stations. Kev
Temptation
Temptation resisted is the true measure of character.
Texas
Texas was the only state to enter the union with a treaty. Texas warred against Mexico because Texans didn't want to pay taxes and because in 1828 Mexico outlawed slavery.
Things
There are more things on heaven and earth than dreamed by mortal man.
Shakespeare
Thought
Thought can be more than the sea and just as profound. Durant on Espinosa
Character is built under stress and strain. We raise our children with as little stress and strain as possible. We're stealing their character.
Men look to replace the hole created because they sold their soul. They can buy and conquer all that they want but it will never fill that hole. The best that they can do is to create distraction so that they can try to forget about the empty feeling that it's presence presents.
Sometimes I accomplish the most when I work the least.
We must become who we read to experience them. We must be martyrs and executioners at the same time. What Caesar passed with the Ides of March we also must pass and live the things history can teach us. History must be read and understood, most importantly understood or it remains forever unread.
How do you convince a child that Santa who comes with wild reindeer in a large wooden sleigh that he leaves his packets under a plastic Christmas tree.
Thought
And we never think. But we think that we do and this is what sets us up for our ultimate defeat. The fact that we're so certain creates a false base of support for what we do in our lives. Then when we're in our hospital bed, wherever that may be, it hits us and we can't go back. It's to late. And today just maybe if we weren't so stubbornly certain we'd try a little harder to understand. But that's to difficult. We couldn't handle it all. And we discover that all of those things that we consume a life time to find in the end were not worth our time and effort. And here we lie finally, utterly helpless in our hospital bed and all of our tears cannot change the slightest our past.
Thought
I think of you when the light eats the night.
Time
Autumns first leaves fall in spring.
pat g
Time is a child at play...
Heraclites
It slips under your feet, tallied up and deposited behind a door, never to be opened again and redistributed.
Minutes never pass and years fly by.
Timing
Timing is what breaks the body of the hawk's prey.
To Paola
I was on a trip from Bari to London and 29A was written on my ticket, but there was a 12-year old girl in 29A. The plane was full, but for 27C and 29B. There was a beautiful woman sitting in 27D. But for some strange reason I sat next to the 12-year old girl.
Her name was Paola. She was on her first plane trip and heading to London with her class. She was timid and afraid to speak in English. I sensed that she wanted to communicate. I told her that this trip was a wonderful gift that her parents were giving her. She explained that her school had paid for the trip, because her father had been dead for five years. (In Italy it's for the government to assist orphaned children).
It seemed that she wanted to speak and all the sudden so did I. She explained that she wanted to become an accountant. She liked school, but English was not her favorite subject. We spoke until the captain announced that we would be landing.
In my pocket I was carrying gifts made of silver to give to my mother and sisters. The one that I intended to give to my mother I gave to Paola.
She did not know what to say, but I insisted that she open the little gift box. She embarrassingly followed my suggestion.
Her eyes lit up when she saw the silver chain in crucifix.
I expected to her to say thanks, but instead she said, "It's hard growing up without a father." I told her that I understood.
She told me that her father's name was Francesco and he had died of a heart attack.
As we got up from our seats, I told her that fatherhood was an international club and that she should always wear the gift because it was from me and Francesco.
When we got off the plane, she hugged me and joined her class. I'm sure that someday.
To Rocco
You who emulate your father who loves you; life is not always to be understood. Often the rules become the bars that make a prisoner of man's soul. Words are so easily spoken and hardly understood by people with blinders on their eyes and Sony Walkmans on their ears. Their belief that they know the truth becomes more important than the truth its self. They consequently never seek the truth and live their lives according to those who are slier and precedent to them. My son, don't live by these rules, follow your heart.
Toys
Napoleon gave out 15,000 metal crosses to war veterans. When criticized for giving toys to hardened soldiers he said 'men are ruled by toys'.
Tragic comedy
A tragic comedy is one whose laughter is bitter with tears.
Traitor
A traitor is a defector to the losing side in a war. The defector to the winning side is a hero.
Tramp
When the dentist told the tramp to go to the drug store and get something for oral hygiene she bought a pack of rubbers
Truth
The 'truth' is that which works. John Dewey
Some things are true whether you believe them or not. Angels
People very often condemn truth because of it arises much controversy. They're afraid of what the truth will cost them in dollars, convenience and fearful of the changes it may bring. Mc Donald's Divorce
How can we ever know the truth when only the victors write the history books? Maybe the losers politics were more just and noble. But alas we'll never know. Will WE?
The first casualty of war is truth.
Some face the sun's radiance while others turn their backs to it. To them it is not the sun but something that throws shadows. The shadows are then cast on their lives and become their permanent abodes.
We know what makes us happy. This makes up part of our truth. People who bring us joy are a response to this truth. There can be no love without truth.
Spinoza
People who are indifferent to the truth are indifferent to their own happiness. Only by knowing who we truthfully are can we know what truthfully brings us joy. When we pretend or mislead we are finally the victim of our own unhappiness. PG
Trust
Trust is a word used too often by people you can't. Sunday sermon
Twinkling star
A father promises his son that he will communicate with him via a twinkling star. When the boy's great moment comes it's cloudy out.
Ugly women
Philippe Duc D'orleans loved all women, fat ugly etc. He was the procurator and guardian of the Sun Kings grandson Luis the 15th of France. When his mother commented that he could have all of the pretty and classy women that he wanted and that it wasn't undignified for him to be seen with prostitutes and ugly woman. He responded. But Mama all cats are gray at night.
Ultimate defeat
And we never think. But we think that we do and this is what sets us up for our ultimate defeat. The fact that we're so certain creates a false base of support for what we do in our lives. Then when we're in our hospital bed, wherever that may be, it hits us and we can't go back. It's to late. And today just maybe if we weren't so stubbornly certain we'd try a little harder to understand. But that's to difficult. We couldn't handle it. And we discover that all of those things that we consumed our lives to find were not worth our time and effort. And here we lie finally utterly helpless in our hospital bed and all of our tears cannot even slightly change our past.
Unbeatable Russian Generals
General January and February. They soundly defeated Napoleon and Hitler.
Uncertainty
Uncertainty is typified by the stray dog who wants to come with you but is afraid. Finally you tire and leave. Behind you the dog is watching you seemingly contemplating his lost chance.
Understand
Maybe it's not so important to understand. We as men have a duty to go ahead. Sometimes this means fighting with a heavy sword against the wind. We may not understand but we must all the same fight.
Unique man
It is the gift of a unique man when he can demonstrate boldness when weak and cautiousness when strong.
Values
Values exist in a personality less than we wish, so we put a value on them.
Vanity
Is epitomized by a man who becomes Jewish when he notices that he's growing a bald spot.
Hakim was an Arab prophet who went blind. Instead of admitting his plight he wore a silver mask saying that it was to protect others from his facial radiance.
Venture Capital and Adventure Capital
Venture Capital enters at the oasis. Adventure Capital got you to the oasis.
Pat g
Victory
I have no advesary. Life is the only game. We lose only if our struggle has not gained knowledge. In life the important struggles are those that alter thought.
If I champion an opponent without lifting his spirits, I have in fact defeated myself.
Pg
Victory does not come by playing by the rules but by inventing them and forcing others to play by them.
Pg
Would you consider Wellington or Blucher greater generals than Napoleon just because they defeated him at Waterloo? Likely would you consider Grant or Sherman Lee's equals because in the end Lee's side lost the Civil War?
Victory is often easy to achieve and it's fruits difficult to hold.
Some of the greatest victories are fruits of some of the greatest defeats.
La Rosa Giovanni
Vindication
Vindication is typified by the bitter wife who does not give pain killer to her terminally ill husband to get even for their past differences.
Virtue
Virtue is selfishness furnished with a spy glass. Helvetius 1750 France
Assume a virtue if you don't have it. Shakespeare
Is not the reward of virtue, virtue itself. Isn't the happiness brought on by serving the Lord reward enough? Why must we fix our sights on heaven and hell? pg
Wisdom, Justice, Courage and Moderation.
Virtue is the only infallible truth.
War
War is too important to be left to the generals.
French Statesman Georges Clemenceau
The greatest ammunition in war is often not the steel of the guns or the technology of the missiles but the depth of the bravery on the part of the warriors.
It is forbidden to kill. Therefore all known murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. In this case they are called warriors and are exempt. Voltaire pg
When those who do the fighting get to decide between war and peace history will no longer be written in blood. Why don't Bush and Hussein slug it out and leave the rest of us in peace?
War Criminals
War criminals are the leaders on the losing side of a war, the leaders on the winning side are called heroes. Kant
War Skill
True skill is demonstrated when you defeat the enemy without fighting him.
War Strategy
A battle invasion should be held back like water released under pressure. It then becomes unavoidable and is sure to defeat the opposition.
Strategy is to attack the plans not the enemy.
Warfare
Successful warfare is based on deception.
Warrior
A real warrior leaves a piece of himself on every battlefield.
A warrior refrains, a soldiers represses. A warrior is in control, he waits for the right moment. Instead a soldier often fights himself, he may suffocate a thought or a word to better what he's told will help to advance his side in the war.
Wave
Touch bottom once and bounce. Touch again and bounce. If you return to the bottom again the likelihood of bouncing is harder and harder. Eventually you're condemned to live there. pg
We are
We are part of a fantastic thing which I don't understand. This does not deny religion or the existence of God but in fact is affirmation of a magical whole existence of which we all, no matter how great, famous or indifferent play a part in it's majesty.
Weakness
Weakness can only be faked by someone really strong. pg
Something held us back until we found that it was ourselves. Robert Frost
Welfare
700 Billion Dollar Rescue Pan - Welfare for the rich. pg
Western civilization
The western civilization claims to be superior to eastern civilization because we value our own life more than anything. We claim to be more civil. Is it so civil to live only for your own personal pleasure?
In the east they claim to love honor more than life itself. They believe that they are more civil. Is it civil to kill for honor? Isn't honor betrayed by the very act of reckless violence?
Whisper
Sometimes a whisper can make your head explode and level the world around you.
Wind
Wind leans on the prairie grass without tiring, tosses it about without effort.
Wind can make a million leaves fly away.
Winning favor
The secret is not to depict people as they are but instead to depict them as they want to be. This will win their favor.
Wisdom
I don't know all the answers, but I've got a lot of suggestions. Pg
Good living is the gift of wisdom.
A man was forever with his donkey. The man sat in the cart and the donkey pulled the cart. The donkey was deaf and dumb so there was only feeling to communicate. One day the man entered town with his cart. The man was pulling the cart and the donkey was sitting inside. When asked why he was doing this the man responded. ' Only like this can I really understand from where the donkey got his wisdom'. Francesca
Wise men
Wise men take no credit for their wisdom and do not judge the unreasoning or the bigots. They pity them
Wise men learn from other's mistakes.
Wit
Wit can kill without giving offense
Woman
You sat down so purposefully. You gently opened your purse and brought out your phone. It was one of the latest models. It was blue and you gazed at it as if it were a valuable time piece and that you were a proud clock maker. You gazed at the face and it's numbers, touching the numbers gingerly and purposely. Finally after putting in the number you fluffed back your hair and gently put the darling tool to your ear. All of the sudden all eloquence passed from your face, and it is grossly misfigured. You listen to the torturing message that you're out of phone credit. You jerk it away from your head as if insulted and thrash your once treasured item into your bag as if your bag was a garbage bin and the phone was a gross unwanted piece of rubbish.
Women
The 'B' rule.
If she's a baby at 20, she'll be a bitch at 40.
O f pearlstein
To see if a guy's age is politically correct for you take his age, divide it by 2, add 10 and subtract 1 for every million he has...
The fact that women don't know what they want doesn't stop them from getting it.
Prague proverb maryna
Men who marry pretty women have no imagination.
Paolo Bonolis
They often beat you not because they are strong but because you are weak.
There's no woman in the world that someone's not tired of dukin. henry shatkin
To some women you give all and it's not enough. To others you give them nothing and it's too much.
One woman is not enough for any man, one woman is to much for any man.
Women don't need it. That's why they're in the top of the food chain.
I don't wish to sleep with all women because I believe them to be all the same and therefor don't respect their intelligence or their sex or hate all women, but surely because I love them. Each of them is a treasure waiting to be enjoyed. The fact that I haven't slept with all of them gives me something else to live for. MT
I've never convinced a woman. But I have given her enough information to convince herself. pg
Most women I meet have a bigger dick than mine I.C.
Women and men are constantly in a game. The men would like to give the women cock without giving them cake and the women would like to get the cake without taking the cock.
The one thing that makes putting up with women worth while. Children.
I have decided that men need women if for nothing else than for the memories. pg
How can you trust something that bleeds for a week and doesn't die? jb
Words
His words folded around me and carried me to bed with him.
WTC
We're all in such a hurry to find a fast fix for our problems so that we can go on collecting nuts and living our lives. We'd like to find someone to blame for the state of things. We should look to ourselves and our indifference whilst we gather nuts and hide them for winter. Winter is here. MT
World's agenda
It seems that everyone in the world has their own agenda and it's not mine.
World Peace
The world can be changed. It begins with you.
Writer
The difference between a writer and someone who writes is that a writer passes his words through his heart before he records them. pg
Writing
I write when thoughts fill my brain. Francesca
WWII
When Hitler told the Russian general Molotov that the West was defeated, Molotov's response was, "If the West is defeated, who is dropping bombs on us?"
Younger women
The lion always wants fresh meat. Renzo Arbore
Your Eyes
Your eyes tell the story of all that is forgotten, of worlds lived only in the memories of ancient people. And you've seen so many of its stories. When you open your mouth to speak it foretells truth, truth of a chivalry forgotten and deemed useless. But in your mind it lives. And I live. MT
Your money
Your biggest fear is that someone will take it away
And the thought keeps you nervous night and day.
you mix your lies with the money you earn
If I were you I'd think a bit less about your wealth
Because in all of the things money can buy it can't buy your health
Your opinion
Your opinion is often affected by what you interpret the other persons opinion of you to be. This clouds your judgment. When deciding the qualifications of someone do it without considering their opinion of yourself.
Lee Robert E. gave a favorable opinion when asked his thoughts of a general who was most critical of Lee himself. When queried Lee responded, you asked me what I thought of the general not what he thought of me.
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