If you don't know your market, you're never going to get bums on seats.
Chef Gordon Ramsey
Source: BBC Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
It's all in the journey and it's an imperfect world. Do your best to make sense. Think critically. Decide if it's fact or belief. Respond don't react. And, whether it's the road less traveled or the main drag, chances are good someone along the way has made an observation that might help you. Why reinvent the wheel when you can learn from the stumbling, imperfect experiences of those who have traveled before - or are traveling with - us?
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Mary Kay Ash on Conviction
Many people have gone a lot farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
Mary Kay Ash
Source: ziglar.com
Mary Kay Ash
Source: ziglar.com
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Dog Wisdom
Bark as if no one can hear you.
Catch the ball on the fly.
Lick like there's no end to kissing.
Sleep on a sofa nearby.
Jump like the sky is the limit.
Sit by the fire with friends.
Stay with the ones who love you.
Run like the road never ends.
Dog Philosophy
Author Unknown
Source: signals.com
Catch the ball on the fly.
Lick like there's no end to kissing.
Sleep on a sofa nearby.
Jump like the sky is the limit.
Sit by the fire with friends.
Stay with the ones who love you.
Run like the road never ends.
Dog Philosophy
Author Unknown
Source: signals.com
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Fortune Cookie Wisdom
If you want to succeed in business, avoid "business as usual."
Fortune Cookie from Q2 Bistro, Westerville Ohio
Fortune Cookie from Q2 Bistro, Westerville Ohio
Howard Zinn on Courage
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn
Source: wisdomquotes.com
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn
Source: wisdomquotes.com
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Incubus on Self-Determination
Drive
Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear
And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear
Take the wheel and steer
It's driven me before and seems to have a vague
Haunting mass appeal
But lately I'm beginning to find that I
Should be the one behind the wheel
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there I'll be there
So, if I decide to waiver my chance
To be one of the hive
Will I choose water over wine
And hold my own and drive?
It's driven me before and it seems to be the way
That everyone else gets around
But lately I'm beginning to find that when
I drive myself my light is found
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there I'll be there
Would you choose water over wine?
Hold the wheel and drive
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there I'll be there
Incubus: Brandon Charles Boyd, Michael Aaron Einziger, Alex Katunich, Christopher Kilmore, Jose Athony Pasillas II
Make Yourself, 1999
Copyright: © EMI APRIL MUSIC INC. © HUNGLIKEYORA MUSIC
Source: enjoyincubus.com
Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear
And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear
Take the wheel and steer
It's driven me before and seems to have a vague
Haunting mass appeal
But lately I'm beginning to find that I
Should be the one behind the wheel
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there I'll be there
So, if I decide to waiver my chance
To be one of the hive
Will I choose water over wine
And hold my own and drive?
It's driven me before and it seems to be the way
That everyone else gets around
But lately I'm beginning to find that when
I drive myself my light is found
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there I'll be there
Would you choose water over wine?
Hold the wheel and drive
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea
Whatever tomorrow brings
I'll be there I'll be there
Incubus: Brandon Charles Boyd, Michael Aaron Einziger, Alex Katunich, Christopher Kilmore, Jose Athony Pasillas II
Make Yourself, 1999
Copyright: © EMI APRIL MUSIC INC. © HUNGLIKEYORA MUSIC
Source: enjoyincubus.com
Law and Order Wisdom
Mike Logan: Oh, the Patriot Act, yeah, well, I read that in its original title: 1984.
Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth) to Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) regarding access to information and the post 9.11.01 reactive "Patriot" Act.
Charlie Rubin, Writer
Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Stress Position
Season 4, Episode 13, February 13, 2005
Wolf Films, NBC Universal Television
To read or revisit (check your library):
1984 written by George Orwell, copyright 1949
Animal Farm written by George Orwell, copyright 1946
Source: tv.com
Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth) to Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) regarding access to information and the post 9.11.01 reactive "Patriot" Act.
Charlie Rubin, Writer
Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Stress Position
Season 4, Episode 13, February 13, 2005
Wolf Films, NBC Universal Television
To read or revisit (check your library):
1984 written by George Orwell, copyright 1949
Animal Farm written by George Orwell, copyright 1946
Source: tv.com
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Joseph Campbell on Transcendence
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Monday, January 17, 2011
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Aspiration
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: goodreads.com
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: goodreads.com
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Franklin Delano Roosevelt on America
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: thinkexist.com
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: thinkexist.com
Bruce Lee on Fortitude
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
Bruce Lee
Source: thinkexist.com
Bruce Lee
Source: thinkexist.com
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Robert Frost on Reflection
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Source: poetryfoundation.org Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry
Holt and Company, LLC. Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Source: poetryfoundation.org Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry
Holt and Company, LLC. Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)
Wendy Feiereisen on Grief
Grief
You don't get over it
You just get through it
You don't get by it
Because you can't get around it
It doesn't just "get better"
It just gets different
Every day...
Grief puts on a new face.
Wendy Feiereisen
Grief ©2005®
Source: care2.com
from the book I Wasn't Ready To Say Goodbye, by Brook Noel & Pamela D. Blair, PH.D.
You don't get over it
You just get through it
You don't get by it
Because you can't get around it
It doesn't just "get better"
It just gets different
Every day...
Grief puts on a new face.
Wendy Feiereisen
Grief ©2005®
Source: care2.com
from the book I Wasn't Ready To Say Goodbye, by Brook Noel & Pamela D. Blair, PH.D.
Leo Buscaglia on Grief
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
Leo Buscaglia
Source: journey-through-grief.com
Leo Buscaglia
Source: journey-through-grief.com
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