32 GB – iPod Touch Contest
July 13, 2008
I have a brand new 32 GB iPod Touch to give away. All you have to do is be the 10,000th commenter on this post and you win. Good luck and have fun!
Rules:
- 1) You cannot comment more then five times in a row. If you make five posts you have to wait for someone else to post in order to comment again. If you break this rule, you will be disqualified.
- 2) Use your real email address (they are not displayed, it will be used to verify winners).
3) Because of the threats of cheating and “script” attacks, once we hit 9,000 all comments will be moved to “moderated.” This will prevent cheating and will enable me to verify the winner. All posts will be approved, so if you make six in a row, I will approve them and thus you will then be disqualified. So be careful and good luck!Â
I’ll start the ball rolling! Good luck!
Two fish are in a tank. One says to the other, “I’ll man the guns; you drive.”
I want this so badly. I know this is the beginning, but the number will never go up if people don’t comment.
Thanks for the opportunity, Jeff!
This will be mine!
poop
2
baaaah
Revolution Number 9
Dr. Carter
Magical Trevor
For What It’s Worth
How Bizarre
10,000th!
Whee!
This is going to take forever.
Good Luck Guys!
i pod touch me!
and
nor
or
door
ping … ping
ping … ping.
i want one sooo bad
please
i love the ipod touch (and john lennon)
¡más rápido!
2
3
Albatross
Get your albatross here!
9,968 to go
I’m Spartacus
No, I’m Spartacus!
I wonder how many more comments to go to reach the goal?
Will the 10k comment ever be reached?
Hope I win though!
Thank you for the chance!
No! I’m Spartacus!
I’m George Foreman.
No, I’m George Foreman.
My apologies Sir, I hadn’t realized you were George Foreman.
Quite all right, my dear boy, quite all right.
We got long way to go. Im in
Just keep swimming,
Just keep swimming…
Just keep swimming……
Just keep swimming…………..
Just keep swimming……………………
you better not be kidding.
by the time you get 10,000 that thing will be antique.
Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan’ go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan’ go home.
I want it!!
ugggghhhh this will take forever!
What is a door not a door?
What it’s ajar.
A man walks into a bar
,then he says, “Ow.”
Two fish swim in to a concrete wall; one turns to the other and says, “Dam.”
hey jeff! maybe you should change it to the 100th commenter! that would be an excellent idea!
!st
100
Just one more dune …
That’s what you said three dunes ago.
this is gonna take forever. start inviting ppl.
Propositional phrases are always fun.
Although participial phrases are fun, too.
Gerunds are just annoying.
Always running around, acting like participles.
Somebody ought to do something about gerunds – keep em’ from running amuck.
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oops … that did not turn out very nicely
So …
*) 77 posts in 2 days.
*) 38.5 posts a day.
*) 38.5 * x = 10,000
*) solve for x
*) x = 10,000 / 38.5
*) x = 259.74
In ~259 days, we’ll have a winner
Yoooo
almost there guys.
… and gals
A neutron walks into a bar and orders a drink. He asks the bartender how much he owes him … the bartender replies, for you, no charge.
Almost … there
Only…
9,916…
posts…
to go…
9,912
posts…
to go…
woooohoooo
woooohooooo
cool contest…
posttt
post
again …
wooooooooohooooo
and again …
wooooohoooooooooooooooooooo
yeeeehaaaaaaaw
one more time ….
yippy kay yay
yeah buddy
w000000000000t
keep the ball rollin’
yippity do da
keep the ball ‘rick rollin’ ?
hazaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
corporate gave me two plaques in lieu of a pay raise
If you insist!
lol, nice!
we’re smoking it now
Pam, I have ideas on a daily basis. I know I do. I have a clear memory of telling people my ideas. Um, is there any chance that you wrote any of my ideas down? Like in a folder? A little idea folder?
This is piece of gum. Somebody put a piece of gum in here.
First the internet, then the world.
This is a*
Gum? My name’s Forest. Forest Gum.
Bears …. Beats … Battle Star Gallactica
Exclamatory shout!
Shrimp Gumbo … Shrimp Creole … Shrimp Sandwiches
I didn’t realize we could use the contacts that we stole from Staples
Bears are the number one threat to the nation.
The population of Bears in this country is something to be worried about.
Black bears weight between 2 and 500 pounds; brown bears weigh between 300 and over a thousand pounds.
And lest we forget the mighty Grizzly Bear. Male grizzly bears can range from weights of 180 to 680 kilograms (400–1,500 pounds) and stand 2.44 metres (8 ft) tall on their hind legs; the females are on average 38% smaller.
Dammit, he put my stapler in Jell-O again!
They say elephants can defeat bears; we should begin importing more elephants, and free those in the zoos.
One day I found a bloody knife in my desk drawer. Jim tried to convince me that I had killed somebody. I think that Jim Halpert might be the real murderer.
Aha! I have found “x;” it’s on my keyboard.
Elephants tend to attract clowns … clowns tend to scare people … including me. Damn you Stephen King and Pennywise.
The other day I sent my girlfriend a huge pile of snow. I rang her up and asked, “Did you get my drift?”
Let’s not start digging up our keyboards just yet.
ha ha, very clever … some might say you gave her the cold shoulder.
Hmm. Where could it be?
Oh where, oh where could it be?
Do you know, the muffin man?
Ah! “Cold Shoulder,” nudge nudge…
The muffin man?
The muffin man.
Yes, I know the muffin man. Who lives on Drury Lane?
Well, she’s married to the muffin man…
The muffin man??
The muffin man!!!
She’s married to the muffin man..
Nice work
Brilliant job, indeed.
9,853 … Almost there.
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9809
9807
9807 (There was an OOOPS I believe)
9806 (OOOPS indeed, assuming the numerical system hasn’t decided to replace 9808 with an extra 9807)
Yeah … who knows really
I am thinking about hitting the sack over here
Right-o
I should do so as well.
Adios
guten nacht
What is to stop somebody from just flooding this comment queue until they are the 10000th?
1
2
wooo! look at all these new posts
hmm…wonder if i should tell people about this..
but then it would reduce my chance of winning..
oh well.. post!
9796
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postty
commenting
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Mike and Luke you crack me up
never give up guys
never
ever
…give up
This
spam…
might
spammitty…
take
spam spam…
a
spamalamadingdong…
while
Oh
Well
Still gonna
try
Have you got anything without SPAM?
Well, there’s SPAM egg sausage and SPAM, that’s not got much SPAM in it.
I don’t want any SPAM!
Why can’t she have egg bacon SPAM and sausage?
That’s got SPAM in it!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Luke … I am your father
Just kidding
9747
9746
Aw. I always wanted to be the son of internet text.
You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.
Yeah, but Walter…
Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish. These f—ing amateurs…
Phone’s ringing, Dude.
Thank you Donnie
It’s like what Lenin said… you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh…
I am the walrus…
You know what I’m trying to say…
I am the walrus
That f***ing b****…
Oh yeah!
I am the walrus.
Shut the f–k up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
What the f*** is he talking about, Dude?
9730
9729
We’re getting closer … and closer. And yet, we’re still so far away.
If you or I don’t win this thing, I’m going to be a bit disappointed?
iPod loading… 2.73%
Forget the ? in the previous post.
It’s too bad there is only one of these for the getting.
Aye. I think we make up more than half of the comments so far.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
Necessity, who is the mother of invention
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
- HST
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
-GWB
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
There, chew on that gibberish for awhile, you heartless scum!
Don’t panic
War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left
Hear and you forget see and you remember do and you understand
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
There are no short cuts to any place worth going
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery
Wire, briar, limber-lock
Three geese in a flock
One flew east, one flew west
And one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
It matters not what you do, as long as you are the best one doing it
Think of a catch that fishermen haul in to a halfmoon bay
in a fine-meshed net from the whit-caps of the sea:
how all are poured out on the sand, in throes for the salt- sea,
twitching their cold lives away in Helios’ fiery air:
so lay the suitors heaped on one another.
Wise men learn by other mens mistakes, fools by their own
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead
I said to the Gym instructor “Can you teach me to do the splits?”
He asked “How flexible are you?” I replied, “I can’t come on Tuesdays.”
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom
I used to know a dyslexic devil worshiper. That is, until he sold his soul to Santa.
Here Comes the Sun
Directed by
40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS
6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS
142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS
14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA)
REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON
76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM “LLAMA-FRESH” FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY
and
Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
A trade not properly learned is an enemy
A tree falls the way it leans
What is the average air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue
What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
Better the devil you know than the devil you dont know
Huh? I don’t know that! EEEEEEAAAARRGH!!! [is cast into the gorge]
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped
How do you know so much about swallows?
Well, you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know.
A phrase that shall forever live in infamy: You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his life,
In the land of submarines,
ha ha, yeah, I’m starting to get a rhythm down though
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies
A little too late, is much too late
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime
indeed
So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found the sea of green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine,
If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
The big thieves hang the little ones
Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you’ve had quite enough
Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder
Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
People never give up their liberties but under some delusion
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way.’
Fate throws fortune, but not everyone catches
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.
Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go ’round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions
Everyone loves Magical Trevor
‘Cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever
Look at him now, disappearin’ the cow
Where is the cow heading right now?
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Taking a bow, it’s Magical Trevor
Everybody seen that the trick is clever
Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip!
It’s made of magic, and with a little flip
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cow is back
Back, back, back from his magical journey
What did he see in the parallel dimension?
He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans. Oh, beans lots of beans lots of beans lots of beans.
Yeah, yeah!
I feel like I’m filibustering.
ha ha, yeah, no kidding
Ground control to major tom
Ground control to major tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school
Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty
Ground control to major tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may gods love be with you
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
Four, three, two, one…
liftoff
This is ground control to major tom
You’ve really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now its time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is major tom to ground control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do
Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles
I’m feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell me wife I love her very much she knows
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.–Lou Holtz
All of us are, to some extent, victims of what we are. We are not limited by our imaginations, but by our ability to do what we imagine. We are not too often limited by our abilities as much as by circumstances. And we are not as often limited by our circumstances as much as by the lack of the will to respond.–Dee Bowman
Ground control to major tom
Your circuits dead, theres something wrong
Can you hear me, major tom?
Can you hear me, major tom?
Can you hear me, major tom?
Can you….
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.–Roy L. Smith
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.–John Wooden
…Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do.
Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.–Roger Babson
You’ve got your mother in a whirl
Shes not sure if you’re a boy or a girl
Hey babe, your hairs alright
Hey babe, lets go out tonight
You like me, and I like it all
We like dancing and we look divine
You love bands when they’re playing hard
You want more and you want it fast
They put you down, they say I’m wrong
You tacky thing, you put them on
Rebel rebel, you’ve torn your dress
Rebel rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so!
You’ve got your mother in a whirl cause shes
Not sure if you’re a boy or a girl
Hey babe, your hairs alright
Hey babe, lets stay out tonight
If you don’t realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don’t give proper respect for others’ talents.–Hortense Canady
The measure of a man sir, is not in money, position, station or possessions. These things mean nothing. The measure of a man is in his character, wisdom, ability, aliveness, intimacy, creativity, courage, fearlessness, perspective, independence and maturity.You seem terribly impressed with the former sir, which suggests you are seriously lacking in the latter.–Mark W. B. Brinton
You like me, and I like it all
We like dancing and we look divine
You love bands when they’re playing hard
You want more and you want it fast
They put you down, they say I’m wrong
You tacky thing, you put them on…
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and this attain superiority in nothing.–Baltaser Gracian
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.–Cicero
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.–George E. Allen
You’ve torn your dress, your face is a mess
You cant get enough, but enough aint the test
You’ve got your transmission and your live wire
You got your cue line and a handful of ludes
You wanna be there when they count up the dudes
And I love your dress
You’re a juvenile success
Because your face is a mess
So how could they know?
I said, how could they know?
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.–Zig Ziglar
So what you wanna know
Calamity’s child, chi-chile, chi-chile
Where’d you wanna go?
What can I do for you? looks like you’ve been there too
cause you’ve torn your dress
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.–Robert Half
And your face is a mess
Oh, your face is a mess
Oh, oh, so how could they know?
Eh, eh, how could they know?
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.–Fred A. Manske, Jr.
When I walk into a room I assume I have to prove myself. I know that. I’m accustomed to that. But I also know I can prove myself.–Yvonne Brathwaite Bruke (former lawyer, congress woman)
Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with weird and gilly
And the spiders from mars. he played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man, then we were Ziggy’s band
You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.–Zig Ziglar
Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from japan, he could lick ‘em by smiling
He could leave ‘em to hang
They came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.
So where were the spiders
while the fly tried to break our balls
Just the beer light to guide us,
So we b****d about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands?
Abundance consists not so much in material possessions, but in an uncovetous spirit.–John Seldon
At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. … We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.–Charles Dickens
Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo
The kids were just crass, he was the nazz
With god given a**
He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend…when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present–love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure–the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.–Sarah Ban Breathnach
Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man
I had to break up the band.
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they’ll forget my number.–Edith Armstrong
Ziggy played guitaarrrrrr
If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.–Mother Teresa
We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn’t there, he said I was his friend
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.–Henry David Thoreau
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.–Zig Zigler
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud, either.–Leo Burnett
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.–Helen Keller
Oh no, not me
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.–Stella, Lady Reading
I never lost control
You’re face to face
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.–Vauvenargues, marquis de Luc de Clapiers (Reflections and Maxims)
To achieve you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.–Ayn Rand
With the man who sold the world
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercies over himself.–Elie Wiesel
I laughed and shook his hand, and made my way back home
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.–Mother Teresa
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed
We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossiblefor the ungrateful.We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualifiedto do anythingwith nothing.–Anonymous
I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here
We must have died alone, a long long time ago
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.–Robert Schuller
Who knows? not me
There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.–Buck Rodgers
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.–Franz Kafka (in Conversations with Kafka by Janouch)
We never lost control
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.–Norman Vincent Peale
You’re face to face
With the man who sold the world
Thought, not money, is the real business capital, and if you know absolutely that what you are doing is right, then you are bound to accomplishment it in due season.–Harvey Firestone
Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You’re face to face
With the man who sold the world
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.–Robert F. Kennedy
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves–to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.–Stewart B. Johnson
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.–Harold Taylor
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.–Pliny the Younger (Letters)
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.–Doug Larson
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.
This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.–Bruce Barton
“Ah … ! What’s happening?” it thought.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.–Eric Butterworth
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.–E. Joseph Cossman
“Er, excuse me, who am I?”
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.–Michael Jordon
“Hello?”
Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think…I think it’s in my basement… Let me go upstairs and check.–M.C. Escher
“Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?”
“What do I mean by who am I?”
“Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.”
“Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head?”
” Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for.”
The mathematics of high achievement–Begin with a dream.DIVIDE the problems and conquer them one by one.MULTIPLY the exciting possibilities in your mind.SUBTRACT all the negative thoughts to get started.ADD enthusiasm and determination.And the RESULT will be the attainment of your goal.–Anonymous
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.–Helen Hays
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.–Laura Ingalls Wilder
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail.”
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.–Bill Hybels (Christians in the Workplace)
“Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on.”
“Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …
Or is it the wind?
There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?”
“And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!”
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.–Anne Sullivan
“I wonder if it will be friends with me?”
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.–Kate Seredy
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.–Confucius
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was, “Oh no, not again.” Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.–Michelangelo
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder – a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.–Thomas Carlyle
Brother Pele’s in the back, sweet Zina’s in the front
Cruisin’ down the freeway in the hot, hot sun
Suddenly red-blue lights flash us from behind
Loud voice booming, “Please step out onto the line”
Pele preaches words of comfort, Zina just hides her eyes
Policeman taps his shades, “Is that a Chevy ‘69?”
If [women] understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.–Emily Taft Douglas
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How bizarre
How bizarre, how bizarre
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.–Mao Tse-tung
Destination unknown, as we pull in for some gas
Freshly pasted poster reveals a smile from the past
It isn’t the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.–F. M. Young
It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.–Charles Kettering
Elephants and acrobats, lions snakes monkey
Pele speaks “righteous,” Sister Zina says, “funky”
How bizarre
How bizarre, how bizarre
Ooh, baby (Ooh, baby)
It’s making me crazy (It’s making me crazy)
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.–Warren Bennis
Everytime I look around
Everytime I look around (Everytime I look around)
Everytime I look around
It’s in my face
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.–Vincent van Gogh
Ring master steps out and says “the elephants left town”
People jump and jive, but the clowns have stuck around
Happiness… it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.–Franklin Delano Roosevelt
TV news and camera, there’s choppers in the sky
Marines, police, reporters ask where, for and why
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.–Ben Stein
Pele yells, “We’re outta here,” Zina says, “Right on”
We’re making moves and starting grooves before they knew we were gone
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making–it’s like taking too many notes at school; you feel you’ve achieved something when you haven’t.–Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)
Jumped into the Chevy and headed for big lights
Wanna know the rest? Hey, buy the rights…
How bizarre
How bizarre, how bizarre
Ooh, baby (Ooh, baby)
It’s making me crazy (It’s making me crazy)
Everytime I look around
Everytime I look around (Everytime I look around)
Everytime I look around
It’s in my face
Me Doctor, you Nurse, him Mr. Birkenshaw.
“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.–James B. Conant”,
“The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.–Paul Tillich (Time)”,
“Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death.–Betty Bender”,
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to go to the show.
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
“Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.–Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)”,
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.–Orison Swett Marden”,
That space cadet glow.
Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?
If you wanna find out what’s behind these cold eyes
You’ll just have to claw your way through this disguise.
“Lights! Turn on the sound effects! Action!”
“Drop it, drop it on ‘em! Drop it on them!!!!!”
“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.–Hermann Hesse (Demian)”,
Momma loves her baby
And daddy loves you too.
And the sea may look warm to you babe
And the sky may look blue
“All great achievements require time.–David Joseph Schwartz”,
But ooooh Baby
Ooooh baby blue
Oooooh babe.
“Achievement brings its own anticlimax.–Agatha Christie (They Came to Bagdad)”,
If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear-stained eyes
“… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present–love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure–the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.–Sarah Ban Brethnach”,
“We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy, and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.–Dorothy Day”,
Don’t be surprised when a crack in the ice
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
With your fear flowing out behind you
As you claw the thin ice.
Daddy’s flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
Snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
“You’re more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it.–Jerome Brunet
Daddy, what’d'ja leave behind for me?!?
All in all it was just a brick in the wall.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
“You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.–Charles Kettering”,
“You! Yes, you! Stand still laddy!”
“You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.–Lanza del Vasto”,
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children in any way they could
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.–Anthony Robbins”,
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.–Wayne Gretzky”,
By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
But in the town, it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.–W.J. Bryant”,
Psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives.
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.–John Wooden”,
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.–John Wooden”,
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
“Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do it.–Charles Fillmore”,
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
“Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.–William A. Ward”,
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.–John Petit-Senn”,
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
“Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.–Mohammed”,
“There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life.–William R. Miller”,
“Wrong, Do it again!”
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
“You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!”
“To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, and happy and successful thoughts twenty-four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.–Sydney Madwed”,
Mother do you think they’ll drop the bomb?
Mother do you think they’ll like this song?
Mother do you think they’ll try to break my balls?
Mother should I build the wall?
“Too often we visit the well of divine abundance with a teacup instead of a bucket.–Elinor MacDonald”,
Mother should I run for president?
Mother should I trust the government?
Mother will they put me in the firing line?
Mother am I really dying?
Hush now baby, baby, don’t you cry.
Mother’s gonna make all your nightmares come true.
Mother’s gonna put all her fears into you.
Mother’s gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She wont let you fly, but she might let you sing.
Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.
Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,
Of course mama’ll help to build the wall.
“Action conquers fear.–Peter Nivio Zarlenga”,
“Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.–Jawaharlal Nehru”,
Mother do you think she’s good enough — to me?
Mother do you think she’s dangerous — to me?
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Mother will she break my heart?
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.–John Locke”,
“America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.–Will Rogers”,
Hush now baby, baby don’t you cry.
Mama’s gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Mama wont let anyone dirty get through.
Mama’s gonna wait up until you get in.
“As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.–John Maxwell (Developing the Leader Within You)”,
Mama will always find out where you’ve been.
Mama’s gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,
You’ll always be baby to me.
Mother, did it need to be so high?
“Look mummy, there’s an aeroplane up in the sky”
Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?
“Be an explorer…read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play…do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.–Charles ‘Chic’ Thompson (What a Great Idea)”,
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…–Marie Beyon Ray”,
Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all gone, but the pain lingers on.
“Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.–Liz Smith”,
“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.–Anonymous”,
Goodbye, blue sky
Goodbye, blue sky.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
“The 11:15 from Newcastle is now approaching”
“The 11:18 arrival….”
“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.–Carl Weick”,
“…enohp eht no s’eniloraC ,regoR”
“…tnoflahC ,mraf ynnuf eht fo eraC
,’kniP dlO’ ot rewsna ruoy dnes esaelP
.egassem terces eht derevocsid tsuj evah uoY ,snoitalutargnoC”
What shall we use
To fill the empty spaces
Where we used to talk?
“Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.–Karen Horney”,
How shall I fill
The final places?
How should I complete the wall
“The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.–Franklin Roosevelt”,
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.–Thomas Jefferson”,
I am just a new boy,
Stranger in this town.
“Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.–Charles Kingsley”,
Where are all the good times?
Who’s gonna show this stranger around?
Ooooh, I need a dirty woman.
Ooooh, I need a dirty girl.
“Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.–Napoleon Hill”,
Will some cold woman in this desert land
Make me feel like a real man?
Take this rock and roll refugee
Oooh, baby set me free.
Ooooh, I need a dirty woman.
Ooooh, I need a dirty girl.
“Do or do not. There is no try.–Yoda”,
“Hello..?”
“Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd.
Will you accept the charges from United States?”
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.–Witold Gombrowicz”,
“Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water.–Barbara Sher”,
“Oh, He hung up! That’s your residence, right? I wonder why he hung up?
Is there supposed to be someone else there besides your wife there to answer?”
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.–Earl Nightingale”,
“Hello?”
“This is United States calling, are we reaching…
“See he keeps hanging up, and it’s a man answering.”
“Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do–do it and let it speak for itself.–Martin Vanbee”,
Oh my God! What a fabulous room! Are all these your guitars?
[Film in background: "I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean to startle you!]
“This place is bigger than our apartment!
[Film: "Let me know when you're entering a room"
"Yes sir!"]
“erm, Can I get a drink of water?
[Film: "I was wondering about ..."]
“You want some, huh?”
[Film: "Yes"]
“Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.–Mary Manin Morrissey”,
“Oh wow, look at this tub? Do you wanna take baaaath?”
[Film: "I'll have to find out from Mrs. Bancroft what time she wants to meet us, for her main ..."]
“What are watching?”
“Don’t wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and cheated when it doesn’t. Get going with something small.–Irene Kassorla”,
[Film: "If you'll just let me know as soon as you can ... Mrs Bancroft" "Mrs Bancroft ..."]
“Hello?”
[Film: "I don't understand ..."]
“Are you feeling okay?…”
“The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.–Chauncey Depew”,
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.–Will Rogers”,
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.–Epictetus”,
Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man.
Night after night, we pretend its all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as a razor blade,
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.–John Pierpont Morgan”,
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.–Thomas J. Watson”,
Tight as a tourniquet,
Dry as a funeral drum.
“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.–Theodore Roosevelt”,
Run to the bedroom,
In the suitcase on the left
You’ll find my favorite axe.
Don’t look so frightened
“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.–Emily P. Bissell”,
This is just a passing phase,
One of my bad days.
Would you like to watch T.V.?
Or get between the sheets?
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.–Oliver Wendell Holmes”,
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat?
Would you like to learn to fly?
Would’ya?
Would you like to see me try?
Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it’s time I stopped?
Why are you running away?
“A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.–Fiona Macleod”,
“Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.–John Mason Good”,
Ooooh, babe
Don’t leave me now.
Don’t say it’s the end of the road.
Remember the flowers I sent.
“Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.–Lilian Eichler Watson”,
I need you, babe
To put through the shredder
In front of my friends
Ooooh Babe.
“Have the courage to act instead of react.–Earlene Larson Jenks”,
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.–Samuel Johnson”,
Don’t leave me now.
How could you go?
When you know how I need you
To beat to a pulp on a Saturday night
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.–G. K. Chesterton”,
Ooooh Babe.
How could you treat me this way?
Running away.
I need you, Babe.
Why are you running away?
Oooooh Babe!
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving–we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.–Oliver W. Holmes”,
“I like things to happen; and if they don’t happen, I like to make them happen.–Winston Churchill”,
[Sound of many TV's coming on, all on different channels]
“The Bulls are already out there”
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh!”
“This Roman Meal bakery thought you’d like to know.”
“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.–Marie Curie”,
I don’t need no arms around me
And I don’t need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don’t think I need anything at all.
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.–Florence Nightingale”,
No! Don’t think I’ll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.–Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)”,
Goodbye cruel world,
I’m leaving you today.
Goodbye,
Goodbye,
Goodbye.
Goodbye, all you people,
There’s nothing you can say
To make me change my mind.
Goodbye.
“If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.–Mario Andretti”,
Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.–Fay Weldon”,
“If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.–Mildred McAfee”,
“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.–Larry McMurty”,
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don’t help them to bury the light
Don’t give in without a fight.
Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I’m coming home.
But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.
“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?–Stephen Levine”,
“In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.–Dorothea Dix”,
“In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.–Deirdre Sullivan (“Always Go to the Funeral” in This I Believe ed. by Allison and Gediman) New! as of 01/05/08″,
Hey you, standing in the road
always doing what you’re told,
Can you help me?
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.–Margaret Thatcher”,
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation … even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.–Leonardo da Vinci”,
Hey you, don’t tell me there’s no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.–Elinor Smith”,
[Click of TV being turned on]
“Well, only got an hour of daylight left. Better get started”
“Isn’t it unsafe to travel at night?”
“It’ll be a lot less safe to stay here. You’re father’s gunna pick up our trail before long”
“Can Loca ride?”
“Yeah, I can ride… Magaret, time to go! Maigret, thank you for everything”
“Goodbye Chenga”
“Goodbye miss …”
“I’ll be back”
“It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.–Horace Mann”,
“It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.–Thomas Jefferson”,
“It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.–Marilyn Moats Kennedy”,
“It’s not how much you do, it’s how often you do it. It simply doesn’t matter if you make some monumental effort at any given time. You have it in your to give that extra little bit. You know that you could add that finishing touch. You know you can take that extra step.–Vince Poscente (Invinceable Principles)”,
Wow. We got around 400 comments in. I gotta go to bed; peace out.
Sounds good man. See you tomorrow
“Intelligence is like pornography: I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.”
“Whatever you are – be a good one.”
“It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.–Mary O’Connor”,
“Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.–Leonardo da Vinci”,
“Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action.–Richard Keeves”,
“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.–Rita Mae Brown”,
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Wow, lot’s of work left to do guys
Almost there though.
“Make the iron hot by striking it.–Oliver Cromwell”,
“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.–Amelia Earhart”,
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.–Robyn Davidson”,
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.–Toni Cade Bambara”,
“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.–Dawson Trottman”,
still have a couple thousand more posts to go..
almost to 1000
this is gonna take a while
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.–H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life’s Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)”,
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.–Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)”,
“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.–Sam Ewing”,
“”Now” is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.–Barbara Sher”,
“Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.–Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar’s Little Book of Big Quotes)”,
dudddddddddeeeeeeee this is koool
im bored
sooooo koooooooollllll
“On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting–died!–George W. Cecil”,
“Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.–Jean Paul Richter”,
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.–Pablo Picasso”,
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.–Stephen A. Brennan”,
“Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.–Thomas Carlyle”,
hey agian EXTREME IPOD TOUCH 32GB
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mike you want this badly you posted like 200 times
ha ha, yes I do
mike this is for you
ROSES ARE RED VIALETS ARE BLUE PLEASE SHUT UP AND DONT WRITE IN POEMS CUASE ITS PISSING ME OFF
MIKE I HOPE YOU TRIP AND FALL HAHA SOMDAY
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.–George Bernard Shaw”,
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.–Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen”,
“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.–Gloria Anzaldua”,
“Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.–Stephen R. Covey”,
“Real spirituality is not up n the clouds–it is down on earth, here and now. Deep spirituality is seeing God every day in the common things, and showing God your appreciation by doing common tasks.–Fred De Witt Van Amburgh New! as of 01/05/08″,
dick
phat preety hot and tempting
fine
freacked out insecuer norotic and emoitional
hi
I fell in love again\nall things go, all things go\ndrove to Chicago\nall things know, all things know\nwe sold our clothes to the state\nI don’t mind, I don’t mind\nI made a lot of mistakes\nin my mind, in my mind
“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.–Theodore Roosevelt”,
“Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.–Lao-tzu”,
“The secret of happiness is something to do.–John Burroughs”,
“She didn’t know it couldn’t be done, so she went ahead and did it.–Bridget O’Donnell”,
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.–Anonymous”,
you came to take usall things go, all things goto recreate usall things grow, all things growwe had our mindsetall things know, all things knowyou had to find itall things go, all things go
I drove to New York \n in a van, with my friend \n we slept in parking lots \n I don’t mind, I don’t mind \n I was in love with the place \n in my mind, in my mind \n I made a lot of mistakes \n in my mind, in my mind
what the hell
You have…
to go see…
The Dark Knight.
It’s just very, very good.
WHAT THE PHACK CAN YOU READ THIS
I’ve heard that it’s good from a variety of people. It’s definitely on my list of movies to see.
Thanks for the confirmation
Hey
Hello
Hi
Hola!
Howdy!
konnichiwa
ni hao
kumusta ka
arigato…whoops, thats not hi, thats thank you, lol
i’m so bored…this is gonna take forever to get to 10000,we’re not even at 1000 yet
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la la la
kool
when will it end
Every
little
bit
counts
. <- period, because I’ve got nothing else to say after that.
Almost there yet?
Will it ever be reached?
Sine
Cosine
Tangent
Cotangent
Secant
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but now it’s come to distances and both of us must try,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.
Oh I
Wish I
were an
Oscar Meyer
Weiner!
Imasame…
amasah…
mamah…
coosah…
K
A
T
E
When words fail she speaks
Mixtapes here masterpiece
*her
walks through the garden so the roses can see
Oh yeah, have you got nothing to say?
and you can see the daisies in her footsteps
post
this is gonna take forever..
“The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.–Patti LaBelle”,
“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.–Anonymous”,
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.–Clint Eastwood”,
“Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done–Al Bernstein”,
“The soul’s joy lies in doing.–Percy Bysshe Shelley”,
hi
hello, young Padawan.
hmm. The Force is strong with this one.
Happiness Runs
Evil Ways
Electro Gypsy
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.–Andrew Jackson”,
“There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it’s what we do with them that’s important.–Ruth Ross”,
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.–John W. Raper”,
“There is no power greater than right action in the present moment.–Yaga Vasistha”,
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.–Abraham Lincoln”,
Oye como va
Black Magic Woman
A-ha! Once again the sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!
No! I want to live! There’s still too many things I don’t own!
My God! It’s out of ice! Like some outer space Motel 6!
“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.–Henri Bergson”,
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”,
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe.–Anatole France”,
“To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, will put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders.–Madame Helena Petrova Blavatsky”,
“To fight fear, act. To increase fear–wait, put off postpone.–David Joseph Schwartz”,
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Two cows are in a field. and one says to the other.. “Pie has unlimited amount of numbers but it is usually rounded off to 3 decimal places.”
the other cow says “MOO”
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Wow you can count to 5! Congrats!
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.–Camus”,
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.–Japanese proverb”,
“Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.–Joel Barker”,
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.–Aristotle.”,
“We don’t have to wait for fear to vanish altogether because that moment will never come; all we need is a moment of daring that can change a whole lifetime of waiting.–Diane Conway (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?) New! as of 01/05/08″,
I, too, would like to congratulate KBC for getting the “Count to 5″ achievement.
Many a night I lie awake in bed, wondering, “When will I finally get my ‘5 Badge?’”
Woe is me!
I’m not but a speck, dwarfed in the awesome and seemingly infinite shadow of the Mighty KBC.
Alas! I shall carry on, forever striving to be an equal among the 5-Badged Gods. Someday, I tell you, someday.
Jeffrey, you’re a Ninja. This is a smart idea. What’s the count at, after reading about half I got dizzy.
I’ll add a quote for funsies:
“I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.”
-Marilyn Monroe
Smooth broad
“We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.–Martha Grimes”,
“We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.–Isaac Bashevis Singer”,
“What really matters is what you do with what you have.–Shirley Lord”,
“What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction; more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault; more to point out what’s right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what’s wrong with it; and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.–Father James Keller”,
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.–Ralph Waldo Emerson”,
The comment total is at the top Heather
Rice-a-roni-roni-roni
guayaba-aba-aba
Submit Comet
Let me get my shoes on.
Although I’m already in my pajamas…
“When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward in courage.–White Eagle”,
“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.–Stephen Covey”,
“Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.–Benjamin Franklin”,
“Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.–Mary Hemingway”,
“Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.–H. Robert Schuller”,
more posts
Keep it moving!!
Has anyone seen the Batman movie yet?
I was gonna go the other day but the lines were packed…
… and there were no tickets left for that entire day
i just saw it today Marie, it was awesome!
almost to 1000..
“You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.–Lee J. Iacocca”,
“You can’t cross the sea merely by staring at the water.–Rabindranath Tagore”,
“You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can’t catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try.–Kathy Seligman”,
“You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.–Diana Ross”,
“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.–A. A. Milne (said by Winnie the Pooh)”,
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3-4!
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me
dot
com
net
org
i really really really want this so bad
bonjour! Mon nom est Kate. Je suis tres tres fantasique!
comment ca va??
ca va bien merci!
“You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.–James M. Barrie”,
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.–Beverly Sills”,
Accept good advice gracefully–as long as it doesn’t interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.–Gene Brown
Advice is judged by results, not by intention.–Cicero
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.–Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.–Carolyn Wells (The Rest of My Live)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.–Erica Jong
As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.–Margot Bennett
The best advisors … give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.-—Philip Brooks
The best career advice to give to the young is “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”–Katharine Whitehorn (Observer (London), 1975)
batman beat up his mom and sister haha
Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.–David Seabury
Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of others.–Anthony Shaftesbury
Good advice is often annoying–bad advice never is.–French proverb
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both…–Francis Bacon
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.–Karl von Knebel
whoa, 900 comments. thats crazy
I always advise people never to give advice.–P. G. Wodehouse
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.–Peter Medawar
I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.–Douglas MacArthur
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.–Mary Worley Montagu
If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to be a failure, I would seek advice from men who never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they do.–Joseph H. Wade
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”–Ann Landers
If you can distinguish between good advice and bad advice, then you don’t need advice.–Van Roy’s Second Law (in “Expertmanship” Murphy’s Law: Book three, comp. by Bloch)
It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless, it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary, and this is the essence of good policy.–Sa’di (Gulistan)
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate–that’s my philosophy. (By the Skin of Our Teeth)
No enemy is worse than bad advice.–Sophocles (Electra)
Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.–Jimmy Buffet (A Pirate Looks At 50)
The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.–Oscar Wilde
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.–Anne Frank
People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.–Lady Blessington (The Confessions of an Elderly Lady)
Pray to God, but continue to row toward shore.–Russian Proverb
Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.–H. Jackson Brown (Life’s Little Instruction Book)
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.–Gordon R. Dickson
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.–Joseph Addison
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.–Churton Collins
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.–Hannah Whitall Smith
Hey Jeff, did I just get disqualified because those posts between mine disappeared?
Please advise, Thanks!!
I WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I NEED ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
robots are cool! especially walle!!!! walle is the coolest robot alive… well E.T is pretty insane too but you know walle is cooler! But i must say E.T is hot stuff!
Mike – nope. DQed people will be banned and/or listed in the main post.
Jeff
i’ve decided to write a song expressing my love for the iPod Touch……it goes something like this….
Ipod touch you are cool,
you seem to make me drool.
Sometimes when i think about you my heart skips a beat,
I can’t take the heat!!!!
Your touch screen is awesome,
dammit, nothing ryhmes with awesome
I have an ipod but it is nothing compared to you
darling! i yearn for you but I cannot afford you(actually i can) but i dont wanna spend money.
We were meant to you be together, can’t you see. well i must leave now and listening to my fugly iPOD Nano but soon we will meet….don’t you worry my sweet sweet piece of meat! pce <3
*jedi mind trick* you will give me the ipod
We older women who know we aren’t heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.–Elizabeth Janeway
When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.–Charles Varlet de La Grange
A word to the wise ain’t necessary–it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.–Bill Cosby
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.–Jim Fiebig
Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and other is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.–Rose McCaulay (Dangerous Ages)
Quickly! The internet is calling!
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring
Banana phone!
we are getting closer
woohoo
Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.–Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.–Billie Burke
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.–Florida Scott-Maxwell
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.–Doug Larson
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.–Franz Kafka
Whoooo
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eight. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.–Harvey Ullman
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older.–William Lyon Phelps
Children are a great comfort in your old age–and they help you reach it faster, too.–Lionel Kauffman
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.–Rosalyn S. Yalow
Denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.–Logan Pearsall Smith
just gonna keep quoting ppl, rite?
I guess I’ll give this a try.
and where is the batman? he’s at home washing his tights haHAhaHAhaHAha
Yep
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A friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes asked him why he had take up the study of Greek at the age of ninety-four. Holmes replied, “Well, my good sir, it’s now or never.” (Quoted in He Still Moves Stones by Lucado)
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.–Madeleine L’Engle (The New York Times, 1985)
I believe the second half of one’s life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.–Frances Lear
I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.–Susan Sarandon
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.–Mary Sarton (May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life)
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.–Margaret Mead
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.–James A. Garfield
If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.–Ed Howe
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.–Larry McMurty
In old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.–Victor Hugo
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.–Kurt Vonnegut
Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at 89. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at 80. And the 80-year -old Spanish artist Goya scrawled on a drawing, “I am still learning.”–Dr. W. Gifford-Jones
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.–Douglas MacArthur
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.–Don Marquis
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.–Gerald Brenan (“Life” Thoughts in a Dry Season: a Miscellany)
WHOOT!
summer time, and the living is easy, yo.
Dancing! Tacos! Dancing!
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.–Oscar Wilde
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.–Freya Stark
People don’t grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.–Anonymous
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.–Marya Mannes
Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind.–Ethel Percy Andrus
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.–Abraham Heschel
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.–Sophia Loren
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.–Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.–Clara Ortega
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off … you will see the scar there still.–Olive Schreiner
long time comin’
long time gone
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.–George Bernard Shaw
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.–Henry David Thoreau
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.–Sam Ewing
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.–Dale Turner
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.–Tom Wilson
Pimpin’ Fly
clickity click click
almost to 1000 posts
pasij
is this real?
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
You’re either on the bus, or you’re off the bus.
Echo
Foxtrot
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.–Gloria Steinem
Golf
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear as young as your hope, as old as your despair.–Douglas MacArthur
Hotel
Three cheers for Aesop!
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.–John Nuveen
India
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.–Bob Hope
Also, we’ve broke 1,000!
This should be 1,005
And so on and so forth
etc, etc, etc…
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.–Max L. Forman
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.–Robert H. Schuller
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.–Norman Vincent Peale
Attitude precedes service. Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people. ‘You become what you think about’ is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?–Jeffrey Gitomer (Your Achievement Ezine – Issue No. 138)
and look at the fierce
Attitudes are contagious is yours worth catching?–Anonymous
Chess-boxing is fundamentally flawed.
Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.–Paul Myer (in Developing the Leader Within You by Maxwell)
Whereas chess-diving has several more interesting aspects to it.
Be as an cup, and the universe flows into you. Be as an arrow, and the universe retreats from you.–Zen Proverb
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you…If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you: and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.–Emmet Fox
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.–Rudyand Kipling
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.–William Arthur Ward
Now I’m no mechanic, but I think you should recalibrate the thingamabob so it’s in sync with the thingamajig.
Two birds don’t make a turtle.
Nor do seven didgeridoos make two-headed ninja.
At any rate, not if you’re in Belgium.
Now if you’re in Brussels, that’s an entirely different situation.
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.–Max Lucade
Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would be different.–Katherine Mansfield
The … difference is that of attitude. But that difference determines who gets ideas and who does not. An apathetic or hostile attitude is the enemy of creative thought. Ideas, like people, flourish when they are welcomed and embraced.–Barbara J. Winter (Making a Living with a Job)
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.–Jim Rohn
Juliet
Yep, yep
Kilo
sÃ, sÃ
yo
Lima
Mike
yo indeed
November
and so on
Oscar
apple
Papa
Quebec
banana
Romeo
cantaloupe
Sierra
dumpling
Tango
Uniform
erm
Victor
food
Whiskey
Wyoming
Xray
Xylophone
Yankee
Yorkshire
Zulu
Zimbabwe
And Luke still doesn’t get it.
Apricot
Damnit, I guess url linking isn’t allowed.
anyway look here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Bah no BBcode allowed
Can’t say I’ve ever used BBcode
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.–Fulton J. Sheen
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.–Bill Meyer
Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances–the right to choose one’s own way.–Viktor Frankl
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.–Swedish proverb
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.–Ralph Waldo Emerson
gangsta gangsta!!!!!!!!
fo sho son
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.–Kahlil Gibran
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.–Jim Rohn
God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.–Anna Delaney Peale
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.–Earl Nightingale
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.–William James
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given to him.–Orston Swett Marden
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.–Hugh Downs
Hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.–Zig Ziglar
High expectations are the key to everything.–Sam Walton
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.–Buddha
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Never give up
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart:
Too much energy is spent
Developing the mind instead of the heart.
Be compassionate not just to your friends but to everyone
Be compassionate.
Work for peace in your heart and in the world.
Work for peace and I say again
Never give up.
No matter what is happening,
No matter what is going on around you,
Never give up.
-The Dali Lama
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How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.–Parks Cousins
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.–David Joseph Schwartz
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.–Charles Fletcher Lummis
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life’s endeavors. Your attitude–your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people–determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.–Carolyn Warner
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.–Wayne Dyer, American
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Drew: I’m thinking I might take that new chick from Logistics. If things go well I might be showing her my O-face. “Oh… Oh… Oh!” You know what I’m talkin’ about. “Oh!”
Bob Slydell: I’ll be honest with you, I love his music, I do, I’m a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, I don’t know if it gets any better than when he sings “When a Man Loves a Woman”.
Tom Smykowski: It was a “Jump to Conclusions” mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor… and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
Michael Bolton: That’s the worst idea I’ve ever heard in my life, Tom.
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude.–Judith M. Knowlton
Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.–Booker T. Washington
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.–Elbert Hubbard
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.–Denis Waitley
If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.–Marie Osmond
Samir: This is a… fuck!
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.–Dale Turner
Lawrence: We still goin’ fishin’ this weekend?
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.–Harold S. Kushner
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.–G. K. Chesterton
Peter Gibbons: Nah, Lumbergh’s gonna have me come in on Saturday, I just know it.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. Nor one has a right to go croaking about society, or, what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.–Benjamin Disraeli
Is it any coincidence then that the most incredibly successful people have the most confident and positive attitudes? Many people think that positive attitude is a by-product of having achieved wealth and success. In my experience I have found that this attitude was more often the reason for and not the result of success.–Mark A. Crouch (Bouncing Off Paper Walls)
Thanks for the Office Space Kelli, that’s a classic right there
Q: What animal should you never play cards with?
A: A cheetah!
What’s red and furry and tackles people?
Tackle Me Elmo!
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You’re welcome. There is more on the way. We’ll take this all the way to the 10,000 mark!
Q: What do you call a dog with no legs?
A: It doesn’t matter, he’s not going to come anyway.
Lawrence: Well, you can get out of that easily.
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.–Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Peter Gibbons: Yeah? How?
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.–Frederick W. Robertson
Lawrence: Well, when a boss wants you to work on Saturday he generally asks you at the end of the day, right?
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which more than anything else will affect its successful outcome.–William James
Why shouldn’t you tell a secret around a clock?
Because time will tell.
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.–Robert H. Schuller
It’s not the situation … It’s your reaction to the situation.–Robert Conklin
Lawrence: So, all you gotta do is avoid him… on the last few hours on Friday, duck out early, turn off your answering machine… you should be home free, man.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.–Helen Keller
Peter Gibbons: That’s a really good idea.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.–Marcus Aurelius
Lawrence: Fuckin’ A, man!
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.–Ernest Holmes
Bill Lumbergh: [in Peter's dream, Lumbergh is oiled up and having sex] You can just go ahead and move a little bit to the left. Yeah, that’s it. Great.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.–Voltaire
Dom Portwood: Hi, Peter. What’s happening? We need to talk about your TPS reports.
What do you call a dog wearing ear muffs?
Anything you want, he cant hear you.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.–Ken Keyes, Jr.
Peter Gibbons: Yeah. The coversheet. I know, I know. Uh, Bill talked to me about it.
Dom Portwood: Yeah. Did you get that memo?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah. I got the memo. And I understand the policy. And the problem is just that I forgot the one time. And I’ve already taken care of it so it’s not even really a problem anymore.
Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.–Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Dom Portwood: Ah! Yeah. It’s just we’re putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that’d be great. All right!
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder – a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.–Thomas Carlyle
Bob Slydell: Would you bear with me for just a second, please?
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.–Livy
Misanthropes need people; without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art.–Polly Whitney
Peter Gibbons: OK.
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.–Will Rogers
Bob Slydell: What if – and believe me this is a hypothetical – but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program. Would that do anything for you?
Peter Gibbons: I don’t know, I guess. Listen, I’m gonna go. It’s been really nice talking to both of you guys.
“The events of the past day have proven to me that I am wholly alive, and that no matter what transpires from here on in, I have truly lived.” — Anonymous climber.
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.–Jesse Jackson
Bob Slydell: Absolutely, the pleasure’s all on this side of the table, trust me.
No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.–Ellen Glasgow
Peter Gibbons: Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really well.
No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.–Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine, Sept. 30, 2003)
Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness is the key initial step.– Marsha Petrie Sue (The CEO of You)
“I mean, seriously, we are a culture that can stand in front of a microwave with a burrito in it and scream ‘FASTER!’” — Ross Brown.
Bob Porter: Excellent.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.–Thomas Jefferson
“Go away… I’m alright.” — H. G. Wells (1866—1946).
Peter Gibbons: [about the plan to steal from Initech] Before we go any further, all right, we have to swear to God, Allah, that nobody knows about this but us, all right? No family members, no girlfriends, nobody.
Samir: Of course.
Michael Bolton: Agreed,
“Who were the beta testers for Preparations A through G ?” — Bumper Sticker.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.–Ellen Glasgow
Lawrence: [from the next apartment through the wall] Don’t worry, man. I won’t tell anyone either.
Of all the “attitudes” we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.–Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar’s Little Book of Big Quotes)
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.–David Gerrold
“The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.” — Charles Pierce.
Peter Gibbons: Uh, don’t worry about him. He’s cool.
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.–Jack Penn
Peter Gibbons: This isn’t so bad, huh? Makin’ bucks, gettin’ exercise, workin’ outside.
The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it. If you can’t top it, laugh at it. If you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.–John Russell Lynes Jr.
“How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways… uh… never mind. How much do I owe you ?” — Mystic7.
Lawrence: Fuckin’ A.
“As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.” — Mr. T.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.–Denis Waitley
Peter Gibbons: [nods] Fuckin’ A.
Peter Gibbons: What if we’re still doin’ this when we’re 50?
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.–Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I’ve come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.–Bob Losure (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)
Samir: It would be nice to have that kind of job security.
People only see what they are prepared to see.–Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals)
Peter Gibbons: Lumbergh’s gonna have me work on Saturday. I can tell already. I’m gonna end up doin’ it, because, uh…
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under.–Charles Swindoll
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.” — Les Brown.
Peter Gibbons: because I’m a big pussy… which is why I work at Initech to begin with.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.–Herm Albright
“If at first you don’t succeed, work for Microsoft.”
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through…whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.–Vernon Howard
Michael Bolton: Uh, yeah, well, I work at Initech and I don’t consider myself a pussy, OK?
“You too, my son…” — Julius Caesar (100-44BC).
The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.–Barbara Hetcher
Samir: Yes, I am also not a pussy.
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.–Charles Swindoll
Peter Gibbons: Our high school guidance counselor used to ask us what you’d do if you had a million dollars and you didn’t have to work. And invariably what you’d say was supposed to be your career. So, if you wanted to fix old cars then you’re supposed to be an auto mechanic.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.–Richard Bach
Samir: So what did you say?
“The CEO’s job in a huge company is essentially the same as the Magic 8 Ball: saying yes, no, or maybe, without the benefit of understanding the questions.” — Scott Adams
Peter Gibbons: I never had an answer. I guess that’s why I’m working at Initech.
“If they sent one man to the moon, why can’t they send them all ?”
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” — Albert Einstein.
Michael Bolton: No, you’re working at Initech because that question is bullshit to begin with. If everyone listened to her, there’d be no janitors, because no one would clean shit up if they had a million dollars.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.–W. Clement Stone
“If something goes wrong… blame the guy who can’t speak English.” — Homer Simpson.
Samir: You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities…
There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.–Anonymous
“Anything is possible if you don’t know what you’re talking about.” — Green’s law of debate
Michael Bolton: Samir, you’re missing the point. The point of the exercise is that you’re supposed to figure out what you would want to do if…
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.–John Wooden
Michael Bolton: “PC Load Letter”? What the fuck does that mean?