Quack_Quotes

Cockiness and Conviction is separated by Humility

2012-05-25T03:39:00.000-07:00

.. for only with humility can one ask the question, 'Am I wrong?'

Nothing hides incompetence like bad bureaucracy

2012-05-11T16:53:00.000-07:00

I have nothing against bureaucracy per se.In fact, bureaucracy in motion, when things happen within a bureaucracy, is sign that things are going well. It is when it is stalled, when things stop happening or working within a bureaucracy is where you should be careful.
More often than not, it is stalled on purpose. Someone doesn't want things to work or to happen. They don't want thing to go on record or don't want to make the decision that will make the bureaucracy work again. The more blatant corruption is where someone wants something in return to make bureaucracy work again..
Bureaucracy is like a machine in a box that you put something into it, you get something out. Just like a vending machine. If it doesn't give what its supposed to, it called broken.
So don't blame bureaucracy. Look for the broken parts, the people stopping it from doing its job.

If you can't see the goal, at least know what the goal post looks like

2012-04-27T16:40:00.000-07:00

Quite often our goals are hazy at best. Some people think that living in a hazy world is the norm. But we have wants, even if they are vague. Peering into the fog to get a clearer picture is worth the effort. Or else you'd be looking for that second football post forever.

Nothing is as beleaguered than facts that construct blame.

2012-04-13T06:40:00.000-07:00

Nothing is more vilified than blame constructed of facts. Often the people at fault attack the source of the fact or the logic of the construction because they cannot find fault with the facts. The more arrogant simply dismiss the facts without acknowledging either way in public but only to themselves.

Looking like an idiot is relative and temporary. Being one isn't.

2012-04-04T20:16:00.001-07:00

So go ahead and take that risk, possibly making a fool of yourself. Apologize or take on the chin, it's your choice. At least you know how it feels to be an idiot for a while.

Some people choose to feel like that all the time.

Blind faith makes us certain in everything except that we can be certainly wrong.

2012-03-30T17:34:00.000-07:00

We can get confused about faith and certainty. Blind faith makes us believe that something is certain. No doubt about it. When what it really is .. is that we can be certainly wrong. The refusal to even reconsider what we believe can lead us to the extremes. Rather than reinforcing our belief, we seek to extend a tower higher up, not even looking at it's foundation.
Inspired by this NYT article

What does it say for the science we know when our senses can be deceived?

2012-03-16T22:49:00.000-07:00

The structure here sets up a general statement or belief for a question or questioning and provides a factual statement (related or not) to set up the question. This is tool is used more as a general tool to produce a reaction which the speaker can then use to gauge the audience later.
This statement itself is deeper than the usual ones I bring out. Think about it. The scientific method is partly based on testing a hypothesis and observing and recording the results. But if our senses can be fooled (and the numerous visual trickery images on the net is a testament to this), what does it say for our observations? Is our science limited to our senses? Is it limited to what our equipment translates what we cannot sense into something we can? Even then, do we lose some data in the process. How does this relate to the concept of a personal reality? If a person is never explained basic scientific concepts and observes them in action, do they come out with the same conclusions?

A "solution looking for a problem" in some places is called a bullet.

2012-03-02T08:48:00.000-08:00

Some people tell other to stop wasting time coming up with solutions that don't address real problems. I call that being prepared. Those people don't realize that "solutions looking for a problem" exists everywhere. Anything is a potential solution to something. The quote above just puts it with a little umph at the end. You see, a bullet on it's own does no harm. But used in the right way, with the right tools, it may just be the solution you are looking for... like shooting practice.

Life is takes on a whole new meaning once we acknowledge the simple fact that everything that lives, dies.

2012-02-17T09:31:00.000-08:00

By accepting the inevitability of death, we can save the time we spend trying to avoid it and spend that towards living. It's not a call to reckless living but rather a more responsible one. Think about it. Those who waste their time with trivial and destructive pursuits are not at all concerned with death, perhaps even denying it. Those who care less about the world and their brothers and sisters believe that death is for others, perhaps not for them.
Those who only think of themselves sincerely believe that they will live forever.

Experience doesn't count when nothing was learnt

2012-02-03T07:39:00.000-08:00

All the experience in the world is useless if we don't learn anything from it. In fact, it is difficult not to learn from experience. It shapes our perspectives and affect out actions. But learning from experience is about looking back and taking a lesson from it. It's not called a moral for nothing.

We can choose to find faults and get upset over them or be thankful for what we have and choose to be happy. Choice is a powerful thing.

2012-01-20T06:52:00.000-08:00

Where is destiny in this? It's what we make and what we make of what we are given.

Mistakes are just opportunities to apologize and forgive.

2012-01-06T03:53:00.000-08:00

Turn it around and into something productive, positive and conciliatory.

Destiny is both the path and destination of our lives

2011-12-23T22:52:00.000-08:00

Of course there will be left nothing to do if we keep deciding to not do what needs to be done.

2011-12-09T03:49:00.000-08:00

Slightly more convoluted than I wanted. But it gets the jobs done.
We keep putting off things to do. And yet we complain we are bored and that there is nothing to do. There is always something to do. Even if it is finding something to do.

We are all guilty of confusing sage advice with marketing slogans... and taking the latter.

2011-12-02T21:21:00.000-08:00

What is the state of our civilization when marketing slogans trumps sage advise. Marketing passing off as wisdom (and its acceptance) is the greatest lie of our times.

You're only a day older than yesterday and a day younger than tommorow

2011-11-23T21:53:00.000-08:00

Age is relative. It is not how old you are. It is what you do at any age. Time may be lost forever, so why are you wasting more time crying over it's loss?

When chasing of profits, don't leave your customers behind.

2011-11-14T19:39:00.000-08:00

Public listed companies are split-personality companies in that they make money from selling products and services to customers and from the buying and selling of their own stock or at least taking advantage of its price. One one hand, it has to do right for the customers to continue buying. On the other it has to do things that the stock market likes, like meeting revenue expectations to keep the stock price going up. But if doing one good hurts the other, whom will they most likely choose? The more gullible.

Ignorance + Arrogance = Idiots

2011-10-29T16:29:00.000-07:00

There is the blissfully ignorant and the knowledgeable / know-it-all arrogant. But the combination of both is something truly special. People too arrogant to want to know more and arrogant enough to impose that no one else should too. A person too ignorant of what others know and ignorant enough to assume they know more than everyone else. I present to you the Idiot.

Honesty is the best policy... for everyone else.

2011-10-20T21:36:00.000-07:00

What everybody thinks.

When you admit you don't know everything, you're always learning something

2011-09-29T19:40:00.000-07:00

The reverse is very true also. People who won't learn anything surely think they know everything.

Time spent feeling sad is lost time feeling happy.

2011-09-13T00:42:00.000-07:00

If the weak doesn't point out the shortcomings of others, how will the strong every hear about them?

2011-08-21T10:33:00.000-07:00

It bugs me that people equate stating the facts to blame. To squelch facts from coming out, the act is painted as blame. All those "Don't dwell on past mistakes" people will be condemned to repeat them. The "it doesn't matter anymore" crowd will one day find out it does.

The most common form of delusion is the belief that the absolute is a creation.

2011-08-07T20:54:00.000-07:00

100% guarantees. The biggest car/boat/building in the world... until someone else builds a bigger one.

People who claim to be right all the time are contradicting themselves.

2011-07-24T00:24:00.001-07:00

Think about it. No one is right all the time. Ever.
So what does that make people who believe that a certain person is right all the time? Wrong.

You can't solve everything, but everything is definitely solvable.

2011-07-18T22:10:00.001-07:00

Don't try to solve all your problems alone. The ends of that road are illusions of invincibility or utter despair.