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think big

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:29:00 PST

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.”

- Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect

don't be a hermit

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:39:00 PDT

'it is isolation that is critical to war. you can't be abusive when you realize your connectedness."

~David Kadlec

blame game

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:36:00 PDT

"the only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else."

~Oscar Wilde

keep on keeping on

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:38:00 PDT

"many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

~Thomas A. Edison

give them an 'A'

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:26:00 PDT

"I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble."

~ Rudyard Kipling

the trick

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:45:00 PDT

"The trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

~ C.Castaneda

all things in small doses

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:46:00 PDT

"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."

~ Epictetus

best laid plans...

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:49:00 PST

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

~ Joseph Campbell

just jump!

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:47:00 PST

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

-David Lloyd George

listen to paula deen, add more butter

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:52:00 PST

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times- in water, in butter and in wine.

~Polish proverb

fountain of youth

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:52:00 PST

"An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young."

- Oscar Wilde

devil in the details

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:02:00 PST

“I have never killed a man, but i have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure."

~ Clarence Darrow

keep the sparks flying

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:20:00 PST

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamp of the approximate, the not-quite, not-yet, the not-at-all."

~Ayn Rand [via Sven]

wolves

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:56:00 PST

"For the first time, the main sermon was delivered by a woman, the Rev. Sharon E. Watkins, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

She related an oft-told Cherokee tale about a grandfather who explains to his grandson that within every person are two wolves fighting — one the wolf of anger, resentment and fear, the other of compassion, hope and love.

The grandson asks which wolf wins, and the grandfather answers, 'The one you feed.' ” [via]

quirks & habits

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:58:00 PST

"At a certain point in your life, you realize that your habits aren't really habits, they're who you are. There's a horrible realization that you're an adult now, and that all the quirks that you thought would change as you grow older aren't going to.

A lot of these songs come from that feeling of growing up and wanting to leave certain things behind, while others are about making sense of your relationship."

~Teddy Thompson

constructivist living

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:02:00 PST

"if we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. we'd never have a friendship. we'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. well, that's nonsense. you've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

~ Annie Dillard

the burbs

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:04:00 PST

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."

~ Bill Vaughn

an irishman's philosophy

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:06:00 PST

There are only two things to worry about

Either you are well or you are sick,

If you are well,

Then there is nothing to worry about.

But if you are sick,

there are two things to worry about.

Either you will get well or you will die.

If you get well,

there is nothing to worry about.

If you die,

there are only two things to worry about.

Either you will go to heaven or hell.

If you go to heaven there is nothing to worry about.

But if you go to hell,

you'll be so damn busy shaking hands with friends

you won't have time to worry!

key to success

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:19:00 PDT

"i don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

~Bill Cosby

h2o

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:22:00 PDT

"the cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."

~ Isak Dinesen

go ahead, dream.

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:30:00 PDT

"a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

~Oscar Wilde

build wisely

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:00:00 PDT

"every man is the architect of his own fortune."

~Sallust

chance of ultimate possibility

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:59:00 PDT

"the chance of ultimate possibility kept repeating itself in his head, a mad little chant that would not stop, nor did he want it to ... everything is chance, and chance is everything ... most people refused to believe that, because chance frightened them. But that was only ignorance.

chance contained every possibility. of course, some of it might be bad--that was what the ignorant dwelled on, and it was what frightened them--but a heartbeat away from what might be bad, unthinkably bad, was what might be unthinkably great, a bliss that even the gods would envy."

~Harry Crews, Celebration

george w has no clothes

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:04:00 PDT

"it has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. but the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

~Neil Gaiman

go with the flow

noreply@blogger.com (moi) — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:52:00 PDT

"you believe the world is perfectible, and so you find it unsatisfying."

~Tony Kushner
Angels in America