Sayings, quotes and anecdotes

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by BNALION

Well Said!

A friend gave me a plaque with that quote on it some 45 years ago.

It adorned my wall for decades and now is somewhere in storage, but the words and sentiment are still in my heart.

I just hope when it's all over, I will have come close to having fulfilled that mission.

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[jatco]

Originally Posted by bnalion

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This...

[BBL]

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder

[crew]

"Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer."
-P.T. Barnum

[cop414]

Substance matters.

[Snow-Dweller]

I'm a bar owner, and I always tell my crew....

The person who really really "needs" another drink, really doesn't.

[BNA/LION]

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson

[jatco]

Originally Posted by BNALION

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[Sierrarls]

See one...do one...teach one.

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[Sierrarls]

Be bold in all sure things.

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[BNA/LION]

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” | Lou Holtz

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[VaRobot]

One experiment is worth a hundred calculations.

[VaRobot]

"Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize"

"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy"

"The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

"It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is"

"Will you understand what I'm going to tell you? … No, you're not going to be able to understand it. … That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does"

"So I hope you accept Nature as She is — absurd"

Richard Feynman

[DJ TT 2002]

One definition of eternity........ Two people and a ham.

[Sierraxray]

Great quotes all around! here is one of my all time favorites


Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge

[amg55]

My team leader when I was in the corporate world had this written on his white board and I've used it many, many time since....

If you don't ask, the answer is always no!

[nfranco]

Fun thread, lots of good stuff.
Hope I'm not repeating.

“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
John Bernard Books

"It is not the critic who counts. ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

[jatco]

Originally Posted by nfranco

Fun thread, lots of good stuff.
Hope I'm not repeating.

“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
John Bernard Books

"It is not the critic who counts. ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

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This, is just an excerpt from his most memorably speech...'The Man In the Arena'..a "Citizenship In A Republic"...delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910 .
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...OsGO7TCcCjN7-Q
A man ahead of the time...!!

[nfranco]

Thank you jatco, I did not know the source material.

I've always been a dog person, hence these.


INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT
OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG.
A Memorial to Boatswain
by
Lord Byron
Newstead Abbey, November 30, 1808.

Near this spot
Are deposited the Remains of one
Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.
This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery
If inscribed over human ashes,
Is but a just tribute to the Memory of
BOATSWAIN, a DOG
Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803,
And died at Newstead, Nov 18th, 1808.

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“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.

We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein do we err.

For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”

― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

[jatco]

Originally Posted by nfranco

Thank you jatco, I did not know the source material.

I've always been a dog person, hence these.


INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT
OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG.
A Memorial to Boatswain
by
Lord Byron
Newstead Abbey, November 30, 1808.

Near this spot
Are deposited the Remains of one
Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.
This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery
If inscribed over human ashes,
Is but a just tribute to the Memory of
BOATSWAIN, a DOG
Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803,
And died at Newstead, Nov 18th, 1808.

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“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.

We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein do we err.

For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”

― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

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Absolutely Beautifully said.. !!
Thank you for that...!! - ..And to be shared by all Animal lovers...!!

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[bdex75]

Originally Posted by jatco

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Absolutely Beautifully said.. !!

Thank you for that...!! - ..And to be shared by all Animal lovers...!!

Agreed. Wonderful.


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[BNA/LION]

“Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine.” | Siddhārtha Gautama

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