Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

[berdie]

FYI, that was me being snarky. 

 

[MeganC]

@ChemEngrMBA

Can we get back to your usual posts now? Snark aside, I rather enjoy your daily posts.

[Cyber Liberty]

@ChemEngrMBA

Can we get back to your usual posts now? Snark aside, I rather enjoy your daily posts.

I do too.  I've been following this Thread since it was started. Hate to see side arguments here....

[MeganC]

Sadly it seems this series of enriching posts has ended. That's truly a shame.

[Cyber Liberty]

Sadly it seems this series of enriching posts has ended. That's truly a shame.

He quit posting entirely 6/24.   

[MeganC]

Well then....

"Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here."

- Donald Trump

[MeganC]

"One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life’s losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves."

- Donald Trump

[Cyber Liberty]

Thanks @MeganC !

[MeganC]

 

[MeganC]

Thoughts for the Day by Mark Twain:

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

[Bigun]

Thoughts for the Day by Mark Twain:

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

 

[MeganC]

Thoughts For The Day by President George Washington:

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.



 

[MeganC]

I am posting more than one quote from various people so as to impart a better assessment of the author's character.

I know this started as one quote from one person but I have been inspired to look up many of these people and see what else they had to say. Along the way I got a better picture of who they were or are. I hope to convey this as I go along. 

[Cyber Liberty]

I am posting more than one quote from various people so as to impart a better assessment of the author's character.

I know this started as one quote from one person but I have been inspired to look up many of these people and see what else they had to say. Along the way I got a better picture of who they were or are. I hope to convey this as I go along. 

That's what this thread is for....

[Bigun]

Thoughts For The Day by President George Washington:

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

What is to be learned from words spoken by old white men? At least to hear some folks around here tell it!

[MeganC]

Today's Thought For The Day is from our very own @Smokin Joe

You can use a hammer to build or to demolish, but first, you gotta get a hammer. From there, the world is a keg of nails, and you get to choose which ones get hit.

[Cyber Liberty]

Good choice this morning, @MeganC!

[MeganC]

Today's Thoughts For The Day are by William F. Buckley, Jr.



“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

“I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.”

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”

“Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.”

“To fail to experience gratitude when walking through the corridors of the Metropolitan Museum, when listening to the music of Bach or Beethoven, when exercising our freedom to speak, or ... to give, or withhold, our assent, is to fail to recognize how much we have received from the great wellsprings of human talent and concern that gave us Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, our parents, our friends. We need a rebirth of gratitude for those who have cared for us, living and, mostly, dead. The high moments of our way of life are their gifts to us. We must remember them in our thoughts and in our prayers; and in our deeds.”

“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.”

“I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.”

“Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.”

“The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.”

“Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.”

“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”

“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”

“Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.”

[Cyber Liberty]

Thanks for the WFB wisdom, @MeganC!

[MeganC]

My pleasure!

[MeganC]

Today's Thoughts For The Day are from Will Rogers:


“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”

“There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.”

“I never met a man that I didn't like.”

“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today”

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

“Common sense ain't common.”

“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”

“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”

[Cyber Liberty]

Thanks again, @MeganC!  You deliver great stuff to this thread, that you were drafted into!!!

[MeganC]

 

[bigheadfred]

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want." -Hannah Arendt

[Cyber Liberty]

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want." -Hannah Arendt