Month: October 2004
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Success
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.Winston Churchill
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Work
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.Lane Kirkland
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Amen
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.Bertrand Russell
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Warning label
Went to Target yesterday to purchase a new cup for the bathroom. I took the following sticker off the side:DISWASHER SAFE TOP RACK ONLY.NOT RECOMMENDED FOR USE IN MICROWAFE OVEN.DO NOT POUR THE BOILING WATER INTO THE MERCHANDISE.MADE IN TAIWAN.I just love these translated labels. Someone from intergalactic HQ must have checked the first two,…
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Future
The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed.Sci-Fi Author William Gibson
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Life
When I hear somebody sigh “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?Sydney J. Harris
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Tread softly
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.William Butler Yeats