Jun
21
2017
Confidence is contagious; so is lack of
confidence.
– Vince Lombardi
Jun
22
2017
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
– Michael Johnson
Jun
23
2017
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
– Timothy Leary
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
George Halas
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
– Timothy Leary
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
– Wayne Dyer
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
– Norman Vincent Peale
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
– Aristotle
Today's Quote of the Day
Aug
23
2018
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
– Vernon Law
Today's Quote of the Day
Aug
28
2018
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
– Charles Kettering
Today's Quote of the Day Apr242021 It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
– Henry David Thoreau
Note: I am also using this thread to see if the size of my signature changes as requested.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
– Robert H. Schuller
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. – Victor Kiam
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – Ayn Rand
Be kind to everyone you meet: "A handshake is worth 250 votes." – Lyndon
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
My favourite quote in life - "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain.
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Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
– Kyle Chandler
The less you talk, the more you're listened to. – Abigail Van Buren
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. – George Allen, Sr.....Is this another one of those who tries to brain wash you to work hard so he can get another Billion or so to his holdings without any hard work?.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
– Vince Lombardi
Well done is better than well said.
– Benjamin Franklin
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. – Plato
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. – Wayne Dyer
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle
The man with a new idea is a crank... until the idea succeeds. – Mark Twain
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Crossman
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. – Art Buchwald
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. – Helen Keller
There is no victory at bargain basement prices. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. – Wayne Gretzky
"Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination."
ITA BUTTROSE
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell
People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference. – Luciano Pavarotti
If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six sharpening my ax. – Abraham Lincoln
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. – William Ellery Channing
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out. – Dee Hock
Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try. – Unknown
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
– Epictetus
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. – Frank A. Clark
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind... it doesn't matter. – Mark Twain
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. – Doug Firebaugh
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. – Ann Landers
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. – Mother Teresa
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded. – Michael Johnson
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. – Ansel Adams
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. – Susan Longacre
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. – Seneca
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E. B. White
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. – Stan Smith
If you want a happy ending... that depends on where you stop your story. – Orson Welles
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
Confidence is contagious; so is lack of
confidence. – Vince Lombardi
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving. – Michael Johnson
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. – Timothy Leary
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. – Jim Rohn
If you want to find the person responsible, follow the power. Don't follow the money. You'll just find an employee.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. – Elizabeth Kenny
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. – Wayne Dyer
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. – Norman Vincent Peale
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
– Aristotle
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. – Jimmy Dean
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
– Stephen Hawking
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
– Richard Bach
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
– Swami Sivananda
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
– George S. Patton
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
– Harold V. Melchert
I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.
– Oprah Winfrey
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.
– Harry Hill
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.
- Steven Wright
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
– Robert Bloch
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: 'How to Build a Boat.'
- Steven Wright
I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.
- Ken Dodd
As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
- Sir Norman Wisdom
Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.
- Doug Larson
If I'm not back in five minutes, just wait longer.
- Ace Ventura
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
- Steven Wright
I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.
- Tommy Cooper
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
Never follow anyone else's path. Unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.
- Ellen DeGeneres
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
- George Carlin
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
- Marilyn Monroe
Yesterday morning Facebook was temporarily offline, leaving millions of workers unable to do anything except their jobs.
- Jay Leno
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.
- Will Ferrell
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
- David Lee Roth
According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes.
And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.
- Jay Leno
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
- Steven Wright
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today.
They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.
- Tim Vine
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
- Groucho Marx
I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.
- Homer Simpson
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
- Noel Coward
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
- Robert Benchley
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep.
Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
- Will Rogers
Whatever you do always give 100%. Unless you are donating blood.
- Bill Murray
If you're being chased by a pack of taxidermists, do not play dead.
- Olaf Falafel
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
- W. C. Fields
I hope when I inevitably choke to death on gummy bears, people just say I was killed by bears and leave it at that.
I wasn't particularly close to my dad before he died... which was lucky, because he trod on a land mine.
- Olaf Falafel
The problem isn't that obesity runs in your family. The problem is no one runs in your family.
I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.
- Bill Murray
I hate two-faced people. It's so hard to decide which face to slap first.
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
- Henny Youngman
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
I have two boys, 5 and 6. We're no good at naming things in our house.
- Ed Byrne
I'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in?
Vegetables – what food eats before it becomes food.
- David Weber
I'm not saying your perfume is too strong. I'm just saying the canary was alive before you got here.
Man is the only living being who cuts down trees, makes paper, and writes "SAVE TREES" on it.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook
I was playing chess with my friend and he said, 'Let's make this interesting'. So we stopped playing chess.
- Matt Kirshen
A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.
I can only please one person a day. Today isn't your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
- James Dent
I won't be impressed with technology until I can download chocolate.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
- Doug Larson
The problem with stealing quotes off the internet is you never know if they are genuine.
- Abraham Lincoln
Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist,
While you guys were arguing about the glass of water, I drank it.
Sincerely,
The Opportunist.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
- Doug Larson
The only sure way to make a computer go faster is to throw it out the window.
Life is too short to remove USB safely.
Don't think of yourself as an ugly person, think of yourself as a beautiful monkey.
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
- Rodney Dangerfield
The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9.
- Erwin Dieterich, programmer
Quote from: Daniel on August 14, 2023, 10:10:35 PMThe last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 9.
- Erwin Dieterich, programmer
If we still had them, I'd give you several karma points for that one!! :rofl: To me, C always looked like someone had screwed up their Pascal code. :wink
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Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.
- Sam Redwine
Life is a bowl of soup, and I am a fork.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson