Quote - personal philosophy

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words: it is expressed in the choices one makes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt -

Quote - Education

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

- B.F. Skinner -

Quote - rattlesnakes

I was watching a show on Martin Luther King Day and one of the people commenting on a filthy politician in the past made the following statement:

"Rattlesnakes don't commit suicide"

The politician said he would go out on a limb and do something that would ruin his political year.

Do you think he actually followed through?

No, and thus the quote...

Quote - God's help

Found on Facebook:

"You look in the mirror every morning when you boys get up to scrape off the fuzz, and the girls get up to put on the paint you look into the mirror and say "I can do the right thing today, God being my helper. And I will do it."
-President Gordon B. Hinckley (BYU-Idaho)-

Quote - Adversity and Faith

Found on Facebook

"I know that strength is forged in adversity and that faith is developed in a setting where we cannot see ahead" 

-Elder Richard G. Scott-

Vision Board

So, I was channel surfing the other night and came across that bachelor show that I never watch right when everyone was looking at this girl like she was a nut.

Apparently she had just finished telling the bachelor that she had a "vision board." I stopped to listen when they brought it up because I remember hearing about this in the book called "The Secret."

Thought I'd look it up this evening and here's a site about it - http://www.visionboardsite.com/. It seems to be the same concept that Amway had so many years ago - put up what you want to be, what you want to have, and where you want to be in pictures on your refrigerator.

Hmmm.

Perhaps there is a way to utilize this idea to my benefit.

Side note: I read The Secret when I was up at a Harvard Business School Publishing meeting a few years ago. There was a drawing for a very nice iPOD and I believed I would win it and I did. However, being a government person I had to contribute it to my work. It was kind of a neat little experience in positive thinking. Of course, it stopped there. I did not win the lotto that next week though my intentions were focused and good.

Quote - Simplicity

"One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. the height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."

- Bruce Lee -

Found on a blog - Beware of Friends!

Good blog post about friends.

http://wisdomeverywhere.blogspot.com/2009/01/beware-of-friends.html

Quote - Adversity

Adversity doesn't build character; it reveals it.

Quote - Energy and Attention

Another thought I overheard:

 

Energy flows where attention goes

 

 

Quote - kind of - thoughts and results

I heard this the other day and am summarizing it:

 

What we think about and thank about is what comes about

 

 

Funny - kids and jobs

A friend of mine was taking his kids on the Saturday visitation and some of their friends came along. He was obviously nervous to have the other children in the car. But, he made an attempt to find out their names and what they liked to do.

After a long pause he asked one of the children - "So, what do you do for a living?"

The kids busted up laughing and made fun of their Dad for asking nine year old children what they did for a living.

Fuh-ney

Funny - GapingVoid

Quote - Process

A quote:

"By measuring the process, you change the process."