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thursday - quote day - balance

"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself." - Jessye Norman

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving” - Albert Einstein

"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them." - Stephen Covey

All the best!

deb

thursday - quote day - change

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau

Nothing endures but change. - Heraclitus

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson Mandela

All the best!

deb

thursday - quote day - gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

There are seven things that will destroy us: wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle; science without humanity; commerce without morality.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Action expresses priorities.

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

all the best!
deb

thursday quote day - ralph waldo emerson

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming

All the best!
deb

thursday - quote day - change/growth

That's right, folks.  "Thursday - Quote Day" returns!  (I'll pause for the applause and jubilation that will surely ensue.)  I let it go.  I've tried to start it back up.  But so many of you told me you liked it, so I'm bringing it back.  For reals, this time.  Promise.  

So here we go:

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow - Alice Walker

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. - M. Scott Peck

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him - Vicktor Frankl

We know what we are, but know not what we may be - William Shakespeare

All the best!
deb

thursday - quote day - carlin

i realize i'm posting infrequently, irregularly, and not about much in particular.  i'm told those are all things bloggers should never do, as well as never apologizing for it.  well, since the good witch of the south and dr. dad are here for a while visiting, this may continue for a bit.  so i thought i'd just tell you now and not have to apologize for it later.  (also, i've been having some technical woes of late, some of which i'm still working on as time allows.  so if i've not returned emails or responded to comments or....any of that sort of thing....please do not take it personally and know that i will get back to you soon.  thanks ever so much for understanding.)

now, on to thursday - quote day.  naturally, it has to be george carlin, doncha think?  so here we go:

-honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

-if it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then i'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

-some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations.  when you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

-think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

-scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy.  however, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

-some people see the cup as half empty.  some people see the cup as half full.  i see the cup as too large.

all the best!

deb

thursday - quote day - friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. - Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa 

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What!  You too? I thought I was the only one" -  C.S. Lewis 

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde 

True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde

all the best!

deb

thursday - quote day - entrepreneurship

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."
- Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies

"Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets."
- Victor Kiam

"Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it's about trading: buying and selling."
- Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop

"The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies."
-Michael Gerber

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover"
- Mark Twain

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life"
- John F. Kennedy

thursday - quote day - why it's thursday

why is "thursday - quote day" on a thursday? well, it all started like this. it was a bad day in the corporate world. (one of many.) and i heard from my best friend maia. and she gets why the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. (yes, people. it's under the quotes on the left sidebar and has been since about day 1. and it's really sort of a quiz. cuz if you get it, it tells me something about you. and if you don't, well....sod off. sort of. ha!) and in that vein, i found something that i thought would make the 'good witch of the south' laugh. and so 'thursday - quote day' started like this:

"this must be thursday," said arthur musing to himself, sinking low over his beer, "i never could get the hang of thursdays."

and for mom & because it makes me laugh:
"you know," said arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a vogon airlock with a man from betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
[ford prefect:] "why, what did she tell you?"
[arthur:] "i don't know, i didn't listen."

all the best!
deb

thursday - quote day - coming back

yes, folks. thursday - quote day is coming back. (yes. i know it's not thursday.) but i rather miss that little ritual of mine. and so, starting this week, thursday-quote day will begin again.

as for the picture? what does that have to do with anything? well, it turns out there's a band called thursday that really sounds like something i would have truly jammed to in college (or, at least, in my 20s). i haven't completely checked them out enough to recommend them. but i recommend at least checking them out if you're still punk rock at heart. ;-) although, i don't know how someone can claim to be punk rock and be an unemployed-HR-chick still going to the SHRM convention. uh huh.)

all the best!
deb