You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan One way of being certain that you can't do something is to believe that you...
We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves. - Todd Skinner While no construction company has dared to tear down Mount Everest or even...
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a...
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. - Virginia Satir We must learn to regard...
Hi everyone, My apologies again for missing the Quote du Jour for so many days. I have been working very hard outside to prepare for the coming winter in ...
No quote today, but some information that should interest you. When the Soviet military pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, Afghan citizens cheered wildly...
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. - Marcus Aurelius...
"In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all." - Carl Icahn In...
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense...
No quote today, but instead an article I wrote in response to several people who asked (in other forums) how they can make new friends. Sometimes people don't...
No quote today because hard work squashed my creativity. However, the following article might tickle your fancy and increase your knowledge of obscure but...
What You Deserve To Know About Global Warming Since publication in the past year of the role of human-sourced carbon dioxide in warming our atmosphere by the...
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. - William Arthur Ward People like people who try to bring out the best...
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring...
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much time. - Rudyard Kipling One of the most emotionally taxing things we experience in our lives...
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton I can do...
I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain...
Once upon a time a man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbour's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the...
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power." -...
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life. -...
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist, poet, politician (1803-1873) 'Tis the season of giving as I...
The tourist business is overrun with people bored with themselves. - Joan Clark, An Audience of Chairs A majority of people on vacation have one of two...
No quote today, but some information you might find interesting about Christmas carols. ......................................... Though we often think of...
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg As I write this on the eve of Christmas Day,...
I must allow myself still another day off without writing a Quote du Jour. Writing is not just a time consuming endeavour, but one that requires a clear head...
No quote today, instead an article I have written about how science impacts our lives, often with unwelcome effects. ................................. Science...
I agree with your discussion. Science is unfortunately promoted as the be all and end all of modern life but unfortunately all is not as it appears to be....
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