quotes to live by
Mike Maslanka
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Anyone have a saying or quote that helps sum up how you do your jobs? Something that is a bedrock you can go to again and again? Soemthing that your colleague down the hall quotes back to you(don't you just hate that)? Here is one Theresa Gegen---my co-editor--- and I have:"when in doubt,resort to the truth." How about you? Inquiring minds want to know.Regards from Texas,Mike Maslanka
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This has always worked well for me. By following this simple rule of thumb I have saved my bosses and me many hours of heartache and frustration.
"You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."
And for those really good days
"Roll down the window and let wind blow back your hair. These two lanes will take us anywhere."
"There is always more to the story."
"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got."
"We need more monkeys!" (yelled loudly)
Paul
"I choose to live so that which came to me as seed, goes on to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom goes on to the next as fruit."
Margaret Morford
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My second favorite quote came from a line in the movie "The Thief"...it goes something like this..."Never tell a lie. If it's someone you know you're going to hurt them with a lie. If it's someone you don't, who the f*** are they you have to lie to?"
This is something I try to instill into my children (using different language of course)!
My third favorite is...How can you expect God to give you anything else if you don't take care of what you already have now?
Christel
"Every dog deserves two bites."
This quote is attributed to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the Fleet Admiral from world War II who as a young officer grounded his first ship command on a reef, but was nevertheless kept in command by his superiors who recognized his potential. I have this quote posted in my office.
(1) "The aim of most people is not to do right so much as not to be perceived as doing wrong. All the decisive people in the world have made waves, and sometimes they have been swamped by them. Make no waves, make no progress. The only way to avoid mistakes is to be totally passive, which is to say, dead. You won't get any blame that way, nor will you get anything else." Sidney Harris, deceased, journalist, circa 1975.
(2) "Gentlemen; we're talking about rat SH-T and there's elephant turds lying all around." (In other words, we're sweatin' the wrong stuff). Dudy Noble,deceased, baseball coach and athletic director, Mississippi State College 1945-1956.
My apologies if you were offended by Dudy's grammar. It would not be right to paraphrase such a dynamic statement and winning coach. These two in combination pretty much sum up my attitude and outlook toward life and work. This is virtually all one has to know to get through a day. Don D.
1} Learn to let go and let God.
2} Lord, remind me that nothing is going to happen to me today that you and I can't handle together.
3} If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
4} For with God nothing shall be impossible (Luke 1:37)
All along the same vein, but helpful none-the-less
And other favorites that I have posted on my office wall:
1} The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
2} One grand of sand at a time, One task at a time.
(with a picture of an hourglass reminding me that I can only handle one thing at a time effectively, try to handle more than one, and you're devoting part of yourself to each one, vs your whole attention.
"How you start is how you finish."
The speech was made 29 October 1941 to the boys at Churchill's old public [private] school, Harrow--not Oxford or Cambridge:"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.''
So, you will not be surprised that my favorite is NEVER GIVE UP. (By the way, the above was his ENTIRE speech.)
Also, I like "Laughter is the best defense to the problems and stesses of life. Smile!" I have both of these in my profile too. x:-)
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
We are a mid-size family owned business and our kids work summers with us. Among other things, I want them to learn how to be good managers and bosses AND how to be good employees.
Works for me every time.
"Measure twice, cut once."
I don't see how anyone could live without it.
Those who can count, and those who can't.
"Sometimes it is best to let sleeping dogs lie"
Do it the right way the first time.
(This one I usually play over and over in my head) When in doubt, keep your mouth shut. (we usually learn more when we listen - don't fill in the blanks for everybody; wait and let them tell you what you need to know.)
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST!!! (my mantra in the office when it comes to computers and new software.)
(To my children) Don't hang out with the bottom-feeders. And - why lie when the truth fits?
Scre - oops! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Most our supervisors usually hear - Is that really what you want to do? Or, don't do it, I don't have time to take care of the paperwork.
And this one I want engraved on my final resting place - If only they had listened!
"If you let the Devil on board he sure as Hell will want to drive." (I always think of this when someone, maybe even yours truely, is considering starting a new and possibly questionable precedent)x0:)
Stuart
Wisdom comes from experience
Experience comes from bad choices
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but
by the moments that take our breath away.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Margaret Morford
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"I'd rather be pushed down a slide of razor blades into a pool of peroxide than do what your asking me to do"