Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases."
~ Susan Orlean

"Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's." ~ Joe Bob Briggs

“To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.” ~ Joe Hill

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[SmokeyBob]

“Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.” ~ Allan Lokos

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." ~ Helen Keller

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." ~ Robert H. Schuller

[SmokeyBob]

"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually." ~ Abba Eban

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours." ~ Milton Berle

"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary." ~ Fred Allen

[SmokeyBob]

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
~ Winston Churchill


"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." ~ George Bernard Shaw

[SmokeyBob]

“Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.” ~ Mike Norton

"You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun." ~ Billy Corgan

“Plan specifically so you can implement flexibly.” ~ Dallin H. Oaks

[SmokeyBob]

“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.” ~ Cheryl Hughes

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating." ~ Sophocles

"I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages." ~ Bobby Heenan

[SmokeyBob]

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” ~ Dodie Smith

"When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away." ~ Sarah Helen Whitman

"Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday." ~ E. C. McKenzie

[SmokeyBob]

"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend." ~ Doug Larson

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." ~ Harry S. Truman

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" ~ Edgar Bergen

[SmokeyBob]

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ~ Franklin P. Jones

[SmokeyBob]

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." ~ Robert Orben

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. " ~ Bertrand Russell

[SmokeyBob]

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." ~ Colin Powell

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."
~Dan Gable

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." ~ Og Mandino

[SmokeyBob]

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." ~ Winston Churchill

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." ~ Buddha

"True friends stab you in the front." ~ Oscar Wilde

[SmokeyBob]

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."
~ Robert Brault

"When people ask me how many people work here, I say, about a third of them" ~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer." ~ Douglas Adams

[SmokeyBob]

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man." ~ Benjamin Franklin


"I learned the value of hard work by working hard." ~ Margaret Mead


"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head." ~ Andy Rooney