- High-maintenance person: easy to upset; difficult to please.
Low maintenance person: difficult to upset; easy to please.
(by Mark Goulston in Do YOU Practice the Golden Rule? Take the Double Standard Assessment Test ) - Synergy: 1 + 1 = 3
Compromise: 1 + 1 = 1 ½(by Stephen Covey from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
- Knowledge: knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom: not putting it in your fruit salad.(by Peter Kay)
- Neurosis: just a high-class word for whining. (Albert Ellis)
Clever definitions
July 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Clever, witty quotes
June 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
| Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. | Henry Ford |
| Dreams don’t work unless you do. | John C. Maxwell |
| Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. | William James |
| To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. | Oscar Wilde |
| To understand all is to forgive all. | French saying |
| We tend to get what we expect. | Norman Vincent Peale |
| A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being ‘frank’. | Robert Heinlein |
| Never try to have the last word. You might get it. | Robert Heinlein |
| Never miss a good chance to shut up. | Will Rogers |
| Arguing with a fool proves there are two. | Doris M. Smith |
| The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. | Abraham Lincoln |
| The only way to have a friend is to be one. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer. | Unknown |
| Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. | Unknown |
| Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find a good one, you must one hundred try. | Claude Mermet |
| A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. | Len Wein |
| A true friend overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! | Doug Larson |
| I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. | Roy Croft |
| It takes a long time to grow an old friend. | John Leonard |
| My best friend is that one who brings out the best in me. | Henry Ford |
| One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. | Rita Mae Brown |
| Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. | Dr. Seuss |
| I don’t let go of concepts –I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. | Byron Katie |
| I don’t miss him; I miss who I thought he was. | Unknown |
| Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. | William James |
| The reward of a thing done well is to have done it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| It is astonishing how long it takes to finish something you are not working on. | Unknown |
| Many people have a good aim in life, but for some reason they never pull the trigger. | Unknown |
| An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. | Henry Ford |
| Action will destroy your procrastination. | Og Mandino |
| Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to. | Walter Linn |
| Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. | Kim Hubbard |
| A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward. | David Livingstone |
| Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| If you want to make enemies, try to change something. | Woodrow Wilson |
| To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often. | Winston Churchill |
| Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. | Confucius |
| The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. | Charles F. Kettering |
| The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them. | Confucius |
| If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. | Confucius |
| It is better to play than do nothing. | Confucius |
| Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. | Confucius |
| Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. | Confucius |
| When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. | Confucius |
| Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. | Confucius |
| Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. | Howard Aiken |
| It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. | George Washington |
| You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. | Wayne Dyer |
| We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. | Unknown |
| Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. | Michael Leunig |
| Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. | Unknown |
| Want to know something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It’s really worth fighting for — risking everything for. And the trouble is — if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. | Erica Jong |
| A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. | Unknown |
| Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. | Plato |
| To handle yourself, you your head; To handle others, use your heart. | Unknown |
| No-one can make you feel inferior without your permission. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. | Erich Fromm |
| And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. | Abraham Lincoln |
| Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. | Soren Kierkegaard |
| The one who loves least controls the relationship. | Unknown |
| Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. | Confucius |
| The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them. | Mark Twain |
| Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. | Unknown |
| Life is not one thing after another. It’s the same damn thing over and over! | Unknown |
| A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live. | Unknown |
| An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. | Mark Twain |
| Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late | Benjamin Franklin |
| The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. | Wayne Dyer |
| How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be. | Unknown |
| When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion. | Abraham Lincoln |
| The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. | George Bernard Shaw |
| My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in me. | Jim Valvano (basketball coach) |
| There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose. | William M. Bulger |
| Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. | Erma Bombeck |
| It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. | Tom Robbins |
| All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. | Adlai E. Stevenson |
| The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. | Elbert Hubbard |
| Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. | Bertrand Russell |
| It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. | Charles Darwin |
| If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. | Chinese proverb |
| You will never find time for anything. You must make it. | Charles Buxton |
| Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| He who wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. | Edmund Burke |
| Don’t make someone a priority who only makes you an option. | Unknown |
| Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. | Winston Churchill |
| We can’t always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. | Mark Twain |
| Knowledge is proud she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more. | William Cowper |
| It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. | Helen Walton |
| Fools learn from experience. Wise men learn from the experience of others. | Otto von Bismarck |
| People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. There is much chaos in this world because things are being loved and people are being used. | Unknown |
| Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. | Katherine Whitehorn |
| The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. | William James |
| The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed. | Michelangelo |
| All mankind is divided into three groups: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. | Mark Twain |
| The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. | Richard P. Feynman |
| I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. | Mark Twain |
| The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | George Bernard Shaw |
| What gets measured gets managed. | Peter Drucker |
| Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. | Ralph Charell |
| I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow. | Woodrow Wilson |
| By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. | Robert Frost |
| The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. | George Bernard Shaw |
| This too shall pass. | Persian proverb |
| Whoever best describes a problem is the one most likely to solve it. | Dan Roam |
| A successful business is either loved or needed. | Ted Leonsis |
| However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. | Winston Churchill |
| Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good. | Alan Weiss |
| Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. | Thomas J. Watson |
| We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. | Anais Nin |
| How do I know what I think until I hear what I say? | E. M. Forster |
| To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. | John Ruskin |
| Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. | Cyril Parkinson |
| It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. | Mark Twain |
| We all have times when we think more effectively, and times when we should not be thinking at all. | Daniel Cohen |
| Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. | The Serenity Prayer |
| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. | Abraham Lincoln |
| We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. | Frank A. Clark |
| There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done. | Peter Drucker |
| The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year. | John Foster Dulles |
| That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. | P. C. Hodgell |
| Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. | Peter Drucker |
| Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. | Byron J. Langenfeld |
| A life lived in fear is a life half-lived. | Spanish proverb |
| Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician. | Lucille S. Harper |
| Human beings aren’t rational animals; we’re rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. | Eliot Aronson ? |
| You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. | Naguib Mahfouz |
| It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. | Judith Martin |
| The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. | Linus Pauling |
| No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. | Voltaire |
| Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. | Miguel Unamuno |
| Take care that no one hates you justly. | Publiius Syrus |
| Belief gets in the way of learning. | Robert Heinlein |
| When one teaches, two learn. | Robert Heinlein |
| One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh. | Robert Heinlein |
Clever, one-liner quotes
June 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Never miss a good chance to shut up. (Will Rogers)
Don’t try to have the last word. You might get it. (Robert Heinlein)
A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being frank. (Robert Heinlein)
Arguing with a fool proves there are two. (Doris M Smith)
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! (Doug Larson)
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. (Rita Mae Brown)
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. (Ben Stein)
I’ve never learned from a man who agreed with me. (Robert Heinlein)
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill)
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. (Oscar Wilde)
A friend is a present you give yourself. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. (William James)
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. (Albert Schweitzer)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. (Aristotle)
Men’s natures are alike. It is their habits that carry them far apart. (Confucius)
We must be the change we wish to see. (Gandhi)
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
Would you like me to give you a formula for success?It’s quite simple really. Double your rate of failure. (Thomas J.Watson)
A thousand words will not leave as deep an impression as one deed. (Henrik Ibsen)
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. (Andrew Carnegie).
Dreams don’t work unless do you. (John C. Maxwell)
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. (Dale Carnegie)
The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost)
Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Happiness is not a goal; it’s a by-product. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more. (Merle Shain)
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie)
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. (Napoleon Hill)
Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of fear is freedom. (Marilyn Ferguson)
I’m afraid to show you who I really am. If I show you who I really am, you mightn’t like it — and that’s all I’ve got. (Sabina Ward-Harrison)
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. (Richard Bach)
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it…that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. (Dale Carnegie)
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. (Hasidic saying)
A true friend is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. (Len Wein)
Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity. (Patti Wilson)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. (Helen Keller)
No-one can make you feel inferior without your permission. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Respect yourself and others will respect you. (Confucius)
It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it. (Unknown).
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. (Confucius)
We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. (Frank A. Clark)
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. (Peter Drucker)
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. (Stephen Covey)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker)
Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician. (Lucille S. Harper)
