Positive Quote Of The Day September 2015

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The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.-- William Ralph Inge (1860-1954 ) English Theologian

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If you just keep playing, keep believing and have some faith, something good can happen.-- Washington Redskins coach Norv Turner, whose team became only the second in NFL history to win six games after losing the first seven games of the year. December 19, 1998

[Jeff]

Yes!:thumbsup:

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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.-- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) British Essayist

[Jeff]

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.-- John Haggai

[Jeff]

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A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.-- Charles Gordy

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A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.-- Unknown

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.-- Russell H. Ewing

[Jeff]

Very true!:thumbsup:

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is sure.-- Mark Twain

[Jeff]

Funny!:thumbsup:

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I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life... And that is why I succeed.-- Michael Jordan

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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there.-- Max Lerner (1902-1992) American Educator, Columnist

[Jeff]

Good one!

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Many a friendship -- long, loyal, and self-sacrificing -- rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.-- Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) English Priest and Hymn Writer



NEVER FORGET!!! 09/11/2001


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[Jeff]

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Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well.-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer

[Jeff]

Oh no! What does that mean for a retired guy?:confused:

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Oh no! What does that mean for a retired guy?:confused:

Second Career?

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.-- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American Poet

[Jeff]

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.— Judy Garland

[Jeff]

Excellent!:thumbsup:

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.-- George Eliot (1819-1880) English Novelist

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman and Scientist

[Jeff]

Right! So today I'm going fishing!

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Today, life is so much more convenient than when I was young. We didn't have TV. We seldom saw an airplane. A lot has changed, but there is one thing in 62 years that I have not seen. I have not seen anyone find a convenient or easy way to succeed at something or to win.-- Lou Holtz, Former Notre Dame football coach

[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

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The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.-- Robert Cushing Dennison (1921-1998) American Military Officer

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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.-- Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Writer and Statesman

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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician

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I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see."-- Dick Fosbury, who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico games after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique.

[Jeff]

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Tribute to one of my childhood heroes!

Yogi Berra appeared in 14 World Series as a member of the Yankees and won 10 of them.

Berra’s contributions to MLB history are incalculable, but his legacy might be even better remembered for what he contributed to American language. A sportswriters’ favorite, Berra had countless expressions and turns of phrase that were memorable because most of them didn’t make any sense. (At the same time, every one had some truth to it.)

Berra-isms (colloquial expressions that lack logic) are now countless, and many of them are just attributed to Berra, even if he never actually said them. As he so perfectly put it: “I never said most of the things I said.” Here are 50 favorites.

1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

2. You can observe a lot by just watching.

3. It ain’t over till it’s over

4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.

5. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

6. Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

7. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

8. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

9. We made too many wrong mistakes.

10. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

11. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.

12. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.

13. I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

14. Never answer an anonymous letter.

15. Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

16. How can you think and hit at the same time?

17. The future ain’t what it used to be.

18. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.

19. It gets late early out here.

20. If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.

21. We have deep depth.

22. Pair up in threes.

23. Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.

24. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.

25. All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

26. Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

27. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

28. He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.

29. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

30. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.

31. I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

32. I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

33. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

34. In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

35. I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

36. I never said most of the things I said.

37. It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.

38. If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

39. I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

40. So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.

41. Take it with a grin of salt.

42. (On the 1973 Mets) We were overwhelming underdogs.

43. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

44. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

45. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

46. You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.

47. I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.

48. If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.

49. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

50. A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.

[Jeff]

Wonderful!
Thanks!

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Do what you can where you are with what you've got.-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States

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This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember - explaining why he adopted and educated 69 orphan children.-- Kip Keino (1940-) Kenyan Olympic Gold Medallist in Track

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Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one element of truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans - that moment one commits oneself, then providence moves all.-- Johann von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet and Dramatist

[Jeff]

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet

[Jeff]

Very true!

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Success and rest don't sleep together.-- Russian proverb

[Jeff]

Which explains your post st 5:30 am

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My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a clear idea of what inspires you, dedicate your energies to its pursuit and there is no knowing what you can achieve, particularly if others are inspired by your dream and offer their help. (from his book 'Close to the Wind'. Goss successfully sailed around the world - alone.)-- Pete Goss (1961-) British Sailor and Entrepreneur

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Which explains your post at 5:30 am
Sorry I was so late. Had to get a half marathon in before breakfast!

[Jeff]

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