Below is a list of miscellaneous quotes and thoughts I review from time to time. Some are given with the source, others are not. I'd like to categorize these at some point in the future, but that would require some logic and organization. I hope you enjoy them.
"I would play tennis if I didn't have to jump over the net when I won."
- Bob Hope
"God, give me strength to hit it easy."
- Dwight Eisenhower
"What is history, but a fable agreed upon?"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never miss a good chance to shut up."
"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves."
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back."
"Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf."
- (I'm told these are from) Will Rogers - thanks M.M.
"Boonie's hit, on a scale of 1 to 10, was huge."
- Mark McLemore, Mariners infielder, referring to Brett Boone's hit in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, 2001
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
- John Wayne
"Luck is probability taken personally."
- Penn and Teller
"The government are very keen on amassing statistics -- they collect them, add them, raise them to the n'th power, take the cube root, and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first place from the chowty dar [village watchman] who just puts down what he pleases."
- Sir Josiah Stamp, in "Some Economic Factors in Modern Life", Chapter VIII, Human Nature in Statistics
P.S. King & Son, Ltd: Orchard House, Westminster, 1929
"Hear the sound of the falling rain,
coming down like an Armageddon flame;
the shame, the ones who died without a name;
hear the dogs howling out of key,
to a hymn called faith and misery;
and bleed, the company lost the war today.
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies,
this is the dawning of the rest of our lives."
Green Day, "Holiday", from American Idiot album
"When the time comes for your life to pass before your eyes,
be sure it's a long story."
- saw this on a commercial the day that Payne Stewart, 1999 U.S. Open
Golf Champion, perished in a plane crash 10/25/1999
"Who you are shouts so loudly in my ears I can't hear what you are saying."
- your reputation and past actions carry a greater weight than what you are saying right now
- from a Quality in Project Management Class 11/1999
"At night, in those corners of our minds we deny by day, magical things can happen in the moon shadows. And if they can't (a) they should, and (b) we should always, in any event, act as if they can."
- Roger Ebert, review of Joe vs The Volcano
"Each of us -
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete.
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet."
- Rush, "Freewill", from Permanent Waves album
"You are a slave to what you say and the master of what you don't say."
- from Mike Flanagan, former O's pitcher, from 4/8/96 Oriole's broadcast
"The key to golf is not how good you hit it when you hit it well, but how good you hit it when you miss." - Ben Hogan
For those that want to be,
Put aside the alienation,
Get on with the fascination,
the real relation,
the underlying theme.
- from the song Limelight, Moving Pictures Album, Rush
"I love my job. It's just that I hate some of the things I have to do."
- From Ally McBeal TV show, November 10, 1997
"A human should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, play solitaire, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein
"No matter what, your enemies will still be your enemies, your friends will still be your friends, and your family
will still be your family."
- from Golf Digest interview of Peter Alliss, March 1997 issue
"Our harshest critics are our friends for they tell us where our weaknesses lie." - Ben Franklin
Your Name...
You got it from your father, it was all he had to give,
so it's yours to keep and cherish for as long as you shall live,
It was clean the day he got it,
and a worthy name to bear,
When he got it from his father,
there was no dishonor there,
So protect and guard it safely,
for when all is said and done,
You'll be proud the name is spotless when you give it to your son.
...author unknown, from a genealogy website I found on 7/29/98
"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
- Robert Burton, from an article talking about the Internet - one does not care or need to know about the Internet
infrastructure, how it works, etc. to be able to take advantage of it.
Q."Do you think there is life elsewhere?"
A."When you consider how vast the universe is, for there not to be life elsewhere
- it would be a great waste of space."
- from the movie "Contact" - Jodie Foster
On day that stocks fell over 500 points - "If you haven't sold, you haven't lost anything yet." A quote from some advisor on the radio saying that things will rebound and as long as you don't cash in you haven't lost anything!
"Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there.
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow, ...
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the soft star that shines at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die."
- Author unknown - from a tribute to Princess Diana that appeared in the Bowie Blade News, 9/11/97
"Better to be quiet and seem like a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Golf is an invitation.
To feel the grass.
To hear the trees.
Golf is an invitation.
To play well and know it's going to end;
to play poorly and think it's never going to end.
Golf is an invitation.
To know God.
To know Satan.
To ignore fear.
Golf is an invitation.
To ask your soul,
"Mind if I join you?"
Golf is an invitation.
You are invited.
Just do it.
- commercial from Nike that started running during the British Open
of 1997. Words were splashed onto the screen one line
at a time with excellent pictures and music in the background.
"As much by skill as by strength."
- motto of Royal Troon Golf Club, Scotland - site of 1997 British Open
"Love is the footprint of angels."
- from the Disney movie, "Angels in the Outfield"
Conversation with Beth at night (4/7/97) when I was tucking her in and things were not going well for me at work --
Dad: Should I go into work tomorrow? Beth: Yes, you may.
Dad: Should I be happy or sad at work? Beth: You be happy.
Dad: Why should I be happy? Beth: Because you can.
(She was just 3 ½ years old at the time!)
"Fate is just the weight of circumstances."
- from Rush's Roll The Bones
We believe immortality manifests itself in the lives of those we affect during our lifetime and in the legacy we leave
when we die.
- from Unitarian Universalist FAQ
"You've got to get your mind in the right mindset."
- from Jim Meyer - Catonsville Golf Club - at the Nov 9, 1996 golf club meeting at Ferndale Tavern
The mighty ocean,
dances with the moon;
The silent forest,
echoes with the loon.
- from the song "Time and Motion" from Rush's album "Test for Echo"
"We are either alone in this universe or we are not, both ideas are overwhelming."
- Arthur C. Clark.... gotten from a "Independence Day" movie homepage of someone
"With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress." -- Ransom K. Ferm
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew Tannenbaum
"Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats---approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less."
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
"Life may have no meaning.
Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."
- Ashleigh Brilliant
"If you're right, there is no reason to lose your temper; if you're not, you can't afford to!"
"People are far more persuaded by your attitude than by logic."
"People are only interested in what you know after they realize they know you care."
"What you say is far less important than how you say it."
"If you improve your attitude just 1% each day that is over 300% in 1 year!"
"If you can't enjoy the times in between the golf shots,
then you're going to have a pretty difficult life,
because most of your life is the time spent in between."
- Peter Jacobsen, golfer-musician-writer-philosopher, FEB 1996
"It beats being at war."
- from Roy Borgstede playing hole #14 at Enterprise on 7/10/96 talking about how bad work is lately
"The way things are - are the way things are."
- from the movie "Babe"
"We'll just jump ---- and we'll see what happens."
- Meg Ryan to Tom Hanks in the movie 'Joe versus the Volcano'
"This too shall pass."
"Memories are far better than dreams."
- from Peter Allis, golf commentator during 5/5/96 broadcast
"A little substance with no show is far better than all show with no substance."
"Talent loses to hard work if talent doesn't work hard."
- from Dan Reaugh/ESPN2 color guy during Caps game 4/17/96
"It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice."
- from Don and Mike show of 4/11/96
"Right now, is just a space between ice ages."
- from Van Halen's song "Right Now"
Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quitely and clearly; and listen to others,
even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real position in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affections.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the cousel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune,
but do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of faitgue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.
With all its shame, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful. Strive to be happy.
- from St. John's Church, Baltimore, 1792
"Seldom are things as bad as we think they are."
"1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. It's all small stuff."
"Do the hardest, worst, least desirable thing first."
- Grandpa Leidich 1992
"Take time to be on time."
- Grandpa Leidich 1992
"The bitterness of poor Quality remains long after the Sweetness of meeting the Schedule has been Forgotten."
- from CQM period of Bureau 1991
Is anyone still with me here? "The Plan of the Master Weaver"
Thanks for viewing these quotes and various thoughts of mine.
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Thanks again. I'll leave you with one final thought ...
Our lives are but fine weavings
That God and we prepare,
Each life becomes a fabric planned
And fashioned in His care.
We may not always see just how
The weavings intertwine,
But we must trust the Master's hand
And follow His design,
For He can view the pattern
Upon the upper side,
While we must look from underneath
And trust in Him to guide ...
Sometimes a strand of sorrow
Is added to His plan,
And though it's difficult for us,
We still must understand
That it's He who fills the shuttle,
It's He who knows what's best,
So we must weave in patience
And leave to Him the rest ...
Not till the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Shall God unroll the canvas
And explain the reason why --
The dark threads are as needed
In the Weaver's skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.
- From a sympathy card
