July 16, 2008
“ Insanity consists in doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Warren Buffett (read in today’s St. Pete Times, Opinion Section)
July 11, 2008
“ The world is run by those who show up.
Read in the Letters column, July 2008 issue of the ASCE magazine, Civil Engineering (pg. 6)
June 26, 2008
“ Hope is not a plan.
Heard while attending an in-house training course on Loss Prevention through Better Communication held on June 24, 2008.
May 25, 2008
“ May both of you live as long as you want; but never want as long as you live.
by Gunny Sergeant Thomas Beckett (played by Tom Berenger) on the occasion of the wedding of his best friend’s son in SNIPER 3 (2004) viewed at Spike Channel at 9pm on May 24, 2008.
April 19, 2008
“ The foolish reject what they see,
not what they think;
the wise reject what they think,
not what they see.
Huang Po Hsi Yun, a 9th Century Chinese Zen Master (read in the preface to Steven Hagen’s Buddhism is not what you think, HarperCollins, 2003)
April 18, 2008
“ Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
Pete Hind, Danish writer (as read in an email)
April 15, 2008
“ All truth passes through three stages before acceptance: First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, the truth is accepted as being self-evident.
Schopenhauer, the Philosopher (as read in an email).
April 12, 2008
“ It’s not the years. It’s the milege.
Randy Pausch on living your life despite facing odds, as quoted in his interview by Reader’s Digest (May, 2008, pg. 196).
April 11, 2008
“ It’s not the mistakes that we make that define us. It’s what you do afterwards that counts.
As spoken by an FBI agent in tonight (April 11, 2009)’s epidode of NUMBERS shown over the CBS channel.
April 9, 2008
“ The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri, Nigerian poet and novelist (but heard it at the April 9, 2008 episode of Criminal Minds aired on CBS. The show always ends with a closing quote.)