Thoughts for the day.
Reverently propounding the essence of thought.
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
Thomas Edward Lawrence
I have no idea what this one means, but it sounds cool! Anyone for an interpretation??
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
Saul Bellow
“It should be recognized as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature), for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child, through unnecessary criticism.”
Napoleon Hill – TAGR
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“Take the punishment of defeat as an urge to greater effort”
Napoleon Hill, TAGR
“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 1908 –
American Economist
The college-student who was about graduating, said to an old lawyer:
“I have not yet decided which profession I will follow. Is your profession full?”
“The basement is much crowded, but there is plenty of room up-stairs,” was the witty and truthful reply.
P.T. Barnum, 1880
“Never have anything to do with an unlucky man or place”
Rothschilds Maxim
A man comes into the ER and yells, “My wife’s going to have her baby in the cab!” I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady’s dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs – and I was in the wrong one. Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Antonio, TX.
At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient’s anterior chest wall. “Big breaths,” I instructed. “Yes, they used to be,” remorsed the patient. Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA.
One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a “massive internal fart.” Dr. Susan Steinberg, Manitoba, Canada
I was performing a complete physical, including the visual acuity test. I placed the patient twenty feet from the chart and began, “Cover your right eye with your hand.” He read the 20/20 line perfectly. “Now your left.” Again, a flawless read. “Now both,” I requested. There was silence. He couldn’t even read the large E on the top line. I turned and discovered that he had done exactly what I had asked; he was standing there with both his eyes covered. I was laughing too hard to finish the exam. Dr. Matthew Theodropolous, Worcester, MA.
During a patient’s two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications. “Which one?” I asked. “The patch. The nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I’m running out of places to put it!” I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn’t see . Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body! Now, the instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one. Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA.
While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, “How long have you been bedridden?” After a look of complete confusion she answered… “Why, not for about twenty years – when my husband was alive.” Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR.
A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room, when a young woman with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, entered. It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for immediate surgery. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green, and above it there was a tattoo
that read, “Keep off the grass.” Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient’s dressing, which said, “Sorry, had to mow the lawn.”
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum — “I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle
“Sell them what they need in terms of what they want.”
Anon
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
Hector Berlioz
“Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind is the master weaver, both of the interior garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance ”
James Allen
“True wealth is something you attract by the way you live your life.”
Pam Braddock
“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.”
Anon
“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
“Love thy neighbour as thyself, but choose your neighbourhood.”
Louise Beal
“My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.”
Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts
“I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.”
Ashleigh Brilliant: Brilliant Thoughts
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke