“You only grow up when you realise that no-one is coming to the rescue.”
Author Unknown.
Archive for August, 2005
Brainy Quote – Growing Up
Friday, August 26th, 2005Brainy Quote – Luck
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.”
Author unknown.
Brainy Quotes – Proverbs for the day
Monday, August 22nd, 2005“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”
“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
“Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations.”
“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Brainy Quote, Employers & Bosses
Thursday, August 18th, 2005“Always do what your boss wants. If you don’t like what your boss wants, change what your boss wants. But always do what your boss wants.”
Ken Blanchard & Hal Burrows, The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
Brainy Quote – Carl Jung Quote
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005“A lie would make no sense, unless the truth were felt to be dangerous.”
Carl Jung Quote
Brainy Quote – General George C. Marshall Quote
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005“If you want someone to be for you, never let him feel that he is dependant on you. Make him feel that you are in some way dependant on him.”
General George C. Marshall Quote
Brainy Quote – George Bush
Monday, August 15th, 2005“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
George W. Bush Quote
Brainy Quote – Goethe
Monday, August 15th, 2005“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brainy Quote – Albert Einstein
Sunday, August 14th, 2005“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Einstein Quote
Brainy Quote – Judge not
Wednesday, August 10th, 2005“Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental”
Florence King
Brainy Quote – Sun Tzu & Opportunities
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu – Quote – The Art of War
Brainy Desiderata
Monday, August 8th, 2005Desiderata
”
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 quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the 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.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession 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 affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel 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 dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue 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 sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
“
Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.
A poet and lawyer from Terre Haute, Indiana, who lived from 1872 to 1945. It has been reported that Desiderata was inspired by an urge that Ehrmann wrote about in his diary:
“I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift — a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.”
Desiderata was produced as a single record by Warner Brothers in 1971, and as a track on LazyBoy’s,TV‘ album by Universal records in 2004.
Desiderata