“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
Author: William Shakespeare
Archive for January, 2006
Brainy Quote – good & bad
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006Brainy Quote – priorities
Monday, January 30th, 2006“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically – to say no to other things.
And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘YES’ burning inside.”
Author: Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Covey defines a habit as “the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire.” The seven habits outlined by Covey are: be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think “win-win,” seek first to understand — then to be understood, synergize and sharpen the saw.
Brainy Wit Thoughts
Thursday, January 26th, 2006“A witty saying proves nothing. ”
“According to my calculations the problem doesn’t exist. ”
“Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations. “
Authors: Unknown
Brainy Speech – Bill Gates
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Bill Gates allegedly gave this speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school.
He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
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Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
If you can read this – Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English – Thank a Veteran.
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Author: Bill Gates (unconfirmed)
Brainy Gandhi Quote
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006”
Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words.
Let your words be positive for they will become your actions.
Let your actions be positive for they will become your values.
Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.
“
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Brainy Quote – simple purpose
Monday, January 23rd, 2006“Simple clear purpose and principals give rise to complex and intelligent behavior.
Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.”
Author: Dee Hock
Brainy Lyrics – Life’s a gift!
Friday, January 20th, 2006“Friend what is it that you seek?
What is it that you try to find?
Someday I hope you realized
It shined in you all the time.
Hills to climb, sights to see, seas to cross,
Friends to make, hands to shake, the world is yours,
Foods to taste, sounds to hear, love to feel,
Seeds to sow, things to know, fish to reel,
Space to quiz, stones to lift, Life’s a gift.”
Author: Faithless (Band) – from the song I Want More
Brainy Thought – think
Thursday, January 19th, 2006“You are not what you think, but what you think you are.”
Author Unknown
Brainy Thought – Crayons
Monday, January 16th, 2006“We could learn a lot from Crayons: Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but we have to learn how to live in the same box. “
Author: Unknown
Brainy Thought – Change & Unchanged
Saturday, January 14th, 2006“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
Nelson Mandela
Brainy Thought
Thursday, January 12th, 2006“The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.”
Author: Paulo Coelho. 1947-
Brainy Thought – understanding
Thursday, January 12th, 2006“I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Author: Unknown
Brainy Thought
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006“I’m rather like a mosquito at a nudist camp; I know what to do, but I don’t know where to begin.”
Author: Stephen Bayne
Brainy Thought – Commitment
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006“The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’.”
Author: Unknown
Brainy Gibberish
Sunday, January 8th, 2006“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
Donald Rumsfeld (American Secretary of Defense)
Brainy Thought – Going through
Friday, January 6th, 2006“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
Author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Brainy Thoughts
Thursday, January 5th, 2006“Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.”
“For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.”
“For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.”
Author(s) Unknown
Brainy Thought – blooming
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006“It doesn’t matter if you’re a late bloomer as long as you don’t miss the flower show.”
Author: Jane Fonda
Brainy Thought – The instrument by which we mould the world
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Author: Nelson Mandela
Rolihlahla “Nelson” Mandela (born July 18, 1918) is a former President of South Africa, was one of its chief anti-apartheid activists, and was also an anti-apartheid saboteur and guerrilla leader. He is considered by most people to be a freedom fighter, but the apartheid regime naturally considered him a terrorist. He spent his childhood in the Thembu chiefdom before embarking on a career in law.
Brainy Thought – action
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006“Talk does not cook rice.”
Chinese proverb