| A few lines that have worked for me:
Take your time; you’ll get there quicker I worked as a chef’s assistant at the Red Lantern Inn in Beverly Shores, Indiana that helped pay for college. The chef was a drinker-turned-preacher named Bill Overton and he’s always throw that line my way on a saturday night when we were going full blast making shrimp dejonghe, raw blue point oysters, prime rib among other things. It’s not me against you; it’s the two of us against the problem This comes from Colman McCarthy, founder of the Center for Teaching Peace and a one-time columnist for the Washington Post. I interviewed Colman for Future Talk and he talked about being asked to go to the Pentagon prior to any military involvement to offer another way to solve whatever the foreign affairs problem happened to be. He usually wasn’t successful but he used this line when asked what he says to the generals looking for an answer. There are three rules to writing a book and nobody knows what they are William Somerset Maugham said this and I have nothing to add. Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. Will Rogers
If you don’t feel it, then don’t play it. The Funk Brothers (backup band for Motown) Being pessimistic is an excuse not to do something. Billy Ekstine You want to go fast, go alone. You want to go far, go together. (clueless who said it) Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. Shakespeare Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard Everyone thinks of changing the world but nobody thinks of changing themselves. Tolstoy How can one go to work in the morning and come home in the evening with nothing to say? John Prine Go out and preach the Gospel and, if you must, use words. St. Francis of Assisi It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry Truman You cannot direct the wind but you can adjust the sails. Anonymous |