Nice note
July 23, 2008
Deadline
July 23, 2008
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“Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.”
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July 22, 2008
July 22, 2008
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we’.”
-Mark Twain, (Samuel Longhorn Clemens)
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
-Patrick Henry, revolutionary (1736-1799).
“We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to apply it.”
-Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966)
“Be who you are and say what you feel…Because those who matter… don’t mind…And those who mind… don’t matter.”
-Unknown
Man’s best friend
July 21, 2008
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
-Mark Twain
I haven’t had a dog since early childhood. Around the age of 5, I owned a blonde cockerspaniel named Baby. She kept running away into the big city of Midland. One day she never came back. JMD
My Best
July 20, 2008
“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
-Somerset Maugham
Speak no evil
July 19, 2008
“I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
-Ben Franklin
My mother was always quick to point out when I would open my mouth and insert my foot. She always said, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Needless to say I grew up a quiet child.
I’m learning there is a point when you must take a stand. Someone once said, sometimes anger is the necessary energy needed to set boundaries. JMD
Ability, Motivation & Attitude
July 18, 2008
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines
what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
-Lou Holtz
My burden
July 17, 2008
“Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.”
–Merle Miller
We all have our demons, how we try to conquer them on a daily basis is what counts. JMD
Overwhelming odds
July 16, 2008
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition
you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained
the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
-Orison Swett Marden
It’s your choice
July 15, 2008
“Each man has a choice in life: he may approach it as a creator or critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.”
-Unknown
