mustang guy Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Just now, I was ready quotes from Carl Sagan who said such things as: To make a pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals. I find that the statements he made that had few words tended to have more impact. Perhaps that is because it is easily passed on by verbal tradition. I can still hear Carl Sagan saying "Billions and Billions" in my mind. What a guy...!!! My dad always told me that in business "to watch the pennies, the dollars will watch themselves". I am sure he was quoting wisdom from another person, but that doesn't matter. What matters to me is that it mattered to him. He also has said on MANY occasions to practice moderation. Too much of anything is a bad thing. Is there any wisdom you would like to share? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiser SET say Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 I've always been fond of: "All hard work brings a profit but mere words lead only to poverty" And the Author was? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Don't sweat the petty things. Don't pet the sweaty things. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 "Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official." - Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max2 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the death rate is 100%. R.D. Laing 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjd Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 (edited) Candidates for the Darwin Award should not read this author. djk Sounds like chicken. Painful Reality Notice that no one ever says, "Buy that brand x tube amp, it sounds as good as solid state." A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing. “Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Leo Tolstoy “Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude (and my mouth shut) while waiting!” Some say that history repeats itself, does that mean that anything new in audio is just history that “we” don’t know about and that most originality in audio is only something “we” haven’t seen or heard, thus meaning that those classics, or soon to be classics, that stand the test of time are only a credit to the execution or implementation of previous ideas, not their originality? If so, what does that say about the mistakes “we” may make or the success “we” may find in our endeavors? Edited July 30, 2014 by Fjd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth2 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 It's not what you are, but what you could have become. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrickdj1 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 "The weak can never forgive. Forgivenesss is the attribute of the strong" - Mahatma Ghandi 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. ” ― Margaret Thatcher 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.-Mark Twain 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss." — Robert Heinlein 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Bill Watterson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 “The trouble with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. ”- C.S. Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 “A cable is a source of potential trouble connecting two other sources of potential trouble.” --- unknown 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Truth?... What is truth? --- Pontius Pilate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbomberger Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 "Constantly choosing between the lesser of two evils, is still choosing evil." -Jerry Garcia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you're probably right. My Friend's Grandpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted July 16, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 16, 2014 "We need the tonic of wildness and...nature" -Thoreau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khornukopia Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. - Lewis Cass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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