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Quotes : Moawad: "Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders."
Bob Moawad

"Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."
Henry Ford

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you're doing the impossible."
St. Francis of Assisi

"If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all..."
Anonymous

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
Marie Curie

"What a difference MacWorld Expo Makes."
The InfoManager speaking about the comparison of the number of news stores the week before and the week after Expo.
Quote for the week: "I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped."
- Joyce Brothers
Quotes: Drucker, West, LeGuin: "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter F. Drucker
"Everything is in the mind. Knowing what you want is the first step in getting it."
- Mae West
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
- Usula K. LeGuin
"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."
- William James
Quotes: Snyder, Carnegie: "It is one thing to be unsuccessful, it's one thing to argue a bad position, but it's quite another to be silly and laughed at, and that's where the RIAA has ended up. They appear to be totally irrelevant except as bagmen. It's more than just bad P.R., it's bad science. The RIAA reached its conclusions, then looked for supporting arguments, all the while ignoring reality, opportunity and fact. They overstate their position, misinterpret their own data, and make dubious claims for artists' rights when the biggest abusers of artists' rights are their benefactors, the record companies themselves."
- John Snyder, president of Artist House Records, a board member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and a 32-time Grammy nominee, comments on the Recording Industry Association of America. (from Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter.)

"Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have. It depends solely upon what you think."
- Dale Carnegie
Quotes : Kaufman, Shaw: Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut. It's munching on what isn't.
-- Barry Neil Kaufman

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
-- George Bernard ShawGot a favorite quote?
Quote : From 'Who Moved My Cheese': "Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go."
- From the book 'Who Moved My Cheese'
Quotes : Curie, Gandhi: "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."
- Marie Curie

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
- Indira Gandhi
Quote : Kettering: "Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down." - Charles F. Kettering - 1876-1958, Engineer and Inventor ** From the DallasBlue mailing list. See: http://dallasblue.com or subscribe by: mailto:dallasblue-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Quote : Vuocolo: "Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full. Others spend a lifetime lamenting that it's half-empty. The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it. From there, it's up to you!" - Dr. James S. Vuocolo ** From www.yourmaclife.com
Quotes : Holmes, Kennedy, Buren: "..look at that word blame.
It's just a coincidence that the last two letters spell the word me.
But that coincidence is worth thinking about.
Other people or unfortunate circumstances may have caused you to feel pain, but only you control whether you allow that pain to go on. If you want those feelings to go away, you have to say: 'It's up to me.'"
- Arthur Freeman

"Speech is conveniently located between thought and action,
where it often substitutes for both."
- John Andrew Holmes

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich."
- John F. Kennedy

"People who fight fire with fire
usually end up with ashes."
- Abigail Van Buren
Quotes : Winfrey, Hinds: "I do not believe in failure.
It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
- Oprah Winfrey

"Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us
the ability to set some kind of example for people.
Knowing this would you rather be the one known
for being the one who encouraged others, or
the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you?"
- Josh Hinds
User Group Quote: We have 3 rules:
1. If you show up you're a member
2. If you speak up you're an officer
3. If you stand up you're the president
This from Quint at Tidewater Area MUG.See their web site at:
Quotes :: Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity
to determine...[your] values and goals...
Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones
to build the life you want."
- Marsha Sinetar

You know the world is off tilt,
when the best rapper is a white guy,
the best golfer is a black guy,
the tallest basketball player is Chinese, and
Germany doesn't want to go to war."
- Charles Barkley

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Quotes : Bradstreet, Emerson: "Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers." - John Sutherland Bonnell "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Anne Bradstreet

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage."
- Ralph Waldo EmersonSend in your favorite quotes to:
Quotes : Fred Rogers: "At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service."
- Fred Rogers (a.k.a., "Mister Rogers") 1928-2003
"Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change."
- Brian Tracy
Quote of the week: "Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice." - Stanley Horowitz "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) [AFAIK, this was a sign hung above his desk]
Quotes : Are we barbarians?: In 2002, unwanted commercial email cost American corporations $8,900,000,000 U.S. dollars.
Ferris Research

"Anyone sending commercial emails containing obscene, drug-related, or graphically violent content shall face imprisonment for up to 2 years and fines up to 10,000,000" (about $8,000 US)
Article 2, chapter 42 of the Korean Minor Protection Act

"AOL blocks 780,000,000 spam messages from member mailboxes every day"
Joe Barrett, Senior Vice President, Systems Operations, America Online, Inc.

"We seized $30,000,000 in luxury homes, automobiles, cash, jewelry and numerous bank accounts throughout Arizona from individuals operating a penile enlargement spam operation."
Janet Napolitano, Attorney General of the State of Arizona

"70% of today's spam is illegal under one or more current laws in the United States."
U.S. Federal Trade Commission, May 2, 2003

"Our people are learning all about the American culture through your spams"
Motohiro Tsuchiya, Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Global Communication, International University of Japan (May 2, 2003)

"If you send your spam into Virginia, you'd better run and hide -- we're coming to get you!"
Fred Showker, AACUG anti-spam evangelist

Anyone can be a barbarian;
it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Leonard Sidney Woolf
Quotes : Murrow; Carroll; White: "Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."
- Robert A. Heinlein (one of my favorite SF authors)

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it." - Edward R. Murrow
"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.'"
- Lewis Carroll

"People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public."
- Bryan WhiteField Trip: Montreal's Chinatown
Quotes: Dass; Pilinski; Mackay: "A woman told me that she was a seeker, so I asked her, 'Have you ever thought about being a finder?'"
- Ram Dass

"It's time to stop handing random chance the power to direct your destiny. Time to make a course correction back into the world of the living (and the socializing). There are techniques to make it easier than you might think, but it all begins with a decision not to let the faded echo of a long-ago negative event continue to shape your life. And until you make that decision, nothing will ever really change.
- Mike Pilinski

"Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one."
- Harvey Mackay
Quote : Goethe: "If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes: Nader; Mead; Johnson and Epictetus: "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
- Ralph Nader

"Never doubt that a small group of Committed People can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

"Your hope of future happiness shouldn't depend on a big "what if", but rather on the great "I Am"."
- Scott Johnson

"People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."
- Epictetus, 1st Century A.D.

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Quotes: Ash; Gandhi , Chopra: "Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret."
- Mary Kay Ash

"My father once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition there."
- Indira Gandhi, former prime minister of India

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.
- Deepak Chopra
Quote: Elbert Hubbard: "The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked."
- Elbert Hubbard
Quotes : Emerson: "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes: Keller, Jong and an Italian Proverb: "Many persons have the wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy cause."
- Helen Keller

"Advice is what we ask for
when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong

"At the end of the game the king and the pawn
go back in the same box."
- Italian Proverb
Quotes: Hepburn; Buscaglia; Kissinger; Jefferson: "Acting's just waiting for the custard pie. That's all."
-- Katharine Hepburn

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. And swing!"
- Leo Buscaglia

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger

"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Quotes: Twain, Emerson, Frost: "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
-Mark Twain

"The creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo."
- Mark Twain

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
- Robert Frost
Quotes : - Hartley, Hubbard, Wilde, Roosevelt: "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." - Lesley Poles Hartley, novelist "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." - Eleanor Roosevelt Pau *Subscribe to Neat Net Tricks at: http://www.neatnettricks.com/
Quotes: The Sanskrit, Holmes, Edison and others: "Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
- From The Sanskrit

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
- Samuel Johnson, writer

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many of lifes failures were by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."
- Joyce Maynard

"Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame, but greatness, because it is determined by service."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure... you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it."
- Bob Proctor
Quotes: Jobs, Churchill: "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.
Sir Winston Churchill
Quotes : Rand; Kennedy; Mackay; Twain: "Anyone who fights for the future lives in it today."
- Ayn Rand

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself,
but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
- Robert F. Kennedy

"Ideas without action are worthless."
- Harvey Mackay

"You stop worrying about what other people think about you when you realize how little they do."
- Mark Twain

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Quotes: Pagnol, Peck, Gandhi: "Honor is like a match, you can only use it once."
- Marcel Pagnol, French dramatist and filmmaker

"Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?"
- M. Scott Peck

"Keep my word positive.
Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive.
Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive.
Habits become my values. Keep my values positive.
Values become my destiny."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Happy Birthday Fred
Today is Fred's birthday -- I understand he'll be 39 again this year! (GRIN)
Quotes: Pope; Emerson and Kleiser: "A man should never be ashamed to say he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Alexander Pope

"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure."
- Grenville Kleiser

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Quotes: Davidson; Carter and Emerson: "If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else."
- Clinton Davidson

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
- Rosalynn Carter
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote for back to school:: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
Quotes: Mencken; Wright; Ruskin; Wooden: "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
- H.L. Mencken

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it"
- John Ruskin (1819-1900) Writer, Social Theorist

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- John Wooden

Personal Note:
Thanks to Fred Showker for filling in last week while I was having my surgery. (Angioplasty.) To those who inquired, everything appears to be doing better and while I will be on a new exercise regime and will have to report back in, I am up and about and working as usual. This weekend in fact, we are moving into the first house I have ever owned. (Along with the bank of course.) So for a few days I will once again be without Internet access at home. Personally I can do without the TV, but doing without Internet is harder. Thanks for your well wishes. Looking forward to meeting all of you at a future Expo. - Lynn
Quotes: Agar, Curie, Thoreau:: "The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
- Herbert Agar

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
- Marie Curie

"New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated."
- Henry David Thoreau

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Quotes: Booker T. Washington; Robert S. Lynd: "Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him."
- Booker T. Washington

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
- Robert S. Lynd

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Quotes: Goodwin; Hale; Carnegie; Wells; Einstein: "The impossible is often the untried."
- Jim Goodwin

"I am only one. But still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
- Edward E Hale

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what People say, I just watch what they Do."
- Andrew Carnegie

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."
- Orson Welles

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein

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Quotes: Lord Chandos and Mark Twain: "Flattery is the infantry of negotiation."
- Lord Chandos
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
- Mark Twain
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
- Mark Twain
Quotes: Henry Peter; Franklin; Heinlein and Glasow: "Try to know everything of something, and something of everything."
- Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
"Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny."
- Robert A. Heinlein
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."
- Arnold Glasow

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Quotes: Eliot, Stevens, Nute, Twain and da Vinci: "Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us."
- T.S. Eliot

"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions."
- Earl Gray Stevens

"People don't realize that once you sign up for a contest or free stuff on the Web and you forget to uncheck a box, these people will pass your name to a hundred other people."
Ð Paul Nute, a partner in a New York advertising agency. (via New York Times)

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Quotes: Mignon McLaughlin and Don Herold: "No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."
- Mignon McLaughlin

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
- Don Herold
Quotes: Seneca; Tomlin; Kennedy Bergson: "It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."
Ð Seneca

"The road to success is always under construction."
- Lily Tomlin

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
- John F. Kennedy

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
- Henri Bergson
Quotes: Davis, Freeman: "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
- Bette Davis

"Look for the good in everybody, starting with yourself."
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Quotes : Twain: "Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar by Mark Twain
Quote: Tocqueville, Haynie, Armstrong, Einstein: "The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Imagine what you want to do, not what you don't want to do."
- Sandra Haynie

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
- Louis Armstrong

"I had a philosopher do my taxes; they were too difficult for a mathematician"
Ð Albert Einstein
Quotes: Too much to eat over the holidays: We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin
Quotes: Cocteau; Wilson; Gibbon; Perez: "Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go too far."
- Jean Cocteau, French dramatist

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
- Woodrow Wilson

"All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance."
- Edward Gibbon

"How long are you going to let pain push you before you let vision pull you?"