RANDOM QUOTES

ADVISE is seldom welcomed; and those who want it the most always like it the least. - Lord Chesterfield (Chesterfield also said "When a man seeks your advise he generally seeks your praise."
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. - Elbert Hubbard
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. - Horace Walpole

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. - Richard Whatley


You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. - Joseph E Levine
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln

Let us be in good cheer, remembering that the misforutnes hardest to bear are those which never happen. - James Russsel Lowell
The question "Who ought to be the boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" - obviously, the man who can sing tenor. - Henry Ford
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. - Edward Hand

QUOTES by MAYA ANGELOU

* Childrens' talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. {there are a couple of ways to go with this as advise, but for me, it says that when we undergo hard times, it's easier if we accept that this is the way things are - rather than keep ourselves frantic worrying about it, and wearing ourselves out looking for a way out of a situation for which there IS no real way out. Live with it.}

* Courage is fear that has said it's prayers.

* No man can know where he's going unless he knows exactly where he's been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

*The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by a formal education. {Our education system has a lot of flaws - and I'll likely be writing a few blogs about it sooner or later. One of the worst results of those flaws is that it does dull a child's thirst for knowledge (I know, I mixed my metaphors but I'm tired and its loud here and I can't think of a better one) and makes learning an unpleasant chore, rather than making learning the immense pleasure it should, and could, be.}

* There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

* {The following, most people will realize without my help, is NOT intended to concern rumors. It is about one's OWN story, or relating a thing that you witnessed as a remarkable tale, not idle and nosy gossip. I just had to say so, for a few people may take it otherwise, and that is NOT what Maya Angelou is about.} There's no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

SUCCESS UNLIMITED-Bill Gates, advise to a group of high school students

Mr Gates tells the teens that this is advise they'll never learn at school. He talked about how feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a full generation of kids with NO CONCEPT OF REALITY, and how this sets them up for failure in the real world. (I read this a while back and don't recall the source.)
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 $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone (this was obviously a few years ago, but sub "company cell phone" n it still fits) until you EARN both.
RULE 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
RULE 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger-flipping - they called it "opportunity".
RULE6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about 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 are. So, before you save the rainforest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
RULE 8: Some schools 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 up into semesters. You dont 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 shops and go to jobs.
RULE 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.