THE IMPOSSIBLE What nobody can do until somebody does. Bits and Pieces
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SELF-PERSPECTIVE As long as you laugh at your troubles, you may be sure you ill never run out of something to laugh at.
MURPHY'S LAW Lynch's Law "When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. Klipstein's Third Law of Engineering "Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per…
TROUBLE The cynic says: "Don't bother telling people your troubles. Half of them don't care, and the other half figure you probably had it coming."
HOW BAD WAS IT? A woman described a nerve- racking ordeal: "It was like being trapped for four hours in a stuck elevator with a team of Jehovah's Witnesses." From Campbell's Notebook, Vol. V, No.…
DIFFICULTY "Gentlemen, when you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery." Lord Kelvin
PERSPECTIVE You see me as an atheist. God sees me as the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
STAR OF THE SHOW One of Teddy Roosevelt's children said of him: "Father always wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral."
OPPORTUNITY We are faced with a series of great opportunities -- brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John Gardner, On the Upbeat
THE MAJORITY Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side. Claude McDonald in The Christian Word
OPTIMIST/PESSIMIST An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Michael de Saint-Pierre, as quoted in Great Quotes and Illustrations, compiled by George…
RED ALERT The story is told in Russia about the late Premier Leonid Brezhnev, who wanted to impress his old mother from the Ukraine. First he showed her through his sumptuous apartment in Moscow. She…
ANYWAY People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and…
STRATEGY FOR INTERPERSONAL CONVINCING Never try to prove to the other person that you are right. It is human nature to object to anyone who insists he is right. Rather, always present your arguments in…
IMPOSSIBLE Don't say that nothin' is impossible . . . until you've tried to teach your dog to eat an artichoke. Funny, Funny World
KEEP GOING 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 Kettering, as…
COPING PROBLEMS Coping with difficult people is always a problem, particularly if the difficult person happens to be oneself. Ashleigh Brilliant, All I Want Is A Warm Bed and A Kind Word and Unlimited Power…
WHEN NOBODY BUT THE LORD WILL DO A hurricane had struck. People were huddled together. An old preacher was praying with great oratorical effects in the midst of this violent storm, crying out "Send us…
THE POSITIVE FRUIT OF TENSION Theodore E. Steinway, president of Steinway and Sons, once noted, "In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame.…
PERSPECTIVE An economist was asked to talk to a group of business people about the recession. She tacked up a big sheet of white paper. Then she made a black spot on the paper with…
