Ways of thinking

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Postby yat_chum » Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:51 pm

"Refuse to fall down.
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down
lift your heart toward heaven
and like a hungry beggar,
ask that it be filled,
and it will be filled.
You may be pushed down.
You may be kept from rising.
But no one can keep you from lifting
your heart toward heaven — only you.
It is in the middle of misery that
so much becomes clear.
The one who says nothing good came of this,
is not yet listening."
A prayer - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:28 am

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."
Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:00 pm

Marcus Aurelius;
"Look back over the past,
with its changing empires that rose and fell,
and you can foresee the future, to."
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Apr 10, 2012 6:09 pm

"You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load."
Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby Phalanxpursos » Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:22 am

Marcus Aurelius;
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:24 am

"Wing Yin Chi Ji - Mo Mong Hong Juk - Die Day Wu Chun."
(Always Speak with Determination - Never Forget the Han Nation - For We Will Return in the Spring)
Wing Chun (Eternal Spring) Kuen Kuit
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:14 pm

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:45 am

"The body says what words cannot."
Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:33 am

"Underpromise; overdeliver."
Tom Peters, in The Chicago Tribune
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:41 pm

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:41 am

"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it."
Confucius
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:56 pm

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about
any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtious
their cause.

P.J. O'Rouke
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:05 am

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping
at the shadow.

Aesop(The Dog and the Shadow)
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:08 pm

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach
conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Helen Keller
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:08 am

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:46 am

"In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time."
Tsutomu Oshima
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:55 am

"You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself."
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:30 am

“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower you try not to get wet and hurry down the street. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses you cannot help but get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning that you will get wet you will not be perplexed even though you still get a soaking. This understanding extends to everything.”
Hagakure
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:46 am

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

both by Fran Lebowitz
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Re: Ways of thinking

Postby pete5770 » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:13 pm

No government can be long secure without
formidable opposition.

Benjamin Disraeli
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