Quote of the Day

[billyjoe]

Dec.24th

A committee is a cul de sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ----Sir Barnett Cocks (Member of Parliament)

----------billyjoe

Feel free to add others

[spikefader]

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
-- Justice William O. Douglas

[billyjoe]

Quote of the Day

Dec. 25th

"In the end , we will remember not the words of our enemies , but the silence of our friends"-----Martin Luther King Jr.

--------billyjoe

[IIC]

"The way to come up with good ideas is to come up with a lot of ideas"...IIC

[spikefader]

“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain” William Shakespeare

[peanuts]

"The way to come up with good ideas is to come up with a lot of ideas"...IIC

Is this the same thing as, "If you want to find something, look everywhere" ?

[Runner]

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
--Thomas Huxley

[Runner]

"Lincoln was not great because he was born in a cabin, but becuse he got out of it." -- James Adams

[skiracer]

"I'll be back". The Terminator.

[IIC]

Is this the same thing as, "If you want to find something, look everywhere" ?

Hey...that's a good one

[IIC]

This is a copy of a post I made last May 27th...Thought it might be appropriate on this thread...I made some up and I stole the rest:

IIC's Sayings To Live By:

Expect the best...but be prepared for the worst

Never dwell on what might have been

The smartest people ask the most questions

The smartest people only need to know one thing...who to call to get the answers

When you are wrong, you are wrong...admit it and get on with it

Let the other person save face ...unless they are a real jerk

Never feel sorry for yourself

Worry takes more effort than action

Never be intimidated

Never be afraid of change

Make your boss look good

Be more prepared than the person sitting across the table

The way to come up with good ideas is to come up with a lot of ideas

Remember your customer's kids names

Value diversity

Try to make the other person feel important

Don't worry if you miss your exit on the freeway...there's another one just around the bend

Never bring up a problem unless you have a solution

No matter how bad it seems...just remember somebody has it worse

Don't dish it out if you can't take it

Never forget anything

It is hard to believe that a person is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in their place

When a person tells you that they will think it over and let you know...you know

He who burns his bridges better be a good swimmer

Get bored easily

There is always a place for the person who says "I'll take care of it"

If you can afford to buy your way out of a problem...you don't have a problem

It isn't the people you fire that make your life miserable...it's the people you don't

A good person never expects anything in return except a "Thank You"

When a telemarketer calls you...tell them that you are busy right now and ask them for their number so you can call them back

Say it with authority and people will believe you

If you find yourself in a bad situation...take immediate action

Have a good sense of humor

Hoping and wishing are excuses for not doing

99% responsibility doesn’t work

We fear the thing we want the most

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

People would rather be right than happy

100 years from now no one will care

The one who loves the least controls the relationship

If you require someone to change…you require them to lie to you

You can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want

What you are afraid to do is what you need to do next

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it

You can have anything you want if you give up your belief that you cannot have it

A winner says…”I Will” and a loser says I’ll Try”

Be yourself

[billyjoe]

Dec. 26th

"The less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must be his judgement of the future"---Sigmund Freud

-----------billyjoe

[skiracer]

"You can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first" Skiracer - first said in Cambodia 1966 under fire.

[Lyehopper]

"You can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first" Skiracer - first said in Cambodia 1966 under fire.

My father told told me that one many times as a youngster, as his father also told him.... I think this apt saying pre-dates you a tad there Ski.....

Here's one my daddy used to tell me.... and he says his father would say to him...."Boy! I'm gonna knock the Buck-Waddin' outta you!" SsSsSssss!

[skiracer]

My father told told me that one many times as a youngster, as his father also told him.... I think this apt saying pre-dates you a tad there Ski.....

Here's one my daddy used to tell me.... and he says his father would say to him...."Boy! I'm gonna knock the Buck-Waddin' outta you!" SsSsSssss!

Sorry Lye that it came out like I was taking credit for the saying. I heard it from another guy in my squad, a southerner from South Carolina whose drawl was so thick you could hardly make out what he was saying even under the best conditions, and I started using it after that whenever we were hoping for something to come thru and it usually never did. It stuck with me for all these years. I never heard my dad use the buck-waddin phrase but another guy that flew with him an always hunted with us used it with his kid and the rest of us kids pretty regularly when they would make us drive the thickest and swampiest pieces of woods in deer hunting season and we would always complain that they always made us do the hardest sections on the drives. My dad always gave the guy permission to do it if I gave him to much crap. He never did though.