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When
you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you
treat others, you have also chosen, in
most cases, how you are going to be treated by others." |
Love God |
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| Taking Risks Leaders will tell you that being willing to take a risk is one of the key elements to success. The good news is that, if you are afraid of taking risks, you can train yourself to be more daring. Build confidence by taking small risks first and tackling more challenging things as your courage and confidence grows. Consider the likely consequences of any risk you may take, and identify the worst thing that could happen to you. Then look at your reasoning for why that's the worst thing -- faulty reasoning sometimes causes us to "catastrophize" when actually, chances are small that a catastrophe will occur. - June Sandercock |
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| "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year." - John Foster Dulles, Former Secretary of State | Excellence can be attained if
you... Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. |
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We laughed about getting older when we got married in 1978. I asked her if she would "need me when I was 64." Recently, I heard a Barber Shop Quartet do this Beatles classic. Here is a portion from McCartney's 1966 song for you to enjoy. Thanks for the great years Barb. When I get older losing
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"With, Without. |
"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them." | |
| "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterwards." - Vernon Sanders Law |
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| "The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never
to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must
inevitably come." James Whitcomb Riley |
"All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act
the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-82 |
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| This is an interesting visual image discovered on the Internet during May 1999. "about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle" | ||
| Def: Future-proof: Term used to describe a phone system that supposedly won't become technologically outdated (at least anytime soon). | Def: Chain Saw Consultants: Outside experts brought in to reduce the employee headcount. | |
| The 1999 Ramseyer Reunion was July 30-August 1 | ||
| UNIX in Plain English is an oxymoron | Tried to see your point of view, Hope your dreams will all come true. |
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| Most people avoid risks their whole lives by assuming that the other guy will say no. | The Rules For Being Human. 1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around. 2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school, you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid. 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works." 4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson. 5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. 6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here." 7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. 8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. 9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to Life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust. 10. You will forget all of this. 11. You can remember it whenever you want. Anonymous |
Read Dilbert again... |
| My political statement for Washington DC: "Living is Easy with Your Eyes Closed, Misunderstanding All You See." Lennon, McCartney, 1967. |
Successful people do things others don't like to do. | |
| Stop dealing with China. Their goals are not at all
parallel with the United States. Do not allow the base in Long Beach get into their hands.
Long March Reaches Long Beach Issue date 9/8/97 China's People's Liberation Army has landed on American shores and soon may be partners with the Russian military-intelligence service in a venture to build a rocket-launching pad in the Long Beach harbor. |
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| Begin each day anew. Set goals, support employees, communicate with supervisors, learn at least one new thing, and say something kind to a stranger. | "Uncle Cosmo ... why do they call this a word
processor?" "It's simple, Skyler ... you've seen what food processors do to food, right?" -- MacNelley, "Shoe" |
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| November 11, 1997 -- I have been thinking today of several young men from Fremont who gave their lives in Viet Nam. I treasure the etching of their names I made at The Wall in Washington D.C. on a hot summer day in 1993. That day also gave me some form of closure when I left behind my MIA/POW bracelet under Captain MacDonald's name. Did you have an MIA/POW bracelet? | ||
| If A = Success, then A = X + Y + Z where X = Work, Y=Play, and Z=Keep Your Mouth Shut. Albert Einstein. | A limerick is a primitive art form; it begins with a pair
o' dactyls. -- David Gerrold, "A Rage for Revenge." |
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Entered on the
web, October 24, 1997.
Last update, January 31, 2012
Larry Gundy, Fremont, OH USA