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Alcohol-related job performance problems are caused not only by on-the-job drinking but also by heavy drinking outside of work.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Heavy drinking can increase the risk for certain cancers, especially those of the liver, esophagus, throat, and larynx (voice box).
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
You should be involved in making referral decisions and have all treatment choices explained to you.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
To try to be better is to be better.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
I am fond of good books and good music, and when I have some time to spare, I like to go to the theatre or a concert.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The conservatives, skillfully guided by national chairman Marcus A. Hanna , won with William McKinley in 1896 and 1900, and under such leaders as Nelson W. Aldrich , Thomas B. Reed , Joseph G. Cannon , Thomas C. Platt , and Matthew S. Quay , the party pro
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
? Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover (Eye opener)?
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The weather is not the same in different countries.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Some individuals who have stopped drinking after experiencing alcohol-related problems choose to attend AA meetings for information and support, even though they have not been diagnosed as alcoholic.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
The Elements was used as the primary geometry resource for over 2000 years, and his lessons could still be used today.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
There are more than a dozen very good orchestras in Britain and some of them are world famous.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Life is consciousness.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Washington is the capital of the USA. It is situated on the Potomac River in the District of Columbia. D. Washington chose the place.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Many of the rivers are "biologically dead", i.e. unable to support fish and wildlife.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
They weren't wearing insignia.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
