Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Chris Ryser]

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.....................

When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. ................................

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. .....................

In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.

George Santayana, The Life of Reason [1905-1906], Volume I, Reason in Common Sense, Chapter 12, 1906






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[Chris Ryser]

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion.........................................

to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

James T. Farrell





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[Chris Ryser]

Never talk about yourself on a first date--.......................................

it's like playing online poker with a web cam.

Anon.





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[Chris Ryser]

"No bird soars too high.................................................

if he soars with his own wings."

William Blake





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[Chris Ryser]

People never care how much you know ..................................................

until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell






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[Chris Ryser]

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, ................................

not because they never found it, ........................................

but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

William Feather





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[Chris Ryser]

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues..............................

and with interchangeable candidates."

Gore Vidal






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[Chris Ryser]

"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly,...........................................

"as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. .............................................

For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth






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[Chris Ryser]

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is
ignorant of the world. .........................................

When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, .................................

and one grows careless about both.

Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, January 14, 1772






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[Chris Ryser]

Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. ......................................

And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

Henry de Bracton





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[Chris Ryser]

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Socrates





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[Chris Ryser]

"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant."

J. Petit-Senn, Conceits and Caprices







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[Chris Ryser]

Don’t take yourself too seriously..............................

If you can develop ability to laugh at yourself, you will be much more relaxed when given or giving criticism…............................

Blessed is he who can enjoy his blunders.

John C. Maxwell




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[Chris Ryser]

There are risks and costs to a program of action............................................

But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy






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[Chris Ryser]

"The object of the superior man is truth."

Confucius






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[Chris Ryser]

"There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few."

Janet Erskine Stuart




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[Chris Ryser]

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age...................................

It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.


Franklin Pierce Adams, "Nods and Becks", "New England Primer", 1944





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[Chris Ryser]

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast,.......................................

that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Niccolo Machiavelli







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[Chris Ryser]

"Old programmers never die. ....................................

They just can't C as well."

Anon.





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[Chris Ryser]

"You may be disappointed if you fail, ........................................

but you are doomed if you don't try."

Beverly Sills






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[GeneralPerge]

Sell gold and buy silver. My best advice of all time.

[Chris Ryser]

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, ....

that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham







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[Chris Ryser]

"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods,...................................

but in the lap of our cooks."

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living, 1937






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[Chris Ryser]

"Great minds think alike."

Anon.






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[Chris Ryser]

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims..............................

Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on.....................................

No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. ...................................

You always have a choice and the choice can be power.

Blaine Lee, The Power Principle




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