"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt I believe. I've always loved that quote. Used to have it on my bulletin board at work years ago.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt I believe. I've always loved that quote. Used to have it on my bulletin board at work years ago.
Winnar Winnar, Chicken Dinnar. Yep, I tend to like every quote of his.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt I believe. I've always loved that quote. Used to have it on my bulletin board at work years ago.
Winnar Winnar, Chicken Dinnar. Yep, I tend to like every quote of his.
I learned from him that we should attempt a total surrender to whatever atmosphere was offering itself at the moment; in a squalid town, seek out those very places where its squalor rose to grimness and almost grandeur, on a dismal day to find the most dismal and dripping wood, on a windy day to seek the windiest ridge. There was not irony about it; only a serious, yet gleeful, determination to rub one's nose in the very quiddity of each thing, to rejoice in its being what it was. C.S. Lewis
“The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.”
We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.
– Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, "The New Nationalism" (August 31, 1910)
"In a fascist system, property is privately “owned,” but its use is dictated and controlled by government officials...
....When government officials have such immense powers, individuals and businesses seek to influence the use of that power. They make campaign donations, offer investment opportunities, and provide other perks to politicians. In exchange, Congressmen use their political power to benefit their cronies. What cannot be achieved in a boardroom is achieved in a Congressional hearing room. "
the bulls are grand as the side of the sun
and although they kill them for the stale crowds,
it is the bull that burns the fire,
and although there are cowardly bulls as
there are cowardly matadors and cowardly men,
generally the bull stands pure
and dies pure
untouched by symbols or cliques or false loves,
and when they drag him out
nothing has died
something has passed
and the eventual stench
is the world.
This for those of you who've dreaded incoming bunkerbusters
on going out to get the mail
the droll noon
where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers
to be raped by blackbirds
I go outside and all up and down the street
the green armies shoot color like an everlasting 4th of July,
and I too seem to swell inside, a kind of unknown bursting,
a feeling, perhaps, that there isn't any enemy
anywhere.
and i reach down into the box and there is
nothing ---not even a letter from the gas co. saying they will shut it off again
not even a short note from my x-wife bragging about her present happiness.
my hand searches the mailbox in a kind of
disbelief long after the mind has given up
there's not even a dead fly down there!
I am a fool, I think, I should have known it works like this.
I go back inside as all the flowers leap to please me.
"The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. . .When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
I think it can also be said that business without ethics or morals is evil.
anything without morals has potential to be evil.
the good news is that when business has zero morals (with a government that isnt corrupt like ours) it will collapse on itself. nobody wants to work for or buy from a bunch of dicks.
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-Mitch Hedberg
Seems that way more often as we get older.
:-)
"I stick a raisin in my belly button and pretend I'm a cookie", - J.L. Marta
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
C.S. Lewis
Albert Einstein
? Theodore Roosevelt
– Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, "The New Nationalism" (August 31, 1910)
....When government officials have such immense powers, individuals and businesses seek to influence the use of that power. They make campaign donations, offer investment opportunities, and provide other perks to politicians. In exchange, Congressmen use their political power to benefit their cronies. What cannot be achieved in a boardroom is achieved in a Congressional hearing room. "
- Brian Phillips
the bulls are grand as the side of the sun
and although they kill them for the stale crowds,
it is the bull that burns the fire,
and although there are cowardly bulls as
there are cowardly matadors and cowardly men,
generally the bull stands pure
and dies pure
untouched by symbols or cliques or false loves,
and when they drag him out
nothing has died
something has passed
and the eventual stench
is the world.
on going out to get the mail
the droll noon
where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers
to be raped by blackbirds
I go outside and all up and down the street
the green armies shoot color like an everlasting 4th of July,
and I too seem to swell inside, a kind of unknown bursting,
a feeling, perhaps, that there isn't any enemy
anywhere.
and i reach down into the box and there is
nothing ---not even a letter from the gas co. saying they will shut it off again
not even a short note from my x-wife bragging about her present happiness.
my hand searches the mailbox in a kind of
disbelief long after the mind has given up
there's not even a dead fly down there!
I am a fool, I think, I should have known it works like this.
I go back inside as all the flowers leap to please me.
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
I agree with this view, except there are two religions: Atheism, and the one Shaw describes.
Unknown
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
I think it can also be said that business without ethics or morals is evil.
P.J. O'Rourke
-Ludwig van Beethoven
the good news is that when business has zero morals (with a government that isnt corrupt like ours) it will collapse on itself. nobody wants to work for or buy from a bunch of dicks.