Thinking Things
Observations
Things to think about.......
- Common sense is not that common.
- Men and women will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
- Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.
- People will accept your idea more readily, if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
- Never go to bed with anyone crazier than you.
- A person is as big as the things that make him angry.
- In every organization there will be one person who knows what is going on....This person must be fired.
- Observation: I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
- Observation: The user does not know what he wants until he sees what he gets.
- Observation: Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
- Observation: Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
- Observation: When you are over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
- Observation: A carelessly planned project will take three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.
- Budgets help you worry before you spend money, as well as, afterward.
- Everything depends.
- For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
- All things being equal, a fat person uses more soap than a thin person.
- Remember, pain is nature's way of reminding you who's in charge.
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- If you love what you do you'll never work another day in your life.
- The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
- Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- When all else fails, read the instructions.
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays, it insists on it.
- If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be discarded.
- Observation: It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry.
- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- A little knowledge can go a long way
- A lot of professionals are crackpots
- A man can't know what it is to be a mother
- A name means a lot just by itself
- A positive attitude means all the difference in the world
- A relaxed man is not necessarily a better man
- A sense of timing is the mark of genius
- A sincere effort is all you can ask
- A single event can have infinitely many interpretations
- A solid home base builds a sense of self
- A strong sense of duty can imprison you
- Absolute submission can be a form of freedom
- Abuse of power comes as no surprise
- Action causes more trouble than thought
- Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries
- All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organization to live beyond its income.
- All things are delicately interconnected
- Ambition is just as dangerous as complacency
- Ambivalence can ruin your life
- An elite is inevitable
- Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force
- Artificial desires are despoiling the earth
- Disorganization is a kind of anesthesia
- Drama often obscures the real issues
- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research
- When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place.
- When something terrible happens people wake up
- Wishing things away is not effective
- With perseverance you can discover any truth
- Worrying can help you prepare
- You can't expect people to be something they're not
- You can't fool others if you're fooling yourself
- You don't know what's what until you support yourself
- You owe the world not the other way around
- Dying and coming back gives you considerable perspective
- Eagles may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines
- Emotional responses ar as valuable as intellectual responses
- Even your family can betray you
- Every achievement requires a sacrifice
- Everyone's work is equally important
- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
- Fake or real indifference is a powerful personal weapon
- Fear is the greatest incapacitator
- Go all out in romance and let the chips fall where they may
- Going with the flow is soothing but risky
- He who hesitates is last.
- Hell hath no fury like the lawyer of a woman scorned.
- Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age
- Ignoring enemies is the best way to fight
- Inside every large problem there is a small problem struggling to get out.
- It can be helpful to keep going no matter what
- It's always the wrong time of the month.
- It's better to be a good person than a famous person
- It's better to be naive than jaded
- It's good to give extra money to charity
- Just believing something can make it happen
- Justice always prevails....three times out of seven.
- Keep something in reserve for emergencies
- Knowing yourself lets you understand others
- Listen when your body talks
- Manual labor can be refreshing and wholesome
- Most jobs are marginally better than daytime TV.
- Mostly you should mind your own business
- Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
- People are not in touch with reality, if they think they are important
- Politics is used for personal gain
- At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning
- Being happy is more important than anything else
- Boredom makes you do crazy things
- Calm is more conductive to creativity than is anxiety
- Categorizing fear is calming
- Change is valuable when the oppressed become tyrants
- Children are the hope of the future
- Class structure is as artificial as plastic
- Decency is a relative thing
- Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity
- Potential counts for nothing until it's realized
- Pursuing pleasure for the sake of pleasure will ruin you
- Push yourself to the limit as often as possible
- Salvation can't be bought and sold
- Selflessness is the highest achievement
- Sex differences are here to stay
- Talking is used to hide one's inability to act
- The cruelest disappointment is when you let yourself down
- The grass is brown on both sides of the fence.
- The longer the title the less important the job.
- The most profound things are inexpressible
- The new is nothing but a restatement of the old
- The sum of your actions determines what you are
- The trouble with most jobs is the resemblance to being in a dog sled team. No one gets a change of scenery, except the lead dog.