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Panther Ponderings...
Listed below are quotations and thoughts submitted by classmates who feel they are important. They are intended to be
thought provoking.
If you have favorites that you would like included - please send them to UTHS1966@mchsi.com so they can be enjoyed by
others.
31-Jul-06 "It is easier to get foregiveness than it is permission" (Stuart's Law of Retroaction)
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12-Nov-05 "Never will you realize how much you love someone, till you can't have them anymore."
***
"The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now." (Rick Warren)
***
"Happiness does not depend as much on getting what you want out of life as it does making the best of what you get."
***
“It is extremely difficult for a company to pay an employee what they are worth!”
***
“Brevity is the soul of wit” (Shakespeare)
***
“Only a poor craftsman blames his tools.”
***
“A company is known by the people it keeps.”
***
“A smile is the shortest distance between two people.”
***
“A company makes money because of some people, and in spite of some people.”
***
“This above all: To thine own self be true.” (Shakespeare - Hamlet)
***
“There is no such thing as good writing – only good re-rewriting.”
***
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak…courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
***
“Good judgment comes from experience…and experience comes from poor judgment.”
***
“There are two ways to meet difficulties: either you alter the difficulties…or you alter yourself to meet them!”
***
“You can buy a man’s time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of
his skilled muscular motions per hour.
But you cannot buy enthusiasm…you cannot buy initiative…you cannot buy loyalty…you cannot buy the devotion of hearts,
minds, and souls. You must earn these.”
***
“We usually persuade others more by the depth of our convictions, our enthusiasm, than by logic and proof.”
***
"Tact is changing the subject without changing your mind."
***
Andrew Carnegie was once asked what he considered most important in industry: labor, capital, or brains. With a laugh
he answered, which is the most important leg of a three-legged stool?
***
"You can tell when you are on the right track…it is usually uphill."
***
Over Fred Astaire’s fireplace in Beverly Hills is a yellowed MGM interoffice memo, a souvenir of the dancers first screen
test. Dated 1933 and sent by the testing director to his superior it reads, “Fred Astaire, Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance
a little…
***
Arnold Palmer was told by a teacher in eighth grade that “he would never amount to anything if he did not get his mind off
golf.”
***
"The biggest step you can take is the one you take when you meet the other person half-way."
***
"Goodwill is achieved by many actions; it can be lost by one."
***
"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the
rest of us."
***
"There is nothing wrong", says Sam Levenson, "with using four-letter words in explaining the facts of life to children – words
like love, kiss, help, care, give, pray..."
***
"Our judgment can be no better than our information."
***
"Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others."
***
"The narrower the mind, the broader the statement."
***
"The great truths are too important to be new."
***
"The last thing one knows is what to put first." (Pascal)
***
"The time to stop talking is before people stop listening."
***
"Warmth outsells dignity every time."
***
"Man is not the only animal who labors...but he is the only one who improves his workmanship."
***
"Every problem contains within it the seeds of its own solution."
***
"If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground."
***
"The best way to forget your own problems is help others solve theirs."
***
"We believe that our words – which we assume to express our principles – represent us more truly even than our actions,
but to outsiders it is the actions that are more eloquent than the words."
***
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting." (Anne Morrow
Lindbergh)
***
"There are few things more difficult than the art of making advice agreeable."
***
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."
***
"Most people my age are dead!" (Casey Stengel said that at 80!)
***
"A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something which would make you mad if it happened to you."
***
"Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard, for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had a better
hold your tongue than them."
***
"A good anecdote is worth a volume of biography."
***
"It’s a good idea to keep your words soft and sweet to the taste. You may have to eat them."
***
"If you are to understand others and have them understand you, know the big words, but use the small ones."
***
"Life is largely a matter of percentages. If you keep on swinging, sooner of later you are bound to get some hits. The
courage to keep plugging is often more important than native ability."
***
"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience."
***
"Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don’t feel like it."
***
"Before you can score, you must first have a goal."
***
"A very wise judge once settled a land dispute between two brothers who had inherited a farm by decreeing: Let one
brother divide the land equally, and let the other have first choice."
***
"People who get ahead are those who always make sure they are underpaid!"
***
"Thank God – every morning when you get up – that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or
not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know."
***
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is
ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
***
"There is always an easy solution to every problem: neat, plausible, and wrong!"
***
"A man always has two reasons for doing anything – a reason – and the real reason!" (J. P. Morgan)
***
A reporter once said to George Bernard Shaw: “How you have a marvelous gift of oratory. How did you develop it?”
Replied Shaw: “I learned to speak as men learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it.”
***
"Pray as if everything depended on God. Work as if everything depended on man."
***
Bill Moyers, who was an ordained Baptist minister during the time he was President Johnson’s press secretary, was saying
grace at a White House dinner one evening. Johnson was seated at the other end of the table and was having trouble
hearing. “Speak up” he said. “I can’t hear you.” ...I wasn’t talking to you” replied Moyers.
***
"Someone out there might need what I’m going to say." (Fosdick)
***
"What we learn from the past is that we seldom learn from the past."
***
"Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started."
***
"The direction we are facing has a lot to do with our destination."
***
"There are some problems that have no solutions. There are some situations that must simply be lived through. Survival
calls for the ability to sustain the tension without fight or flight."
***
"I do not like the phrase “never cross a bridge until you come to it. The world is owned by people who cross bridges in their
imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession."
***
"Four high school boys, afflicted with spring fever, skipped morning classes. After lunch, they reported to the teacher that
their car had had a flat tire. Much to their relief, she smiled and said: “Well you missed a test this morning, so take your
seats apart from one another and get out your notebooks.”
Still smiling, she went to the board and wrote the first test question on the board. “Which tire was flat?”
***
“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing!” (Werner von Braun)
***
"Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you but not in the driver ahead of you."
***
"Loneliness is negative, solitude is positive."
***
"A diplomatic leader is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip."
***
"When you think of a nice thing to do for someone, don’t just think it...do it."
***
"In certain situations, there is nothing more unjust than equal treatment of un-equals."
***
"People rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it."
***
"Success in marriage is not so much a matter of finding the right person as it is being the right kind of person."
***
"What we do with our leisure time is almost as essential to our success as what we do during our working hours."
***
"It is what we are that get across, not what we are trying to teach."
***
"When we are right, we can afford to keep our tempers. When we are wrong, we can’t afford not to."
***
"When a person buys a low-grade article, he feels pleased when he pays for it and displeased every time he uses it. But
when he pays for a well-made article, he feels extravagant when he pays for it and well pleased every time he uses it."
***
"In our haste to deal with the things that are wrong let us not upset the things that were right."
***
"Action may not always bring happiness...but there is no happiness without action."
***
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create
what you will."
***
"There are no simple solutions…only intelligent choices."
thought provoking.
If you have favorites that you would like included - please send them to UTHS1966@mchsi.com so they can be enjoyed by
others.
31-Jul-06 "It is easier to get foregiveness than it is permission" (Stuart's Law of Retroaction)
***
12-Nov-05 "Never will you realize how much you love someone, till you can't have them anymore."
***
"The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now." (Rick Warren)
***
"Happiness does not depend as much on getting what you want out of life as it does making the best of what you get."
***
“It is extremely difficult for a company to pay an employee what they are worth!”
***
“Brevity is the soul of wit” (Shakespeare)
***
“Only a poor craftsman blames his tools.”
***
“A company is known by the people it keeps.”
***
“A smile is the shortest distance between two people.”
***
“A company makes money because of some people, and in spite of some people.”
***
“This above all: To thine own self be true.” (Shakespeare - Hamlet)
***
“There is no such thing as good writing – only good re-rewriting.”
***
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak…courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
***
“Good judgment comes from experience…and experience comes from poor judgment.”
***
“There are two ways to meet difficulties: either you alter the difficulties…or you alter yourself to meet them!”
***
“You can buy a man’s time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of
his skilled muscular motions per hour.
But you cannot buy enthusiasm…you cannot buy initiative…you cannot buy loyalty…you cannot buy the devotion of hearts,
minds, and souls. You must earn these.”
***
“We usually persuade others more by the depth of our convictions, our enthusiasm, than by logic and proof.”
***
"Tact is changing the subject without changing your mind."
***
Andrew Carnegie was once asked what he considered most important in industry: labor, capital, or brains. With a laugh
he answered, which is the most important leg of a three-legged stool?
***
"You can tell when you are on the right track…it is usually uphill."
***
Over Fred Astaire’s fireplace in Beverly Hills is a yellowed MGM interoffice memo, a souvenir of the dancers first screen
test. Dated 1933 and sent by the testing director to his superior it reads, “Fred Astaire, Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance
a little…
***
Arnold Palmer was told by a teacher in eighth grade that “he would never amount to anything if he did not get his mind off
golf.”
***
"The biggest step you can take is the one you take when you meet the other person half-way."
***
"Goodwill is achieved by many actions; it can be lost by one."
***
"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the
rest of us."
***
"There is nothing wrong", says Sam Levenson, "with using four-letter words in explaining the facts of life to children – words
like love, kiss, help, care, give, pray..."
***
"Our judgment can be no better than our information."
***
"Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others."
***
"The narrower the mind, the broader the statement."
***
"The great truths are too important to be new."
***
"The last thing one knows is what to put first." (Pascal)
***
"The time to stop talking is before people stop listening."
***
"Warmth outsells dignity every time."
***
"Man is not the only animal who labors...but he is the only one who improves his workmanship."
***
"Every problem contains within it the seeds of its own solution."
***
"If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground."
***
"The best way to forget your own problems is help others solve theirs."
***
"We believe that our words – which we assume to express our principles – represent us more truly even than our actions,
but to outsiders it is the actions that are more eloquent than the words."
***
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting." (Anne Morrow
Lindbergh)
***
"There are few things more difficult than the art of making advice agreeable."
***
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."
***
"Most people my age are dead!" (Casey Stengel said that at 80!)
***
"A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something which would make you mad if it happened to you."
***
"Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard, for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had a better
hold your tongue than them."
***
"A good anecdote is worth a volume of biography."
***
"It’s a good idea to keep your words soft and sweet to the taste. You may have to eat them."
***
"If you are to understand others and have them understand you, know the big words, but use the small ones."
***
"Life is largely a matter of percentages. If you keep on swinging, sooner of later you are bound to get some hits. The
courage to keep plugging is often more important than native ability."
***
"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience."
***
"Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don’t feel like it."
***
"Before you can score, you must first have a goal."
***
"A very wise judge once settled a land dispute between two brothers who had inherited a farm by decreeing: Let one
brother divide the land equally, and let the other have first choice."
***
"People who get ahead are those who always make sure they are underpaid!"
***
"Thank God – every morning when you get up – that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or
not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know."
***
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is
ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
***
"There is always an easy solution to every problem: neat, plausible, and wrong!"
***
"A man always has two reasons for doing anything – a reason – and the real reason!" (J. P. Morgan)
***
A reporter once said to George Bernard Shaw: “How you have a marvelous gift of oratory. How did you develop it?”
Replied Shaw: “I learned to speak as men learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it.”
***
"Pray as if everything depended on God. Work as if everything depended on man."
***
Bill Moyers, who was an ordained Baptist minister during the time he was President Johnson’s press secretary, was saying
grace at a White House dinner one evening. Johnson was seated at the other end of the table and was having trouble
hearing. “Speak up” he said. “I can’t hear you.” ...I wasn’t talking to you” replied Moyers.
***
"Someone out there might need what I’m going to say." (Fosdick)
***
"What we learn from the past is that we seldom learn from the past."
***
"Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started."
***
"The direction we are facing has a lot to do with our destination."
***
"There are some problems that have no solutions. There are some situations that must simply be lived through. Survival
calls for the ability to sustain the tension without fight or flight."
***
"I do not like the phrase “never cross a bridge until you come to it. The world is owned by people who cross bridges in their
imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession."
***
"Four high school boys, afflicted with spring fever, skipped morning classes. After lunch, they reported to the teacher that
their car had had a flat tire. Much to their relief, she smiled and said: “Well you missed a test this morning, so take your
seats apart from one another and get out your notebooks.”
Still smiling, she went to the board and wrote the first test question on the board. “Which tire was flat?”
***
“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing!” (Werner von Braun)
***
"Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you but not in the driver ahead of you."
***
"Loneliness is negative, solitude is positive."
***
"A diplomatic leader is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip."
***
"When you think of a nice thing to do for someone, don’t just think it...do it."
***
"In certain situations, there is nothing more unjust than equal treatment of un-equals."
***
"People rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it."
***
"Success in marriage is not so much a matter of finding the right person as it is being the right kind of person."
***
"What we do with our leisure time is almost as essential to our success as what we do during our working hours."
***
"It is what we are that get across, not what we are trying to teach."
***
"When we are right, we can afford to keep our tempers. When we are wrong, we can’t afford not to."
***
"When a person buys a low-grade article, he feels pleased when he pays for it and displeased every time he uses it. But
when he pays for a well-made article, he feels extravagant when he pays for it and well pleased every time he uses it."
***
"In our haste to deal with the things that are wrong let us not upset the things that were right."
***
"Action may not always bring happiness...but there is no happiness without action."
***
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create
what you will."
***
"There are no simple solutions…only intelligent choices."
