Quote of the Day - Laugh

Laughter is gold

- Keri S. Smith

Quote of the Day: Replacement

You never STOP doing something. You START doing something else

Quote of the Day x 2: Rashid Khalidi and Obama

The McCain campaign seems desperate. Another day, another attack on the alleged terrorist tendencies of Obama. Now, apparently Obama has ties to a 'radical' professor who according to Palin, was a "former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization." The McCain campaign forgot to mention that McCain gave $500k to Khalidi in the '90s.

First Quote of the day goes to Khalidi in his response to the media on the latest controversy: " I am not speaking to the media at this time, and certainly not until this idiot wind passes."

Second Quote of the day goes to Obama, who when speaking at an event in North Carolina referred to McCain's latest tactic: "I don't know what's next. By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich."

Quote of the Day: Wickedness

"Wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong way. You can be good for the mere sake of goodness: you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him. In other words badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so it speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled."

~C.S.Lewis, excerpt from What Christians Believe

Quote of the Day: The Best

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

~W. Somerset Maugham

Quote of the Day: Willpower

"Willpower by itself is not enough. If we want to achieve lasting change, we must have an effective strategy."

~Anthony Robbins

Quote of the Night: The Key To Mandela

"Ultimately, the key to understanding Mandela is those 27 years in prison. The man who walked onto Robben Island in 1964 was emotional, headstrong, easily stung. The man who emerged was balanced and disciplined. "

~Richard Stengel

Source: Mandela - His 8 Lessons of Leadership, Robert Stengel, Time Magazine

Quote of the Day: Mandela on Fear

"I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world." But as a leader, you cannot let people know. "You must put up a front."

~Nelson Mandela


Source: Mandela - His 8 Lessons of Leadership, Richard Stengel, Time Magazine

Quote of the Hour: Nelson Mandela's Light

"In the 1990s I worked with Mandela for almost two years on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. After all that time spent in his company, I felt a terrible sense of withdrawal when the book was done; it was like the sun going out of one's life."

~Richard Stengel on Nelson Mandela

Source: Mandela - His 8 Lessons of Leadership, Time Magazine

Quote of the Day: Help Others

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

~Zig Ziglar

Quote of the Day: Action, Baby!

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face that turns us from failure toward success.

~Dorothea Brande

The Real Deal

24 She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.
25 She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
26 She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
29 "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all."
30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
31 Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
Proverbs 31: 24-31

Thought for the Day - Time

Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.

LOL of the Day - Friends with Benefits

"We're just friends"

"You know what that means, right? Friends with benefits. That is, medical, dental and a $25 co-pay"


Source: Comedian on E! making fun of the typical celebrity answer, 'No, we're just friends', when they are asked about their romantic relationships

Must Read - Proverbs (Old Testament)

I am loving the book of Proverbs. It is so chockful of wisdom. Right now, I am reading chapters in the mid-20s and here are some samples of verses that I really like:

Proverbs 24: 10
If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength!

Proverbs 24: 16-18
For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity. Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice, or the LORD will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from him.

Proverbs 24: 29
Do not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me; I'll pay that man back for what he did."

Proverbs 24: 33-34
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest- and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.

Proverbs 25: 6-7
Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence, and do not claim a place among great men; it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than for him to humiliate you before a nobleman.

Proverbs 25: 9-10
If you argue your case with a neighbor, do not betray another man's confidence, or he who hears it may shame you and you will never lose your bad reputation.

Proverbs 25: 15
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

Proverbs 25: 19
Like a bad tooth or a lame foot is reliance on the unfaithful in times of trouble.

Proverbs 25: 21-22
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.

Proverbs 26: 11
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Proverbs 26: 12
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 26: 14
As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

Proverbs 26: 17
Like one who seizes a dog by the ears is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

Proverbs 27: 2
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

Hillary Clinton on President George Bush's Departure from the Oval Office

"The world will breathe a sigh of relief once he leaves, we all know that."

Rich Hill Quoteables

"M.A.G.I.C Today - Make a Greater Individual Commitment Today"

"We rise to great heights by a winding staircase."

"Rankings are so the experts can validate what you've done in the past. They help you attract recruits, but they don't help you play better, and that's what we're after."

"They have one responsibility: Be great today. We demand maximum effort on the field, in the classroom and in regards to character."

Rich Hill is the unorthodox college baseball at the University of San Diego. Rich, 45, has dramatically improved the Toreros - moving them from never winning a conference championship to a national power player, recently ranked as the #9 team in the USA TODAY/ESPN Baseball Coaches Poll.

For more on Rich Hill see:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/baseball/2008-02-20-sandiego_N.htm
http://www.sportsmediainc.net/usdtoreros/index.cfm?func=showarticle&newsid=1429

This Week's Airline Quoteables

The fun in the air continues....

• Stewardess opens the overhead compartment and a pillow flies out and hits a passenger in the face. The stewardess says "Pillow fight!"
  


• Stewardess standing in the aisle, going through the safety procedures. She has on the inflated vest and patiently waits...and waits, there is no announcer guiding her through the required actions. Announcer comes back on laughing and says, "Ohhh, we didn't do that part!"
  


• Passengers are reminded to turn off our cellphones and if we don't, then according to the stewardess, we will risk "losing lavatory privileges" for the remainder of the long flight

Sleeping for More Time Buys Me Nothing.

Now Is The Time!