Attitude Adjustments

 

You've got to sing
Like you don't need the money.
Love, like you'll never get hurt.
You've got to dance,
Like nobody's watching.
It's got to come from the heart
If you want it to work.
- Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh

I hear: I forget.
I see: I remember.
I do: I understand.

- Chinese proverb


You have to write your own lines. - Stephan Gaskin

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. - Mark Twain

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Maya Angelou

1. You must write.
2. You must finish what you write.
3. You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order.
4. You must put the work on the market.
5. You must keep the work on the market until it is sold.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Don't pretend to be what you don't intend to be.

Trust your instincts. That's what they're there for.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified? - Frank J. Giblin, II

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I am what I do. - Martin Buber

I yam what I yam. - Popeye

To Do Is To Be - Socrates
To Be Is To Do - Plato
Do Be Do Be Do Be Do - Frank Sinatra

You can't always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes,
You just might find,
You get what you need.

- Rolling Stones

Imagination is more important than education.
- Albert Einstein

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe

Don't let your schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

The best way to learn is to teach. - td

I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane.
- Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson?

I hate to advocate drugs, sex and rock'n'roll,
but they've always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson

He who laughs, lasts.

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

If you're happy, you're successful.

I don't want to be rich and famous. I want to be rich and anonymous. - Anonymous

I can reveal the way I feel
by the things I say and do.
If I change the things I say and do,
I can change my feelings too.

- Larry Mart

Don't complain. Don't explain. - Henry Ford II

Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none. - Eden Phillpotts

When you can't solve the problem, manage it. - Robert Schuller

Take it if you can take it,
and if you can't take it,
get out.
- Erica Jong

If you are willing to take the punishment, you are halfway through the battle. That the issue may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point. - Lillian Hellman

When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
- Gen. Creighton W. Abrams

If you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life.

The way we love, Is the way we live.
The way we sing, Is the way we give.
Don't give a damn who you think we am,
We're being who we are.
- Hoyt Axton

Do what you want to,
But be what you are ...
Because the strong give up and move on,
But the weak give up and stay.
- "Do What You Want," Hall and Oates

Keep your eyes on your fries. - The Hamburglar

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is not necessary to make a decision. - Lord Falkland's Rule

God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

I laugh when I can, And I live with the rest. I've learned that holding on means letting go. - Willie Nelson[?]

Gandhi's Seven Sins
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humility.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

That ain't workin' - that's the way you do it
- Dire Straits

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Last update: 12/12//98