Play, Probability, Free Market

Play is work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
~ Evan Esar, humorist

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
~ James Thurber

If you destroy a free market, you create a black market.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Dictators, Determination, Toughness

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
~ Winston Churchill

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.
~ Anonymous

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
~ Robert H. Schuller

Rebellious patriots, Tradition, Invention

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
~ Winston S. Churchill

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
~ Roger von Oech, President, Creative Think

Living, Pigs, Be Kind

Everything that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself.
~ William Blake

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
~ Winston Churchill

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato

Doing your best, School effort, Key to failure

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
~ Winston Churchill

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
~ Karl G. Maeser

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby

Standards, Worrying, Freedom

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
~ Jeph Jacques

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
~ Winston Churchill

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
~ Kahlil Gibran

The Healer, catchphrase, and environmental attitude

GOD heals everything, not necessarily the way you would like & there may be scars.
~ Advice

This book fills a much-needed gap.
~ Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

If you are going through hell, keep going.
~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Truth, Persistence

Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
~Advice

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ John Calvin Coolidge

Wisdom and foolishness

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

~ Winston Churchill

"We are always ready~even eager~to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Be More

"Great thoughts come from the heart."

~ François de La Rochefoucauld

 

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."

~ Winston Churchill

 

 

Philosophies for getting better

Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion and the determination to keep going anyway.

-- Nick Gleason

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

-- Winston Churchill

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.

— Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

Not Just Your Best

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

~ Winston Churchill