Tuesday, December 16, 2003
My inspiration for THIS site called flatworld is SMEG
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Saturday, December 13, 2003
Quotes
"We judge ourselves by what we feel we are capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done." (Longfellow)
"People have opinions on everything -- especially things they know nothing about." (William Bonner)
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." (Theodore Rubin)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." (Cato the Elder)
"People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown." (Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor)
"No man ever had a point of pride that wasn't injurious to him." (Emerson)
A reader of Mark Forster's book "How to Make Your Dreams Come True", writes: "One surprising outcome of using your techniques . . . was how I became aware of other people's negative thought cycles and how they trapped their life experience into a grey, miserable and claustrophobic frame. I could see the patterns, always focusing on what was wrong or bad or what they hadn’t done, and I realised that I used to be like that. I also recognised how other people's attitudes affected my thoughts as well. That knowledge was worth its weight in gold alone."
"Many people are given good advice but the ones who profit from it are those who are prepared to take action." Karl George.
"Today there is a failure of what I call authoritarian leadership . . . Rather than look for new leaders, I believe we need to find our own inner leadership. When more people begin to discover the deeper part of themselves, then the world will be a better place." (Sir John Whitmore)
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Mark Forster: "The expression 'time management' is in itself an example of the wrong mental attitude which prevents people from getting things done. It's as if a fish in the ocean were to say that it had a problem with 'water management'. Time is simply the medium in which we exist.
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." (David Brin)
"The problem is never that we don't have enough time. It is always that we have too much to do, and the answer is always to do less : to only do the things that matter." (Morendil)
"You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are." (Les Brown)
"Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real." (Sara Paddison)
"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." (Frederick Chopin)
"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all." (Anna Quindlen)
"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible." (George H. Lonmer)
"Mediocrity is the parent of regret." (R. Thompson)
"What is boredom but disengagement with reality? It is the feeling of wanting to be somewhere else at another time. There is no destination specified. Yet reality is only here and only now." Mark Forster
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." (Descartes)
"What I am doing is to ask myself the very simple question: "What am I resisting?". Then answer the question, do whatever it is, and ask the question again." Mark Forster
"A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." (J. Paul Getty)
"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas." (Albert Einstein)
"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." (Ashleigh Brilliant)
"I was interested in your comments about 'overlearning' and think this is a valuable concept and one which it is easy to overlook. I was taking part in a singing masterclass some years ago, and the distinguished singer taking the class said 'Amateurs practise until they get it right, professionals practise until they can't get it wrong' Those words have stuck with me and I find they apply in many ways - language learning as well as music. Of course, it is important to know when perfectionism is not helpful or not necessary, but my experience is that the only way to get 100% is to aim even higher." One of Mark Forster's readers.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw)
"Nothing is easier than being busy - and nothing more difficult than being effective." (R. Alec MacKenzie)
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." (Henry Kissenger)
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." (Plato)
"If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France)
"It's not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that". (G. H. Hardy)
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." (Albert Gyorgyi)
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." (Montaigne)
"Only the mediocre are always at their best." (Jean Giraudoux)
"One way to create momentum is by creating a series of small successes. So pick small goals, goals that are easy to create and then create them. Think of each success you create as a warm up exercise for bigger creations. Just like musicians practice and athletes practice, practice creating. All of the things you create will give you even more skill and more momentum." (Robert Fritz)
Friday, December 12, 2003
1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?
2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?
3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?
4. Do you do anything to help the needy?
5. What one gift would you like for yourself?
All this as it's Friday from the friday five people . If you can be bothered, leave your answers down yonder in the comments....
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
hello. welcome to my test post. i'll be back.
Monday, December 08, 2003
Am I the second person to blog? I'm really excited about joining this - it means I won't suffer as much from 'blog guilt' when I haven't blogged for a few days.
hello welcome
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I'd like to formally invite you to join this web-log or 'blog'. If you're not sure what a blog is it's a type of media that can be updated as and when needed and can say whatever you want it to say. Often its written by one person as one point of view, but there are some group ones out there which have more of the feel of a newspaper or journal, often written by groups that know each other as an alternative to e;mail, as its safer from bugs and spam. In this case, some people will know each other, some won't, but as far as I can see ahead at this point, all the people would like each other if they got locked in a room for a few hours ! This is an open blog - I want to invite anybody and everybody with something interesting to say. If you take up the invitation, you can post when ever you want as often or not as you want. Invite all your contacts to visit it. Also let me know if there's anyone else worthly of inviting - who can write interesting funny stuff - (or not!) You can put photos or pictures up (if you're not sure how, send them to me as a j.peg and i'll do it for you.) Its all free and any on going costs I'll pick up for now. If you'd like to know more or want to see other source information just email me. Hope you like the idea. It can become anything.
