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SOME COMMENTARY
General Quotes:
" Do not chase money, chase excellence and money will
naturally follow."
All too often we misdirect our
energies. If we simply search for wealth, many shady options
will be considered. Rather if we perfect our skills, in a
chosen field or discipline, money will be thrown in our
direction. Be the best and reap the rewards; seeking rewards
for nothing is a recipe for ultimate demise.
"Perfection brings with it the startling realization that
one's expectations were too low."
We should seek mastery of subjects
and endeavors we attempt...striving for excellence. Striving
for perfection retards learning and normal
risk-taking...while the achievement of perfection is a sure
sign that what we were attempting was too simple.
"If you'd like to get something done...delegate
If you need to get something done...do it yourself !"
Most people in the business field
will attest to this. Few others will share your vision and
dedication and have the conscientiousness to see things
through as you will. Therefore, delegate to the extent
possible, but get your hands dirty on critical and
non-intensive tasks.
"In skirting the Law:
you're not the first,
you won't be the last,
and you will get caught !"
Venturing into this realm
entertains many 'fringe' schemes that are quite unstable.
The accounting shakedown at many big companies now concern
exploiting loopholes as much as flagrant legal breaches.
Also, people tend to overestimate their intelligence and the
novelty of their ideas and are often surprised when others
catch on and investigate. Bottom line: Shadiness always gets
revealed.
"Don't think 'can I do it,'
but 'how can I do it.' "
I call it a winner's attitude.
Almost everything can be accomplished with enough creativity
and effort. Saying, "I can't " is a confession as to a lack
of 'intelligence/will power/etc' "
"It is not enough to tell the truth, you must
convey the truth."
Often the same response can be the
truth to one person and a lie to the other. When conversing,
you should place the onus on yourself to make sure that the
truth, without 'static', is conveyed as accurately as
possible.
"As bad as hash is, rehashing is worse."
I hate when people use the same
lines and phrases over and over again with the cocksure air
of uttering something magnificently original when reality
sees them merely recycling the same platitudes that, far
from soaring in the atmosphere of creativity, have never
escaped the grim quagmire of banality.
"As an introvert I don't like big groups—anything larger
than one."
A satiric and incisive look at the
word from the pen of an introvert. From multiple
psychological tests--each indicating overwhelming
introversion--I have begun to deal with my shy disposition.
Introverts cannot be 'cured' as much as they have many
indelible feelings and tendencies. Although I am now
beginning to break out of my cocoon of introversion, I still
am bound by the traits of my DNA. In particular, that
extroverts, when they go out with friends for a big night on
the town will come home full of energy--enough to go for a
few more hours, whereas an introvert like myself will come
home drained. Intense group interaction drains my battery,
and recharges the extrovert's. Therefore, the quote is not
as much stating that I don't enjoy chillin' with friends,
but reminding the world that when I come home afterwards,
I'm going straight to bed.
"If you want me to remember your birthday, send me an
e-mail the night before."
It is said that there were people
in Bahá'u'lláh's company that were so inebriated with Divine
Wine, that they entirely forgot their own birthdays and who
owned what clothes. So spiritual, that meaningless
milestones and tchotchke (trinkets) hardly got their
attention. Minus the spirituality, this is where I am.
Remembering birthdays has no intrinsic meaning save making
the recipient feel special 0.27% of the year. Some people,
who are really losers, cheat and try and celebrate their
half birthdays. I like to think that I make everyone feel
special all of the time, and therefore have little
compunction to remember such trivial minutiae as one's day
of birth. Thus, [insert aforementioned quote here].
"The only box I think inside of is the bathroom."
I enjoy thinking outside of the
box, always finding a creative way to do things. I hate
conventions and customs and other cultural dross that weighs
on my freedom of thought or action.
"You can delegate responsibility, just not absolute
responsibility."
A managerial quote which affirms
the thought that you can ask someone to do something, but at
the end of the day you will always find yourself, not them,
ultimately accountable for the task's completion. This is a
reminder to those managers who are unaccustomed to taking
the blame for the failings of their staff.
"I'm allergic to eggshells."
Many times truth is sadly
sacrificed on the altar of tact. I am wildly in love with
the truth and seldom will let tact dilute my true thoughts.
I hate dancing around issues and otherwise playing games and
prefer to tackle issues head on and deal with problem
directly. So, the concept of walking on eggshells whilst
around people with particular sensitivities, lead me to
break out in hives. Where's my EpiPen ® ?
"If I had two friends that were exactly the same,
that would be redundant. So I don't."
I have few friends and the ones I
do have are quite disparate. This quote came to me when I
was recalling an instance when a friend of mine who felt she
was being overlooked thought that by developing the bad-boy
qualities of my best friend that such a change would somehow
endear her to me. How fatally flawed! Each friend of mine
has unique characteristics and traits that they can enrich
me with and that I value. I require friends from all strata,
religious and non-religious, sexually active and abstinent,
alcohol drinkers and alcohol abstainers, rich and poor,
intelligent and dull, stimulating and boring, listeners and
talkers, introverts and extroverts, carnivores and sadly
even vegetarians! The best advice for being my friend,
should this be something you desire, would be to be
yourself. The quote that I'm fond of says, 'It's better to
be a first rate version of yourself than a second rate
version of someone else.'
"I like being right but love being wrong"
This expresses the only way to seek truth—to enjoy being right and endeavoring after truth, yet being even more
willing to be wrong and changing one's opinion accordingly—being detached from preconceived notions. The non-Martin quote that expresses
this well is, "He who never changes his mind loves himself more than he loves the truth."
Love Quotes:
"I have a fetish for personality"
A fetish is psychologically defined
as a physical object required for sexual climax. Hence,
there is irony in 'personality' serving in this role. For me
though, quoting from my uncle, great looks disappear after 3
weeks of marriage whilst conversations and temperaments
endure much longer. As Judge Judy's book states, "Beauty
fades, dumb is forever.
"In a relationship differences add excitement,
similarities add glue."
Remember the adage 'opposites
attract.' That has been decisively debunked by social
psychologists studying human behavior. Even when there are
instances of complementarities--well-meshing opposite
qualities--it is often uncovered that the deep-set
similarities hold the relationship together. Although I
naturally disapprove, look at a high-school cafeteria if you
don't believe me. Similarities are good, differences are a
potential liability.
"The only woman out of my reach is one 4 feet away."
I love the expression, "that
woman/man is out of my league." I, however, disagree.
"Love. Love is recognizing and appreciating good
qualities in another, while minimizing and dismissing their
less desirable ones."
Please do not overlook this quote.
These 17 words describe the essence of love better than
anything that has ever been written.
"It's not so much finding the right woman as it is
finding the right attitude"
Our search for a perfect mate is
usually directed 90% outward and 10 % inward. When we
realize that 90% of the perfect mate we so desperately seek
is inside of us, bliss is manifested.
"You're perfect;
not in the sense that you can't improve,
but in the sense that you don't need to."
The whole idea of marrying the
'perfect' wife turns my stomach. It is a chimera, an
illusion. My dad said, at his wedding, which I agree with,
"Carla's not perfect, she's just perfect for me." And that's
all you ever want. When you see this type of perfection in
others, you'll be one step closer to ultimate happiness and
felicity.
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