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Monday, November 23, 2009

Wisdom Of Ages - Wisdom collected throughout

ALIENATION - 
• Get on with the show

ANGER
• Lose the conceived EGO & put other's first - there is no more burden when one loses the "I" , "me"
  also see here

ATTITUDE (good)
• There are many things that will happen to you in this world,both
good and bad, its your (positive) attitude that counts the most - George Burns

BELIEF
• Make believe you can fly and the trick will take you far - old wise saying

BUYING
• Buy the best  (is like measuring twice, cutting once) - Cameron Lifeson

BABIES
• babys are brilliant as they have a keen sense of time  - Levy

CHANGE
• "Dread not and be fearless" - Scottish clan MacNab's motto 

DIRECTION
Look ahead where you going, thats where you will go. Shawn MacIntosh

EXCELLENCE
You will never be excellent until you become less self involved. - Larry King

FORWITH
• Say what you mean, mean what you say - Sheldon Balaski

FRIENDS
• find the right friends somebody who will look after you or be for you when the chips are down - Levy
• don't unevenly yoke yourself people not of your quality (birds of a feather)
  
HAPPYNESS
• make your self FEEL good, happy - Levy

HARD WORK
Learned that you gotta give 110% of yourself- Randy , Southern Choppers

HEALTH
• Main Axiom: don't over do it

HELP
• God Helps those who help themselves - God doesn't "owe" you anything - Sheldon Balaski 

IDLENESS
• Idleness is the enemy of the soul  - so get busy, industrious, with goals, dreams, aspirations and drive !

IMPATIENCE
• Dont be like the  man who prayed to God "I want patience and I want it now",

INSPIRATION
• You have to be open-minded because ideas come from different
places. You can think about something in one way for a long time and it
seems like the only way to think about it, but it really isn't.

Somebody could make a suggestion that really sounds naïve. It might even be
naïve, but it could have an important element of the truth in it.

And it could be truth that one's overlooking. So it's really hard to state a
general rule. If one could say the general rule about where to find
inspiration, we would just teach it to our students and then science
would be much more straightforward.- Witten:

HOPE
• Have Hope - everyone ! - Jesus

KARMA
• You will feel the effects of your actions, behaviour (what goes around, comes around) - Buddhism

LIFE
• Life on this earth is short, but the life to follow is without end. - Father Bargil Pixner

LIVING
• Start living a real life and kick life in the ass - Indian Larry.

LUCK
• Being prepared = faith = stronger probability = uniqueness = success            - Byron

MEANING OF LIFE
• Do good, do God first - Brandon Totman

MONEY
• Take care of the pennies and the pennies will take care of the dollars - Jewish proverb

NOW
• "I have no more dreams of growing old, having a house by the lake"- working fast to accomplish goals. - Dr. Rabinowizt - Jaguar Researcher (on having Leukemia)

ORIGINALITY
• Don't spend too much time on replicating, go for the original - Byron

OWNER'S MANUAL OF LIFE
• The Beatitudes - Gospel of St. Matthew 5:3-10  --- Link

ORGANIZED
• Get rid of duplicates, avoid duplication - Jamie Connop

POSITIVENESS
•  Find a few things to be positive about every day- Arthur Balaski

PERFORMANCE ANXIETY (Stage Fright):
• Stop evaluating your performance, focus on your task, and act as if you are not afraid

PROBLEMS
Give all of your problems to God , don't be selfish, God wants your problems - Mary-Ellen Balaski


SEXUALITY
• Give not your vigor to women, nor your strength to those who ruin kings. - King Lemuel's mom


SELF-MASTERY
• We have to learn how to master our sins - Jeff Wyers

SMARTNESS
• Feynman said "I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb." - after meeting Uri Geller, but not being fooled by the magician.
 • Feynman was intelligent enough to realize that a good magician can make it seem as if the laws of nature
 have been violated and even a great physicist couldn't figure out the trick

SUCCESS
• LET GO - lose the ego , you will lose everytime, God will not help you having an ego - Levy
• LET GO - dont hang on and me vs world, its not in my hands  - Levy

SURVIVAL
• Victor Frankl:And throughout his ordeal, he could not help but see that, among those
given a chance for survival, it was those who held on to a vision of the future.
Whether it be a significant task before them, or a return to their loved ones -
that were most likely to survive their suffering.

STATUS
• Things could be better, but things could be worse so I am just fine , just fine - Queeny-pizza cook

TRUE
• Be True To Thyne Own Self (dont second guess, change your mind) - old adage

VICTORY
• Snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - Shackleton.

WOMEN
• Women of the world reserve the right to change the rules without notice or discussion

WON
•  Put your hands up in the air and say I won through Jesus !  - Mayor Koch

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