Educator Wisdom

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. – Stephen Covey

American Author Wisdom

"The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses." - Erica Jong

American Poet Wisdom

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work – Robert Frost

Novelist Wisdom

The purpose of life is to fight maturity. – Dick Werthimer

Orwellian Wisdom

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. – George Orwell

Comedic Wisdom

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling. – Paul Poundstone

Earl of Orford Wisdom

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole

Deacon Wisdom

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness. And the serious look may be the sover veil that covers a divine peace and joy. – Edward Chapin

Mathemetician Wisdom

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind geometry. – Martin Gardner

Hierarchiologist Wisdom

Everyone rises to their own level of incompetence. Laurence J Peter

Marketer Wisdom

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. – E. Joseph Cossman

Science Fiction Wisdom

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

Canadian Novelist Wisdom

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

Comedic Wisdom

You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. – George Burns

Theoretical Physicist Wisdom

If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. – John A. Wheeler

Essayist Wisdom

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being unjust – E. B. White

Writer Wisdom

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night – Edgar Allan Poe

Management Consultant Wisdom

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker

Writer Wisdom

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. – Bonnie Friedman

December 1, 2007