Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. Spanish Proverb

Quotes November 23, 2008

Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we hadn’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying." – Meredith Grey

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. Barbara Bush

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Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas A. Edison

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There can’t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Henry Kissinger

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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Charles Dickens

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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. Reinhold Niebuhr

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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. Ursula K. Le Guin

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. English Proverb

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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. Bob Hope

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