Inspiration and Fun

cheeku · #1 20th September 2008, 01:52 PM

Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make the mighty ocean
And the beauteous land

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden,
Like the heaven above

And the little moments,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages.
Of eternity.

cheeku · #2 20th September 2008, 02:09 PM

Japanese proverb:
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

Leonardo Da Vinci:
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

T. S. Elliot:
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
To fill the hour - that is happiness.

Robert Updegraff: Quotations About Time
To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Eva Young:
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Ernest Holmen:
Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.

cheeku · #3 20th September 2008, 02:14 PM

Mother Teresa:
Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.

Sir Winston Churchill:
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Nathan Hale:
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

Kahlil Gibran:
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Henry Ward Beecher:
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Helen Keller:
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is worth living.

cheeku · #4 20th September 2008, 02:16 PM

Pareto's Law as it applies to various situations. According to the Pareto Principle, it will generally the case that within any given scenario or system or organisation:

* 80 percent of results come from 20 percent of efforts
* 80 percent of activity will require 20 percent of resources
* 80 percent of usage is by 20 percent of users
* 80 percent of the difficulty in achieving something lies in 20 percent of the challenge
* 80 percent of revenue comes from 20 percent of customers
* 80 percent of problems come from 20 percent of causes
* 80 percent of profit comes from 20 percent of the product range
* 80 percent of complaints come from 20 percent of customers
* 80 percent of sales will come from 20 percent of sales people
* 80 percent of corporate pollution comes from 20 percent of corporations
* 80 percent of work absence is due to 20 percent of staff
* 80 percent of road traffic accidents are cause by 20 percent of drivers
* 80 percent of a restaurant's turnover comes from 20 percent of its menu
* 80 percent of your time spent on this website will be spent on 20 percent of this website

cheeku · #5 20th September 2008, 02:27 PM

How ambitious was Mrs Jones when it came to her offspring? Well, when a stranger inquired as to their ages, she replied, "The doctor's in 3rd grade and the lawyer will be starting kindergarten in the fall."

cheeku · #6 20th September 2008, 02:39 PM

Someone once asked his rabbi why, in our day, we pray for protection from 'wild beasts' when traveling by car? From which 'wild beasts' do we need protection?
"The other drivers," the rabbi answered.

columbus · #7 20th September 2008, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cheeku

Japanese proverb:
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

Leonardo Da Vinci:
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

T. S. Elliot:
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
To fill the hour - that is happiness.

Robert Updegraff: Quotations About Time
To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Eva Young:
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Ernest Holmen:
Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.

I know one thing, that I know nothing …....Socrates

cheeku · #8 20th September 2008, 02:49 PM

This doesn't mean all women are no nothing when it comes to cars....But there always are (a lot of) exceptions!!
Yesterday I was having some work done at the Ford dealer. A woman came in and asked for a seven-hundred- ten.
We all looked at each other, and the mechanic asked,"What is a seven-hundred- ten?"
She replied, "You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine.I lost it and need a new one. It had always been there."
The mechanic gave the woman a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like. She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710 !!
He then took her over to another car which had the hood up and asked, "Is there a 710 on this car?"
She pointed and said, "Of course, it's right there."

What was that...

Not 7 1 0

But...

O I L

cheeku · #9 20th September 2008, 02:54 PM

It Couldn't Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

cheeku · #10 20th September 2008, 02:57 PM

Be The Best of Whatever You Are

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway some happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass--
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail--
Be the best of whatever you are!