Today's words of wisdom - Page 88

Jimbuna · 08-11-23, 06:55 AM

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

Yoko Ono

mapuc · 08-11-23, 02:36 PM

“I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.”
- Dita Von Teese

Markus

Jimbuna · 08-12-23, 03:46 AM

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper

mapuc · 08-13-23, 05:21 AM

The best revenge is massive success.
- Frank Sinatra

Markus

Jimbuna · 08-13-23, 05:25 AM

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

mapuc · 08-13-23, 03:14 PM

Disappointment is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street
– Barbara Johnson

Markus

Jimbuna · 08-14-23, 04:16 AM

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar N. Bradley

mapuc · 08-14-23, 12:29 PM

If there were an award for laziness, I’d probably send someone else to accept it for me.
- Unknown

Markus

Jimbuna · 08-15-23, 08:02 AM

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Octavio Paz

mapuc · 08-15-23, 11:26 AM

Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.
– Brené Brown

Markus

Jimbuna · 08-16-23, 07:28 AM

What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money.

Stanley Druckenmiller

mapuc · 08-16-23, 12:25 PM

Life is too short for long-term grudges.
– Elon Musk

Markus

Jimbuna · 08-17-23, 06:24 AM

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Aristotle

mapuc · 08-17-23, 01:01 PM

Faithfulness is not holding the right hand, it’s holding the wrong hand and saying, ‘I am here.
– Unknown

Markus

Jimbuna · 08-18-23, 07:50 AM

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

08-11-23, 06:55 AM	#1306
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. Yoko Ono __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-11-23, 02:36 PM	#1307
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,543 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	“I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.” - Dita Von Teese Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

08-12-23, 03:46 AM	#1308
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. William Cowper __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-13-23, 05:21 AM	#1309
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,543 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	The best revenge is massive success. - Frank Sinatra Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

08-13-23, 05:25 AM	#1310
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-13-23, 03:14 PM	#1311
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,543 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Disappointment is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street – Barbara Johnson Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

08-14-23, 04:16 AM	#1312
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. Omar N. Bradley __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-14-23, 12:29 PM	#1313
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,543 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	If there were an award for laziness, I’d probably send someone else to accept it for me. - Unknown Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

08-15-23, 08:02 AM	#1314
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. Octavio Paz __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-15-23, 11:26 AM	#1315
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,543 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them. – Brené Brown Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

08-16-23, 07:28 AM	#1316
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money. Stanley Druckenmiller __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-16-23, 12:25 PM	#1317
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,543 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Life is too short for long-term grudges. – Elon Musk Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

08-17-23, 06:24 AM	#1318
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Aristotle __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-17-23, 01:01 PM	#1319
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,543 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Faithfulness is not holding the right hand, it’s holding the wrong hand and saying, ‘I am here. – Unknown Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

08-18-23, 07:50 AM	#1320
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!