INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES August 2015

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Confucius)

Life is a long lesson in humility. (James M. Barrie)

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open. (Jonathan Lockwood Huie)

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. (Tom Stoppard)

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. (Howard Newton)

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. (William Arthur Ward)

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. (Ben Herbert)

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. (Herodotus)

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. (Gen. Lewis B. Hershey)

The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it. (Herman Herst)

Education is what you have left over after you have forgotten everything you have learned. (Unknown source)

A good conscience sometimes needs a poor memory. (Robert Benchley)

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, time stays; we go. (Austin Dobson)

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. (Steve Bluestone)

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and help you reach it faster. (L. M. Kaufmann)

I don't want to put my life in the hands of any doctor who believes in reincarnation. Give me a good old-fashioned American doc who'll make sure you live to pay the bill. (Glen Super)

If God wanted us to have a permissive society, He would have given us the Ten Suggestions instead of the Ten Commandments. (M. M. Hershman)

We can hardly realize now the blissful quietude of the pre-cell-phone epoch. (Norman Douglas)

When it's darkest you can see the stars. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. (Nelson Henderson)

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. (Harry S. Truman)

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it. (Jose Iturbi)

It's not the bulls and the bears you need to avoid - it's the bum steers. (Chuck Hillis)

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. (Lao Tzu)

Happiness walks on busy feet. (Kitte Turmell)

One day late in life Sir Malcolm Sargent was asked: "To what do you attribute your advanced age?"

"Well," he replied, " I suppose I must attribute it to the fact that I haven't yet died." (Ken Dooley)

Conceit is just as natural to human minds as a center is to a circle. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

While attending an embassy reception one evening, the syndicated columnist Ann Landers was approached by an overbearing senator. "So you're Ann Landers," he said. "Say something funny." "You're a politician," Landers replied. "Tell me a lie." (Ken Dooley)

No one has been barred on account of his race for fighting or dying for America - There are no "white" or "colored" sighs on the battlefield. (John F. Kennedy)

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Confucius)

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. (Mae West)

I don't care how much a man talks if he only says it in a few words. (Josh Billings)

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney)

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. (Unknown source)

Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. (Vaibhav Shah)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. (Pablo Picasso)

The starting point of all achievement is desire. (Napoleon Hill)

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. (Oscar Wilde)

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. (Michael John Bobak)

Real difficulties can be overcome; it's only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. (Theodore N. Vail)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain)

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote)

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Diane Ackerman)

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. (Washington Irving)

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (LollyDaskal)

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Listen to the voice of nature, for it holds treasures for you. (Native American proverb)

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Unknown source)

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. (John F. Kennedy)

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and by my friend. (Albert Camus)

A friend is a gift you give yourself. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. (Lionel Hampton)

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition. (Sir William Osler)

The two foes of happiness are pain and boredom. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln)

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. (Proverb)

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. (Unknown source)

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. (High White)

It is possible to fail in many ways ... while to succeed is possible in only one way. (Aristotle)

The problem of power is how far to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off of the public. (Robert F. Kennedy)

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. (Josh Billings)

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke)

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)

If there are no stupid questions, than what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? (Scott Adams)

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. (Humphrey Davy)

Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory. (Albert Schweitzer)

One of the most sublime experiences we can every have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. (Harold Kushner)

Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem. (Unknown source)

If you're going through hell keep going. (Winston Churchill)

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. (Mother Teresa)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)

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Herkimer’s EXPECTED PERSON Quiz

In statistics we work on “expected value” problems but don’t spend much time on “expected person” problems. Herkimer and his Stat Pack students decided to produce some “expected person” questions.

1. Who would you EXPECT would be most likely to want to protect an invention?

(A) Bill Jones (B) Mary Hunter (C) Pat N. Pending

2. Who would you EXPECT to be a dishonest contractor?

(A) Henry Walker (B) Bill M. Moore (C) Helen Zimmerman

3. Who would you EXPECT to avoid borrowing money?

(A) Nora Lenderbee (B) Horace Smith (C) Susan Hiller

4. Who would you EXPECT to appreciate Australian songs?

(A) Luke Wilson (B) Joan McGee (C) Jaoquin Matilda

5. Who would you EXPECT to sell athletic clothing?

(A) Jim Shortz (B) Roger Thomas (C) Anna Rogers

6. Who would you EXPECT to be a good yodeler?

(A) Wendy Lane (B) Donald Williams (C) O. Leo Lahey

7. Who would you EXPECT to be quick to seek out a lawyer?

(A) Horace Adams (B) Sue First (C) Matt Miller

8. Who would you EXPECT to be a busybody?

(A)Lora Smithers (B) Jenny Miles (C) Bud Inski

9. Who would you EXPECT to run a landscaping business?

(A) Larry Mast (B) Moe D’Lawn (C) Simon Griffin

10. Who would you EXPECT to be concerned about silverware settings?

(A) Queen Elizabeth (B) King Henry (C) Sir Irving Spoon

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