what I’m thinking.
Quotes
Money Management
Jul 5th
Take care of 'em
“Take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves” - (Mr. Lowndes, the famous Secretary of the Treasury – originally ‘the pounds’ not dollars)
Buying information vs. Borrowing information
Feb 20th
“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn
starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely,
positively have to find people who have already
paid the price to learn the things that we
need to learn to achieve our goals.”
— Brian Tracy
Technology or Magic?
Dec 17th
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C Clarke
Ouch.. not my ribeye
Sep 27th
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-Albert Einstein
I would just like to remind everyone that Einstein was not a nutrionist.
Views of God
Sep 22nd
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
-Albert Einstein
Democrats vs Republicans
Sep 11th
“O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice”
-Prayer of a little English Girl (From ‘What’s so Amazing about Grace?’ by Philip Yancey)
Liberal has become such a negative word. From dictionary.com:
1. favorable to progress or reform
Anybody who wouldn’t want ‘progress’ is foolish. Let’s face it, the United States was founded on ‘progress and reform’. The reality is that ‘liberal’ has taken on a new meaning. An almost ‘if it feels good, do it’ mind-frame. I’m reminded of the recurring theme in Judges “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” It’s the ‘liberals’ support of pro-choice and so called ‘gay-rights’ that have fundamentalist Christians so radically against so-called ‘liberals’.
Then we have those who claim to be a ‘social-liberal and fiscal-conservative’. This is sort of the easy way out of a discussion, but fundamentally impossible. You can’t support social programs without paying for them. If you’re a social-liberal you have to be willing to open you wallet.
If you’re pro-life, be pro-life. Being anti-abortion and pro-death penalty is not pro-life, it’s anti-abortion. Starting wars based on lies and fear is another issue altogether, I’m not even going to get into here.
Churches get to work, if you were fulfilling the call of Christ there would be no need for the social welfare programs in this country.
“The world is sleeping in the dark, that the church just can’t fight, ’cause it’s asleep in the light’ – (Asleep in the Light, by Keith Green)
“O God please, make the Democrats good, and the Republicans nice”
Evolution
Sep 10th
“When Nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.”
Attributed to both -Ralph Waldo Emerson and -Leonardo Da Vinci
Problem with Company Leaders
Aug 30th
“strong charasmatic leaders can all to easily become the de facto reailty driving a company… people worried more about the leader, what he would say, what he would think, what he would do than they worried about external reality and what it could do to the company “
- Jim Collins “Good to Great”