Tag Archives: Quotes

Jobs Should be Interesting, Not Death-Inspiring

14 Mar

One thing that always bothers me, is that people read this quote to say that you should go have an “exotic” or “expensive” job. I often have people say that sometimes you just have to do the boring or depressing job because you need money. My answer is this–if the job isn’t something cool, then make it more fun. Be a happy person, play jokes, ask interesting questions, change the environment to be more fun. Just because the work itself is dull, doesn’t mean the job has to be. **DB

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

– Dale Carnegie

Enjoy Your World

4 Mar

“For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”

**Lev Grossman

Yet I Still Buy Them

2 Mar

“All my life, I thought air was free. Then I bought a bag of chips.”

**Unknown

Open Mind is one Thing, and Empty Mind is Another

10 Feb

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

**Terry Pratchett

Warning: Bad Mental Image Now Stuck in Brain

5 Feb

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

Nethack

Words That Should Never Be True

3 Feb

“Children are dying.” Lull nodded. “That’s a succinct summary of humankind, I’d say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”

**Steven Erikson

A Common Mistake

25 Jan

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tragedy

22 Jan

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

~ WC Fields

My new motto

22 Sep

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” **Peter Drucker

 

Teaching Funnies

19 Sep

Teaching Funny -One of my students wrote in her paper “5 dollars is only a hair off a bull’s back to a company” – 😛 It sounds so much like something us Missourians would say! Amazing how sayings can sound the same around the world!