Friday, September 3, 2010

Stress + Time = Trouble

Today I am particularly stressedImage by mastrobiggo via FlickrFor fast-acting relief, try slowing down. – Lily Tomlin




You’ll never have a nervous breakdown, but you sure are a carrier. – Fred Friendly



It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. – Carl G. Jung



Don’t spend ten dollars’ worth of energy on a ten-cent problem. There are millions of want-to’s and have-to’s in life. Ultimately, these pressures create stress only when your time and energy-spending decisions aren’t consistent with your goals, beliefs and values. – Dr. Donald A Tubesing



When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen can never be, this is really the state called desperation. – Arthur Schopenhauer



The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost. – William Carlos Williams



The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. – Publius Syrus




Thursday, September 2, 2010

All Powerful for Impotence

Douglas KenneyImage via WikipediaNothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. – Bertrand Russell




There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. – William James



They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotence. – Sir Winston Churchill



The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. – Frederic Amiel



Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you’re wallowing in indecision, you certainly can’t act – and action is the basis of success. – Marie Beynon Ray



One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain-climbing over molehills. – Earl Wilson



It is always our inabilities that vex. – Joseph Joubert




Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Be Who You Are & Say What  You Feel... Dr Sues...Image by Steve Rhodes via FlickrWhen I was a boy, they used to say that “only a mule and a milepost never changed its mind.” – Bernard Baruch




When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder. – W.J. Slim



The strong are saying nothing until they see. – Robert Frost



Stupidity consists in wanting to come to a conclusion. – Emile Zola



General propositions do not decide concrete cases. – Oliver Wendell Holmes



To change one’s mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance. – Spanish Proverb



The superior man does not set his mind either for anything or against anything. - Confucius




Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The No Man's Land Between Two Stools

1919 advertisement for Jubol (laxative)Image via WikipediaDo you have trouble making up your mind? Well – yes and no. – Herbert V. Prochnow




I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes, to make it up. – Mark Twain



Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind. – William Somerset Maugham



There are men who would even be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.



It’s no good saying, “Hold it” to a moment of real life. – Lord Snowdon



When we are not sure we are alive. – Graham Greene



Between two stools one falls to the ground. – proverb




Monday, August 30, 2010

Even a Bad Decision Trumps Chronic Indecision

American author Ernest Hemingway with Pauline,...Image via WikipediaThere are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it. – Monta Crand




Never confuse motion with action. – Ernest Hemingway



Most people do things because they have to. Those that get ahead do things because they don’t have to. – anonymous



Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James



In action, be primitive, in foresight, a strategist. – Rene Char



According to a study of unsuccessful executives, inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons of failure. – Herman w. Steinkraus



The only thing worse than a bad decision is indecision. – Professor Ray E. Brown