| LIFE Thought for the Day
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TerryP
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@It Takes Eleven thought about you...
"A well tied tie is the first serious step in life." - Oscar Wilde.
"A well tied tie is the first serious step in life." - Oscar Wilde.
I would offer that a tie, tied any way by someone else, is the last serious step in life.
TerryP
Staff
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti
- Mario Andretti
“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
― Pablo Picasso
― Pablo Picasso
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
— Helen Keller
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
TerryP
Staff
Nice.
TerryP
Staff
There's a "Politico" article about this...got to find it when I get to sit down for a minute. If you are looking... the tag runs like "Elon, like Trump, doesn't give a shit about what people think about him an Trump finds that refreshing..."
I read it a few hours ago. ...
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
- Pascal
- Pascal
A double dose today...
"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."
- J.K. Rowling
If you've not read or watched Rowling's 2008 Harvard commencement speech, it's worth your time. The read is quicker, but the YouTube video is there as well.
news.harvard.edu
"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."
- J.K. Rowling
If you've not read or watched Rowling's 2008 Harvard commencement speech, it's worth your time. The read is quicker, but the YouTube video is there as well.
Text of J.K. Rowling's speech — Harvard Gazette
Call it magic, but the rain held off while Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling delivered the keynote address this afternoon (June 5) at Harvard University’s annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
news.harvard.edu
