This quote is from a professional associate and is some of best advice I've ever received. In any situation... You can make things better... Or you can make things worse... Your choice.
"Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat." -Jesse Ventura I miss Jesse from his pro wrestling days.
We used to use that one a lot, or its brother "If you didn't win, and you didn't cheat, you didn't try hard enough." Not sure on the source for that one though.
"If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable." Kurt Vonnegut, from God Bless You, Mister Rosewater
"...singing songs of hardship on a thousand-pound guitar." A line from a song (Backstreet Boozer) by my new favourite English songwriter, Sally Ironmonger. She's damn good. So is her husband, Brian Carter, who plays with her.
No, my insurance company is the most boring and staid of insurance companies. I have long believed that when you do business with someone, that YOU should be the 'wild and crazy' one the other guy has to worry about. Never do business with the person who is crazier than you.
"Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder "Why, why,why?" Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. Kurt Vonnegut, from Cat's Cradle
“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” Paul Brown, Founder of the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals.
To be fair...the Browns did win several NFL championships under Paul before the Super Bowl was invented and he helped the Bengals reach two Super Bowls. But you're not wrong.
I don't want to be a misanthrope but the anthropes are making that awfully difficult. - Jon Rosenberg
In order to truly overcome your social anxiety at a deep, gut level, you must repeatedly take bold action. It is only through trying something new, and with a different perspective, that you learn to see the world and the people around you in a different light. - Aziz Gazipura