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What can’t be trued must be balanced.
Those deceiving talk about a deeper truth.
Those deceived talk about deeper truth.
There is no deeper truth, just a deeper understanding of it.
My purpose in life is to be criticized by you.
When those who take it give it, “Foul!” is the first word heard.
What isn’t true must be balanced.
Prayer is the mortar of our relationship with God.
You understand it, but you just don’t know it.
And to think; you were doing it because you were being nice. I thought you did it because you felt guilty.
Another layer of deception has been peeled off.
Processes only work when they reflect what is being done.
The pen was poised, but the thought was gone.
People often project on others what they are personally experiencing.
Sometimes progress even improves things.
Honesty is the next best policy.
The best is not always what is best for you.
Denial is the best policy.
It is a little frightening to hear our children speaking words I have said and attaching significance to them.
A zero in front is useless.
no sweat = not sweet.
Not that you are doing the work, you’re realizing how much there is to doing it.
Your “idea” was someone else’s first.
You’re going to lead in a new way because you can’t lead in the right way.
Your idea of an idea is what someone else says is an idea.
I now know what you didn’t say.
Now I can’t say what I know.
Reality dawned on you on the 2nd day of our honeymoon.
22 years later, the reality of what you were thinking when I took your picture has dawned on me.
It takes more than words to be kind.
Criticism is always criticism.
Good Technical Writers connect all the technical dots.
Those who enable have something else in mind.
Those disturbing are often disturbed.
The reason people are put in boxes (labeled) is so they will stay in their box.
Dying is accelerated living.
Friends are like grains of sand in your hand. Some slip through your fingers and others stick to you.
Peers are premiere pressure points.
Competition is common, but excellence is the exception.
Counseling has become a consensus process.
Something has gone very wrong when right is determined by consensus.
The best ideas are basic ones.
Those making the rules do so for themselves.
You are a few legs short of a chair.
Not being able to recall a thought is like being ready to sneeze and then not.
Waiting to be laid off is like being in an abusive relationship. The calm is uneasy because you know what is going to happen. And when it does, you believe it is something you’ve done and you deserve what you get.
Good times can make even bad decisions appear right.
Bad times can make even good decisions appear wrong.
You’ve got things you know that you’re not telling.
Those say8ing they are not casting aspersions are right; they already cast them.
High-tech companies have layoffs on new moons.
The good news is that the layoff hasn’t happened. The bad news is that the layoff hasn’t happened.
Those talking about the future are often looking in the mirror.
Those talking about the future are often looking in the rear view mirror.
You masterfully played your part.
You said nothing that wasn’t already known.
Your humor, honesty, and openness were all carefully calculated.
Your humor, honesty, and openness were all carefully scripted in advance.
You played the audience like the premiere performer you are.
You are well paid to play the part.
Working here is like riding on a roller. You can pedal as hard and as fast as you can and get nowhere.
The toughest day is the day after a layoff.
Those who remain also feel the pain.
The layoff hasn’t happened, but it has already taken its toll.
Victory comes in the thousand decisions and details that seem insignificant at the time.
People get enough right that others assume they know.
Your reassurance attempt was less than reassuring.
The greater the ignorance, the greater the chance people will believe it.
The error of –er.
The dance is a lifetime.
The dance with death is the last dance.
The fine print of reality is missed by most.
The fine print of reality is overlooked by most.
God’s word = order.
Void = chaos.
Truth applied = evident.
Conversation = mode of living.
The most overlooked benefit of a job is employment.
Time trashes your triumph.
Those who achieve it all have nothing else to accomplish.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Your attitude determines your achievement.
Mark the momentous moments.
You are confusing responsibility with maturity.
To affect change, one must be in a position to effect change.
It is disheartening to realize that my will and my work won’t overcome the combined corporate chaos.
Be the one to make the change.
Those who don’t effect the change will be affected by it.
I certainly don’t like uncertainty.
Resistance is required for effort to be effective.
Rocks are more righteous than the religious.
When it is sunny, things are brighter and when things are rainy, things are blacker.
Those with vision are often blindsided by those who don’t.
Your woof is warped.
Waiting for a layoff is sort of like a turkey waiting for Thanksgiving to be over.
There is nothing like necessity to increase intensity.
It is easier to fall than it is to get up.
Success is not solitary.
Success is not a solitary effort.
Success requires others.
Only death is secure.
Let’s eat, drink and be merry, for today is the layoff.
Who you align yourself with determines what you will achieve.
What you align yourself with determines what you will achieve.
Who you align yourself with affects what you will achieve.
What you align yourself with affects what you will achieve.
Who you align yourself with limits what you will achieve.
What you align yourself with limits what you will achieve.
Who you align yourself with determines what you will attain.
What you align yourself with determines what you will attain.
Who you align yourself with affects what you will attain.
What you align yourself with affects what you will attain.
Who you align yourself with limits what you will attain.
What you align yourself with limits what you will attain.
The compromise costs more.
The compromise costs more than the victory.
Those you align with affect what you can achieve.
Those you align with affect what you will achieve.
Cherish what you can’t change.
On this side of the present, any prediction can be true.
Any prediction this side of the future can be true.
To some, a plan is a doubt and to others a plan is a determination.
The future is tomorrow’s history.
Anger is all that remains in the aftermath.
The layoff lethargy languishes as the delay draws on.
Even though the momentum is gone, the motions continue.
Thos who know aren’t talking and those talking don’t know.
Laughing about the situation means you just don’t understand it.
Sensitivity is suspected sarcasm from women wanting guys to be more sensitive.
Getting two different answers doesn’t mean that either is right.
Each day is gift from God.
Due to the time it is taking to occur, it is being called a delayoff.
The corporate game is for conformists and cowards.
The corporate game is for conformists and compromisers.
The can-do attitude has been canned and the candid question is, “Can we survive?”
Nothing like uncertainty to make people feel unsettled.
Thos who don’t know better believe that someone has to know.
Those who don’t know better believe things will get better.
Those who know better know that no one knows.
Those who know better know that no one knows, and those who should know are guessing.
Cynicism is the product of having no sense of purpose.
Life is like milk. You have to put up with a lot of manure to get it.
Tough times are the only true test of you.
Sometimes you can’t see what you’re looking for because of what you’re looking at.
Those the best at it can get the most to line up with them.
Hypothetical situations hide the truth.
Hypothetical situations give credence to the absurd.
Hypothetical situations give credence to the lie.
The ignorant have been told they’re enlightened.
The ignorant believe they’re enlightened.
The ignorant have been misled to believe they’re enlightened.
What you don’t expect is expecting you.
What you don’t expect is often expecting you.
We paint a picture of God though our lives.
What picture of God do you paint with your life?
Short cuts short circuit the process.
Short cuts short circuit the purpose.
Lying is a large factor in legislation.
Doing what you like to do and getting paid for it is a definite plus.
The day started without fanfare, but by its end nothing would be the same.
Falling and running fast are often indistinguishable.
Falling and running fast are often seen as the same thing.
Falling and running fast are sometimes indistinguishable.
Sometimes people tell enough of the truth so people will believe what isn’t.
Some people tell enough truth for people to believe what isn’t true.
Some people tell enough truth for people to conclude what isn’t the true.
Not all who take you will bring you back.
Groups distort personal identity.
People telling you they know what they did only think they know.
Frustration is a horizontal reaction to vertical pressure.
Frustration is a horizontal reaction to vertical pressures.
The sunny mountain peaks in another’s life are envied, but the dark valleys are unseen.
Some take the abuse to get the attention.
It is impossible to imagine all that a person is capable of.
Love is a many surrendered thing.
God appears small to you because of the distance from Him.
God appears small to you because of your distance from Him.
Exact expectancy is more fulfilling.
Not all opportunities are opportunistic.
Backward is more clearly seen than forward.
Backward is more clearly marked than forward.
Those running with the world are assumed to be the world.
Details of the dream lingered after waking.
Like living a lifetime under a canopy of trees and catching fleeting glimpses of sunlight, the glimpses are assumed to be the sum knowledge of the sun.
Those apologizing for the rush won’t accept your apology for the result.
Those amicable are usually aimless as well.
Don’t ask the question of those who can’t appreciate it or answer it.
Ask the question of those who understand the question.
You assumed the role but none of the responsibilities.
Your “logic” is merely an illogical license.
Those who give are taken.
Second is not an option for the winner.
People always jump from where they are to where they aren’t.
Sometimes a bigger jerk is encountered and other times one just out jerks themself.
Criticism is cheap sabotage.
You are like the echo of a bark, with no substance or originality.
When self is supreme, there is no satisfaction.
When self is supreme, there is no lasting satisfaction.
Extrapolation is the essence of exasperation.
The hard times would be harder without God.
The tough times would be tougher without God.
To play the part, you have to know the part.
Mistakes make the best myths.
Mistakes are the stuff myths are made of.
Those understanding shouldn’t always be.
A recent transplant is easily uprooted.
Use the tools that shape the culture for God.
I thought it was supposed to be useful, not just fill a hole.
I thought it was supposed to be useful, not just plug a hole.
Oh! You want a check mark on your list; not something that would work.
I learn more by listening that expressing what I am uncertain of.
The goods aren’t always good.
Those first are sometimes the last who didn’t make it.
Feelings are as fleeting as Jack Frost on a window in the sunlight.
Those making a point dull theirs in the process.
Tolerance makes wrong right.
The vision may be obscured but the way is clear.
The vision may be obscured but the way remains clear.
When the view is obscured, what happens to the vision?
The question sharpens the focus.
A transition means the plan was not proper.
A transition means the plan was not sufficient.
You will never know what could have been, just what is.
Feelings are best fortified in solitude.
Your lack is not God’s lack.
Your lack is God’s opportunity.
Gray areas are the result of not being aligned with the truth.
Lucky is what losers aren’t.
People love the lie and prefer living it to the truth.
The greater the personal prize, the more precious it becomes.
Those who want to do it right are often the last to realize that it won’t happen.
I am suspicious of anything you say you remember.
AI—Actual Ignorance.
Those asking for what they want have to be willing to get nothing.
Those asking for what they want have to be willing to settle for nothing.
The way you keep going is to like what you’re doing.
I hear the voice of a dead man talking.
Those spoon-fed are dependent on the hand holding the spoon.
You are no different, just not as developed.
What isn’t guarded goes to weeds.
Shortcomings are the challenge of creativity.
Hypothetical situations hide the reality that they are usually false.
Only those lacking can be filled.
Your leadership “style” is to direct people to do what you didn’t do.
If you jerk my chain, expect to get bit.
A lack of response fosters a lack of responsiveness.
Those most potent flavor others.
Your past recollection has no relevance on the present.
Your past recollection has no relevance to the presence.
I’m not sure what you were trying to do, but you just exposed your naked ignorance.
You beat me down, and I’ll beat you up.
Sadly, the pinnacle of one’s life is in the past.
Sadly, the pinnacle of most people’s life is in the past.
Those who cut are keen to others who would cut.
The effort is not always as effective as expected.
Those accusing have an agenda.
There is always someone willing to “correct” you.
As a manager, you’re ineffective, but you’re improving.
From you, an original idea is an oxymoron.
Making love to me is a little lower on your priority list than getting a replacement filter for the dehumidifier.
Lying is only a concern for those who believe it is wrong.
A little bit of knowledge can make one sound knowledgeable.
A little bit of knowledge makes one sound knowledgeable to those who don’t know.
The ignorant cannot be restrained by knowledge.
Information can make the ignorant sound informed.
Information can make the ignorant sound knowledgeable.
There are players and those who play at it.
Part of wisdom is knowing what you can’t do and not thinking that you can.
Part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t and not thinking that you do.
May your thoughts comfort you for eternity.
Those who wield the axe for management are endeared to management.
My warp got woofed.
Sideways days.
The press reports news that has already happened.
You like making what isn’t an issue an issue.
Just because it is given doesn’t mean it has to be taken.
Thank you for your underhanded lesson of your superiority.
I applaud your ability to make others look bad as you make more work for yourself.
Those who care aren’t cared about.
Those collecting dues say, You have to pay your dues”.
More often opportunities end up as 0s than as bulls eyes.
You shoot from the hip because if you drew, you wouldn’t know where to aim.
Important things cost you.
Life is a sentence that doesn’t always get punctuated.
Life is a statement that doesn’t always get punctuated.
Why is it that those who haven’t been there and those who don’t know what they’re talking about believe their opinion is more important than that of another?
Your opinion exists only as you can state it.
You have come to believe your opinion is fact.
Living a life of second best in a world being second guessed.
Deja do = Same old poo_.
My 2-year-old daughter said her sister is her breast friend.
To you, only your point of view exists.
You need me, but only as your excuse for being miserable.
Teens believe their high school friends are their life.
Life is a door too many wait for another to open.
You speak to others while in a room by yourself.
Crisis seems to be the status quo.
Multitasking can produce multiple mistakes.
Life is too much like it isn’t to be considered otherwise.
Being the “resident expert” is often meaningless.
The stronger enables the weaker to be what they couldn’t alone.
Sovereignty is superior to sophistication.
Your molding is speeding your olding.
Takers feed givers crumbs to make a meal of them.
Takers feed givers crumbs to make a meal from them.
Those lagging become leaders when those leading were wrong.
You don’t ask for much, but you expect a lot.
You ask for a lot and expect more.
Life is what you let get you.
Sounding knowledgeable is half of it. The other half is knowing what you’re talking about.
The failure of future development by going back to what was broken before.
The more abstract the concept, the more adamant the controllers.
Your dad’s criticism lives on through your criticism.
The more flamboyant, the more fame.
In the ebb and flow of life, it is easy to feel isolated and impotent.
Tolerance is politically incorrect intolerance.
Those used are usually not remembered.
Those used are usually not ever remembered.
Those used are usually not even remembered.
Love is inspired by ignorance.
Enthusiasm is inspired by ignorance.
Ignorance inspires enthusiasm.
To play the part, you have to have the heart.
Your idea lacks the insight necessary to implement it.
What is perceived as oversight is veiled “out to get you-ism”.
What is presented as oversight is veiled “out to get you-ism”.
Those most proficient at passing the buck are praised.
Those most proficient at passing the buck are promoted.
If you want the big bucks, solve the issues others only pass.
Part of being respected is sounding responsible as you pass the buck to someone else to do.
Part of being respected is sounding responsible as you pass the buck to someone who knows how to do what you don’t.
People cannot always distinguish between those who have heard about it and those who know it.
People are quick to point out those no better than themselves.
Lawbreakers are quick to point out those no better than themselves.
Creators are the crux of industry.
Create the automation to not be a victim of automation.
Reality is often what you don’t want it to be.
The you meant when I say you isn’t you.
There is little hope for those who believe they are aware while they aren’t.
There is little hope for those who believe they are awake while they aren’t.
You are seeing, but you aren’t understanding.
You are seeing, but you don’t understand.
The unusable f-word definition now means fact.
When those exercising their constitutional free speech right end up in prison, society is dying.
The depth of a mess can only be known by living under it.
The depth of a mess can only be known by living below it.
Contentment only sees seamless continuity.
It is easy to appear good in good times.
Even the bad can appear good in good times.
You’re centering on you self-centeredness again.
I am never farther along than I am right now.
A fortress most benefits those on the inside.
It is my fault because I expected better of you.
My bitterness only indicates I didn’t know better.
The degree of my disappointment only indicates the degree of my deception.
The degree of my disappointment only indicates the success of your deception.
The depth of my disappointment is a tribute to the success of your deception.
Sometimes falling is mistaken for progress.
Why even go through the motions like you are even asking me?
Your “explanation” does not excuse your actions.
Give a guy a window to look out and he says he sees everything clearly.
Give a guy a window to look out and he thinks he sees everything clearly.
When you said, “We’re screwed!”, I thought you meant us. Now I realize you meant me.
Ignorance is essential for business survival.
Ignorance is a business essential.
The point is being made, but the point is not being understood.
Restating the problem doesn’t mean you understand it.
Nothing has changed. I just see your motives more clearly.
Look anew at today.
The change that occurred was not discussed and there is no indication that it will be discussed.
Mathematics is people who don’t know explaining what they don’t understand.
Unfortunately, feelings are the foundation upon which most of life’s decisions are based.
It is only a dilemma until you have decided.
Work is like a spouse. You always think there is a better one out there, but the best is to do with where you are.
Life is a non-locking puzzle.
Enrichment is most evident when enriching others.
The problem is nobody can say there is a problem.
The problem is nobody can admit there is a problem.
Opportunities are only for those who take them.
It is an opportunity only for those who take it.
Saying no to yourself will make you right more times than not.
Opportunity exists only for those who seize it.
I saw another piece added to the unknown sphere, as it rotated freely between the two hands. It was the hands that exerted the power to keep the sphere’s pieces from flying apart as it rotated. The sphere was more complete than I had ever seen it before.
The feathered V flew across the cool, cloudless, pre-dawn sky.
Watch out where technology touches you.
If you earned more per hour, would you work less?
Practical decisions often prove to be impractical.
When rules rule, usability is not useful.
The truth is troublesome.
Just because it isn’t a new idea doesn’t mean it isn’t a good idea.
Prisoners talking about freedom are slaves to their past.
POPI — People of Positive Influence.
The bigger the company, the dumber the employees.
The bigger the company, the dumber the more boring are those hired.
Departments are designed to dumb-down the work.
SME — Smoke & Mirror Expert.
CMO — Chief Mirror Operator.
Discontentment discovers contrasts.
Opportunities are not owned, only occupied.
Opportunities are not owned, just occupied.
The more known, the greater the amazement anything gets done.
Both the visionary and the shortsighted are equal today.
An entered intersection does not ensure it will be exited.
Reality is only for those who change it.
Reality is only for those who can’t afford an alternative.
Everyone is an expert on everything someone else did wrong.
Sometimes good prices aren’t good deals.
You probably aren’t as good as you believe you are.
You probably aren’t as good as you believe or as bad as I have heard.
You can’t miss the abyss if you keep going your way.
Potential is inconsequential without the discipline to develop it.
Knowing is not all it is thought to be.
The silent voices woke me up.
In the scheme of life, it is all small potatoes.
The facade of civilization crumbles in a crisis.
When only a moment separates you from eternity, what is important?
Participants know in part. All others are spectators and speculators.
How long will you waste for the answer?
Schizophradicat.
Out of unity, diversity.
Out of diversity, death.
Epokuskillus.
Those hiding behind the facade of fine are finally found out.
The facade of fine hides those who aren’t.
Knowing what is possible fuels endurance.
Ignorance has its pride.
Don’t pardon ignorance.
Replace it with information.
Experts are endangered because those ignorant are proliferating information.
The smell of death was unmistakable.
Those working the hardest should be working for themselves.
The trouble with nice things is trying to keep them nice.
The trouble with nice things is expecting them to stay nice.
Desire and drive can be confused, but not interexchanged.
It was 5:06 a.m. when I awoke from my dream. Dave, in charge of computers, said, “Don’t be weirded out on Monday if your computer is gone. We are pulling them from those who will be leaving.”
Honest management is an oxymoron.
Your deception received a worse reception than the truth.
I hope what you did to get where you are was job related.
Barbs work best after they have been embedded.
People wanting to know the future won’t let go of the past.
Opportunity is a present that must be taken.
Ignorance is the greatest impediment to innovation.
Perception is present prejudice.
Perceptions are present prejudices.
Ignorance insures inefficiency.
Tried and true is seldom seen for the treasure it is.
Opportunity is the first to see it.
Leadership recognizes the opportunity, then leads others to it.
The rhetoric is convincing, but it’s not the reason.
Appending God’s 10 to my 0 makes 100.
People think what isn’t until they believe it is/
I am constantly amazed at what is assumed to exist by those who don’t know what exists.
I am constantly amazed by what is assumed to exist by those who don’t know what exists.
The struggles outside are only the surface of struggles within.
The struggles outside are only the surface of struggles inside.
The struggles without are only the surface of struggles within.
A mental note is better than a verbal reminder that you were right.
You might even be as good as you think you are, but that isn’t good enough.
Those looking for potential have already missed it.
You’ve either got it or not.
Those who have got it only have to polish it.
Those who have got it only have to practice it.
Handle what is before you.
It is enough. Handle what is before you.
What is before you is enough.
What is in front of you is enough.
Flirt until it hurts.
Your “logic” is your license to your lifestyle.
Knowledge is the lock and understanding is the key.
Those looking for potential see it most clearly in the rear-view mirror.
Your favorite word for sex is, “No”.
Ignorance is held in high regard here. That’s why you got promoted.
Turn and face your brain.
If the truth be known, the truth isn’t known.
The problems persist only those blamed change.
The problems persist only those responsible change.
IFTB – I Found The Bottom.
KFD – Knowledge For Dummies.
Innovation goes into a box.
Innovation does not come out of a box.
Developers say should.
Marketing says will.
Engineering says can.
Tech Writers say does.
AIM – Anger Intern Manager.
For some unspoken reason, ignorance is considered valuable.
For some unspoken reason, ignorance is valued.
Simulation is superior because it always proves you’re right.
Those who do the least have the biggest paychecks.
Those who don’t know what they do have the biggest titles.
Those who don’t know what it is they do have the biggest titles.
The name changed, but the management hasn’t.
Big business is big on ignorance.
A life lived looking backwards is lacking focus.
The wait for words has crushed many.
The weight of words has crushed many.
Because the change is so slight, few notice the difference.
You say it is water under the bridge, but it is that water that has pinned me to the bridge.
Once the door is closed and the talking starts, reality is altered.
Once the door is closed and the ranting starts, reality is altered.
What you call “oops” may be SOP.
Mismanagement is a top-down symptom.
Darwin’s extinct theory of evolution doesn’t have a scientific leg to stand on.
Defunct Darwinism is the darling de facto standard for the religious scientists.
Defunct Darwinism is the darling de facto standard for the religion of science.
What isn’t known is only exceeded by what is believed to be known.
What isn’t known is only exceeded by what one believes is known.
You can follow or you can seize the dawn and go forth.
You cannot wait on the future. Seize the dawn and step forth.
The future is what you make it. The past is what you let it make you.
Seize your fear and go forth.
Seize your fear and carry it forth.
Don’t let fear direct your future.
Don’t let fear darken your future.
Leave comfort and security and seize the future.
Leave behind comfort and security of what is known. Seize the future and go forth.
The future is for those who take it.
The future is for the taking.
The past is the link that shackles us to the future.
The past is the link that shackles you to the future.
The future you let passively happen is the past of one who took it.
Don’t fear the future because of what you know.
Don’t fear the future because of the unknown.
The past is the link to the shackle that must be broken before the future can be grasped.
The past is the link of the shackle that must be broken before the future can be grasped.
Those who are in bondage at the present are enslaved by the future.
Those who are in bondage in the present are enslaved by the future.
Seize the present and be set free by the future.
Seize the present and be liberated by the future.
There is nothing you can’t do if you seize it and do it.
You heart gets you into things your mouth can’t get you out of.
Those trying to do it right are told they’re wrong.
Stupidity travels faster than thought.
Too many settle for showmanship rather than craftsmanship.
Following advice is not always advisable.
Marketing is make-believe that must be believed before it works.
Those creating, forget their customer(s) at their own peril.
You think that because you know it, others know it too; even though you haven’t told them.
The truth gets the teller into trouble.
The truth is a liability when dealing with liars.
You’ve been educated beyond your understanding.
Losing my mind is no big deal because nobody minds me.
Losing my mind is no big deal because nobody minds me anyway.
Listening to what you say means having to say nothing when you don’t remember what you said.
An honest feeling is an oxymoron.
People spend a lot of time learning, but spend little effort understanding.
The balance is broken and the weight is wanting in your measurement.
I understand the “you do it so I don’t have to” part, but if I do it and you don’t, why are you here.
I understand the “you do it so I don’t have to” part, but if I do it and you don’t, what are you doing.
I understand the “you do it so I don’t have to” part, but if I do it and you don’t, why are you needed.
Words are wasted wind.
Time does not change what has not changed.
Those not fighting in the trenches don’t know what they’re talking about.
I’m just an extra, not even a face in the crowd.
Information is not always informing.
Information is not always informative.
Those blind talk of vision and those who see talk of insight.
Studying what is wrong does not make it right.
Life is like a fine wine, everyone wants to bottle it and stick a cork in it.
Life is like a fine wine, everyone wants you to bottle it so they can sell it.
Just because it has been dealt to you doesn’t mean you have to hold it.
Just because it has been dealt to you doesn’t mean you have to keep it.
Normal is only an average that is not always typical.
I will never be what you want me to be.
Time doesn’t touch you because you don’t believe reality is real.
Time doesn’t touch you because you don’t believe reality exists for you.
You want me to handle it until I handle it, then you get upset because I handled it.
You live; therefore, you have an excuse.
You’re an excuse waiting to be expressed.
We are of the same opinion, just different mindsets.
Life is a shadow lived in passing.
I am a shadow passing through life. I never existed and no one knows me.
Your forte is focusing on the fault.
Those finding fault find it is never their fault.
To you, thank you is an oxymoron.
What I love about you is that nothing ever satisfies you.
You criticize because I haven’t done it; and when I do it, you criticize me because of how I did it.
Those who plan are a problem to those who don’t.
The waking didn’t change the dream.
The decision was made already, it just wasn’t understood yet.
Sure you can do it, but it will require you to do it.
Sure you can do it, but it will require you doing it.
Beware of those who push the sale but skimp on support.
The problem is that I’m explaining to you what the problem is.
The problem is you don’t know what the problem is.
Not all obstacles are barriers, some are bunkers.
Not all obstacles have to be obliterated, some can be defended.
Co-conspirators each provide credibility to the other.
When you say what the problem is, you’re the problem; and when you don’t say what the problem is, you become the problem.
People usually don’t want to hear what you’re saying even if they asked the question.
Everyone is lied to, by the lie is not the same for everyone.
You don’t see any problem since you only see it your way.
Thank you for not disappointing me by being understanding.
You even complain when I breathe.
You’re a complaint waiting to be exhaled.
I really do feel sorry for you, but I can’t undo what was done to you.
What was done to you, you are doing to me.
Your criticism is as constant as the sunshine. Even when I can’t see it, I know it is there.
Your excuses have succeeded in exhausting me.
I used to think you were forgetful, but I realize you only remember what you want to.
You are the self-appointed priestess of perfection who points out others’ imperfections.
When you look, see beyond yourself.
Life is a series of snapshots from a movie.
Life is a series of still shots from a movie.
Perspective is not always obvious.
Those without a purpose pursue.
I live here too.
You cannot merely receive a compliment.
I used to think you moved the bar. I failed to realize you were changing the bar.
Your concept of perfection is imperfect.
Your concept of perfection is defective.
Why are you asking me how things happen in your department?
The assessment is based on your perception.
The assessment is biased by your perception.
The “only one” noose will hold you forever.
My eyes are closed upon You.
The anointing does not assure the outcome.
Learn to dance in the pain.
What you know sucks in a different way from what you don’t know.
Those jumping on the wagon don’t realize why there is room.
Nothing has changed. Things are just more obvious than before.
Crisis is the crux of communication.
Those who can change.
Those who can change more quickly are asked to change more often.
Familiar ways are familiar traps.
Your idea of crisis management is managing by crisis.
Some people get tired of playing the game.
Some people forget they’re playing the game.
Some people don’t admit they’re playing the game.
Those talking about the lack of drive are usually coasting.
Those talking about the lack of drive are coasting enough to be able to talk.
Those lacking accuracy need a bigger gun.
Those who know the facts can’t say so.
Those who know the facts can’t admit it.
Those lighting the hoop on fire are not jumping through it.
Those lighting the hoop on fire are not going to jump through it.
The process is that the few who know make it all work.
Persistence is reverse procrastination.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
The airport scanner scam allows guys to pass their wand ofer any female they choose.
Those wanting security under their feet never soar with the wind under their wings.
Momentary passing insignificance is a lifetime.
Those who say that aren’t aren’t as they say.
Those who say they aren’t are.
Those who say they are aren’t.
A passing light in a night of darkness.
The ebb and flow of life casts up its refuse on you.
Truth is the tool you twist to serve you.
Truth is the tool you twisted to serve you.
The best view of a situation is from a distance.
The best view of a volatile situation is from a distance.
Days are like dew drips that have the appearance of substance until the sun of day causes them to vanish.
More settle for the compromise than rise to the challenge.
Compromise is more comfortable than the challenge.
The challenge is never comfortable.
Those taking the risks are penalized by those who don’t.
Sometimes word wounds never heal.
Some word wounds are fatal.
Some word wounds are worse than others.
The imperfect are in search of what they cannot participate in.
It takes no effort to go down.
To you the slippery slope was a merge ramp to get where you wanted to go.
Those who let go go down.
Talk at night turn into excuses in the morning light.
Bold talk at night turn into whimpers in the morning light.
Among the fallen november leaves, the Robin stragglers of summer searched for worms.
The wind swept over the dry leaf quilt that the trees had loosely woven.
More sunlight, but less intense illuminated the wood-covered scape.
Man touched, but not man tamed.
Too many fail to realize what they call life is sleepwalking.
Too many fail to realize what they call living is sleepwalking.
Credit begets debt.
Lacking substance, the immediate floats to the top.
Fame is as fleeting as a flickering a flame.
Fame is fleeting like the flickering of a flame.
Passion propels people to success.
Passion fuels success.
Success’ fuel is passion.
Passion channeled is a propellant.
Passion pulls people in.
Passion draws people in.
Passion precedes promotion.
The TOI (transfer of information) was more of a FOI (fumble of information).
What is tolerated takes its toll.
Tolerance is ultimately terminal.
You won’t limit yourself, but expect everyone to limit themselves.
Credit—one step before debt.
Credit—one letter before debt.
Only those who surrender win.
TV—thinking vicariously.
The bad expounded on gets better.
The good expounded on gets worse.
Those who indulge are impure.
A single source is a single point of failure.
It is only a wall to those who see it as a wall.
Those who run themselves out are easier to run down.
Those who tire themselves out are easier to run down.
Formal is not always functional.
When the drive is gone, put it in park.
People make themselves sick, then complain because they don’t feel better.
Complainers are causing the problem.
The truth is the first thing lied about.
Dreams are the reality of life people sleep through.
Upon waking, the non-reality resumes.
Upon waking, the non-reality is repeated.
Most wake up to sleep through life.
Shine is only on the surface.
Shine is only a surface thing.
The shadows strenghtened as the light weakened.
The pinnacle is the best point to launch from.
Dwelling on the negative is natural. Thinking on the positive requires determination.
Not all news is noteworthy.
Those looing ahead are not seeing behind.
Life is like a barnacle. In times of good supply, you stretch out and are nourished. In times of low supply, you stretch out to get all you can. Sometimes the tides supply and sometimes the tides leave you high and dry.
If you can’t stand the chemicals, get out of the kitchen.
If you can’t stand the chemicals, get out of the bathroom.
Vertical supply. Horizontal support.
Plans are just possibilities.
Plans are only potential possibilities.
Gamblers tend to be vocal winners and silent losers.
Determination is no indication of the right direction.
Those useful threaten those useless.
The sleeping eye does not see.
The awakened eye is unaware.
The sunrise was significant only to those who saw it.
Greed feeds the need.
Those more resourceful are less rattled.
Bi-focals—bi-fogies for fogies.
Those flexible and accommodating are flexed by those not accommodating.
There is no defense against ignorance.
Normal is the result of forgetting.
Only by not treating you like you treat me do I win.
When I treat you like you treat me, then you win.
You crush those who don’t conform to you.
Those who say they understand don’t.
The plan is to see what plan someone else has.
The individual result is often inconsequential.
Sideways movement is mistaken for progress by those ignorant of the goal.
Those not knowing the goal mistake sideways movement for progress.
Sideways movement is mistaken for progress by those not knowing the goal.
Sideways movement is mistaken for progress by those ignorant of the desired direction.
What you eat goes on.
Those who say what they don’t know are more honest than those who say what they do.
Those who say what they don’t know can be less honest than those who say what they do.
All can quickly become nothing.
Tired is temporary. Exhausted is a lifestyle.
You think everything people are talking about is what you are thinking about.
To you, the world is an inconvenience that sleep chases away.
The wind of change is blowing. Don’t turn your back to it.
What starts as a drift often develops into a drive.
It isn’t so much unseen as it is unnoticed.
People are cognizant about it, but not conscious about it.
It is most draining to those remaining.
Stimulation is often mistaken for motivation.
When we don’t do it, it is your gain and my loss.
Your “want tos” and your “have tos” are never the same.
Those subsisting sustain business.
There is one corporate secret—all companies are equally screwed up.
Ignorance is the first line of defense.
Don’t turn your back on the winds of time.
Processes perpetuate the problem.
What management says they aren’t doing is what they are doing.
Newness is often believed to be love.
Excitement is not the same as commitment.
Acceptance for who we are is the heart of our desire.
The words we long to hear make us feel what we haven’t felt for a long time.
To teens, the world is me.
Feelings are fleeting and fickle but are the foundation of many lives.
The ignorant have been taught to tolerate those indifferent.
The ignorant have been taught to tolerate what they shouldn’t/
Those who don’t know what they believe will believe anything.
When you stand for what you believe, you will fall for what another believes.
There is no hope for you accepting me if you can’t accept yourself.
Regardless of the wrapping, the gift is still a gift.
Plans need to be made by the players.
How much of you has been bought?
Small thinking can cause big problems.
God, I want my life to reflect more of You.
Those who pick first have to defend later.
The fire is gone and the drive is in park.
Too Busy Not To
Petty pursuits and self-aggrandizement have us convinced we are too bus because that is what we have been conditioned to believe. The truth is never become too busy not to:
Watch a single particle of dust float on invisible currents across a sunbeam.
Watch the leaves on a tree dancing to the wind’s symphony.
Watch as the frost on the grass is silently transformed into glistening dew drops.
Take a slow deliberate deep breath.
Feel the warm caress of sunshine.
Hear the silence speak.
Let your hair be combed by someone too young to do it right.
Tell someone how they enriched your life.
Write a note of encouragement and send it.
The future is the presence in the past.
The future was the present in the past.
When the righteous don’t make a difference, there is no difference.
Normal is just a delusion the naïve believe.
If you can’t change them, beat them at their game.
One happy with small things has a bigger chance of happiness.
Being happy with small things has a bigger chance of happiness.
Small victories sustain.
You have to fall down to grow up.
I feel as though I’m jumping through hoops, but you keep changing the hoops I’m supposed to jump through without telling me.
In a lost world, losers rule.
Losers rule in a lost world.
You try because you know it doesn’t have to be the way it is.
You can encourage, but it is an effort for you.
Your boring attitude is boring.
Small thinkers settle for small victories.
For my dreams to survive, I have to keep them from you.
It has been one of “those” days all my life.
It has been one of “those” days all month long.
There is a plan and it doesn’t include you.
The reason you don’t know the plan is because you aren’t part of it.
Those without self-control are controlled by another.
Another controls those without self-control.
The world is not waiting for your appearance to start.
You’re trying to have an intelligent conversation based on your ignorance.
Tired is a one-time event.
Exhausted is a lifestyle.
Those who work like a dog are usually treated like a dog.
Spouses know all about the P-E ratio (Performance Vs Expectations).
You apologize is an oxymoron.
Compromise—what only you are expected to do.
Those who know have to be silenced.
Those who know have to be brought in, bought off, or bumped off.
Those espousing “better” are being beaten.
Application after the fact is anticlimactic.
You repeatedly make my point, but you fail to get the point.
Death is the awakening to the substance of life’s shadows.
It is easy to confuse being here with being there.
It is not real easy to tell you’re here when you think you’re there.
Reality has a way of silencing the pundits proclaiming that people are getting better and better.
Tragedy is used by those not personally affected.
You are a legal terrorist.
You are a verbal terrorist.
You foist your terrorist agenda by the laws you support.
Terrorists are cowards with a mental problem.
Terrorists first lie to themselves, then lie to the world.
It only takes a small crisis to realize that Government has no power.
Checkbox management can’t produce out-of-the-box thinking.
The road to peace is like going against traffic on a highway.
Those who understand others are misunderstood.
The world outside you exists, but not for you as you believe.
Motives are mostly a mystery.
When your desire is put before you, what do you do?
Compared to the conversation, the offer was unexpected.
Misconceptions are a must for mismanagement.
Miscommunication is the mainstay of mismanagement.
At times, excitement is not shared.
At times, excitement cannot be shared.
Defense is indefensible.
Confidence without competence is a coming crisis.
Confusion requires a cognitive process.
Docuteer—one who designs by documentation.
Documenting defective design is deemed a feature.
Defective design documented is deemed a feature.
Documenting design defects in a positive light is called a feature enhancement.
Feature enhancement—when a design defect is documented and is not fixed.
You’re a mess looking for meaning.
You’re a mess missing meaning.
Those who care less become managers.
Ignorance relies on pride to keep others silent.
Ignorance relies on pride to keep others from asking.
When my daughter says I make her Mom on her PMS week look like an angel, I have probably been cranky.
Life tends to pull apart those falling apart.
Imperfections are only impediments to those denying their existence.
Love is a leak that has to be filled up continually.
We build our fires and are warmed by them, but in so doing we turn our backs on the source of our supply.
People build their fires and are warmed by them, but in so doing they turn our backs on the source of their supply.
Turn your back to the fire and look to the source of your supply.
Too many are seduced by the shimmering sunshine and leave the shelter of Your shadow.
Dwelling in the shadow of Your wings provides coolness in the heat of day and warmth in the cold of night.
God, let me be sustained in Your silence by Your presence.
God, let me find serenity in Your slowness.
I know you’re conscious because you’re complaining.
I ask others for comments in an attempt to make the best decision possible.
Forethought does not ensure the decision will be right.
Forethought does not guarantee a decision will be right.
I live in the darkness you create.
Expectations can extinguish what was hoped for.
Exposure ? expert.
Experience ? expert.
Those trying to resolve the conflict become casualties of it.
Diversity is a characteristic of sand.
Directions from those disconnected are disconcerting.
I had a hope, but you found out about that.
I had a hope, but you took care of that.
No, is what I expect from you and you seldom disappoint.
Why should I expect what I want?
The lie is called the truth and the deception is called reality.
Brokenness is the mulch for maturity.
Fixation on the problem is the problem.
Fixation with the problem is the problem.
The thought is mired just below consciousness.
A man said he has Olympic sex (because it only happens once every 4 years).
Those living with the devil should understand life to be a living hell.
Those most polished have been rubbed the most.
Management has no game without players.
Your thoughts tell on you.
Your plan is not to plan.
Not planning gives you the excuse you need.
How will what you know make you different?
How will what you know make others different?
The same people who made the last mistake are going to make the decision again.
Effective learning makes a difference in living.
The morning alarm halted my discourse on the finer points of Nevada law concerning canon ownership.
In-house experience is ignored in favor of external expertise.
I take one step up, then get pushed down the hill.
I take one step forward, then get pushed down the hill.
Those who have sold out to the lie have to believe it.
Those who have sold out to the lie have to sell it to others.
Sleep is a utilitarian function, not an ultimate goal.
You don’t want me to lie to you, but you want me to lie for you.
You have to first be on the ladder to panic on the ladder.
What you feed is fueled by you.
Those feeding the fire are partially consumed by it.
I get your leftovers.
An afterthought implies there was a fore thought.
An afterthought infers something else was the forethought.
An afterthought cannot exist where there was no forethought.
You keep picking, even when there is nothing left to pick on.
You are the daughter of your father and that is sad.
Management takes 3-4 years to learn what the workers know today.
Management takes 3-4 years to learn what the workers have known.
Euphoria and despair materialize and vanish in the air.
God, let me be delight in the touch of Your hand.
God, let me be comforted by the touch of Your hand.
God, let me lay down the burden of my busyness and find peace resting on Your breast.
Busyness is a burden that is lifted by being in Your presence.
God, Your presence restores right perspective.
A gold necklace is intimate apparel.
Those running with the devil will be ruined by the devil.
Those running with the devil will be run over by the devil.
Position fails to make wrong right, no matter how often it is quoted.
I am the substance of your complaint sandwich.
When you’re asleep your complaints cease.
Working on a relationship that has only one who is interested is a waste.
Silence does not signify success.
The answer is not always the solution.
Beware of future promisers from past betrayers.
Those who play games are someone’s toy.
Management layer lag — for each layer of management, the lag for information transfer increases from 6 months to 1 year.
For every layer of management, information lags by 6 months to 1 year.
What you’re looking for doesn’t exist.
Those in bondage cannot break their own bonds.
Fasting — the chisel driven on the link of bondage.
The truth is silenced so the lie may be spoken.
The truth is shackled so the lie may be loosed.
Not all education is learning.
Normal — those who don’t know what reality is.
Normal — those who have forgotten what reality is.
Relationships aren’t a given, they’re a giving.
You have had more time to shine your sameness so it just seems different.
You have just had more time to shine your sameness so it seems different.
Those playing the game hope you don’t know it.
You listened to what you heard, but that isn’t what was said.
The desire to expand is being restrained by those desiring to extend their influence.
Exhaustion is the rule rather than the exception.
Those asking the questions are looking for answers they don’t know.
Criticisms, complaints, and condescending comments are continuous.
Criticisms, complaints, and condescending comments are constant with you.
I can count on you for a complaint of criticism.
My planning is nullified by your negligence.
Those making the rules make sure others do the work.
Perfection is self-defeating.
Moments in life are not measured the same.
Those not affecting are infecting.
Your criteria are the crux of your failure.
Your criteria are the cause of your failure.
What you see deceives.
What you hear misleads.
Those wanting the best of both don’t know what they want.
Those wanting the best of both don’t understand what they want.
The naysayers are negativity experts.
Pride in your pickiness indicates deeper problems.
Free abuse is self-abuse.
Free abuse is continued abuse.
You are no different. You just say you are.
You are no different. You just think you are.
You are no different in spite of what you say.
You’re a constant contradiction.
Evolving Thoughts
When the pump is primed, it is easier to draw from a depth unseen, but only sensed.
KFD – Knowledge For Dummies.
Innovation goes into a box.
Innovation does not come out of a box.
Developers say should.
Marketing says will.
Engineering says can.
Tech Writers say does.
AIM – Anger Intern Manager.
For some unspoken reason, ignorance is considered valuable.
For some unspoken reason, ignorance is valued.
Simulation is superior because it always proves you’re right.
Those who do the least have the biggest paychecks.
Those who don’t know what they do have the biggest titles.
Those who don’t know what it is they do have the biggest titles.
The name changed, but the management hasn’t.
Big business is big on ignorance.
A life lived looking backwards is lacking focus.
The wait for words has crushed many.
The weight of words has crushed many.
Because the change is so slight, few notice the difference.
You say it is water under the bridge, but it is that water that has pinned me to the bridge.
Once the door is closed and the talking starts, reality is altered.
Once the door is closed and the ranting starts, reality is altered.
What you call “oops” may be SOP.
Mismanagement is a top-down symptom.
Darwin’s extinct theory of evolution doesn’t have a scientific leg to stand on.
Defunct Darwinism is the darling de facto standard for the religious scientists.
Defunct Darwinism is the darling de facto standard for the religion of science.
What isn’t known is only exceeded by what is believed to be known.
What isn’t known is only exceeded by what one believes is known.
You can follow or you can seize the dawn and go forth.
You cannot wait on the future. Seize the dawn and step forth.
The future is what you make it. The past is what you let it make you.
Seize your fear and go forth.
Seize your fear and carry it forth.
Don’t let fear direct your future.
Don’t let fear darken your future.
Leave comfort and security and seize the future.
Leave behind comfort and security of what is known. Seize the future and go forth.
The future is for those who take it.
The future is for the taking.
The past is the link that shackles us to the future.
The past is the link that shackles you to the future.
The future you let passively happen is the past of one who took it.
Don’t fear the future because of what you know.
Don’t fear the future because of the unknown.
The past is the link to the shackle that must be broken before the future can be grasped.
The past is the link of the shackle that must be broken before the future can be grasped.
Those who are in bondage at the present are enslaved by the future.
Those who are in bondage in the present are enslaved by the future.
Seize the present and be set free by the future.
Seize the present and be liberated by the future.
There is nothing you can’t do if you seize it and do it.
You heart gets you into things your mouth can’t get you out of.
Those trying to do it right are told they’re wrong.
Stupidity travels faster than thought.
Too many settle for showmanship rather than craftsmanship.
Following advice is not always advisable.
Marketing is make-believe that must be believed before it works.
Those creating, forget their customer(s) at their own peril.
You think that because you know it, others know it too; even though you haven’t told them.
The truth gets the teller into trouble.
The truth is a liability when dealing with liars.
You’ve been educated beyond your understanding.
Losing my mind is no big deal because nobody minds me.
Losing my mind is no big deal because nobody minds me anyway.
Listening to what you say means having to say nothing when you don’t remember what you said.
An honest feeling is an oxymoron.
People spend a lot of time learning, but spend little effort understanding.
The balance is broken and the weight is wanting in your measurement.
I understand the “you do it so I don’t have to” part, but if I do it and you don’t, why are you here.
I understand the “you do it so I don’t have to” part, but if I do it and you don’t, what are you doing.
I understand the “you do it so I don’t have to” part, but if I do it and you don’t, why are you needed.
Words are wasted wind.
Time does not change what has not changed.
Those not fighting in the trenches don’t know what they’re talking about.
I’m just an extra, not even a face in the crowd.
Information is not always informing.
Information is not always informative.
Those blind talk of vision and those who see talk of insight.
Studying what is wrong does not make it right.
Life is like a fine wine, everyone wants to bottle it and stick a cork in it.
Life is like a fine wine, everyone wants you to bottle it so they can sell it.
Just because it has been dealt to you doesn’t mean you have to hold it.
Just because it has been dealt to you doesn’t mean you have to keep it.
Normal is only an average that is not always typical.
I will never be what you want me to be.
Time doesn’t touch you because you don’t believe reality is real.
Time doesn’t touch you because you don’t believe reality exists for you.
You want me to handle it until I handle it, then you get upset because I handled it.
You live; therefore, you have an excuse.
You’re an excuse waiting to be expressed.
We are of the same opinion, just different mindsets.
Life is a shadow lived in passing.
I am a shadow passing through life. I never existed and no one knows me.
Your forte is focusing on the fault.
Those finding fault find it is never their fault.
To you, thank you is an oxymoron.
What I love about you is that nothing ever satisfies you.
You criticize because I haven’t done it; and when I do it, you criticize me because of how I did it.
Those who plan are a problem to those who don’t.
The waking didn’t change the dream.
The decision was made already, it just wasn’t understood yet.
Sure you can do it, but it will require you to do it.
Sure you can do it, but it will require you doing it.
Beware of those who push the sale but skimp on support.
The problem is that I’m explaining to you what the problem is.
The problem is you don’t know what the problem is.
Not all obstacles are barriers, some are bunkers.
Not all obstacles have to be obliterated, some can be defended.
Co-conspirators each provide credibility to the other.
When you say what the problem is, you’re the problem; and when you don’t say what the problem is, you become the problem.
People usually don’t want to hear what you’re saying even if they asked the question.
Everyone is lied to, by the lie is not the same for everyone.
You don’t see any problem since you only see it your way.
Thank you for not disappointing me by being understanding.
You even complain when I breathe.
You’re a complaint waiting to be exhaled.
I really do feel sorry for you, but I can’t undo what was done to you.
What was done to you, you are doing to me.
Your criticism is as constant as the sunshine. Even when I can’t see it, I know it is there.
Your excuses have succeeded in exhausting me.
I used to think you were forgetful, but I realize you only remember what you want to.
You are the self-appointed priestess of perfection who points out others’ imperfections.
When you look, see beyond yourself.
Life is a series of snapshots from a movie.
Life is a series of still shots from a movie.
Perspective is not always obvious.
Those without a purpose pursue.
I live here too.
You cannot merely receive a compliment.
I used to think you moved the bar. I failed to realize you were changing the bar.
Your concept of perfection is imperfect.
Your concept of perfection is defective.
Why are you asking me how things happen in your department?
The assessment is based on your perception.
The assessment is biased by your perception.
The “only one” noose will hold you forever.
My eyes are closed upon You.
The anointing does not assure the outcome.
Learn to dance in the pain.
What you know sucks in a different way from what you don’t know.
Those jumping on the wagon don’t realize why there is room.
Nothing has changed. Things are just more obvious than before.
Crisis is the crux of communication.
Those who can change.
Those who can change more quickly are asked to change more often.
Familiar ways are familiar traps.
Your idea of crisis management is managing by crisis.
Some people get tired of playing the game.
Some people forget they’re playing the game.
Some people don’t admit they’re playing the game.
Those talking about the lack of drive are usually coasting.
Those talking about the lack of drive are coasting enough to be able to talk.
Those lacking accuracy need a bigger gun.
Those who know the facts can’t say so.
Those who know the facts can’t admit it.
Those lighting the hoop on fire are not jumping through it.
Those lighting the hoop on fire are not going to jump through it.
The process is that the few who know make it all work.
Persistence is reverse procrastination.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
The airport scanner scam allows guys to pass their wand ofer any female they choose.
Those wanting security under their feet never soar with the wind under their wings.
Momentary passing insignificance is a lifetime.
Those who say that aren’t aren’t as they say.
Those who say they aren’t are.
Those who say they are aren’t.
A passing light in a night of darkness.
The ebb and flow of life casts up its refuse on you.
Truth is the tool you twist to serve you.
Truth is the tool you twisted to serve you.
The best view of a situation is from a distance.
The best view of a volatile situation is from a distance.
Days are like dew drips that have the appearance of substance until the sun of day causes them to vanish.
More settle for the compromise than rise to the challenge.
Compromise is more comfortable than the challenge.
The challenge is never comfortable.
Those taking the risks are penalized by those who don’t.
Sometimes word wounds never heal.
Some word wounds are fatal.
Some word wounds are worse than others.
The imperfect are in search of what they cannot participate in.
It takes no effort to go down.
To you the slippery slope was a merge ramp to get where you wanted to go.
Those who let go go down.
Talk at night turn into excuses in the morning light.
Bold talk at night turn into whimpers in the morning light.
Among the fallen november leaves, the Robin stragglers of summer searched for worms.
The wind swept over the dry leaf quilt that the trees had loosely woven.
More sunlight, but less intense illuminated the wood-covered scape.
Man touched, but not man tamed.
Too many fail to realize what they call life is sleepwalking.
Too many fail to realize what they call living is sleepwalking.
Credit begets debt.
Lacking substance, the immediate floats to the top.
Fame is as fleeting as a flickering a flame.
Fame is fleeting like the flickering of a flame.
Passion propels people to success.
Passion fuels success.
Success’ fuel is passion.
Passion channeled is a propellant.
Passion pulls people in.
Passion draws people in.
Passion precedes promotion.
The TOI (transfer of information) was more of a FOI (fumble of information).
What is tolerated takes its toll.
Tolerance is ultimately terminal.
You won’t limit yourself, but expect everyone to limit themselves.
Credit—one step before debt.
Credit—one letter before debt.
Only those who surrender win.
TV—thinking vicariously.
The bad expounded on gets better.
The good expounded on gets worse.
Those who indulge are impure.
A single source is a single point of failure.
It is only a wall to those who see it as a wall.
Those who run themselves out are easier to run down.
Those who tire themselves out are easier to run down.
Formal is not always functional.
When the drive is gone, put it in park.
People make themselves sick, then complain because they don’t feel better.
Complainers are causing the problem.
The truth is the first thing lied about.
Dreams are the reality of life people sleep through.
Upon waking, the non-reality resumes.
Upon waking, the non-reality is repeated.
Most wake up to sleep through life.
Shine is only on the surface.
Shine is only a surface thing.
The shadows strenghtened as the light weakened.
The pinnacle is the best point to launch from.
Dwelling on the negative is natural. Thinking on the positive requires determination.
Not all news is noteworthy.
Those looing ahead are not seeing behind.
Life is like a barnacle. In times of good supply, you stretch out and are nourished. In times of low supply, you stretch out to get all you can. Sometimes the tides supply and sometimes the tides leave you high and dry.
If you can’t stand the chemicals, get out of the kitchen.
If you can’t stand the chemicals, get out of the bathroom.
Vertical supply. Horizontal support.
Plans are just possibilities.
Plans are only potential possibilities.
Gamblers tend to be vocal winners and silent losers.
Determination is no indication of the right direction.
Those useful threaten those useless.
The sleeping eye does not see.
The awakened eye is unaware.
The sunrise was significant only to those who saw it.
Greed feeds the need.
Those more resourceful are less rattled.
Bi-focals—bi-fogies for fogies.
Those flexible and accommodating are flexed by those not accommodating.
There is no defense against ignorance.
Normal is the result of forgetting.
Only by not treating you like you treat me do I win.
When I treat you like you treat me, then you win.
You crush those who don’t conform to you.
Those who say they understand don’t.
The plan is to see what plan someone else has.
The individual result is often inconsequential.
Sideways movement is mistaken for progress by those ignorant of the goal.
Those not knowing the goal mistake sideways movement for progress.
Sideways movement is mistaken for progress by those not knowing the goal.
Sideways movement is mistaken for progress by those ignorant of the desired direction.
What you eat goes on.
Those who say what they don’t know are more honest than those who say what they do.
Those who say what they don’t know can be less honest than those who say what they do.
All can quickly become nothing.
Tired is temporary. Exhausted is a lifestyle.
You think everything people are talking about is what you are thinking about.
To you, the world is an inconvenience that sleep chases away.
The wind of change is blowing. Don’t turn your back to it.
What starts as a drift often develops into a drive.
It isn’t so much unseen as it is unnoticed.
People are cognizant about it, but not conscious about it.
It is most draining to those remaining.
Stimulation is often mistaken for motivation.
When we don’t do it, it is your gain and my loss.
Your “want tos” and your “have tos” are never the same.
Those subsisting sustain business.
There is one corporate secret—all companies are equally screwed up.
Ignorance is the first line of defense.
Don’t turn your back on the winds of time.
Processes perpetuate the problem.
What management says they aren’t doing is what they are doing.
Newness is often believed to be love.
Excitement is not the same as commitment.
Acceptance for who we are is the heart of our desire.
The words we long to hear make us feel what we haven’t felt for a long time.
To teens, the world is me.
Feelings are fleeting and fickle but are the foundation of many lives.
The ignorant have been taught to tolerate those indifferent.
The ignorant have been taught to tolerate what they shouldn’t/
Those who don’t know what they believe will believe anything.
When you stand for what you believe, you will fall for what another believes.
There is no hope for you accepting me if you can’t accept yourself.
Regardless of the wrapping, the gift is still a gift.
Plans need to be made by the players.
How much of you has been bought?
Small thinking can cause big problems.
God, I want my life to reflect more of You.
Those who pick first have to defend later.
The fire is gone and the drive is in park.
Too Busy Not To
Petty pursuits and self-aggrandizement have us convinced we are too bus because that is what we have been conditioned to believe. The truth is never become too busy not to:
Watch a single particle of dust float on invisible currents across a sunbeam.
Watch the leaves on a tree dancing to the wind’s symphony.
Watch as the frost on the grass is silently transformed into glistening dew drops.
Take a slow deliberate deep breath.
Feel the warm caress of sunshine.
Hear the silence speak.
Let your hair be combed by someone too young to do it right.
Tell someone how they enriched your life.
Write a note of encouragement and send it.
The future is the presence in the past.
The future was the present in the past.
When the righteous don’t make a difference, there is no difference.
Normal is just a delusion the naïve believe.
If you can’t change them, beat them at their game.
One happy with small things has a bigger chance of happiness.
Being happy with small things has a bigger chance of happiness.
Small victories sustain.
You have to fall down to grow up.
I feel as though I’m jumping through hoops, but you keep changing the hoops I’m supposed to jump through without telling me.
In a lost world, losers rule.
Losers rule in a lost world.
You try because you know it doesn’t have to be the way it is.
You can encourage, but it is an effort for you.
Your boring attitude is boring.
Small thinkers settle for small victories.
For my dreams to survive, I have to keep them from you.
It has been one of “those” days all my life.
It has been one of “those” days all month long.
There is a plan and it doesn’t include you.
The reason you don’t know the plan is because you aren’t part of it.
Those without self-control are controlled by another.
Another controls those without self-control.
The world is not waiting for your appearance to start.
You’re trying to have an intelligent conversation based on your ignorance.
Tired is a one-time event.
Exhausted is a lifestyle.
Those who work like a dog are usually treated like a dog.
Spouses know all about the P-E ratio (Performance Vs Expectations).
You apologize is an oxymoron.
Compromise—what only you are expected to do.
Those who know have to be silenced.
Those who know have to be brought in, bought off, or bumped off.
Those espousing “better” are being beaten.
Application after the fact is anticlimactic.
You repeatedly make my point, but you fail to get the point.
Death is the awakening to the substance of life’s shadows.
It is easy to confuse being here with being there.
It is not real easy to tell you’re here when you think you’re there.
Reality has a way of silencing the pundits proclaiming that people are getting better and better.
Tragedy is used by those not personally affected.
You are a legal terrorist.
You are a verbal terrorist.
You foist your terrorist agenda by the laws you support.
Terrorists are cowards with a mental problem.
Terrorists first lie to themselves, then lie to the world.
It only takes a small crisis to realize that Government has no power.
Checkbox management can’t produce out-of-the-box thinking.
The road to peace is like going against traffic on a highway.
Those who understand others are misunderstood.
The world outside you exists, but not for you as you believe.
Motives are mostly a mystery.
When your desire is put before you, what do you do?
Compared to the conversation, the offer was unexpected.
Misconceptions are a must for mismanagement.
Miscommunication is the mainstay of mismanagement.
At times, excitement is not shared.
At times, excitement cannot be shared.
Defense is indefensible.
Confidence without competence is a coming crisis.
Confusion requires a cognitive process.
Docuteer—one who designs by documentation.
Documenting defective design is deemed a feature.
Defective design documented is deemed a feature.
Documenting design defects in a positive light is called a feature enhancement.
Feature enhancement—when a design defect is documented and is not fixed.
You’re a mess looking for meaning.
You’re a mess missing meaning.
Those who care less become managers.
Ignorance relies on pride to keep others silent.
Ignorance relies on pride to keep others from asking.
When my daughter says I make her Mom on her PMS week look like an angel, I have probably been cranky.
Life tends to pull apart those falling apart.
Imperfections are only impediments to those denying their existence.
Love is a leak that has to be filled up continually.
We build our fires and are warmed by them, but in so doing we turn our backs on the source of our supply.
People build their fires and are warmed by them, but in so doing they turn our backs on the source of their supply.
Turn your back to the fire and look to the source of your supply.
Too many are seduced by the shimmering sunshine and leave the shelter of Your shadow.
Dwelling in the shadow of Your wings provides coolness in the heat of day and warmth in the cold of night.
God, let me be sustained in Your silence by Your presence.
God, let me find serenity in Your slowness.
I know you’re conscious because you’re complaining.
I ask others for comments in an attempt to make the best decision possible.
Forethought does not ensure the decision will be right.
Forethought does not guarantee a decision will be right.
I live in the darkness you create.
Expectations can extinguish what was hoped for.
Exposure ? expert.
Experience ? expert.
Those trying to resolve the conflict become casualties of it.
Diversity is a characteristic of sand.
Directions from those disconnected are disconcerting.
I had a hope, but you found out about that.
I had a hope, but you took care of that.
No, is what I expect from you and you seldom disappoint.
Why should I expect what I want?
The lie is called the truth and the deception is called reality.
Brokenness is the mulch for maturity.
Fixation on the problem is the problem.
Fixation with the problem is the problem.
The thought is mired just below consciousness.
A man said he has Olympic sex (because it only happens once every 4 years).
Those living with the devil should understand life to be a living hell.
Those most polished have been rubbed the most.
Management has no game without players.
Your thoughts tell on you.
Your plan is not to plan.
Not planning gives you the excuse you need.
How will what you know make you different?
How will what you know make others different?
The same people who made the last mistake are going to make the decision again.
Effective learning makes a difference in living.
The morning alarm halted my discourse on the finer points of Nevada law concerning canon ownership.
In-house experience is ignored in favor of external expertise.
I take one step up, then get pushed down the hill.
I take one step forward, then get pushed down the hill.
Those who have sold out to the lie have to believe it.
Those who have sold out to the lie have to sell it to others.
Sleep is a utilitarian function, not an ultimate goal.
You don’t want me to lie to you, but you want me to lie for you.
You have to first be on the ladder to panic on the ladder.
What you feed is fueled by you.
Those feeding the fire are partially consumed by it.
I get your leftovers.
An afterthought implies there was a fore thought.
An afterthought infers something else was the forethought.
An afterthought cannot exist where there was no forethought.
You keep picking, even when there is nothing left to pick on.
You are the daughter of your father and that is sad.
Management takes 3-4 years to learn what the workers know today.
Management takes 3-4 years to learn what the workers have known.
Euphoria and despair materialize and vanish in the air.
God, let me be delight in the touch of Your hand.
God, let me be comforted by the touch of Your hand.
God, let me lay down the burden of my busyness and find peace resting on Your breast.
Busyness is a burden that is lifted by being in Your presence.
God, Your presence restores right perspective.
A gold necklace is intimate apparel.
Those running with the devil will be ruined by the devil.
Those running with the devil will be run over by the devil.
Position fails to make wrong right, no matter how often it is quoted.
I am the substance of your complaint sandwich.
When you’re asleep your complaints cease.
Working on a relationship that has only one who is interested is a waste.
Silence does not signify success.
The answer is not always the solution.
Beware of future promisers from past betrayers.
Those who play games are someone’s toy.
Management layer lag — for each layer of management, the lag for information transfer increases from 6 months to 1 year.
For every layer of management, information lags by 6 months to 1 year.
What you’re looking for doesn’t exist.
Those in bondage cannot break their own bonds.
Fasting — the chisel driven on the link of bondage.
The truth is silenced so the lie may be spoken.
The truth is shackled so the lie may be loosed.
Not all education is learning.
Normal — those who don’t know what reality is.
Normal — those who have forgotten what reality is.
Relationships aren’t a given, they’re a giving.
You have had more time to shine your sameness so it just seems different.
You have just had more time to shine your sameness so it seems different.
Those playing the game hope you don’t know it.
You listened to what you heard, but that isn’t what was said.
The desire to expand is being restrained by those desiring to extend their influence.
Exhaustion is the rule rather than the exception.
Those asking the questions are looking for answers they don’t know.
Criticisms, complaints, and condescending comments are continuous.
Criticisms, complaints, and condescending comments are constant with you.
I can count on you for a complaint of criticism.
My planning is nullified by your negligence.
Those making the rules make sure others do the work.
Perfection is self-defeating.
Moments in life are not measured the same.
Those not affecting are infecting.
Your criteria are the crux of your failure.
Your criteria are the cause of your failure.
What you see deceives.
What you hear misleads.
Those wanting the best of both don’t know what they want.
Those wanting the best of both don’t understand what they want.
The naysayers are negativity experts.
Pride in your pickiness indicates deeper problems.
Free abuse is self-abuse.
Free abuse is continued abuse.
You are no different. You just say you are.
You are no different. You just think you are.
You are no different in spite of what you say.
You’re a constant contradiction.
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