Notebook 1

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July 1988 - ???? (employed at: WJ, Ford Aerospace, and TTC)

A house becomes a home when it reflects who you are.

A house becomes a home when it reflects yourself.

No one wants to hear your opinion unless it reinforces their own opinion, in which case, they’ll ask to hear your opinion over and over again.

People with money don’t part with their money. If they did, then they would be like me.

Tell me what it is about you that makes me not want to live without you. It goes beyond your looks. It isn’t even what you do. The reason I like you so much is because you are you.

If you go with just the opposite of what most people say, you will be right more times than you are wrong.

Presently, for a woman to succeed in business, she must be twice as good as a man.

I would like to ask you whether you have had an original thought in your life, but then that would be unfair to you. Just go back to your superiors and tell them that you have faithfully followed their instructions and you will receive their reward.

I can feel that sickening feeling welling up inside of me. That feeling that I get whenever I have an urge to express a deep personal feeling. It is the same feeling that usually precedes that feeling like I’d rather be dead than know how you reacted to what I said.

Good editors know what the writer meant and poor editors assume they know what the writer meant.

Winners conform to the rules, but make the game conform to them.

The argument is never the issue.

This is a country where the strength is hidden away in drawers, closets, and basements. And what should be hidden away or not even exist, is paraded down the streets, given flattering coverage in every form of media, and given preferential treatment under the law.

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People spend so much time worrying about the wrong things that they don’t even have time to think about the right things.

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Ignorance is preferred to being told by someone who is considered inferior.

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I don’t know what it is about you. It seems like when I don’t spend time with you and talk to you, I feel as if my day is incomplete.
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How can one be put to death and not have a hair on their head perish? How can one gain what is already possessed?
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Conflicting feelings of joy and sorrow are battling within me. All because someone said that they will do what we wanted to do. They said they will buy our house, allowing us to move to another house. So, we are happy to be moving and sad to be leaving.
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In this house, we have gone from a couple to a family. What was once spacious and empty is now cramped and filled. There are a lot of years and memories that fill this house.
Another page is turned. One chapter ends and another begins. The only home our children have known will become the “old house” and the “new house” will become home. It will start again.
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I vote to elect people who will be responsive to me, yet they pursue their own private agenda and give lip service to my concerns.
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Don’t listen to words. Words are only used to deceive. Listen to the heart of people. Look at their actions. Discern their motives. Then you will know the truth and not be fooled by empty words.
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I hear your words, but I also see your actions.
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Statements are crafted and then refined to create the desired effect.
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Life is a game that deceives most people into believing that they know how to play it.
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The rules for playing the game of life have been written. It is just that not everyone knows where to look to read them.
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What I do is not dependent on whether or not you appreciate, like, or approve of what I do. I would prefer being accepted and encouraged, but I will accept what comes for my being me.
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I will not change the me that I am to become the you that they want me to be.  
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I used to not think about you. Then, I didn’t know what to think about you. Later, I found that I could only think about you. Now, I can think about other things, but I like thinking about you the most.
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What I told you was just an insignificant sentence in a conversation. That abruptly changed when you heard others praising what I had done. Only then were you interested in finding out for yourself what I had done.
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“-ish” dates, as in “Juneish”, tend to squish those who have the least control over them.
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Make at least three job changes before deciding where you want to work.
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The priority that you ascribe to activities will determine what you allow to interfere with them.
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As messed up as the weather has been lately, I would have to think that the Government is trying to run it.
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As messed up as the weather has been lately, I would have to think that the Government is trying to control it.
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I Never Knew You
I never knew you like the One who made you.
I never knew you and we never did what fathers and sons do.
I never carried you on my back or tucked you in your bed.
I never kissed you or tussled the hair on your head.
I never lifted you up so you could see or answered your millions of why.
I never did any of these things with you and that is why there are tears in my eye.
I know that you are not alone. You’re with the only brother you’ve known.
I am looking forward to seeing you again when you’re both grown.
I know that you are in your Father’s arms and He is loving you like I wanted to.
So, here I stand with tear-stained cheeks wishing that it was me holding you.
I never knew I could miss someone so much as I miss both of you.
I’ll try to be strong for your mother’s sake, but it won’t be easy to do.
The tears I cry are not for you; they’re for me because I miss you.
It is through writing that I feel your pain. I put into words what you feel inside. I don’t know the depth of the feelings you feel.
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Those who don’t plan what to do with their money never have any money.
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Some people’s capacity for sleep is only limited by their need for food.
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The priests and scribes recognized Jesus for being who He was. They just maligned and killed Him before He relieved them of their status and put an end to their lucrative careers.
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My purpose is to be oil in the gears of progress.
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My purpose is to be sand in the gears of progress.
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There is a woman who knows what she is after and never gets it, and there is a woman who finds what she was not looking for.
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Money is death to those who try to hold onto it.
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Flattery is often used to soften up the target.
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Buying a house is like trying to play checkers with six people. The two people trying to move have to do so through intermediaries, while others check and verify that they are bale to make the move.
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It isn’t so much that people don’t have a choice, as it is that they don’t have a choice that they like.
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Those who lie are deaf to their own words.
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Life often does ugly things to people.
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God-fearing is not synonymous with ignorance loving.
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Creativity is living and breathing. It cannot exist within constraints without dying.
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What I want to tell you is bubbling up within me. I feel like I will explode if I don’t say it.
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There are those individuals who never look back on anything that they have done. They never adjust or change anything because they did the best they could do the first time. They know that if they redo any part, it would just be a waste of time and energy and keep them from doing something else.
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Those who are attentive to detail can sometimes miss the big picture.
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You should be ecstatic! You got to do the three things that are most important to you. You got to earn money. Then you came home and ate and then you were in bed at 9 p.m.
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I left the house last night just so I wouldn’t get your phone call telling me that you would be home later then you had originally said. I have come to expect that from you and you haven’t let me down.
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Those who cannot discern will not understand either, even if told.
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Knowing the right answer is not as important as doing what is right.
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People often find my response to be unacceptable, even though it is the same response that they gave me.
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Giving no answer maintains your status, but exposes your motivation.
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I am convinced that the members of the American Bar Ass. who concluded that abortion is a woman’s constitutional right spent too much time at the bar.
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Sometimes people are more interested in getting a response than they are in listening to the answer.
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Once current technology is documented, it becomes outdated.
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I have met the enemy and they’re kind of cute.
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How often have I poured life and energy into something that is dead?
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How often have I poured life and energy into something that has died?
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When the well has gone dry, priming the pump is just a waste of water.
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Pursue your dream and lay a hold of it. Let its power propel you through life and don’t let go of it.
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Only those who push and are prepared get ahead.
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The higher the degree of sophistication, the less sophisticated the problem is.
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The higher the degree of sophistication, the less sophisticated the problem can be.
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There are times, like right now, that I am filled with the feeling like I am on the brink of realizing something in my life that has been eluding me. I can feel the anticipation and excitement welling up inside of me, until I feel like I am going to burst.
Not having ever experienced or seen what I am anticipating; I am not sure what it will be, or even what it will be like when I do encounter it. But, I am sure that it will prove to be more than I could ever imagine.
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Women seem t be in demand as spokesmen for many organizations. I am not sure of their exact number or even the reason for their proliferation. Somehow, I believe it lies with the basic perception that women are more trustworthy and honest than men. Also, people tend to feel less threatened when listening to a woman.
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There is nothing like spending 20 straight minutes in a car, seated next to a crying child to find out what is in your heart.
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The intent of most laws is good. However, the inflexible enforcement of all laws produces more harm than good.
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People are more willing to tell you what to do than to show you how to do it.
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Creativity is a gift from the Creator.
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Activists depend on inactivity from the majority in order to achieve their objective.
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Activists depend on complacency from the majority in order to achieve their objective.
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Silence can often be misinterpreted as knowledge.
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There goes that feeling again! It feels like someone grabbed my heart and squeezed if firmly with two strong hands. It happens every time I think about the overwhelming financial burden I presently have. That squeezing feeling becomes more intense whenever I consider taking on additional debt.
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By not saying what you know, others often assume you know more than you do.
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Close counts only for those who have never achieved a goal.
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Someone needs to develop inexpensive efficiency.
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Those who have learned have also learned that those who don’t know often prefer it to remain that way.
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Knowledge is proportional to the desire to learn.
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Life is a question that someone else usually answers for you.
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Ignorance does not prevent trying to do something, but it often delays or prevents success.
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After having a trying evening with my 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son, I was attempting to explain to her the need to share with her brother. We talked for several minutes before I realized my words weren’t having the affect I hoped that they would. So, I said, “What do you think?” To which she replied, “Oh, I don’t have a mind. I don’t know what to think”. Not knowing what to make of her statement, I asked her, “What do you mean when you say you don’t have a mind”? She said, “I used it all up and don’t know what to think anymore”.
Some people I lose touch with because I get tired of being the only one making any effort to keep in touch. Other people I find that that I just don’t have anything in common with them anymore. And still with others it has just been too long since the last time that I can’t find them anymore.
There is a cliché that has bothered me for quite some time. I’m sure you have heard it or even said it yourself. It is the one that stated: You have to spend money to make money.
There are two immediate flaws that I see with this saying. First, merely spending money doesn’t make money. I have been spending money all my life and it hasn’t helped me make any money. Second, when I spend money, I don’t have money left.
Those who parrot the old cliché, “You have to spend money to make money” are only trying to justify their spending. They should be more familiar with another cliché, “A fool and his money are soon parted”.
Maybe a new cliché could be started that states” Money spent is gone, but money invested is compounded.
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Sometimes I am glad when the weekend is over and I get to go back to work.
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The greatest pressures are those that people put on themselves.
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After experiencing a weekend like the one that just ended, I am convinced there is a serious lack in the English language to describe how bad something can be. Even Roget’s Thesaurus doesn’t come close. The new word’s meaning would imply that dismemberment and death would be more pleasurable than to experience even one day of another weekend like the one that just ended.
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If the principles are taught, the variants will be understood.
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Children suffer the most because of what their parents are suffering through.
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You are always a bright spot in my day. You have the ability to sooth, refresh, and encourage me just by your presence and attention.
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The best salesmen any company can have are its employees. Salesmen may hawk the company’s products, but the employees sell the company and make the product.
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Pride and workmanship will ensure what quality assurance never will.
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You would do well to learn what you don’t know; but for you, that is impossible because you believe that you already know everything.
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I have realized what your purpose is in life. Your purpose is to thwart and frustrate the efforts of intellectual and creative geniuses like me.
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Routines are for those who cannot cope with unstructured flexibility.
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Do not let people who do what they say renew your faith in humanity. Let those who are diligent to perform what they said be recognized and appreciated. Do not let those who are unfaithful be considered faithful because of what someone else has done.
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Let what you do for others be from your heart and et their response be from their heart.
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Don’t get bogged down with the lower things in life and miss what is important.
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Yes! I am painfully aware of what time it is. I have known what time it is ever since 3:34 a.m.
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There is a woman, who has manicured nails, perfectly styled hair, flawless makeup, and aromatically perfumed. She is impeccably dressed in tailored, design-labeled clothes. Her body is trim, taut, and tan. She spends her evenings dining out or attending formal parties. She reads for pleasure and cooks gourmet meals for the fun of it.
 There is a woman, who has uneven nails, red hands, hair that was hurriedly combed earlier in the day, with makeup left over from yesterday, and spells of dish detergent and Desitin. Her clothes are two years old, or bought from the department store on sale. Her body is not what it once was. Her evenings are spend recuperating from the day, or spent running errands and grocery shopping. She barely has time to read labels She is tired of cooking 5 meals a day and knows that no one will help her clean up or to the dishes for her.
 The former is trying to become a total woman and the latter is trying to keep from being a totaled woman.
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The farther up one gets, the more dependent that one is on others.
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Buying a house is like four people playing checkers. Each move I make depends on the moves of three others.
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My mind is trying to say that it isn’t real, but the feeling in the pit of my stomach says it is only too real.
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What I want, I can’t afford; and what I can afford, I don’t like.
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Buying a house is as personal as getting married.
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A house says much about its occupants.
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One time in my life, while trying to sell one house and buy another; thus, doubling the mortgage payment. Sleep was fitful and in short supply. One night, while passing between sleep and consciousness, I saw a beautiful estate that was under construction. It was beautiful! The frame and roof were up and the workers were putting the finishing touches on the cedar siding that matched the roof. I could only catch a glimpse of it as I passed the brick pillars for the gate because of the brick wall that surrounded the property.
 I didn’t see anyone, but the voice I heard in my head said, “This is being made ready for you.”
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You tell me that there are so many things that you “have” to do.
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When you speak of doing things; it is always in terms of what you have to do. You seldom ever say it is something that you want to do or are merely going to do.
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Sadness means you feel that you could have done more than you did.
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Success is not measured by what you have accomplished, but rather by whether you have accomplished all you could.
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Once one fear is conquered, another fear comes that must also be conquered.
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It is strange how frequently things that are thought to be so, seldom are.
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It is strange how frequently things that are thought to be so, really aren’t.
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For years I was unable to understand why so many social functions and events centered around eating. Now I understand why. The reason socializing revolves around eating is that by timing the other person’s eating with when you speak, they have to listen until they finish chewing.
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Values clarification in a value-neutral environment produces a group consciousness that only parrots what it has heard.
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Values clarification in a value-neutral environment can be taught in less than two seconds by merely stating the obvious conclusion, “anything goes”.
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The more I learn, the less sure I am about what I know.
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I feel comfortable being with you. I can either say all I want, or as little as I want and feel equally as comfortable.
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Life begins at conception, except in humans, because if that were true for humans too, abortion could only be defined as murder.
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It has been said that you can’t take it with you; but then, who would want to?
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It is no mystery. What is on the other side is determined by what is done on this side.
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The rich ensure that those who are earning money will never amass enough capital to join their ranks. This all done legally through the tax system. Taxes are used to drain accumulated assets to fund government programs that the rich dream up.
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Once people learn what you want, then they find out how bad you want it and ho you are willing to compromise your position.
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The only trouble with not knowing is being ignorant of what I don’t know.
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At what point in life does one become who they are, instead of being who others want them to be?
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I am not sure why news bodies feel that it is their sworn purpose to tell me what my opinion is.
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For someone to be a social conscience, they should first have a conscience; and second, they should have a clear conscience.
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Hold buttons should be outlawed. Too much time is wasted by putting people on hold. Why not just let the person calling get a busy signal?
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Those making their first climb up the corporate ladder believe there is only on side to that ladder. Those who have been to the top before know there are two sides to every corporate ladder.
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I have learned that I know more than I thought I did, but not enough to know what I don’t.
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Those I pay to know, sometimes don’t know and yet they still take my money.
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People only read a manual when they don’t know what they need to know. After reading the manual, they have seldom learned what they wanted to know.
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People rarely read manuals, because they have learned two things. First, they learned that what they are looking for is seldom in the manual. Second, if what they wanted to know is in the manual, they learned that what they find is seldom helpful or understandable.
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How can there actually be people who can possibly believe that there is ore to life than position and money?
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Women say what they think you want to hear in order to test your heart.
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I know that I am in trouble when I find myself behind a car whose driver spends more time looking at a passenger than looking at the road.
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In life, it is better to play at what you do best and work at what is most important.
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People only have a limited number of stories; and if they’re around enough, you’ll hear them repeatedly.
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I have a 2-year-old-son who has a marvelous economy with words. He can take any word and reduce it to one syllable and any sentence to one word.
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The narrower the personal viewpoint, the better it is liked.
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When someone wants something, we’re all equal. But, when someone has something they don’t want to share, then you’ve got to pay your dues.
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When those having sight aren’t watching where they are heading, it is better t be led by those who are blind.
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Those dieting are hungrier than those who aren’t.
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Those of you who take exception to the written address of you, have a definite problem. You know who I am talking to. What makes you think that every time you hear or read the word you that you automatically think that it means you?
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Liberals have greater appeal than conservatives merely because of the connotation of the useless labels applied.
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I am glad that state agencies take abused children away from those abusing them. Why should those children be abused by amateurs? Give them to the pros who get paid for abusing children.
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Two things people need to remember about eating:
1. You don’t have to eat everything you take (although it would be polite).
2. You don’t have to eat everything that you are offered.
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My advice to you is to not offer advice to those who don’t ask for it.
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Just because I have stopped telling you that I like working with you, doesn’t mean that I don’t like working with you anymore. It is just that I don’t want you to get tired of hearing it.
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I only get nervous when I share what is important to me.
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I think speed limit signs should be modified slightly (in light of how many people obey them) by putting the word SUGGESTED at the top of each sign.
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Understanding the principle(s) does not mean that you can perform the process and accomplish the desired result.
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Required overtime to meet established standards indicates two things. The first indication is that management does not understand the nature of the work to be performed. The second indication is that those doing the work feel that they need too overtime to do what they are supposed to do.
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I would like to say this about that. I feel that that is a word that is used to fill white space on a page. That is one of those words that sounds definitive, but it isn’t really that at all. That is the printed equivalent of that spoken, “You know”.
 I have found that the greater one’s alleged intelligence that the greater the use of that becomes. That could be omitted in half as many places that it occurs. I think that some people just like the way that that sounds. They feel that if they can get a few extra that’s spread over the page that they have done their part.
 This and that often can be used interchangeably, but that just sounds so much more powerful that that is typically used. If you don’t believe that, then you are probably one of those that do this.
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The simpler the solution, the more difficult it is to sell the idea to others.
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Positions of leadership are often attained through default. Most often the person in a leadership position is not qualified for that position. They got there because of other desirable characteristics. People are put I leadership positions because they can be controlled or eliminated if they make waves.
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The shoulders were not made to hold guilt; the back was. Stand up and let the guilt slide off.
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In an attempt to eliminate extremes, everything between is also eliminated.
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In order to advance an agenda, an extreme incident is presented as a common occurrence. The proposed solution is presented as being the cure all. However, the consequences are not addressed, nor is the next step mentioned at the present time.
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People often read things differently than they are written.
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People often read things differently than they were written.
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Every time I talk to you, I feel like my zipper is down.
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“Morning people” are the bane of all those who cringe when they open their eyes and see sunlight.
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Men can take no solace in how bad women drive because women learned it from them.
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People are trained to never look beyond the surface.
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People are conditioned to never look beyond the surface.
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Refinements of a common term don’t change the basic meaning at all. It is just a way for the insiders to confuse those who don’t know, by saying the same thing five different ways.
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I have heard and read the “news”, but I still want to know the other half of the story.
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I have heard and read the “news”, but I still want to know the other side of the story.
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If others thought the same about you that you think of yourself, would their opinion of you be higher or lower?
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Good times can be had, even in bad times.
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It is only those who don’t know quality who complain about the lack of it. Because those who do know quality would never have bought what those who don’t know quality are complaining about.
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The “A/An Rule”: Use “a” wherever you can and “an” where you can’t.
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The “A/An Rule”: Use “a” whenever you can and “an” where you can’t.
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For every rule of grammar and usage, there is at least one editor that will disagree.
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A dangling participle – an editor who tried to make what I wrote, sound like they wrote it.
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A dangling participle – an editor who tried to make what I wrote, please them like they wrote it.
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When I praise God, I am not doing anything special. I am merely acknowledging what is true.
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I have pondered the negative bias and overt hostility that those in the “news” media have consistently demonstrated against Christians. I now understand why the news people are so upset with Christians. The news people are upset because the Christians know the truth and it wasn’t anybody in the news industry who told it to them. The news people got scooped and now they are trying to get even.
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My day is not properly started until I see you and say hello.
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Most organized people are that way out of necessity.
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In order for a product to succeed on a large scale, it must have a specific function but not be specialized.
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Friends have proven themselves as such.
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Those who slumber are mocked while they sleep.
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Those who claim to know, usually don’t know half of what they claim.
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As long as you don’t admit to not knowing and do a reasonable job, others will believe that you do know what you are doing.
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Those who are supposed to know and those who claim to know, don’t always know.
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The “news” people only say and write what they want you to hear and read.
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News people learned long ago that objectiveness takes too long and is only a concept for the naive.
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I like being with you, because you make me feel comfortable.
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I feel comfortable being with you because you seem to understand what I don’t say. You also correctly explain to others what I did say.
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Credibility – the litmus test used to gauge others that you would fail if applied to yourself.
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Too many words mean you don’t know what you want to say; and too few words mean you don’t understand what you are writing.
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Stress – the inability to see the big picture caused by being too concerned wit one or two pieces.
 Being consumed by worrying about something that you cannot control or change.
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I hope your hurrying doesn’t make you late.
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I hope your hurrying doesn’t make others late.
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Honesty is the best policy only when those you’re honest with can accept it.
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Life is a learning process that few master.
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You look perfect! So, tell me what is wrong with yourself?
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You look beautiful! So, tell me what is wrong with yourself?
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Appearance is the misplaced perception of what isn’t important.
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Those who hold up standards for others, never discuss their ability to meet those same standards.
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There is nothing quite like a few unrelated facts to fuel speculation.
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Pressure is most effective when exerted at the proper spot.
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Foolishness and heroism are just different sides of the same coin.
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Beware of those who are making claims about themselves.
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On days when I plan not to eat as much as normal, I usually end up eating more.
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The small essential things are usually the first to be forgotten.
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Those who don’t explain their actions to others have to explain themselves and redo it too.
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Mid-life Crisis – When you realize that half of your live is over and you haven’t started to do what you wanted to do.
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I think a course should be offered entitled “How to Successfully Pursue What is Unattainable”.
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I enjoy watching the sun rise and the sun set. I am amazed at the infinite variety, subtle shading, vibrant hues, and unique textures. Each one is awesome and majestic. No medium can capture even one rising or setting. What a great God begins and ends our days with such beauty and splendor.
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Those who most know what needs to be done, are also those least likely to do it.
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Remembering back through the decades to the events of one day, which are more clear that what happened last week.
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The best part about pregnancy tests is cramming for it the night before.
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I am not the type of person people mind having around, but I’m not the type of person that people ask to have around.
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I am not the type of person people mind having around, but I’m not the type of person that people invite to have around.
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Brains, looks, and money can’t ensure happiness.
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For too long have I allowed the unimportant things to prevent me from doing what is important.
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There is nothing more important than spending time with God, family, friends, and neighbors. The rewards and benefits of this time spent is not immediately seen, but it will. When the result is realized, it will have been the bargain of a lifetime.
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It can be extremely difficult to stand for anything unpopular in a society that refuses to stand for anything.
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People don’t always know what is under the covers when they first crawl into a bed.
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Time tells what people refuse to say.
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Reality only disappoints those who have no idea what it is.
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Darkness only exists where the light has not shone.
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People often take the opposite action of what they should take, in an attempt to accomplish what they want to achieve.
 Those who set out to become rich end up broke.
 Those who set out to become famous end up unknown.
 Those who set out to find love end up broken hearted.
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Even those who believe that they believe the same way don’t.
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People who don’t know always want to know the end. Those who do know are more interested in the process and each individual step.
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Those who are trusting, very quickly learn that those they trusted shouldn’t have been trusted.
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Trust is earned, not deserved.
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Much of what is viewed as self-evident is not self-explanatory.
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I have been educated, but I haven’t been institutionalized.
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If you don’t hold it against me because I am, I won’t hold it against you because you are.
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If you don’t hold it against me because I am not, I won’t hold it against you because you aren’t.
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People love what they think they know and despise what they do.
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There is nothing like being what you know you aren’t to those who don’t know you.
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That which is unknown is always worse than what is.
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That which is unknown is always better than what is.
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Those who only talk, feel that they have done their part.
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What you subject yourself to, you become part of it.
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College is a fraternity, just ask any graduate.
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College is a sorority, just ask any graduate.
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Colleges brainwash their students into believing that the graduates will always “owe” something to them.
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Graduates are never free from where they graduated.
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Those most likely to argue are those least likely to fully know.
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Those most likely to argue are those least likely to be fully informed.
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When people believe they are what they aren’t, then they have become what others believed they were all along.
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Men’s Pencil Test
Place a pencil between their belt buckle and their belly.
Stand up slowly.
If the pencil doesn’t fall out, help is needed.
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Life is like an asthmatic trying to get their breath and only feeling that they are suffocating.
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Life is like an asthmatic trying to catch their breath and only feeling that they are suffocating.
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A wedge can only be driven where it is permitted to be started.
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Often, I feel like a can in a dog’s world.
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How do you do it God?
Birds on the wing.
Clouds in the air.
The sun is rising up.
Yes. You are there.
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The morning crow has set flight again. He turns his back to the rising sun and flies forth. He sees the darkness give way to the light. He feeds upon what the darkness had enshrouded. He lives in the light and grows strong.
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A friend remains a friend after the friendship has been tested.
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There was a time when I liked you more than I should. Now, I like you just right.
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Only I embarrass myself.
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Why do I have to live by laws others make?
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People want what they are unwilling to fork for.
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Those talking want others to give up what they have so those speaking don’t have to do anything but talk.
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Don’t ask people questions when they are trying to hide from the answers.
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Only socially accepted programs receive favorable press.
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The “free press” was bought off long ago.
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The “free press” ceased to exist long ago.
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A conviction does not change, even when it causes inconvenience.
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A conviction does not change, even when it results in inconvenience.
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Those who should know better, usually do; but they hope that no one else does.
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Those who know hope that others who know keep their mouths shut too.
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There are times when I realize that I am failing to convey what I am trying to say and further conversing won’t help any.
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There are times when I realize that I am failing to get across what I am trying to say and further conversing won’t help any.
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The next time someone has a brainstorm, hand them a tissue and tell them to clear the air in there.
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The next time someone has a brainstorm, hand them a tissue and tell them to clean up the mess in there.
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Successful dieting requires continued restraint.
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Life never gets any easier if you think it is as important as you used to think.
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Vanity has two price tags. Both of which are ultimately unaffordable.
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A woman wants to be treated like a lady, but not put upon a pedestal. She wants to be treated with respect, but not handled with white gloves. She wants to know her husband, but still be intrigued by what he will do next. She wants stability, but craves excitement.
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Life is bigger than your personal sphere.
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People are reluctant to paint themselves in the same light as they do others. Although the actions may be the same, the words describing those actions are completely different.
I am frugal, but they are cheap
I am concerned, but they are nosy
I am articulate, but they are verbose
I am kind, but they are mushy
I am industrious, but they are busy bodies
I am sensitive, but they are unfeeling
I am dedicated, but they are slaves.

People like having their darker side appealed to. They like having a positive quality linked to uncontrolled behavior. Like when someone says, “You look so innocent, but I’ll bet you aren’t innocent at all”. Or, “You seem so reserved, but I don’t think you really are”.
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People like being praised and put down, all in one sentence.
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People like being praised and put down, all in the same sentence.
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When I have more than one thing in my hand and on my mind, it is obvious that something will be forgotten and left behind.
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Beware of those who sit on room air units and fart.
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I would like to have an old car, like a 1962 Cadillac. And I would like to park it right next to the driver’s side of cars that straddle two parking spaces. I wouldn’t want the driver not to be able to get in. I would just like to inconvenience him (hers don’t do it as often).
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Is it possible to be physically addicted to another person?
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Somehow people have gotten the idea that they are never supposed to get tired. Being tired is part of the cycle.
 Being a cycle, it has no beginning nor an end; but, merely repetition of rest, refreshed, and tired. These three phases continue their endless repetition. However, the length of these phases does vary tremendously.
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I thought that I would never understand women, but now I do. I have learned that by not understanding women, I understand women.
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It is better to choose between several good candidates than to choose between several bad candidates.
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Most unequivocal statements are unsubstantiated.
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The beginning of understanding is knowing that you don’t understand.
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The beginning of understanding is admitting that you don’t understand.
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To some, words are light; and to others, they’re a fog at night.
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Assumptions based on observations can be more accurate than deductions distilled from discourse.
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Women say they want one thing; but really, they want quite something else.
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Getting to know someone better means having to replace perfect fantasy with imperfect reality.
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Ignorance is perfect.
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I hope your cold dies off, but not you.
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I hope your cold dies off, but not because you are.
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Are you as important as you seem, or is that just what you want others to think?
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Those who know say they don’t; but those who don’t say they do.
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Those who know say they don’t; but those who don’t say they do know.
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As difficult as it is to sometimes understand, I prefer having the original source of information.
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If I need to know something often enough, which I don’t understand, I will eventually understand it.
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Facts change, but the truth remains unaltered.
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I am glad that I am not a dog, because if I was, what I feel toward you would be even more obvious.
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People are most helpful when they don’t have to do anything.
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There is no adornment more beautiful for a woman’s hair than large, fresh-fallen snowflakes.
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Honesty hurts now, but dishonesty hurts later.
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Neat and organized people are the laziest people I have ever met. They don’t want to have to look for something in more than one place. They want to go to where something is supposed to be and find it there. They are lazy and don’t want to look anywhere else to find it.
 On the other hand, messy and disorganized people are the most energetic people I have ever met. They are most obvious when they are frantically sorting through disheveled heaps like a vacuum cleaner in reverse. Seldom have I seen so much energy expended in the pursuit of a single item. The single-minded concentration and physical exertion are astounding.
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Those who are neat and orderly and deny that they are lazy are also neurotic.
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There are working vocabularies and there are spelling vocabularies, with some degree of overlap.
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Are you as important to yourself as you are to other people?
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One can love many others at the same time, but only one other intimately.
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I know myself well enough to know that if I like you this much to start, I won’t like you as much when I know you better.
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If white supremacy can’t be achieved legally, it will be done medically.
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Hitler’s scope was too limited, but Planned Parenthood’s scope isn’t. They want to control the world.
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Why is it called Planned Parenthood, instead of what is really is: Parenthood Prevention?
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The war on drugs must first be waged at home. Without a market, there can be no profit and therefore no business.
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Last Friday, my two-year-old son got on the potty by himself and went. He was so proud of what he did that he got his mom and showed her. Her praise was heaped on him and his face beamed.
 Two pairs of wet pants later, he was back in diapers. I guess his flash in the pot was more by chance than an actual milestone.
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For some, a locked door is a window of opportunity.
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Wisdom is not taught in schools.
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Those who build paper empires often suffer paper cuts.
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Sometimes, the best move is not to move at all.
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Changing one’s position often gives away what their position is.
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Those who are unsure or want to be sure ask. Those who don’t know or don’t care don’t ask.
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A woman’s got to do what a man won’t.
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Presently, news consists of what those in control say is the news.
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I am losing my insides, and if I stand around to explain it all to you, they’ll be on the outside.
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Don’t ask me to do for you what you won’t do for yourself.
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Having diarrhea is like living with a volcano inside and never knowing when the next eruption is going to occur.
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Running on empty is not difficult if coasting or going downhill.
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Change is seldom the path of least resistance.
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I always enjoy listening to the “news” from the major media sources. I am particularly amused by television “news”. They are infinitely more concerned with their ratings than they are with being objective or impartial.
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I think those wanting to stop abortions are using the wrong tactics. By telling people what not to do and by saying don’t, those people all the more want to and will. Instead, encourage women to abort their babies. Especially the Blacks, Hispanics, and poor ignorant Whites. Tell them that it is their Constitutional right to have an abortion (Don’t tell them that it isn’t, because they are too dumb to find out for themselves.) Tell them that their personal welfare is the only concern. (Don’t tell them how much money is being made off them. Hitler should have used doctors instead of troops.) Tell them that their baby is just a lump of tissue. (They know that is just another lie, but hey, why inject any truth into this issue at all?)
 They may have their rights, but if we kill them before they are born and cause them to become infertile, them and their kind won’t be around very long.
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Knowledge that is easily attainable has already been flavored by someone else.
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Why is the price of efficiency so exorbitant when compared with the cost of continued waste?
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The higher up people get in business, the more dependent they are on those below them; but the less likely they are to acknowledge or even admit it.
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Vote to outlaw criminals. (But then, who would run the Government?)
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Only those who have never taken a step forward, tell you to never take a step backward. Only those who never move cannot afford to take a step backward.
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I wanted to know, but didn’t ask about the twinkle in your eyes and the smile on your face when you looked at me.
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I want to know, but often my shyness (self-consciousness) prevents me from ever asking.
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Whenever I get up, I gravitate to you.
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I always want to have more on hand than I will need.
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Advances in technology are not necessarily advances in production.
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If what I can provide is less than what you expect, then there will be at least two disappointed people.
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Why do those presenting the news always feel that what they are presenting really is the news?
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I am not so much a nose as other people are mouths and I am an ear.
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Smartness is not necessarily the same as intelligence.
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The difference between willingness and wantonness is desire.
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Resourcefulness is the difference between desiring something to be done and getting something done.
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What I like best about you is what I don’t know about you.
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Credibility is a contrived standard to discredit those with whom you disagree.
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Is a think tank a place where everyone’s brains are under water?
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Attitude is the difference between desiring and wanting.
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Advancements in technology can be a boon, a bog, or a barrier.
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Advancing technology can put you ahead of the competition. It can cause incompatibilities what will have no solution for months to come, or it can isolate you from the way everyone else does the same thing.
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Setting you straight would be an impossible task because your delusion prevents you from seeing reality.
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Often the effort required to correct a misunderstanding isn’t worth the result that would be achieved.
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Those who are uncouth, seldom see themselves as such; but rather see themselves as merely being themself.
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Feelings should be felt; not heard.
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There are those among us who feel that it is their responsibility to take what they want from others.
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I think that the victimizing legal system teaches that crime does pay. The criminal gets a lawyer, free of charge and the victim must hire their own lawyer. The victim has to pay whatever medical bills were incurred, while the criminal has all of their medical needs met free of charge. The victim must continue to earn an income to buy food and shelter, while the criminal is given free room and board.
 What is wrong with a legal system that provides more rights and better service to the criminals than to the victims?
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The answer you seek varies according to your level of understanding and your scope of what you consider to be acceptable sources.
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When no one accepts responsibility, it is up to the one who wants to get something done to accept the responsibility to get it done.
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Those who will not accept the responsibility are more than willing to accept the credit.
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Feelings are better left unfelt.
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People who ask questions without thinking don’t think about the answers that are given.
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Those who are given unsolicited information seldom appreciate it or even want it.
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Time is the test for sincerity.
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Time is the gauge for sincerity.
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Words are the light and the fog used to illuminate and cloak.
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Words are the light and the fog used to illuminate and confuse.
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How do you gauge sincerity?
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I am a man who walks by sight in faith. I pray for what is not seen, until it is seen.
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A memory is created when the words and actions coming from the heart touch the heart of the one who inspired those words and actions.
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A simple act motivated by deep-felt emotions produce a lasting memory.
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I only saw his back, but I knew who he was. He was a thought that I had thought earlier. I did not give him all of my attention and only briefly acknowledged his existence. Now, I would like to call him back and spend some time with him, but I won’t be able to recognize his face. I will just have to spend more time living life and less time being distracted by it.
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Only apologize for what you haven’t done; not for what you have done.
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Only apologize for what you haven’t done; never for what you have done.
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Oppressors seldom ever learn compassion when they learn what it is like to be oppressed. They typically vow to be even more ruthless when they resume their oppressing.
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Emotions should be seen, but not heard.
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When people are special, no effort is seen as being special.
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Doing anything with you is an experience.
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Why does it take military might to ensure democracy?
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Why does it take military action to ensure democracy?
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Even shit has its uses.
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Some people would call me stable, and others would call me a stick in the mud.
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Perspective is all a matter of personal distortion.
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She said that she tells her husband everything. What I have learned is that she tells her husband everything, except what will upset him.
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When given a choice between having fun or knowing the truth, truth is a distant second.
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Eating is instant gratification.
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Dieting is a slow, gnawing hunger.
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Competition exposes both sides of human nature.
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Some compete and others endure.
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I ask questions that people don’t ask themselves.
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My timing is about as opportune as that time of the month.
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Caring people usually have ulterior motives, but people out to have a good time are out only for themselves.
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People are like water. They take the path of least resistance through life. Even though they can move mountains, they often choose to go along with everyone else. They choose to conform because it is the easiest thing to do.
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People only do what you tell them to do as long as you are there to make them do it.
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People don’t change. They just make others think that they have changed.
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The best ideas are those of others who have never done anything with them.
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Hot cocoa is a good laxative.
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Experience life as it is, it is better than dreaming.
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A problem many people have is that life often seems less real than dreams.
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People are often well aware of their reputation, but are unwilling to do anything to change it.
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What seems good and right, may only be so for the moment.
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Get done what has to be done before doing what you want to get done.
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“Censorship!” is what is cried when others attempt to do what you have been doing to them all along.
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Organized people are just disorganized people who have resorted to a system that enables them to function.
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Your only effort has been to criticize what I have done.
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It is easier to criticize others than it is to work.
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What is your attitude when you don’t know?
Do you:
 Wait until someone tells you?
 Go find the answer yourself?
 Assume it isn’t important (otherwise you would know it already)?
 Assume no one else knows it either?
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Pardon me for liking you out of ignorance. I would like the opportunity to get to know you better and see if I like you more.
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If people only liked what they have, more than what they don’t have.
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If people only appreciated what they have, more than what they don’t have.
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Every action is deliberate, calculated, and measured; but not necessary.
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Usually, what people do and what they want to do are two separate things.
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Being able to connect two lines together does not automatically make you an illustrator.
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I may smile to your face and say that it is OK, but you don’t want to know what thoughts are going through my mind.
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Those put in charge are not necessarily the best choice for those to be in charge.
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Specific incompetence is not generally known.
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There is nothing wrong with my mind; that is just the way it functions.
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People complain about what they have, in light of what they don’t know.
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What other tips do you follow to avoid getting distracted?

Fill the air with Mozart, or music of your own choice, but at a low enough volume that no distinct notes (or words) are heard.