Notebook 2

Notebook 2

Only those who can make others listen have rights.

 Information that cannot be readily accessed is worse than not having the information at all. Because no time is pent looking for information that isn’t there.

 Ignorance may be bliss, but not knowing is pure hell.

 When it is yourself, it is called being fashion conscious. When it is someone else, it is called vanity.

 Standards – generally specify everything, yes specifically define nothing.

 The part of the conversation you never hear; all that is heard is, “I’ll do all that I can to help”. (make it more difficult for you!).

 A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it is cheaper to print a thousand words than it is to print one picture.

 What people are telling you is usually not what you need to know.

 I am not impressed at all with people who bend spoons with their minds. I can bend spoons much faster with my hands. However, I am impressed with people who catapult through car windshields using their heads. I am impressed with how dumb they are.

 When doing what no one asked you to do, don’t expect to be thanked because you can never do enough for that.

 Managers don’t need to know. They only need to hire those who do.

 Your lack of attention to the matter is not my problem. However, when your inaction results in my non-production, then it becomes my problem.

 Why eat it?
You don’t need it.
You don’t have to have it.
It is only a habit.

 People complain, but really don’t want to do anything about it. They are just malcontents who enjoy complaining.

 A “complainer” can endlessly tell ever-diminishing numbers of people the same woeful story until everyone stops listening.

 Even a kicked dog comes back if it is fed between kickings.

 There are those who exude sexual desire; and there are those who extinguish sexual desire.

 It isn’t the type of food eaten that makes one fat. What makes one fat is the quantity and frequency of eating.

 It isn’t the type of food eaten that makes one fat. What makes one fat is the volume and frequency of eating.

 Layoffs hurt many more than those laid off.

 If you are in the business, you have two choices:
 1. Do the job, or
 2. Get out of the business.

 It is interesting that people who use information that others have gathered won’t let others use them.

 “Writer’s blank”, the point from which all writing begins.
(Also called a blank sheet of paper, or blank screen.)

 Laziness is not a medically verifiable handicap.

 Corporate prostitution is encouraged by managerial pimps.

 If it was simple, it wouldn’t be life.

 I don’t now whether you are getting better looking as you get older or whether knowing you makes you look better tome.

 I would rather work with people than have to work people over.

 There are people whose sole purpose for existence is to thwart the efforts of those who try to accomplish something.

 In my mind, I saw an enormous gray granite mountain. There was nothing growing on this arching peak. Looking at it from a distance, it appeared to be one solid piece. As I looked closer, I could see something moving on the surface of the mountain. Upon a closer examination, I could see that it was a man. He was scaling the peak without using any climbing tools. I could not tell what path he had taken to get to his present position. My eyes are not trained as his are to spot a hand- or foot-hold. I could see him studying the mountain’s surface, contemplating his next move and planning his path up the peak.
 If he had been using tools, his climb could have been purely vertical. Yet his technique was silent, skillful, and was producing the same result, but without calling any attention to himself. Hardly anyone passing by knew he was even up there.
 The analogies for this vision could be many, but I feel that the mountain represented my life and the climber represented sin. Even though I may pose a strong and insurmountable presence, whenever I permit a hand- or foot-hold, sin can use that to overcome me. With time and pressure, what was smooth can become cracked, allowing further and more rapid deterioration of my defenses.

 Many people complain, but few do anything to stop their complaining.

 It seems that people prefer having something (everything is even better) to complain about. The look shocked if you ask them, “Why haven’t you done anything about it?” because then they would have to listen to someone else complain.

 Most people prefer to be what they aren’t.

 You spend more time cleaning your teeth than you spend with me.

 We have different perspectives, different personalities, and different priorities, yet we are still married to each other.

 I see myself sitting on your shelf, as you order your life and pursue your agenda to accomplish your goals.

 Even when we sleep together, we don’t.

 I’d rather be your pillow than your husband. That way I would be between your legs and in your arms every night.

 You seem more concerned that I am either too warm or too cool to exactly please you.

 I want one thing and you want another, and yet we can only hope to get it from another.

 Those without a plan should pan to do what those with a plan tell them.

 Beware when someone tells you that it will only take a day to do what you want them to do. It is true that they said, “a day”, but they didn’t say when that day would be.

 Reputations are built on the bodies of others.

 Reputations are built with the bodies of others.

 Doing unto others as they do to you only gets you in trouble.

 Those who expect to get what they want, don’t really know what they want.

 When assisting others, seldom are your efforts truly recognized. Credit is usually given to and taken by those you assist.

 Only volunteer your own services. Not the services of others.

 It is easier for me to not learn something than it is to learn something wrong and then have to unlearn it and relearn it correctly.

 Just because I don’t say that you are a fool doesn’t mean that you aren’t.

 People use criteria, which they feel is important, to judge others.

 People most often don’t reveal certain personal revelations because they don’t want what is known about themself used against them.

 People most often don’t reveal certain personal revelations because they don’t want what is known about them used against them.

 I find you refreshing and honest.

 Businesses reflect the personality of those running them.

 Doing something dumb always receives more comments than doing something smart. Usually because more people have done dumb things than have done smart things.

 Doing something dumb always receives more comments than doing something smart. Usually because more people have done the same dumb things than have done smart things.

 I believe that I have discovered one universal constant throughout humanity. Mothers like bare baby bottoms.

 I find it ironic that our three-year-old daughter has learned things about me that my wife of 9 years doesn’t know.

 People who subscribe to ignorance give it a life of its own.

 Because no one else can do what you do, you are to be both commended and criticized.

 When people do more than they have to, they will always have to do more than they have to.

 Those who wait for the road to come to them, often end up having their grave paved over.

 Intelligence is often the “buzzword” veneer over the underlying ignorance.

 Intelligence is often the “buzzword” veneer over the underlying plywood of ignorance.

 Much of life is spent doing poorly what someone else could do better.

 Like sand in one’s shoe, so are people in the lives of others. Some are walked on and others are enjoyed for who they are. Some are left behind, never to be seen again; and others are taken home before being dumped.

 I have enjoyed meeting you, talking with you, and getting to know you in part. On Monday, who knows where you will be? I may never see you again, or you may be back to stay. Regardless of what the future holds, I would just like to say, “I am glad that I met you”.

 One cannot appeal to what another does not have.

 If live is a beach, then we are just grains of sand on it.

 What I thought would happen did happen. I forgot your name. It was a sad day when I realized I no longer knew your name and would have to rely on my memory to remember your face.

 I am so glad that I met you. For the longest time, I was under the misconception that people were just born ignorant. But, thanks to meeting you, I have realized that nobody could be as ignorant as you are without being taught ignorance.

 I don’t mind being uncomfortable at home because I don’t get paid for being there and I don’t have to maintain a professional image.

 I do much better at performing tasks that I don’t know anything about what I am doing and nobody expects much from me. I seem to have the most trouble doing tasks that others feel I should be able to do, regardless of whether or not I know how to do them.

 Humans are relative beings, who live in a relative world in which the only absolute is relative.

 In life, you can have whatever you want, as long as it is your second choice and nobody wants it.

 Merely because it was done that way previously does not necessarily mean that it was done perfectly.

 Plans not formulated ahead of time must be established and revised on the fly.

 It is easier to ask than it is to know.

 What is not understood is prioritized and passed off as technocratic science.

 Ignorance is received best when it is passed off as obscure technical information.

 If I didn’t know anything about you, I wouldn’t care anything about you.

 I will admit my ignorance, but will what you know help me with what I don’t know?

 For those who ask me, “What’s new today?”, I will say, “If ignorance is bliss, then I was happier yesterday”.

 There are those who take, but have never given; and there are those who give, but have never received.

 Words never spoken can hurt more than those which should not have been said.

 A lump in my throat and vision that is blurred. I think about you Dad, and those three words I never heard.

 You speak in generalities when you discuss my need to address specifics.

 Unfair characterizations were never intended to be fair.

 Because I never loved you is why I still like you.

 The mind is a sponge that absorbs directly and indirectly. After it has reached the saturation point, the information must be ingested. Information that cannot be assimilated just drips off, or is pushed down the sink.

 It is not uncommon for both male and female college graduates to suffer from PMS (post matriculation syndrome)that settles in after the euphoria wears off.

 Have you discovered the “pearl” in your life? As in nature, its source is often irritation. But with time and continual attention, that irritation is painstakingly transformed into a pearl of great value.

 Where are you looking for the pearl in your life? No pearl starts out either looking or feeling beautiful.

 Humility looks better on others.

 There are two main reasons why I don’t do something. It is either because I am ignorant or lazy. It is not easy to which is which.

 There are two main reasons why I don’t do something. It is either because I am ignorant or lazy. It is not always easy to tell the difference.

 Whether I come in first or come in last, I am still a winner. I may not appear to be a winner, but I really am.

 If it doesn’t work the way you have been trying to do it, then try to do it differently. You already know how it doesn’t work. Find a way that it does work.

 You taught me much in life Dad:
 You taught me to do what I say and to say what I mean.
 You taught me to work hard and to do my best.
 You taught me to stand on my own two feet and help those who aren’t.

You taught me to revere God and to obey those in authority.
 And now I would like to say than you for all you have taught me. I would also like to teach you something that I learned, but you never said to me, “I love you. I love you Dad”.

 Living is a refining process that is intended to make living more valuable each day. Unfortunately, people don’t view it as an attrition process and cling to the dross because it is increasing, instead of embracing what is diminishing but becoming more valuable.

 Living is a refining process that is intended to make living more valuable each day. Unfortunately, people view it as an accumulation process and cling to the dross because it is increasing, instead of embracing what is diminishing but becoming more valuable.

 Why does it seem that those who hold conversations in hallways stand at opposite walls, forcing passersby to walk through their conversation?

 Don’t yell at me until I come back. I don’t want to miss anything unimportant that you might say.

 To some, life is a pain which they view their world through. To others, life is a pain that makes living a questionable choice.

 Joy shared is not nearly as good as joy experienced.

 Well-meaning people often are as mean as those who aren’t.

 In a world where perception is the measure of achievement, appearance is everything.

 In a world where appearance is the measure of achievement, looks are everything.

 Hope not realized is disappointment internalized.

 Life is a plan that doesn’t end at death.

 Life is a plan that few people make.

 Life is a plan that few people make ahead of time.

 Marginal knowledge maximizes disappointment.

 Those left out are let down.

 Those who don’t pay attention to what they are doing, are often embarrassed by those who do.

 I don’t now enough yet to argue. But I do know enough to say, “Are you sure?”

 It is your faithfulness that means so much to me.
It is your faithfulness that is drawing me to you.

 If you want everything to look the same, Xerox it!

 Consistency requires no thinking, just copying.

 Consistency eliminates creativity.

 Consistency is the first step toward stagnation.

 I think; therefore, I’m in trouble.

 Consistency is complacency by another name.

 Consistency is the measure of one’s ego.

 Those who cannot conform have a personal problem.

 We may be walking together, but we are not in step.

 An inability to conform indicates alack of respect for others.

 My initial reaction is to be offended and to get upset. After I vent my initial anger, I can view the situation more objectively and deal wit the issue and not my ego.

 You must be a terribly disturbed person is “inconsistencies” bother you. If you want to talk about inconsistencies, we could talk about your life, but if that is too close for comfort, we could talk about every news media or scientific magazine, or the movies, or the arts, of even about life itself.
 Your intellectual aversion to inconsistencies is as inconsistent as you are. You will have to come up with another excuse.

 I would rather be the butt of your jokes than to be a butt like you.

 The majority of people have a tendency to believe that it is better someplace else, until they get there.

 People waste too much time worrying about what hasn’t even happened.

 I don’t like people knowing my name, who I don’t know.

 When learning is an exponential curve, the source of information learned earlier is difficult to differentiate.

 More productive efforts are accomplished through errors than through plans.

 Chance is the quantum leap of productivity.

 An assumption indicates a lack in communication.

 Don’t listen to what the world tells you because it isn’t right and it won’t last.

 I have been told that if I want to make it, I have to swim upstream. That statement is full of lies.
 To start off, I already have made it. It is just that most people don’t want me to realize it. Then, there is that swimming bit. Knowledgeable people know that walking is three times faster than swimming, so why swim?
 Don’t fight against the established system, get out and walk around it. Use your strength to bypass the world system’s strength.

 What is important is learned; it is not taught.

 Words are the bane of any language.

 Words are the bane of every language.

 Those who can least help, are most likely to help.

 Those who can least help, are most likely to offer help.

 Those who can least help, are most likely to offer their help.

 You can get down, or you can getup.
You can get depressed, or you can get motivated.
The choice is up to you.
And where you end up will be largely dependent on how you decide to handle daily problems and pressures.
What will it be for you?

 For the most part, appearance is more important than performance.

 It doesn’t take long to be shot down, especially when being shot at from the hip or when a shotgun is used.

 There is nothing quite so frustrating as trying to document what isn’t designed.

 There is nothing quite so frustrating as trying to document what isn’t understood.

 Those whose ass you save usually act like an ass when yours needs to be saved.

 Those who criticize first are usually the most to blame.

 People get “warm fuzzies” when they really aren’t sure how it is supposed to be.

 “Weakness” is just an excuse (or rationalization) by another name.

 I am going to ask you a question and I want you to be honest, but don’t tell me the truth if it will hurt my feelings.

 I am going to ask you a question and I want you to be honest, but don’t tell me the truth if it will make me feel bad.

 If I don’t need to know it, I don’t want to know it or be confused by what isn’t specific to me.

 The fewer the “controls”, the more control each individual has and must exert.

 Those who criticize don’t want to contribute. If they wanted to contribute, they would pitch in at the point of their criticism.

 Those who don’t contribute, criticize.

 I would benefit the most from keeping my mouth shut.

 I only compete when I have a chance of winning.

 One of the more difficult things to do in life is to allow another to be who they are without trying to make them more like us or more like who or what we want them to be.

 “They” is “we” when I don’t want you to know it is me.

 Most struggles in life aren’t worth talking about or even fighting about.

 Much in life isn’t worth what we are told it is.

 It is the small things that ruin the day.

 Most of what is learned in school is merely an academic exercise, because wherever you go, there will be different rules and a different emphasis.

 The more distinctions made, the less distinct they become.

 Those who wrangle over words, emphasize the importance of words, until their choice is replaced. Then they say that it is trivial and unproductive to argue over using words that mean the same thing.

 My lack of timing is impeccable. I always catch people at the wrong time. Maybe I should have been a mortician?

 You may be aggravated with the way things are, but you aren’t yet motivated enough to do anything about it.

 You can justify anything to yourself and you can justify many tings to others, but will your actions be seen for what they really were when all your talking stops?

 People who always feel that they have to say something; often say what didn’t need to be said.

 Creative people create.
Non-creative people manage.

 When it is a compliment, people call is perseverance.
When it is a cut, people call it stupidity.

 Pressure causes what is not written to be easily forgotten.

 I tend to think in tangents.

 A general help produces specific confusion.

 A general help results in specific confusion.

 Those who don’t contribute, have more to gain by criticizing.

 Sometimes, a lie is easier to believe than the truth.

 When too much is included, not enough is said.

 I prefer ignorance to knowing what I don’t know. At least that way I feel better about not knowing.

 Being an information sponge has its drawbacks. It isn’t long before you have to go farther and farther to soak up information.

 Those who want to learn, are most often frustrated by those who don’t want to learn.

 Some businesses are so stagnant that even death doesn’t change anything.

 Some businesses are so stagnant that even dying doesn’t change anything.

 If you have not seen me any other way, then you can’t know that I can be other than how I am.

 If you have not seen me any other way, then you can’t know that I can be other than what I am.

 My desire to help others is seldom a help to me.

 Ignorance is acceptable, unless you know that you don’t know.

 Fegan’s Rules for Fighting
 1) What you don’t do to him/her/them, they’ll do to you.
 2) What you do to them, will be done back to you, only worse.
 3) It is only fair as long as you are doing it.

 The more facts assimilated, the more similar they become and the finer the distinction becomes.

 As long as I am here, you don’t need to learn what you need to know.

 Weightlessness – the uneasy feeling of being the newest person in a business environment.

 In my quest to learn, I am amazed at those who also don’t know; but have mad no effort to learn.

 The trouble with knowledge is that only those who don’t know know it. Those who think that they know, don’t.

 When everything is spelled out, people don’t think about it. But, when the meaning is convoluted and unclear, additional thought is given to distill meaning.

 My problem is that I don’t want to just know something, I want to know everything.

 If I had to guess between one or the other, I would have to choose the other. Because, when I do guess, I guess wrong. So, by choosing the other, I am saying that it is wrong and so I am really picking the one.
 However, if I didn’t choose the other, it would be right. So, by choosing it, I make it wrong; and that makes the other right. Unless I choose it, making it wrong.

 If I always have one and never use it, then I’ll never need it. So why have one?

 Sometimes, in an attempt to be kind to others, more harm is done than if you had treated them regularly.

 I have no aversion toward learning, providing it is useful.

 Vanity knows no age limitation.

 Infidelity is only good for divorce lawyers and romance writers.

 Infidelity is not good for those directly involved or indirectly involved.

 Don’t learn; be happy.

 Greed is no justification for the need.

 The cry of the unborn is not heard by human ears.

 The unborn cry and their Father hears them.

 It used to be that I was just ignorant.
Now, I know that I don’t know.

 It used to be that I was just ignorant.
Now, I have learned that I don’t know.

 I find it much easier to learn it right the first time, than to have to unlearn and then relearn it.

 A question is only a good question when it is asked.

 Curiosity is not the same thing as a desire to learn.

 Curiosity is a keen interest in a specific thing.
Learning is a systematic approach to a broad topic.

 When too little is given nor used, it is only an exercise in futility, resulting in dissatisfaction by everyone.

 Need for acceptance results in ambiguity.

 Ambiguity produces verbosity.

 The advent of computers allows errors to be replicated n fractions of seconds that used to take days.

 Those without enough knowledge are often hindered by those with more.

 Does my ignorance (as alleged by you) threaten your purported intelligence because you will have to explain what you really don’t understand?

 Now you know, until you forget again.

 Disillusionment is like a weed. Once it is established, it is impossible to totally eradicate.

 Documentation is a tedious process of verifying the mundane to inform the ignorant.

 Life
It is the only game in town. Only the living can play. No rules have ever been published and the players keep changing what they said. Everything goes and noting is forever. Whatever you are thrown, must be hit and whatever you are handed must be properly handled. There are no balls in this game’ everything is a strike. Usually, you are given just one chance and most people are betting against you. Everyone is a player in this game, there are no observers. The winners aren’t really winners. They just say that they are, or the others just think that they are winners.

 Ignorance is preferable to confusion.

 Presently, I am content not knowing what you do. But soon, I will what to learn what you know.

 What is important to me appears much larger than what is not important to me.

 Sometimes, in an effort to sound both informed and technical, the message is lost in too many words.

 Frequently in a writer’s concerted attempt to convey a plethora of complicated, albeit simultaneously complex and technical information that is pertinent, the exponential use of polysyllabic words unnecessarily obscures the contents of the message that is being conveyed to those bewildered and hapless readers who have attempted to follow the convoluted text.

 Anything I can do, someone else can do better.

 Control is a delusion to those who think they have it, and an illusion to those who think they don’t.

 “Temporaries” are employee prostitutes.

 The only people concerned with the facts are those who don’t know them.

 Sometimes, in my quest to learn, I run over those who either have not learned or are also learning.

 Those who never do anything can never be accused of ever doing anything wrong.

 Those who are the newest, are often the best to ask because they most vividly remember being new. And those who have been there the longest have long forgotten that there was a time when they didn’t know all that they know now.

 Laughter is often used as a mask to deceive.

 Ignorance serves its purpose if it promotes complaining.

 I knew when you told me that you didn’t want me to explain it to you last night that you wouldn’t ask me to explain it to you again.
 I just fell into that familiar trap. I listened to your complaining and figured out a way t help you out. In that very act, I committed two errors. The first error was assuming that you would want to learn something to prevent the situation you were complaining about from happening again. I didn’t realize you preferred complaining to learning. The second error was I started to help you because I thought that that was what you wanted. I didn’t understand that you were telling me, in your roundabout way, that you were better than those around you. But I see that now.

 I like how you draw me out and then pin me down to dissect me. You support me by lecturing me or you encourage me by saying my decisions are stupid.

 Those who spend their time thinking about food also spend equal time consuming food.

 First, does not ensure foremost.

 There are more than enough businesses willing to throw the first shovelful of dirt into the grave of an ailing competitor.

 Sometimes the only option a writer has is in deciding what not to write.

 Often when asking questions, I end up with more questions than when I started.

 Sometimes, information learned causes more questions than the original question.

 Sometimes, information learned causes more questions than the originally asked question.

 I have come to realize that I need people more than they need me.

 I can tell by your actions that you like it more than your mouth says.

 Creativity is the child inside that is always saying, “Why?”, “What if I…?”, How about…?”, and Why not…?”. Those who are creative never tire of asking the questions and always see something new in the old.

 After nearly nine years of marriage, I am just beginning to realize that I don’t know you at all. All I do know about you is what you want me to hear. And I am not sure what I hear is true.

 When we first met, I exposed my heart and soul to you. I wanted you to know the deepest part of me. I wanted you to know all of me.
 You used what you learned about me against me. You hid certain aspects about yourself from me. You only let me see what you wanted me to see.
 I feel as though my trust in you was used to your advantage.

 I used to want you to know everything about me. I wanted to hare my thoughts and feelings with you. But now, I find I don’t want to tell you what I think or feel. I have even begun to hide what I write.

 You liked it much better when each workday was pure hell for me. You enjoyed hearing how I struggled and was treated like dirt. You resent the fact that I now have a job where I am happy. Maybe I should go back to that old job just to make you happy?

 I hope that you can justify yourself to yourself, because you can’t justify yourself to me.

 Where summer never ends, children never grow up.

 Before deciding you don’t like it, because you would never to it that way, try it and see if it works. If it doesn’t work, just accept it.

 Contrary to what you might believe between your ears, there is a whole big world, ow which your life, opinion, and impact is as one flash of a firefly. Keep a proper perspective.

 Commuting
 The roadways are filled with a virtual cornucopia of assholes. I am sure you have either encountered, or more likely, have been accosted by one or more of them.
 Although their numbers are endless, and trying to describe each one I have had the unique experience of having had our paths cross, would be unending. Instead, I have decided to categorize them according to their character traits.
 First come the infamous tailgaters. You have seen them in your rearview mirror. At first, you thought there was someone in your rear seat, but you realized that they really weren’t inside your vehicle, but were probably pushing you down the road with their bumper. These“tailgaters” don’t care which lane you may be in. Being in the slow lane with a tailgater behind you is bad enough, but don’t be in the fast lane with one of them behind you. They get so close that their bumper, headlights, (unless they are driving two-story, jacked-up, four-wheel-drive toys whose headlights are at eye level) and grill disappear, as they ride your tail at 10 to 15 miles overthe posted speed limit. They flash their high beams, swing half way off the road so you can see them in as many mirrors as possible, and then get even closer. Never mind the fact that you are two feet behind the car in front of you that is tenth in a string of vehicles.
 Don’t slow down or slam on your brakesto back these tailgaters off. Either of those actions will only make them want to pass you even more. Once they do pas you, if you are left on the road, they will play games with you while mouthing words that are better left unheard.
 Other categories are those: going 10mph below the posted speed,
 drive with their high beams on,
 won’t let you pass,
 pass and then slow down in front of you,
 drive in a closed lane until they come to the barrier and then barge in,
trucks.

 You may laugh at my ignorance, providing you can displace it with your explanation.

 It is easy to criticize what has been created, but it is difficult to create what has not been conceptualized.

 Why do I feel that I must apologize to others for the way I am? Why do I apologize to others for being offended at me? Why don’t others apologize for not being able to accept me?

 People only do what they have to do.

 My dreams live and die within me.

 Often, those who step aside are later stepped on.

 Often, those who step down are later stepped on.

 The greatest measurement of wisdom is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

 Why am I leaving? Because I have taken a job elsewhere.
What is my reason for leaving? If you had been as busy doing your job as I have been doing mine, you would know why I am leaving.

 Government, by its very nature perpetuates and rewards inefficiency.

 The perceived response is not a true indication of the internal response.

 Often times, what needs to be said isn’t; and what is said shouldn’t.

 Some people are incapable of hearing and understanding the truth. I am sure you have met or now someone like this. You can tell this person something personal and those words get converted, diverted, or blocked. It is plain to see that the words were changed, rerouted, or even halted before they got where they were supposed to go.
 Who really knows what was heard, or even if anything was received at all.

 People who choose their words carefully and say what they intended to say live a frustrating life. They are surrounded by people and immersed in society that places no importance on words used for communicating. Words are chosen that merely suit their purpose.

 Let me say this, so you won’t be confused about that. When I apologized, I did not apologize to you, nor did I mention your name nor did I imply or infer in any way that my apology was extended to you or include you.

 Your not saying anything said more than if you would have said anything.

 Your silence spoke more truth than any words you could have said.

 Those making the rules make the rules to suit them. Fair and equitable is only discussed when someone else is making the rules.

 One reason I am leaving is because I care. I care enough to not want to become like those who are staying. Those staying have resigned themselves to doing things the way everyone else does them.

 I had a nightmare about working at Ford. I dreamed that I knew what I had to do, but couldn’t get it done because of the people I was working with.

 Commuters never look back.

 An assumption is the first indication that communication is not adequate.

 On the road of life, there are plenty of potholes and assholes. I have a good idea for what to fill the potholes with.

 Businesses that believe they only exist only to make a buck should either get out of the business or go into minting.

 I cried out to the Lord, and He heard my prayer.

 It doesn’t matter whether you do 1 job or 10 jobs, as long as whatever you do is 100% correct.

 Don’t explain to me what you are going to do; just get it done.

 I had to smile at the thinking (I can’t call it logic.) of a young lady I worked with. She was going to Key West, Florida, but wasn’t going out in the sun. She said, “Those days are gone. I don’t want skin cancer or wrinkles”. I would take her seriously; except I had never seen her without a cigarette in her hand or in her mouth.

 You are a visual delight in slacks.

 Killing is accepted, as long as those killing kill their own.

 Just because there is a plan doesn’t mean that it is a good plan, or that the plan will even work.

 Having a plan doesn’t mean the plan was even thought through. It may only mean that someone thought there should be a plan and wrote down the first thing that came to mind.

 People are not often motivated to learn what they don’t have to learn.

 People aren’t interested in learning anything, it they know that there is someone else, who already knows what they are supposed to learn, they can just ask to get the answer.

 People aren’t interested in learning something, it they know that there is someone else, who already knows what they are supposed to learn, they can just ask to get the answer.

 People aren’t interested in learning anything, it they know that there is someone else, who already knows what they are supposed to learn, they can just ask to find the answer.

 People aren’t interested in learning something, it they know that there is someone else, who already knows what they are supposed to learn, they can just ask to find the answer.

 People are opposed to learning new ways or changing old habits.

 The more people I tell that I am leaving, the more chances I take of someone really finding out why I am leaving.

 When writing, keep in mind that sooner or later someone you wrote about will read what you wrote. Rest assured that the one reading will not agree totally (maybe not at all) with what was written.

 Ignorance is often less painful than knowing.

 Words spoken that never needed to be said. Who is any the better for them and who is any the worse? If they didn’t need to be said, then why were they spoken? Did you have a purpose or reason for saying them? Was it accomplished?

 Think about it less and understand it more.

 One of my major sources of irritation is that I am routinely given a task to do without knowing any of the particulars about it.
 I then plan to do the job based on the skimpy information that I was given. Then I coordinate my efforts with the supporting personnel, only to have the one who gave me the task tell me that my plans are not consistent with what he had promised.
 I then have to go back to the people doing the work for ma and explain the change in plans.
 My complaint is: Why wasn’t I given all the facts at the same time that I was given the task to do?

 I am routinely given work to do, but not the information that I need to do the job.

 What was tolerated when there wasn’t any choice becomes intolerable when there is a choice.

 You say it is a matter of perspective. I say it is a matter of survival. You look at the glass and say it is half full and I say it is half empty because I see the contents leaking out at the bottom.
 You say that you see a lot of potential here and would be part of this young group that is starting out. I see a group of people that has serious problems. I don’t want to be part of a group that doesn’t know what they are doing, doesn’t know how to to do it, doesn’t know where they are going, and don’t know how to get there.

 I see more energy expended by individuals trying to change things to conform to “their” way than is expended to get the work done.

 Why is it that news reporters think it is their duty to inform the public about someone lying? The public is lied to every single day. It is just a fact of living. Even those reporters do it too.
 I guess what does make it news is that the reporters finally learned for themselves what everyone else suspected or knew all along.

 Non-smokers will only have rights when they have to pay (a third party) to breathe clean air.

 You never talked to me while I was here, so why should I expect you to talk to me since I am leaving?

 I do not enjoy being led-on, deceived, or lied to. When I discover that this has occurred, I get upset.

 Every now and then, I get a sideways glimpse at a very small piece of how everything goes together. This insight lasts about half the time it takes my mind to recognize what it is.
 This insight is the overall functioning of one aspect of my life. It is like getting a glimpse of a completed jigsaw puzzle while still putting it together, one piece at a time.

 Often schools are only bureaucratic baby sitters.

 It seems ludicrous that it takes trained professionals 12 years to produce relatively useless entrants to the workforce.

 The trouble with thinking about something too long is that most people begin to believe that they understand it and then we are all in trouble.

 I am not sure why managers place certain people in positions of leadership. It isn’t that these individuals have proven leadership abilities, just the opposite has been repeatedly demonstrated. It isn’t that these individuals are personal friends (although they sometimes are), they are usually disliked by the manager. Sometimes it is a matter of seniority, but this practice is losing ground to those driven by productivity.
 I believe the real reason managers place unqualified and inept individuals in positions of leadership is to be able to control those individuals. This control is accomplished in two ways. First, by selecting unqualified individuals to lead, the manager ensures nobody will contend for his/her position. And second, by stressing the individuals ineptness, the manager guarantees the individual’s loyalty and dedication to doing whatever he/she says.

 I find it humorous to hear editors howl when what they have edited is unedited, returning the text to the way the writer wrote it. From their belly aching, one would never believe that editors are fallible or there could be another opinion.

 Pick your field and make it your forte.

 Pick your forum and make it your forte.

 I find it a sad comment on the human race, when more emphasis is given to the humane treatment of animals raised for slaughter than it given to helpless babies that are ripped apart or burned to death.

 Everyone has rights, provided that you aren’t normal, aren’t addicted, or aren’t deviant.

 Smokers’ right is to kill themselves and me too, while they’re doing it.

 I have experienced both extremes of the pendulum swing when leaving a place of employment. The first place I was thrown out the door. In “Personnel talk”, my date of voluntary termination was moved up two days (involuntarily). The next place, my termination notice was not even accepted. It was handed back to me.

 The main reason I am leaving is that I feel my attempts at producing documentation here seemed more like labor than work. I spend weeks (and weekends) trying to get my “baby” out. The only problem was that those who I thought were supposed to help get the baby out, didn’t help. Instead of helping me get the baby out, they kept pushing it back. And when I got fed up with the “help” I was getting and tried to do it myself, I was reprimanded.

 Sometimes it is easier and kinder to let people believe what they want to believe.

 Whoever said the truth never hurts anyone wasn’t telling the truth.

 Something has happened to me over the last year or so. I have consciously noticed a change in my confidence. This new confidence has even extended to my subconscious. My dreams have changed dramatically. Instead of not being able to get away from those pursuing me, I can either easily escape or even turn the tables on them. I never lose in my dreams anymore. Nor do I cower before those in authority. I stand for what is true and right, and I do not back down from them.

 Sometimes no words can adequately express a thought, a feeling, or a scene. Sometimes, only personal experience can convey its essence.

 I don’t need any more time to think about what I have decided. You didn’t provide me with any additional facts, so there is nothing to think over. The time for thinking is over. My decision has been made and we both need to accept it.

 How a person thinks about himself/herself influences what words are used when referring to themselves. If someone is confident and has a positive self-image, that person talks in terms of strengths (not problems, habits (not vices), and opinions (not just thoughts)). They are positive and they reflect it in hat they say, in how they act, and even in how they think.

 I find it ironic that I have gotten more information from people who I don’t even work with than from those who I work with.

 I will use your same line of logic. You have given me no good reasons to change my mind and decide to stay.

 I find it humorous that people will (and do) buy an expensive and extremely powerful piece (pieces) of equipment that requires far greater understanding of both the work to be done and the procedure for performing the work than those doing the work possess.
 Has the concept of training been discussed? I seriously doubt it. Were those who will have to be performing the work questioned as to the need for the equipment or their ability to perform tasks that they have never performed before? O don’t believe any thought was even given to those workers. But they will be expected to embrace unfamiliar technology and perform higher levels of productivity.

 I pulled back weeks ago. I stopped forcing myself into conversations and inviting myself along. I stopped caring and I stopped complaining. The only thing I have yet to do is pack up my things and quit.

 To find out who your friends really are, leave and see who still talks to you.

 It is better to prove yourself a friend, than to prove who your friends are.

 The most amicable are often those who are least caring.

 When you run with them, you are part of them.

 Some companies are strange. They give you grief (shit) when you work there and give you grief (shit) when you leave.

 Some people are peculiar. They won’t talk to you because of rumors they have heard and because of the conversations they have had with others. But they refuse to talk to you to see if what they heard is true or not.

 I don’t cover my ass because I never backtrack and I never slow down.

 When the reference bring used makes two conflicting statements, is one assumed to be right; or is the reference discarded and a new reference obtained?

 I don’t think by committee and I don’t have to decide by committee either.

 It is interesting to see how different people respond when they hear of your leaving. Some shun you, others congratulate, some don’t care, some ask you first-hand, and others believe what they have heard.

 It often seems that Personnel is more concerned with those who are leaving than they are with those who stay. Why is this?

 Don’t try to pressure me into doing something. I do not respond positively to pressure. I usually end up doing just the opposite of what I am being pressured to do.
 If you hope to change my mind, reason with me. Reasoning works much better with me than trying to pressure me.

 Ignorance creates problems for the uninformed and the informed too.

 You haven’t asked, but you expect me to put faith in your words. I only put faith in what one person has said and that is because He loved me for me and died for me.

 Life is paradoxical. It normally isn’t what it seems to be. There are so many times that what appears one way is just the complete opposite.
 When someone is concerned with your welfare, look to see where your concern affects their life.

 Perception is improved when deception is removed.

 I know too much, but don’t know enough.
I know too much to believe there isn’t a better way.
But I don’t know enough to keep my thoughts to myself and keep my mouth shut.

 Knowledge and experience are like oil and vinegar. Together, they add flavor and bite, but only through vigorous interaction.

 I won’t change my mind about staying because I know that things will just stay the same.

 Don’t accuse me of not wanting to face a challenge. I enjoy challenges. It is just that I don’t enjoy frustration.

 I cannot function well in an environment where I am not treated as an equal by my peers. I am not demanding respect. I am just asking for common courtesy. I am not even asking for professional curtesy.

 Since the reasons for my deciding to leave will not change, I will not change my decision to leave.

 Some people mistakenly believe that the best person to do the job is the one who has been there the longest. As wrong as this belief is, it is a very prevalent belief among managers.
 In theory, this belief is great and it sounds good in the classroom. However, experience often does not bear out this belief. What experience demonstrates is that no two people have the same abilities. It is true that abilities can be learned, improved, and compensated for, but this is not necessarily the case when the measurement of ability is longevity. Ability means being able and capable to perform a task and longevity just means how long someone has been in one place.

 Sometimes the trouble with trying to get information is that those who have it don’t want to share it.

 Sometimes those who have the information don’t know what they have.

 Truthfulness is not a prerequisite for leadership.

 Lord, please give me patience when dealing with those who have none.

 Lord, give me patience to deal with those who have none and are trying mine.

 Commuters never look backward. They are only aware of the bumper that is two feet in front of them.

 Tools are useless unless used.

 Never leave a place merely because the personality of one individual. However, it the entire business philosophy is in direct opposition to yours, it is better to find a business environment more conducive to working.

 Never leave a place merely because the personality of one individual. However, it the entire corporate philosophy is in direct opposition to yours, it is better to find a business environment more conducive to working.

 When leaving a company for specific reasons, write down the reasons. Because, with time, the mind tends to glamorize that former place of employment and trivialize the reasons for leaving.

 People are not as interested in how much work you do as they are with the quality of work produced.

 Respect, appreciation and contentment are more important to me than how much a job pays.

 A favorite delaying tactic that I have seen successfully used is to say, “It (whatever hasn’t been done) will be ready Friday”. I am fairly certain you have heard this comment from the mouths of others, or from your own mouth.
 This excuse is a classic for two reasons. First, it buys additional time to so whatever had not been done. Second, and more importantly, it does not specify which Friday it will be ready.
 One word of caution when using this excuse, if the week day is Wednesday, or later, say, “Monday” or “next week”, instead of “Friday”.

 In order for a delaying tactic to be successful, it must convey concern because the work in question is not completed, the feeling that the work in question is your highest priority and a sincerity for the promised time of completion.
 If you can successfully convey these three things, you should be in acting.

 People routinely do and use things that they have little or no understanding of. It is only when something breaks or doesn’t work the way they think it should that people realize just how much they don’t understand.
 Offhand, I could mention at least a dozen such examples to prove my point. But I will only mention a few general examples. Some general examples of common things most people don’t understand are: cars, computers, TVs, cameras, and phones.
 As long as they are working properly, those operating them gladly explain and demonstrate their proper operation. But let them malfunction or fail to operate at all, and then see who understands how those things really work.
 Routinely I have seen people (men and women) throw open a car hood and stare at the hoses, wires, and gizmos without knowing what they are looking at or what they are looking for.

 I make myself available to learn.

 I read to learn and gain understanding.

 Those unwilling to learn will never know what they are missing.

 Secrecy can cover a multitude of deficiencies.

 Adaptability and flexibility are essential qualities in today’s business environment.

 It is easier to kill the innocent, who have no voice, than it is to restrain the guilty who have their rights.

 I often get in trouble because of the comments I make. Many people assume that I know it all, but that simply isn’t so. My comments are merely common sense to me but seem to be haughty know-it-all comments to others.
 I am sorry if what I said was true and I am sorry that I know something that I have no reason for knowing. I am sorry that I know something you don’t know. I am sorry that I learned something that you didn’t.

 I have learned that many empires are built on excuses, flame shifting, and stalling tactics.

 For some unknown reason, all work not done the week before is completed on Friday, even though nobody works on Fridays.

 Pardon me for thinking that your questions indicated a desire to learn. I should have realized earlier that you didn’t want to learn, but merely wanted me to tell you the answer.

 On Thursday or Friday, never trust a weatherman’s weekend weather report. He has been paid off by the resorts and will lie straight-faced.

 Last night, my wife gave our one-year-old son some cough syrup. He immediately started coughing and then threw up. I just hope she doesn’t give him anything for throwing up.

 Recognition often mirrors a company’s management philosophy.

 Top management typically recognize slower management for outstanding work, but seldom recognizes those who actually performed the work.

 I have a need to work where I am allowed to learn as much as I can and to do as much as I can.

 The test of a process or a procedure is not how well it works when everything is running smoothly, but rather how well it works when things aren’t running properly.

 Those who demand much also need to praise much.

 I have come a long way and I have even farther to go. The farther up I climb, the more I see I have yet to go.

 A company that is more concerned with who is doing the work than with what work is being done, is in trouble.

 The assumption that collective thinking will produce better ideas is in trouble from the start. Because without training, direction, and coordination, more may result in less.

 Light dawns first on those searching for it in the right places.

 Death is no gentleman. He will take you whenever, wherever, and however he can. He doesn’t even care if you are ready. His warnings are at best arbitrary, but usually none are given. In a fraction of a heartbeat, he has taken control. What now is the condition of your soul?

 Death is no gentleman.
He will take you when he can.
It makes no difference, young or old.
His touch will leave your body cold.
In a heartbeat, he will take control.
What now is the status of your soul?

 An offer to help never accomplished anything.

 Unless an offer for help is accepted and the help given, it really isn’t help.

 Sometimes an untruth (a lie) is less painful (more self-serving) than correcting it.

 You only heard the words, but I heard the heart.

 Rhetoric is always suspect.
Words are plentiful and accusations are free.
But you’d better propose a solution or don’t talk to me.

 Your useless words waste the air I breathe.

 Your excess words make my ears tired.

 Your excess words tire my ears.

 If as much time and energy were spent doing the work as is spent dickering about the work, there would be less work to do and led to dicker about.

 If as much time and energy were expended doing the work as are spent dickering about the work, there would be less work to do and led to dicker about.

 Words are to a sentence as numbers are to a formula. The words of a sentence can be rearranged to produce different results and effects.

 A word is separate and unique until it is added to a sentence.

 A word is black and white, until it is added to a sentence. Once it is in the sentence, its true color and shading is discovered. Sometimes words of a stronger or softer shade are selected.

 Words can best be used to paint a vivid picture or convey an impression.

 Why is it that people are so good at telling me what I did wrong after I did it, rather than telling me how to do it right before I do it?

 Writers are word-alchemists who select, mix, and refine their writings to produce a silky-smooth, polished product.

 Time expended is not always evidenced in the product produced.

 Telling a toddler not to run is like telling an adult not to breathe.

 A beginning writer uses words to express thoughts. A skilled writer thinks about the words used.

 I used to think I had to know the facts before making a decision. I have learned that that isn’t necessary.

 You know who I am. You have seen me before. I am the face in the crowd that you turn away from when you see me. I am the one you hope doesn’t recognize you and come over and talk to you. I am the one talked about but not talked to.
 I am the one that you talk to only when you want me to do something for you. I am the one you ignore when I ask you to do something for me.
 I am the last one picked and the first one let go. I am the one who gets the wrong order or gets short-changed at the restaurant.
 I am the one who can never get what I want in my size.
 You know me better than you think. To look me in the face, look in a mirror.
 I am you.

 Why is it that smokers flick their smoldering cigarette butts out their vehicle windows? Is it because they realize how foul stale cigarette butts smell? Or is it because the world is their astray?

 If clothes do make the man (as I am repeatedly told) and the Marines are looking for a few good men, then why don’t the Marines put a few men in good clothes?

 Facts and information are not necessarily unbiased.

 When those telling me what I should or ought to be doing are doing the same, or more, then I will listen to what they have to say.

 Absolutes cast in stone are not necessarily correct or true.

 Putting it in stone doesn’t make it right. That just makes it more difficult to change.

 Love, is the song of lust I sing.

 In order for learning to be effective, it must be both logical and ordered. Both of these criteria would tend to indicate a planned approach, as well they should. Without being logical and ordered, new information quickly becomes a series of unrelated facts.
 If learning is logical and ordered, what is learned makes sense and builds on what has been learned previously. This results in a growing understanding for that particular subject.

 Those who know the rules are frustrated to the point of exasperation by those who don’t know the rules and don’t care about the rules.

 Sometimes I marvel as the conclusions which people arrive. These people don’t use logic and they don’t think through what they are trying to say. They have something to say, and they will use whatever means they have to in order to say it.
 Favorite tactics of these “thinkers” are to start off with a specific statement or topic that commands attention. What follows is a series of unrelated (or somewhat related) facts that “prove”(scientifically, absolutely, beyond any shadow of doubt, conclusively) the point they wanted to make from the start. They end their “objective” discussion let everyone else know just how astute their analysis of the “problem” has been.

Don’t think about what they have said or you will start noticing that their “evidence” is about as solid as a sieve.

 The ultimate procrastinator: Don’t put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

 Wargasm – the ecstasy military personnel experience in the heat of combat.

 Have you reached your maximum potential? If not, please join us. We are looking for those who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

 No one company has yet managed to corner the market on asses. In every company I have looked, I have found some asses. I can’t say that their presence is universal, but I have a suspicion that they are.

 There is no such thing as the “perfect” company. It only exists in the minds of dreamers and in the tales of strangers. The best that can be hoped for is to find a company were respect, professional courtesy, and understanding are extended to all employees.

 If you are working for a company where you get along reasonably well with co-workers and have a good rapport with your supervisor, be content.

 Learning is the elixir of life.

 Those who say they know, don’t; and those who don’t, don’t care.

 Are you really as big an ass as you appear to be? Or are you just trying to fit in here?

 Giving someone a promotion does not change the person, just what they are called.

 The older I get, the more excuses I have for not doing something.

 The older I get, the more excuses I can give for not doing something.

 A major drawback editors have is that their understanding of English is not matched with a technical understanding of what they are editing.

 An editor who alleges to know it all doesn’t understand it all.

 An editor who “knows it all” is incapable of learning anything new.

 Advancements must be more than merely adding newer technology.

 Innocence is not an age.

 On a typical morning commute, I usually pass the fast-lane huggers two or three times.

 People do whatever they feel they can get away with.

 The self-sufficient are not so in death.

 If you want to have a niche, you have to carve it our for yourself.

 Do not rejoice too quickly when a poor or bad manager is removed. There are plenty more where that one came from.

 As a general rule, I never go into something only part way. Either I don’t feel something worthy of consideration or I feel if it is worth doing, it is worth doing it as well as I can possibly do it.

 You are one to tell me to be assertive! The very one who tells me to be more assertive refuses to let me assert myself.

 Assertiveness, like kindness and understanding are learned through example, not through lecture.

 I get tired of looking for things in palace where I did not put them.

 You are pretty funny. You told me on Monday that if I went to work sick that day that you wouldn’t even talk to me. So, here it is Thursday, and guess who is going in to work today sick? It is someone who would not even think of staying home merely because she is sick. Can you guess who she is, or do I have to spell out your name?

 When I get upset, I don’t talk anymore. Instead, I write what I wanted to say but knew that no one would listen to. By writing down what I wanted to say, I get to express what I probably would have said. And by reading what I wrote, somebody pays attention to what I had to say. That is all I really wanted anyway.

  Rats. I’m sure you’ve seen them before. They’re the first to leave when the ship is sinking and they sneak in when everything is safe and secure. But not all rats have four legs.

 The major problem that I have with editors is their attitude. Many editors (like Marines) believe that their title entitles them to something (like lordship) that is due to them. Unfortunately, it isn’t so. Editors, like lawyers, have been forced upon us so long that people accept them as a necessary evil.

 The way my wife tells me that she is willing to have sex with me says, “If you want to do anything, wake me up”.

 Those who rarely ever have steak often spend hours or even days dreaming and fantasizing about it. They know how they want it. They know what it will be like. They savor each moment in their mind, over and over again. They can see it, touch it, smell it, and most of all, taste it.
 Unfortunately, when they finally get their steak, it is seldom as good as they imagined it would be. So it is with those who seldom have sex. It is often better to dream than to be disappointed.

 It often seems more rewarding fantasizing about a dream than it is to be disappointed by experiencing reality.

 Scenarios in the mind. Shades and variations of how or what I had hoped or wanted to happen. An infinite variety of different paths rising out of mental musings and disappearing into surreal situations.
 They never happened and they never will. It is all just a game the mind plays to see if you will play along. Unreal situations that reveal to yourself what you are really like when no one else is watching.
 Do you want to play? Do you know when the game is over? Can you stop playing?

 Often times business practices need to be questioned and changed.

 Bureaucracy which perpetuates itself has lost sight of its purpose and forgotten its function.

 You mistakenly believe that all my problems stem directly from work.

 What is remembered the longest is what is believed to have the most authority.

 Authority is synonymous with credibility.
But authority is not synonymous with the truth.

 The woman I never knew, I married.

 If you would only listen as closely to your actions.

 If you could only hear your actions as loudly as I do.

 Be careful of thinking out loud, because no one has the same mindset.

 I know too much to be an editor.

 I enjoyed reading your analysis of my project. I just feel sorry for yourself and for those who believe that what you say and do is the truth. But I understand your motivation. You can’t deal with the facts when you have to justify the existence of your job. Besides, by making it more entertaining to read, you always make yourself look better.

 I know how you got the reputation that only you told me about. You were the one who started that rumor and you are the only one who has ever repeated it.

 Those who obey the law are treated with contempt and distain by those who disobey the law.

 Facts are inconsequential when justification of one’s job is being questioned.

 I don’t mind editors who have minds and actually use them.

 My most favorite editorial comment is “unclear”. First of all, I am unclear about what is unclear. But I guess it only serves to prove that writers can read minds, while editors have difficulty reading paper.

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What other tips do you follow to avoid getting distracted?

Not paying attention to things I am not controlling.