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You are “someone else” to “them”.
Why is it easier to be “nice” to people we don’t know?
When love becomes a snare, where can one turn for help?
Some call it job security, but I call it early ulcers.
Humility is good, but only in small doses and not too often.
Your beauty shines from within.
Sometimes other peoples’ problems have a way of becoming your problems.
Never ask a woman two questions: her age and what her weight is (unless you under state it).
Commitment: the cement that holds a relationship together.
A word not taken to heart has little effect.
When there is nothing else, there is always despair.
Love is not arrived at either intellectually or analytically
An error perpetuated is not made right until corrected.
Even the sun becomes black when stared at too long.
Company kept is no guarantor of conduct.
People find most annoying in others is what they do that annoys others.
People find most annoying in others is what annoys them about themself.
Age before beauty. Honor before enthusiasm. Deference before defiance.
Sometimes I know and sometimes I don’t know. What bothers me is when I don’t know what I do know.
In a society controlled by time, speed is a valuable commodity.
Why are the poor and less fortunate not envied.
Those who enforce the law must maintain a higher standard.
Those who enforce the law need to maintain a higher standard.
What I heard myself say was different than what I thought I said.
Let today’s troubles end with this day.
Indecision is better than the wrong decision.
Indecision is not always better than the wrong decision.
Eating only temporarily satisfies the desire, it doesn’t fulfill the need.
For every “exception” a new rule (or two) will be made.
________ (men/women) are a pain in the _______ (a part of the anatomy) — make your own generic insult.
People frequently don’t hear the needs of others.
If dreaming wasn’t better than reality, then what would be the use of dreaming?
Dreaming is less disappointing than reality.
Dreaming is often less disappointing than reality.
Even the uncommon becomes common when experienced too often.
You are probably nothing like I think you are, so I will try to not make you into someone you aren’t.
When you’ve dug a hole for yourself, don’t try to talk your way out of it, just let them bury you in it.
Only through living does one have the ability to change.
Just by being, you are!
When does hoping become hopeless?
The key to “thinness” is not “what” as much as it is “how much”.
The inability to change makes people old before they really are.
Don’t look so far ahead that you overlook today.
The status quo stays the same.
Some people only want to see you when they want something.
Some only want to see you when they want something from you.
Some people only want to see you when they want something from you.
The truth never changes.
When a diet fails, no words are necessary; body language says it all.
Selective enforcement of the law is just another way of showing partiality and is only injustice by another name.
Cohabitation only demonstrates how far people are willing to go to be sexually satisfied.
Great people have others to tell others how great they are.
Great people let others tell them how great they are. They don’t boast about themselves. However, it they aren’t told how good they are, they will remind those around them.
What do mother worms teach baby worms anyway?
More time is spent pursuing what one doesn’t have than taking care of what they do have.
People spend more time pursuing what they don’t have than taking care of what they do have.
Life is spent pursuing trivialities and chasing details. Thus there is seldom time for what really matters.
Life is spent pursuing trivialities and chasing details. Thus there is seldom time for things that really matter.
A cute klutz is coddles, while an ugly klutz is ridiculed.
Really beautiful people are usually never very good at anything (they’ve never had to), they’ve always had their looks.
Knowledge destroys common sense.
Intelligence is inversely proportional to common sense.
Reality is altered by one’s perception.
What one believes is the way it is.
Does perception distort reality, or does reality distort one’s perception.
Death is preferable to being in the middle of a marriage dispute.
It is OK to say what you think, but think about what you say.
Plans — the dipstick of reality in the crankcase of the future.
Time — a non-renewable resource that must be managed wisely.
Plans allow one to get done what was scheduled.
Time regulates what gets done. Priority establishes order. Panic disrupts everything.
Fog looks thicker in the light.
Information is only desired when it is unavailable.
The eternal seems trivial when compared with the present.
It is better not to know than to know and not be able to do anything about it.
Not knowing the future is best. That way you can always think the best.
Efficiency produces dependency.
You look at flowers and see the cost. I look at flowers and see your beauty.
You look at flowers and see the cost. I look at flowers and see their beauty.
When you’re at the top and can’t go any higher, they just spread you thinner.
Basics are fundamental, but that doesn’t make them easy.
Youth is desired by those who have not tasted life.
Youth is desired by those who have lost theirs.
The secret to knowing more than others, is not revealing just how much you do know.
The secret to knowing more than others is not revealing just how much more you really do know.
Questions within, problems without.
How can one help but doubt?
Different people have faith for different things.
A promise never made is better than broken trust.
A promise never made is better than a trust broken.
A promise never made is far better than a trust broken.
When does a dream become a nightmare?
Your laughter:
1. Brightens my day.
2. Makes me smile.
3. Cheers me up.
4. Relaxes me.
5. All of the above.
Laughter is a mood altering substance.
You are a superlative person.
You are a superlative supervisor.
You are a superlative spouse.
You are a superlative friend.
Frustration causes caring people to not care anymore.
Frustration causes caring people not to care anymore.
Frustration — the fruit of futility.
If someone has to do it, let someone else do it.
If someone has to do it, let somebody else do it.
Why do people see more clearly where they have come from than they are going? Because people spend more time looking backwards then they do looking forward.
People say, “But it is the principle of it.” When they don’t have a good excuse.
1985 — The year of the armpit.
No Smoking (and no thoughts of smoking)
Who is going to be there when you aren’t?
The rules are only for the majority.
The rules are only for the majority, the minority doesn’t follow the rules.
“Status symbol” — those who have it say it isn’t and those who don’t say that it is.
The inside of me feels like hugging the inside of you (but my outside won’t).
My appreciation of you grows exponentially as I know you more.
My appreciation of you grows exponentially as my knowledge of you grows.
Frustration — when a dream is not realized.
I wish I could do for you what you do for me.
I wish I could only do for you what you do for me.
Liking is a lot different from participating.
Life may be too short, but eternity isn’t.
Why is the truth not openly spoken?
Rules are made to be broken by those who make the rules.
Why is truth seldom spoken and even less often believed?
Some people have to work very hard to get a bad reputation and others are just given a bad reputation.
If things don’t come to a head, you might go out of yours.
If things don’t come to a head, you might go out of your head.
A “vote of confidence” is not a popularity contest but a statement about the observed capabilities.
A “vote of confidence” is not a popularity contest but a statement about the perceived capabilities.
I would like to believe that you are as beautiful inside as you are on the outside.
True “power” is knowing that you aren’t really in control, but not letting anyone else know what you know.
Things just look better to winners.
Blame — what people do in an attempt to not accept responsibility for their own actions.
Blame — pointing a finger in an attempt to shift attention to another.
It isn’t that people don’t really have the time, it is just that if they consider something to be important, then they don’t have the time to do it.
I don’t know you well enough to compliment your character.
Don’t vacillate until it is too late! Take a stand! You will soon see if others concur or disagree. They will either let you stand or try to knock you off your feet.
When infinity is placed in the finite realm, what happens to what is left over? Is it said to not exist? Does the finite believe that there is nothing greater?
The unknown produces apprehension.
People don’t want to know the truth. They only want to believe what they want to.
When writing (even if you’re wrong) be consistent.
Ignorance is ignorant.
Knowledge is not the same as understanding.
Where is the source of a circle?
Where is the source in a circle?
Jealousy — wanting for yourself what someone else has.
Jealousy — wanting what someone else has for yourself.
Commitment — what is expected from others.
Lust — unrestrained desires.
Love — channeled passions.
Feelings — uncontrolled emotions.
The problem is that this country runs better backwards than it does forward. The real task is getting it to run right.
Frustration — the result of performance falling short of expectations.
Beware when asked if there are any “suggestions” for ways to “improve” operations!
Most suggestions are unwanted.
Troublemakers make suggestions.
Self-preservation and harmony are preferable to improvements.
Some people appear to be beautiful, but you are beautiful.
A vote for does not always indicate approval for, as much as it may indicate opposition to the alternative.
Yesterday’s tomorrow is tomorrow’s yesterday.
Should inefficiency be subsidized?
Your pipe dream is coming apart at the seams.
Your pipe dream is leaking.
Your pipe dream is not too tightly wrapped.
Knowing you was only for a short while. Missing you will be forever.
Flash is only surface. Class is to the core.
Flashy is only surface. Classy is to the core.
While driving, deer are not dear to me.
Prejudice — not recognizing a person as an individual.
Stupidity abounds.
Stupidity — a free gift with every indulgence of ignorance.
Those professing to know everything don’t; and what they do know they don’t understand.
At best the present road system is inadequate. Let it be raining, foggy, or even threatening to snow and traffic stops. But is there is an accident, traffic ceases to move.
Would you still be as attractive if you weren’t so cute?
Those who complain the loudest are the ones not bold enough to do the things they’re complaining about.
Typically those who complain the loudest are the ones not bold enough to do the things they’re complaining about.
It is interesting to see the changes in attitudes by those aspiring to leadership.
People reluctantly do what they dread because they are unwilling to do anything new.
People reluctantly do what they dread because they are unwilling to do anything different.
People reluctantly do what they dread because they are unwilling to do anything differently.
If you said it, that makes it important.
Love spread across a lifetime is a good friend.
I would rather “keep” you as a friend than to “have” you as a lover.
The drudgery of routine is preferable to the uncertainty of change.
I would rather keep you as a lifelong friend than to have you as a temporary lover.
Why change if it means having less to complain about?
People resign themselves to doing what they don’t want to do, instead of doing something about it.
Dishes seem to always be dirty because for every clean, they’re dirty twice.
When it flows, things really get deep.
A bottleneck may exist, but you are the cork.
“Softies” are the best people to walk over because they are easy on the feet.
Eyes lead on e to sin.
Those who have the most reasons to be understanding usually aren’t.
You have a brain! Sit on it and use it.
When your livelihood depends on electrons, don’t pull the plug.
God, I thank you for giving me feelings. I would only like to be happy with the feeling I have.
In a paper war, the only winner is the paper manufacturer.
In a paper war, the only winners are the paper manufacturers.
A watched printer never finishes. Go away and come back later, the job will be finished.
You know you’re in a union when it takes two people to do the work of one and the one watching earns more than the one working.
Your worst-case scenario was optimistic at best.
You are what you write. Don’t be a dangling participle.
People who are not in full control of the facts often assume they are.
I already knew everything I wanted to know about and didn’t even know it!
There is a way to do things and there is a way to get things done.
Those who wait experience longer lines.
I already knew everything I wanted to know about it before I knew it.
What I hear and what I learn are totally unrelated.
Dreamers make plans, but never take any steps to reach their goals.
The dreamer make plans, but never take any steps to reach their goal.
Those who aren’t guilty suffer the most when groups are punished instead of individuals.
Ignorance is preferred when the alternative involves learning.
Overcomers make the best of any situation.
Overcomers make the best of every situation.
Successful people choose a course and then take steps to achieve their goal.
Violence is what the violent understand.
Mutual Gratification — a relationship without commitment.
Disappointment — the let down resulting from reality.
Words never spoken can be regretted more than words hastily spoken.
Disappointment — the gap between expectation and experience.
Disappointment — the gap between expectations and experiences.
Shooting stars appear brighter than the familiar ones.
She is!
I am!
We are!
Pregnant. A father. Parents.
When you don’t push, you don’t get anything. When you do push, you just get a hard time.
A desire without a plan is only a dream. A dream without hope is futile.
Understanding makes explaining easy.
With knowledge gain understanding.
Your beauty can’t be captured on film.
Discipline — the separation between dreaming and reality.
Knowledge, or the lack of it doesn’t change the facts.
Disappointment — the bitter fruit of reality that dreamers often eat.
Disappointment — the bitter fruit of reality that dreamers must often eat.
Disappointment — the bitter fruit of reality that dreamers most often eat.
Disappointment — the bitter fruit of reality that dreamers often eat before it is ripe.
The standard for “standards” is that the standard cannot be understood.
Be wary of answers given by those who “think” they know.
Even change is subject to change.
Not all tears are the same.
When a point is debatable and the rule for the point in question is debatable, what is the point of having a point that varies?
Excuses sound good only to those giving them.
With no hope for tomorrow, today is all there is.
Apologies don’t produce results.
People who use intimidation are threatened by people they can’t manipulate.
Injustices are unjust by those who must suffer through them.
If you don’t admit it, you don’t have to face it.
Foresight requires more planning than hindsight.
Tomorrow today will be yesterday.
Tomorrow today will be yesterday, but not soon enough.
When a change is not for the better, is changing for the sake of change reason enough for changing?
Sadness — the result of “near sightedness”.
Reality — what people say they want but refuse to accept.
Why do people “talk” to inanimate objects?
A potential developed is a dream fulfilled.
Artificial Intelligence — someone claiming to know what they really don’t.
Embarrassment remains after the deed is done and after the laughter stops.
If ignorance is bliss, make me happy!
Deception is deceitful and those deceived are always unaware.
I may not be doing anything, but I’m not wasting energy!
NOTICE: The 9 o’clock Tuesday meeting has been rescheduled for 10:30 o’clock on Friday.
How can you be threatened by what you deny?
Sometimes conversations have no words.
Youth — a curse only to those who are young.
Work as if your job depends on it (it just might).
Friends are not won or lost, they are made.
Friends are not won or lost — they’re made.
Those who do not learn from hate become pawns of that they perpetuate.
Those responsible don’t accept the blame. Those who get the blame aren’t responsible. It just works out that way.
Working hard and being worked hard aren’t the same.
An overdraft at a blood bank does not mean one is in the red.
Is infinity really infinite, or is it just finite beyond comprehension?
Macho — men trying to prove to themselves what they aren’t sure of to start with.
Love is sometimes tough. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be true.
Contentment comes from within.
Satisfaction is meeting one’s own expectations.
Intentions never accomplished much.
The fog inside is as thick as the fog outside.
The fog inside is thicker than the fog outside.
When does hoping become unrealistic?
Instructors impart information.
Teachers impart understanding.
Some things you never know unless you ask, and other things even after asking you never know.
Some things you never know unless you ask and other things you never know, even after asking.
If haste makes waste, then late makes more so.
Don’t eat in light of the exercise you intend to do, rather eat light and exercise.
Judgments
Under
Deception
Involving
Criminals,
Ineptness,
And
Lawyers.
Do me a favor, don’t ask me to do you any more favors.
Satisfaction does not necessarily imply it was done right.
What is known isn’t as important as when it is known.
A favor extended too often becomes expected.
Knowing is only important when you know it first.
When all has been said and done, will all that has been said done?
Knowledge doesn’t make the ending any different, just what happens when one gets there.
Sometimes silence is the best thing that can be said.
What is the purpose of “education”? Is it to inform or to indoctrinate?
The difference between want and need is the cost.
The difference between want and need is the pri¢e it co$ts.
Pain makes each moment an eternity.
Is ignorance really preferable to confusion?
Is ignorance really preferable to confusion? I don’t know.
Is ignorance really preferable to confusion? I’d tell you, but I’m so confused.
If I can’t help, I’d rather not know the problem (but I’ll still care.)
May your thrill for adventure only be exceeded by your desire for life.
May your thrill for adventure only be exceeded by your experience of life.
People racing madly to go where they aren’t and to get what they don’t.
People racing madly to get what they don’t have and to go where they aren’t.
Frustration comes from not realizing expected results.
The gas tank is an eternal “black hole” for commuters.
The present is the future experienced.
The present is the often the unexpected future.
The present is the often the unexpected future experienced.
Debt — the status symbol people have for the “status” they have, but can’t afford.
Debt — status by installment.
We is often singular.
The surface is important only when dealing with shine.
No matter how bad this day may be, tomorrow it will be gone.
Small people belittle. Great people encourage.
The quality of dress is no indication of the quality of work.
I used to wonder what I would do when things slow down. Now I wonder if things will ever slow down.
You know that you are in trouble when you begin to understand what you didn’t want to know.
The trouble with living on the edge is that you’re not always the first to know when you have gone over.
Growing old seems wonderful when compared with the alternative.
Humility is best when experienced vicariously.
If I never saw you again, I would miss you forever.
If I am honest enough to tell you, will you be honest enough to accept it?
Believing that you can be honest is the first mistake.
Position promotes the deception of power.
All control comes at a cost.
Nobody is half as good as I think I am.
Nobody is half as good as I think that I am.
People want the power but they don’t want to exert the effort to gain that strength.
Compliments most appreciated are often received from those least esteemed.
Beware if the clout of the one who lays the golden goose.
So much of what is said isn’t said.
Much of what was said to have been said wasn’t.
Do as much as you can the first time. That way there is always less to do the second time.
Do as much detail while doing the work because there is no guarantee as to when you will have another chance to do it.
Free reign produces spontaneous results.
Controlled reign produces controlled results.
What is done must be left done and what must be done needs to be done.
Importance is not relevant to what is important.
I cannot ferret out what is non-ferretable.
Correction on an open wound only causes more pain.
Burns scar the outside. Pains scar the inside.
Your excellence is borne out of your insecurities and a need to constantly prove yourself.
Don’t tell me that more information is necessary and then fail t provide it.
People don’t like what they see in the mirror when they feel the should be seeing something else.
The trouble with the work I do is that I have to rely on you in order for me to do my work.
I started my own business because I can’t work for anyone.
Those who question information never offer any of their own.
People will do whatever you let them get away with.
Knowledge alone isn’t the answer.
Knowledge isn’t the answer.
Information is not an answer in itself.
Fatigue causes injuries that even time may not heal.
Banks only benefit those who don’t use them.
People routinely expect excess.
Many people specialize in generalizations.
P. T. Barney — “We rip off our clients the old-fashioned way, one share at a time!”
Pressure and pain can produce treasure and gain.
I just wanted to find out if you are objective or whether you have an objective.
Are you objective or do you have an objective?
People routinely expect excuses.
A tragedy given totally to God becomes a triumph.
The most precious things in life are those things that are most often overlooked.
Nothing you have to do is more important that what you have to do for me.
People are not impressed with speed when they are expecting the spectacular.
Without asking there is no chance of getting. After asking, the chances of getting haven’t improved any.
Without asking there is no chance of getting. After asking, the chances of getting have only slightly improved.
Asking doesn’t guarantee that you will get it.
What isn’t said often affects more than what is said.
Os it an obstacle to you or a challenge?
Nice is pleasant, but seldom necessary.
There is right and then there is what is economically and politically advantageous.
Those who don’t understand overestimate their importance.
I don’t believe in burning the candle at both ends. Use an acetylene torch.
The longer I work, the less productive I become.
Questions are asked to learn facts and to cover up facts.
Foreknowledge causes frustration after the fact.
The effort required to change is the best defense against change.
Change requires much effort.
What is written can cause the writer to be bitten.
Building sand castles by the ocean’s edge at low tide is the task of mankind.
You can never lose what you never had, just realize what wasn’t what you thought.
What you don’t tell me I am already supposed to know. What you do tell me you feel that you shouldn’t have to.
No one benefits from abortions except those performing them.
An unwanted pregnancy is an inconvenience. An abortion is a tragedy.
People who deserve what they get don’t get what they deserve.
Often the most frequently heard advice is least often heeded.
You don’t laugh with me, you laugh at me.
It takes more skill to work with people than it does to have people work for you.
Improvement does not come without effort.
Being paid a compliment does not mean that you are indebted to the one who paid you the compliment.
There is no undoing what has been done. There is only correcting what is.
I’ve been told to tell you that I am going to be more aggressive.
Say it once. Be concise. Be succinct.
I heard what you didn’t say.
Committees seldom produce anything concise or useful.
Too many cooks produce undistinctive stew.
Aggressive is not the same as aggression.
Consistency is boring, but it is consistent.
I heard what you didn’t say three days ago and that was the last talk we had.
One-way communication is better than no communication.
Consistency never surprises anyone.
Leading requires more skills than managing.
Professional pests are promoted. Nice guys aren’t needed.
Nice guys need not apply for promotion.
Focused aggression can accomplish what politeness never could.
Those included are not always invited.
The professional pain goes farther than the proverbial nice guy.
There is more to work than just working with people.
Those who are responsible seldom admit it.
Those who are responsible seldom admit that they are.
Those who are responsible seldom admit they’re responsible.
How I treat those who cannot repay is the same way I would treat the Lord.
I have willing hands and a trusting heart.
Perception is part of the deception.
Information can be an asset or an anchor.
People are intolerant of those who do not tolerate them.
If you are going to criticize people for what they do wrong, you had better praise for what they do right.
Curtness is unacceptable when it is the only means of communication.
Without a plan a dream will always be just a dream.
You want what you are unwilling to provide.
Those under pressure typically add to their own pressures.
People only want to know what they already know.
Those who ask for help are often overwhelmed by the silence.
Those who ask for information are often overwhelmed by the silence.
People believe only what they aren’t sure of.
If we had a laziness contest, I would win because you wouldn’t even show up.
Trying to improve what people are happy with is an effort in futility.
Those unprepared for the situation are unsure when it arises.
The only problem with kids is that parents too soon turn them into adults.
The only problem with kids is that parents turn them into adults too soon.
The problem with reality is that is isn’t always the way you want it to be.
The problem with learning is that rarely do the facts allow opinions to remain unchanged.
The weight of worry causes hope to fail.
A dream may die silently, but its death is not without cost.
A dream may die silently, but the death is not without cost.
Silence has strangled many a dream.
Yes, I am happy for you, but I would rather be happy with you.
Some people only put forth enough effort so they don’t progress.
Some people only put forth enough effort so they won’t progress.
What is said and what is true are often unrelated.
Observed errors are best left uncommented upon.
Availability never achieved great success.
Sin begins with the smallest compromise.
Counsel can correct or corrupt.
The wrong way is more deeply entrenched that the right way.
Only those doing something (producing) receive complaints.
As long as I don’t move it only aches. When I do move I instantly regret it.
It is amazing how ignorant those claiming to be informed prove themselves to be.
Principles cannot be taught, only learned.
Hostility is often disguised jealousy.
I too am an optimist, but I live in reality.
Have friends that you can use.
You can always keep what no one else wants.
Your laughter causes me no laughter.
Those who try to please are seldom themselves pleased.
Those being led by the blind have closed their eyes to the future.
Those left to stew in their own juices become quite distasteful.
Suggestions are seldom concerned with the facts.
Your security is merely an inconvenience to those who want to know.
When your suggestion causes me delays, I don’t think it was a very good suggsestion.
Only the one in the hot seat feels the full heat.
The blue skies of life are quickly clouded over.
When you don’t have anything to do, make others think that you are busy.
Your best defense is laughable and only works with the press.
False accusations are only for the benefit of the ignorant.
Today’s need becomes tomorrow’s greed.
Have a reason for doing it and then find a reason to stop it.
Some people’s refuse to learn what isn’t essential for them to know.
Your ignorance is borne by the unborn, but your arrogance will be borne by you alone.
Thinkers who marry non-thinkers weren’t thinking.
Each successive refinement requires more time and energy to produce less noticeable results.
Simply stated, simply true.
To some, pain motivates and to others pain debilitates.
Some pains motivate and other pains debilitate.
I want to know, but I haven’t learned not to ask.
I want to know, but I know better than to ask.
If you want an answer, go to the source, not to the supervisor.
What you don’t let roll off your back ends up weighing you down.
Rushing indicates a lack of planning or control.
Those who never take the time to learn do not understand the advantage of knowing.
Things that “have” to be done do not always need to be done.
There is the right way and there is the approved way.
Those who are not what they appear often present the best appearance.
People aren’t impressed with what you do, unless it is exactly what they told you to do.
Resourcefulness is either a measure of ability or desperation.
Only quick and good impress the first few times. Then both are expected.
Take a smaller piece of a small pie so when the pie enlarges your piece enlarges too.
Understanding — knowing that what you know is unimportant to others.
Knowledge — thinking that what you know is important.
I always seem to get in trouble for telling people what they need to hear.
Those who do the best don’t give their best.
Those who seem to do the best are those who do less than their best.
Everyone wants to sell you a service contract, but no one wants to service the contract.
Those in control are never responsible for undesirable results.
Those in control seldom accept personal responsibility for their actions.
No sooner do you say it than it no longer is true.
Your attitude reflects your values.
Complex concepts are best left complex. Otherwise too many people would understand.
Where there is no policy you can never do it the right way.
Congressional members are legal buck passers.
People usually get upset when you treat them the way they treat you.
People usually get upset when you treat them the way they treated you.
The “golden rule” for today is: Do it to them before they do it to you.
The “golden rule” for today is: Do it unto them before they do it unto you.
You want me to do your job for you so when your job is finished and mine isn’t you’ll look good and I’ll look bad.
Some people are born manipulators and others are born to be manipulated.
People who look up get hammered more often than those who don’t look up.
If as much effort was devoted to correcting problems as is devoted to fixing the blame, there would be fewer problems.
If as much effort was devoted to correcting problems as is devoted to fixing the blame, there would be fewer problems and those problems that did occur would be solved much faster.
I won’t get over it and I won’t forget it and you had better not either.
It is “us” against “them” and they are out to make sure there are more of them than there are of us.
When someone has been in your pants it makes it harder to get them out of your heart.
Do people really change or do they just change the image of the role they are playing?
When you start playing “hardball” with those playing the game, be sure they don’t change the rules.
Don’t wait for the shoe to drop, yank it off the foot.
Loyalty is not promoted by a slap in the face and a kick in the pants.
Input without feedback is like pouring energy into a black hole. There is no evidence of any effort.
The problem is that too many people spend too much time talking about the problem rather than working on the solution.
I want to be treated equally under the law, but I want special privileges.
I want to be treated equally under the law, but I want to be treated specially.
There are enough bad feelings when they are deserved, let alone when they are not deserved.
You only seem unassuming, but you always expect others to do things for you.
You may seem unassuming, but you always expect others to do things for you.
People who rely on luck are often less than satisfied with the outcome.
People treat a half-assed effort as if it was the most important job in the world, but they don’t want to do it right.
I expect that people will do what they say they will do, unless they tell me otherwise.
Personal conflicts result mostly from prejudices and personal perceptions.
When confidence exceeds ability the probability of an accident is present.
If you are going to make your mark in the world, don’t use non-photo blue.
Official Company Policy — Piss on it! (contrary to what you read).
Good friends are worth the effort to keep.
Good friends are worth the effort to keep them.
Doing things out of habit is a poor excuse for not doing things the right way.
Smokers don’t care about non-smokers until non-smokers complain about the smoke. Then smokers say the non-smokers are inconsiderate of their right to smoke.
Working in a vacuum is effortless. But there is nothing to show for the effort.
Your sarcasm is perceived as cynicism.
Fear promotes respect. People respect a growling dog, a rattling snake, and a fuming boss.
Some people are overly possessive of what isn’t theirs.
Niceness does not earn respect. People respect what they have learned to fear.
No respect is given to “nice” people.
When I say, “I don’t care.” It isn’t that I don’t, because I do. It is just that can’t do anything about it.
While you were smiling, the whole world took advantage of you.
The flattering tongue only shadows the out stretched hand.
Some people take great pride in spreading strife and contention.
I am still in love with the woman I married. You just didn’t turn out to be her.
People adopt attitudes that are necessary for them to survive.
When something is amazing, it isn’t necessarily good or bad. It is just amazing.
There is justice, but not everyone lives long enough to see it.
The more I know the more complicated it gets.
I seem to be spending more time chasing questions than I am writing answers.
Sick, sick, sick — the mark of the bug.
Promoting those who are inept produces apathy in otherwise conscientious workers.
Lack of caring results in reduced cooperation which reduces productivity.
Improper action results in more work for all.
I hear what ought to be done and I hear what should have been done, but none of that corrects the way things are.
The buck is passed most quickly by those most at fault.
The larger the operation, the more likely efforts will be duplicated.
I have not learned to appreciate art yet. I just know what I like and what I dislike.
Children are creative. Artists are just children who have never grown up.
Attitudes — you can’t see them, but you can’t miss them.
Those who can’t work are promoted to management.
The best workers are made into supervisors who must get more work out of lesser workers.
I wanted to say it, but I would probably regret it after I said it. So it is better I didn’t say it. It was a nice thought anyway.
If you have to tell someone that you’ve got it, then you’re full of it.
If you have to tell someone that you’ve got it, you don’t have it.
Having heard that, I feel relieved. But somehow I don’t feel any better.
I feel relieved, but somehow I don’t feel any better.
I will be glad that you are leaving, but I’ll be sad to see you go.
I have had bad days that were better than today!
Those who don’t say much may not have much to say, or they may know better than to say it.
Power is relative to the number of people who abide by what you say.
Your enemy will be the first to point out your fault.
It takes a schizophrenic twice as long to make a decision because they have to make up both of their minds.
Power is only relative.
Those advocating “open mindedness” are not reciprocating. They’re just trying to get you to believe the same way they do.
Laws cannot change an attitude.
A compromise is achieved when neither party is willing to pay the price to get it all their way.
Statistics don’t lie, but neither are they the whole story.
There aren’t any honest thieves. Some are just more selective than others.
Attention to detail is necessary only after the foundation has been laid.
To “them” you are not “us” or “we”, but are another one of “them”.
Thanks for nothing, but thank you for listening to me when I had to talk.
Thanks for nothing because you didn’t do anything, but thanks for being there because that is what I really needed.
The higher one goes up in management, the more misinformed they are of what happens below them.
The higher one goes up in management, the more misinformed they are of what is happening below them.
Consistency is best when it is right.
Confidence and ability are not necessarily the same thing.
Fall in love with your dream and you will never be disappointed, but neither will you be satisfied.
I’m happy you are going some place better. I’m sad you are leaving here.
You can either accept or reject the way people are trying to make you feel.
People who care are considered a nuisance by others because they ask questions no one else bothers to ask.
Using someone else’s standard as a standard is not good, unless that standard is adopted and established as the standard.
Some people, even when they do what they are told manage to get into trouble.
People only do to you what you let them do.
People only do to you what you let them do to you.
Women are the prime motivation for the new car industry.
If our products work the same way this company works, we’re in trouble.
If we don’t communicate, then why should we talk?
Truth no longer matters when it does not agree.
Treat me with some dignity and respect and you will get the same in return. Treat me like sh-t and you’ll get the same in return.
I said I want a bed to sleep in, not a bed with a creep in it.
Leave your problem with us and we will do as much for it as your worrying will do — nothing.
Nobody offers help while a task is in process. However, once it is finished everyone considers it their duty to criticize it.
People who are unwilling to see the other person’s perspective will never believe it is a problem.
People who are unwilling to see the other person’s perspective will never believe there is a problem.
Never confess your faults. It is just seen as a weakness and is neither understood nor appreciated.
If you are confronted with a known weakness or fault, deny it. That is what is expected.
Most people don’t care what you think, nor do they care to know.
Most people don’t care what you think, nor do they want to know.
Most people do not care what you think, nor do they want to know.
Venting emotions verbally is fine, as long as you are alone.
Learn to be grateful when nobody says anything.
It isn’t so much “love at first sight” as it is “expectations at first sight”.
People who don’t make the decisions must live with the consequences of those who do.
Just because you don’t make the decisions doesn’t mean the decisions won’t affect you.
Just because you don’t make the choice doesn’t mean the decision won’t affect you.
Anticipation is the most erotic fantasy.
Laws are only for those who choose to obey them.
Laws only work for those who choose to obey them.
When she is nice, she is being naughty; and when she is nasty, she isn’t.
If you have a negative outlook, most everything looks black.
Act, don’t ask.
Don’t ask, act.
Some people will ask for work to do, but will only do the work if it is to their liking.
Rules are only for those who choose to follow them, and for those big enough to enforce them.
Where there is no standard, you can do no wrong, unless you displease someone.
Unsolicited comments are usually unappreciated.
It is easier to write about people fighting than it is to write about people getting along.
People will help you shoot yourself. If that doesn’t work, they will try to shoot you in the back, or convince someone else to shoot you.
People who are most educated are most difficult to get along with because they feel they must already know it, whether they do or don’t.
Health club managers can also be called waist managers.
The best way to deal with women is not to deal with them.
It is easier to keep ‘em out of your heart when you keep ‘em out of your pants.
If you don’t want to think, watch television.
Why limit yourself? There are enough people that will do that for you.
If I want any information, I have to chase it down. If you want any information, I have to chase it down too.
Did you think that just by writing a memo that things would instantly be changed?
Sometimes winning is more painful than losing.
When you have given your all and have nothing left to give, people will ask, “What good are you anyway?”
People are never satisfied, even if you give them more than they asked for. They want it their way.
Do you want me to talk “managerially” to you, or do you want to hear the truth?
Do you want me to talk “managerially”, or do you want to hear the truth?
Do you want me to talk “managerially”, or do you want me to tell you the truth?
I thought I heard you “not mention” that before.
You are only missed when you are gone and never appreciated when you are here.
You are only missed when you are gone and never appreciated as long as you’re here.
Evolving Thoughts
When the pump is primed, it is easier to draw from a depth unseen, but only sensed.
Sometimes conversations have no words.
Youth — a curse only to those who are young.
Work as if your job depends on it (it just might).
Friends are not won or lost, they are made.
Friends are not won or lost — they’re made.
Those who do not learn from hate become pawns of that they perpetuate.
Those responsible don’t accept the blame. Those who get the blame aren’t responsible. It just works out that way.
Working hard and being worked hard aren’t the same.
An overdraft at a blood bank does not mean one is in the red.
Is infinity really infinite, or is it just finite beyond comprehension?
Macho — men trying to prove to themselves what they aren’t sure of to start with.
Love is sometimes tough. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be true.
Contentment comes from within.
Satisfaction is meeting one’s own expectations.
Intentions never accomplished much.
The fog inside is as thick as the fog outside.
The fog inside is thicker than the fog outside.
When does hoping become unrealistic?
Instructors impart information.
Teachers impart understanding.
Some things you never know unless you ask, and other things even after asking you never know.
Some things you never know unless you ask and other things you never know, even after asking.
If haste makes waste, then late makes more so.
Don’t eat in light of the exercise you intend to do, rather eat light and exercise.
Judgments
Under
Deception
Involving
Criminals,
Ineptness,
And
Lawyers.
Do me a favor, don’t ask me to do you any more favors.
Satisfaction does not necessarily imply it was done right.
What is known isn’t as important as when it is known.
A favor extended too often becomes expected.
Knowing is only important when you know it first.
When all has been said and done, will all that has been said done?
Knowledge doesn’t make the ending any different, just what happens when one gets there.
Sometimes silence is the best thing that can be said.
What is the purpose of “education”? Is it to inform or to indoctrinate?
The difference between want and need is the cost.
The difference between want and need is the pri¢e it co$ts.
Pain makes each moment an eternity.
Is ignorance really preferable to confusion?
Is ignorance really preferable to confusion? I don’t know.
Is ignorance really preferable to confusion? I’d tell you, but I’m so confused.
If I can’t help, I’d rather not know the problem (but I’ll still care.)
May your thrill for adventure only be exceeded by your desire for life.
May your thrill for adventure only be exceeded by your experience of life.
People racing madly to go where they aren’t and to get what they don’t.
People racing madly to get what they don’t have and to go where they aren’t.
Frustration comes from not realizing expected results.
The gas tank is an eternal “black hole” for commuters.
The present is the future experienced.
The present is the often the unexpected future.
The present is the often the unexpected future experienced.
Debt — the status symbol people have for the “status” they have, but can’t afford.
Debt — status by installment.
We is often singular.
The surface is important only when dealing with shine.
No matter how bad this day may be, tomorrow it will be gone.
Small people belittle. Great people encourage.
The quality of dress is no indication of the quality of work.
I used to wonder what I would do when things slow down. Now I wonder if things will ever slow down.
You know that you are in trouble when you begin to understand what you didn’t want to know.
The trouble with living on the edge is that you’re not always the first to know when you have gone over.
Growing old seems wonderful when compared with the alternative.
Humility is best when experienced vicariously.
If I never saw you again, I would miss you forever.
If I am honest enough to tell you, will you be honest enough to accept it?
Believing that you can be honest is the first mistake.
Position promotes the deception of power.
All control comes at a cost.
Nobody is half as good as I think I am.
Nobody is half as good as I think that I am.
People want the power but they don’t want to exert the effort to gain that strength.
Compliments most appreciated are often received from those least esteemed.
Beware if the clout of the one who lays the golden goose.
So much of what is said isn’t said.
Much of what was said to have been said wasn’t.
Do as much as you can the first time. That way there is always less to do the second time.
Do as much detail while doing the work because there is no guarantee as to when you will have another chance to do it.
Free reign produces spontaneous results.
Controlled reign produces controlled results.
What is done must be left done and what must be done needs to be done.
Importance is not relevant to what is important.
I cannot ferret out what is non-ferretable.
Correction on an open wound only causes more pain.
Burns scar the outside. Pains scar the inside.
Your excellence is borne out of your insecurities and a need to constantly prove yourself.
Don’t tell me that more information is necessary and then fail t provide it.
People don’t like what they see in the mirror when they feel the should be seeing something else.
The trouble with the work I do is that I have to rely on you in order for me to do my work.
I started my own business because I can’t work for anyone.
Those who question information never offer any of their own.
People will do whatever you let them get away with.
Knowledge alone isn’t the answer.
Knowledge isn’t the answer.
Information is not an answer in itself.
Fatigue causes injuries that even time may not heal.
Banks only benefit those who don’t use them.
People routinely expect excess.
Many people specialize in generalizations.
P. T. Barney — “We rip off our clients the old-fashioned way, one share at a time!”
Pressure and pain can produce treasure and gain.
I just wanted to find out if you are objective or whether you have an objective.
Are you objective or do you have an objective?
People routinely expect excuses.
A tragedy given totally to God becomes a triumph.
The most precious things in life are those things that are most often overlooked.
Nothing you have to do is more important that what you have to do for me.
People are not impressed with speed when they are expecting the spectacular.
Without asking there is no chance of getting. After asking, the chances of getting haven’t improved any.
Without asking there is no chance of getting. After asking, the chances of getting have only slightly improved.
Asking doesn’t guarantee that you will get it.
What isn’t said often affects more than what is said.
Os it an obstacle to you or a challenge?
Nice is pleasant, but seldom necessary.
There is right and then there is what is economically and politically advantageous.
Those who don’t understand overestimate their importance.
I don’t believe in burning the candle at both ends. Use an acetylene torch.
The longer I work, the less productive I become.
Questions are asked to learn facts and to cover up facts.
Foreknowledge causes frustration after the fact.
The effort required to change is the best defense against change.
Change requires much effort.
What is written can cause the writer to be bitten.
Building sand castles by the ocean’s edge at low tide is the task of mankind.
You can never lose what you never had, just realize what wasn’t what you thought.
What you don’t tell me I am already supposed to know. What you do tell me you feel that you shouldn’t have to.
No one benefits from abortions except those performing them.
An unwanted pregnancy is an inconvenience. An abortion is a tragedy.
People who deserve what they get don’t get what they deserve.
Often the most frequently heard advice is least often heeded.
You don’t laugh with me, you laugh at me.
It takes more skill to work with people than it does to have people work for you.
Improvement does not come without effort.
Being paid a compliment does not mean that you are indebted to the one who paid you the compliment.
There is no undoing what has been done. There is only correcting what is.
I’ve been told to tell you that I am going to be more aggressive.
Say it once. Be concise. Be succinct.
I heard what you didn’t say.
Committees seldom produce anything concise or useful.
Too many cooks produce undistinctive stew.
Aggressive is not the same as aggression.
Consistency is boring, but it is consistent.
I heard what you didn’t say three days ago and that was the last talk we had.
One-way communication is better than no communication.
Consistency never surprises anyone.
Leading requires more skills than managing.
Professional pests are promoted. Nice guys aren’t needed.
Nice guys need not apply for promotion.
Focused aggression can accomplish what politeness never could.
Those included are not always invited.
The professional pain goes farther than the proverbial nice guy.
There is more to work than just working with people.
Those who are responsible seldom admit it.
Those who are responsible seldom admit that they are.
Those who are responsible seldom admit they’re responsible.
How I treat those who cannot repay is the same way I would treat the Lord.
I have willing hands and a trusting heart.
Perception is part of the deception.
Information can be an asset or an anchor.
People are intolerant of those who do not tolerate them.
If you are going to criticize people for what they do wrong, you had better praise for what they do right.
Curtness is unacceptable when it is the only means of communication.
Without a plan a dream will always be just a dream.
You want what you are unwilling to provide.
Those under pressure typically add to their own pressures.
People only want to know what they already know.
Those who ask for help are often overwhelmed by the silence.
Those who ask for information are often overwhelmed by the silence.
People believe only what they aren’t sure of.
If we had a laziness contest, I would win because you wouldn’t even show up.
Trying to improve what people are happy with is an effort in futility.
Those unprepared for the situation are unsure when it arises.
The only problem with kids is that parents too soon turn them into adults.
The only problem with kids is that parents turn them into adults too soon.
The problem with reality is that is isn’t always the way you want it to be.
The problem with learning is that rarely do the facts allow opinions to remain unchanged.
The weight of worry causes hope to fail.
A dream may die silently, but its death is not without cost.
A dream may die silently, but the death is not without cost.
Silence has strangled many a dream.
Yes, I am happy for you, but I would rather be happy with you.
Some people only put forth enough effort so they don’t progress.
Some people only put forth enough effort so they won’t progress.
What is said and what is true are often unrelated.
Observed errors are best left uncommented upon.
Availability never achieved great success.
Sin begins with the smallest compromise.
Counsel can correct or corrupt.
The wrong way is more deeply entrenched that the right way.
Only those doing something (producing) receive complaints.
As long as I don’t move it only aches. When I do move I instantly regret it.
It is amazing how ignorant those claiming to be informed prove themselves to be.
Principles cannot be taught, only learned.
Hostility is often disguised jealousy.
I too am an optimist, but I live in reality.
Have friends that you can use.
You can always keep what no one else wants.
Your laughter causes me no laughter.
Those who try to please are seldom themselves pleased.
Those being led by the blind have closed their eyes to the future.
Those left to stew in their own juices become quite distasteful.
Suggestions are seldom concerned with the facts.
Your security is merely an inconvenience to those who want to know.
When your suggestion causes me delays, I don’t think it was a very good suggsestion.
Only the one in the hot seat feels the full heat.
The blue skies of life are quickly clouded over.
When you don’t have anything to do, make others think that you are busy.
Your best defense is laughable and only works with the press.
False accusations are only for the benefit of the ignorant.
Today’s need becomes tomorrow’s greed.
Have a reason for doing it and then find a reason to stop it.
Some people’s refuse to learn what isn’t essential for them to know.
Your ignorance is borne by the unborn, but your arrogance will be borne by you alone.
Thinkers who marry non-thinkers weren’t thinking.
Each successive refinement requires more time and energy to produce less noticeable results.
Simply stated, simply true.
To some, pain motivates and to others pain debilitates.
Some pains motivate and other pains debilitate.
I want to know, but I haven’t learned not to ask.
I want to know, but I know better than to ask.
If you want an answer, go to the source, not to the supervisor.
What you don’t let roll off your back ends up weighing you down.
Rushing indicates a lack of planning or control.
Those who never take the time to learn do not understand the advantage of knowing.
Things that “have” to be done do not always need to be done.
There is the right way and there is the approved way.
Those who are not what they appear often present the best appearance.
People aren’t impressed with what you do, unless it is exactly what they told you to do.
Resourcefulness is either a measure of ability or desperation.
Only quick and good impress the first few times. Then both are expected.
Take a smaller piece of a small pie so when the pie enlarges your piece enlarges too.
Understanding — knowing that what you know is unimportant to others.
Knowledge — thinking that what you know is important.
I always seem to get in trouble for telling people what they need to hear.
Those who do the best don’t give their best.
Those who seem to do the best are those who do less than their best.
Everyone wants to sell you a service contract, but no one wants to service the contract.
Those in control are never responsible for undesirable results.
Those in control seldom accept personal responsibility for their actions.
No sooner do you say it than it no longer is true.
Your attitude reflects your values.
Complex concepts are best left complex. Otherwise too many people would understand.
Where there is no policy you can never do it the right way.
Congressional members are legal buck passers.
People usually get upset when you treat them the way they treat you.
People usually get upset when you treat them the way they treated you.
The “golden rule” for today is: Do it to them before they do it to you.
The “golden rule” for today is: Do it unto them before they do it unto you.
You want me to do your job for you so when your job is finished and mine isn’t you’ll look good and I’ll look bad.
Some people are born manipulators and others are born to be manipulated.
People who look up get hammered more often than those who don’t look up.
If as much effort was devoted to correcting problems as is devoted to fixing the blame, there would be fewer problems.
If as much effort was devoted to correcting problems as is devoted to fixing the blame, there would be fewer problems and those problems that did occur would be solved much faster.
I won’t get over it and I won’t forget it and you had better not either.
It is “us” against “them” and they are out to make sure there are more of them than there are of us.
When someone has been in your pants it makes it harder to get them out of your heart.
Do people really change or do they just change the image of the role they are playing?
When you start playing “hardball” with those playing the game, be sure they don’t change the rules.
Don’t wait for the shoe to drop, yank it off the foot.
Loyalty is not promoted by a slap in the face and a kick in the pants.
Input without feedback is like pouring energy into a black hole. There is no evidence of any effort.
The problem is that too many people spend too much time talking about the problem rather than working on the solution.
I want to be treated equally under the law, but I want special privileges.
I want to be treated equally under the law, but I want to be treated specially.
There are enough bad feelings when they are deserved, let alone when they are not deserved.
You only seem unassuming, but you always expect others to do things for you.
You may seem unassuming, but you always expect others to do things for you.
People who rely on luck are often less than satisfied with the outcome.
People treat a half-assed effort as if it was the most important job in the world, but they don’t want to do it right.
I expect that people will do what they say they will do, unless they tell me otherwise.
Personal conflicts result mostly from prejudices and personal perceptions.
When confidence exceeds ability the probability of an accident is present.
If you are going to make your mark in the world, don’t use non-photo blue.
Official Company Policy — Piss on it! (contrary to what you read).
Good friends are worth the effort to keep.
Good friends are worth the effort to keep them.
Doing things out of habit is a poor excuse for not doing things the right way.
Smokers don’t care about non-smokers until non-smokers complain about the smoke. Then smokers say the non-smokers are inconsiderate of their right to smoke.
Working in a vacuum is effortless. But there is nothing to show for the effort.
Your sarcasm is perceived as cynicism.
Fear promotes respect. People respect a growling dog, a rattling snake, and a fuming boss.
Some people are overly possessive of what isn’t theirs.
Niceness does not earn respect. People respect what they have learned to fear.
No respect is given to “nice” people.
When I say, “I don’t care.” It isn’t that I don’t, because I do. It is just that can’t do anything about it.
While you were smiling, the whole world took advantage of you.
The flattering tongue only shadows the out stretched hand.
Some people take great pride in spreading strife and contention.
I am still in love with the woman I married. You just didn’t turn out to be her.
People adopt attitudes that are necessary for them to survive.
When something is amazing, it isn’t necessarily good or bad. It is just amazing.
There is justice, but not everyone lives long enough to see it.
The more I know the more complicated it gets.
I seem to be spending more time chasing questions than I am writing answers.
Sick, sick, sick — the mark of the bug.
Promoting those who are inept produces apathy in otherwise conscientious workers.
Lack of caring results in reduced cooperation which reduces productivity.
Improper action results in more work for all.
I hear what ought to be done and I hear what should have been done, but none of that corrects the way things are.
The buck is passed most quickly by those most at fault.
The larger the operation, the more likely efforts will be duplicated.
I have not learned to appreciate art yet. I just know what I like and what I dislike.
Children are creative. Artists are just children who have never grown up.
Attitudes — you can’t see them, but you can’t miss them.
Those who can’t work are promoted to management.
The best workers are made into supervisors who must get more work out of lesser workers.
I wanted to say it, but I would probably regret it after I said it. So it is better I didn’t say it. It was a nice thought anyway.
If you have to tell someone that you’ve got it, then you’re full of it.
If you have to tell someone that you’ve got it, you don’t have it.
Having heard that, I feel relieved. But somehow I don’t feel any better.
I feel relieved, but somehow I don’t feel any better.
I will be glad that you are leaving, but I’ll be sad to see you go.
I have had bad days that were better than today!
Those who don’t say much may not have much to say, or they may know better than to say it.
Power is relative to the number of people who abide by what you say.
Your enemy will be the first to point out your fault.
It takes a schizophrenic twice as long to make a decision because they have to make up both of their minds.
Power is only relative.
Those advocating “open mindedness” are not reciprocating. They’re just trying to get you to believe the same way they do.
Laws cannot change an attitude.
A compromise is achieved when neither party is willing to pay the price to get it all their way.
Statistics don’t lie, but neither are they the whole story.
There aren’t any honest thieves. Some are just more selective than others.
Attention to detail is necessary only after the foundation has been laid.
To “them” you are not “us” or “we”, but are another one of “them”.
Thanks for nothing, but thank you for listening to me when I had to talk.
Thanks for nothing because you didn’t do anything, but thanks for being there because that is what I really needed.
The higher one goes up in management, the more misinformed they are of what happens below them.
The higher one goes up in management, the more misinformed they are of what is happening below them.
Consistency is best when it is right.
Confidence and ability are not necessarily the same thing.
Fall in love with your dream and you will never be disappointed, but neither will you be satisfied.
I’m happy you are going some place better. I’m sad you are leaving here.
You can either accept or reject the way people are trying to make you feel.
People who care are considered a nuisance by others because they ask questions no one else bothers to ask.
Using someone else’s standard as a standard is not good, unless that standard is adopted and established as the standard.
Some people, even when they do what they are told manage to get into trouble.
People only do to you what you let them do.
People only do to you what you let them do to you.
Women are the prime motivation for the new car industry.
If our products work the same way this company works, we’re in trouble.
If we don’t communicate, then why should we talk?
Truth no longer matters when it does not agree.
Treat me with some dignity and respect and you will get the same in return. Treat me like sh-t and you’ll get the same in return.
I said I want a bed to sleep in, not a bed with a creep in it.
Leave your problem with us and we will do as much for it as your worrying will do — nothing.
Nobody offers help while a task is in process. However, once it is finished everyone considers it their duty to criticize it.
People who are unwilling to see the other person’s perspective will never believe it is a problem.
People who are unwilling to see the other person’s perspective will never believe there is a problem.
Never confess your faults. It is just seen as a weakness and is neither understood nor appreciated.
If you are confronted with a known weakness or fault, deny it. That is what is expected.
Most people don’t care what you think, nor do they care to know.
Most people don’t care what you think, nor do they want to know.
Most people do not care what you think, nor do they want to know.
Venting emotions verbally is fine, as long as you are alone.
Learn to be grateful when nobody says anything.
It isn’t so much “love at first sight” as it is “expectations at first sight”.
People who don’t make the decisions must live with the consequences of those who do.
Just because you don’t make the decisions doesn’t mean the decisions won’t affect you.
Just because you don’t make the choice doesn’t mean the decision won’t affect you.
Anticipation is the most erotic fantasy.
Laws are only for those who choose to obey them.
Laws only work for those who choose to obey them.
When she is nice, she is being naughty; and when she is nasty, she isn’t.
If you have a negative outlook, most everything looks black.
Act, don’t ask.
Don’t ask, act.
Some people will ask for work to do, but will only do the work if it is to their liking.
Rules are only for those who choose to follow them, and for those big enough to enforce them.
Where there is no standard, you can do no wrong, unless you displease someone.
Unsolicited comments are usually unappreciated.
It is easier to write about people fighting than it is to write about people getting along.
People will help you shoot yourself. If that doesn’t work, they will try to shoot you in the back, or convince someone else to shoot you.
People who are most educated are most difficult to get along with because they feel they must already know it, whether they do or don’t.
Health club managers can also be called waist managers.
The best way to deal with women is not to deal with them.
It is easier to keep ‘em out of your heart when you keep ‘em out of your pants.
If you don’t want to think, watch television.
Why limit yourself? There are enough people that will do that for you.
If I want any information, I have to chase it down. If you want any information, I have to chase it down too.
Did you think that just by writing a memo that things would instantly be changed?
Sometimes winning is more painful than losing.
When you have given your all and have nothing left to give, people will ask, “What good are you anyway?”
People are never satisfied, even if you give them more than they asked for. They want it their way.
Do you want me to talk “managerially” to you, or do you want to hear the truth?
Do you want me to talk “managerially”, or do you want to hear the truth?
Do you want me to talk “managerially”, or do you want me to tell you the truth?
I thought I heard you “not mention” that before.
You are only missed when you are gone and never appreciated when you are here.
You are only missed when you are gone and never appreciated as long as you’re here.
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