Vous avez le cerveau d’un sandwich au fromage –you have the brain of a cheese sandwich
Tu as would be more of an insult and I’m sure the French can do much worse, but try it on someone as needed and you might feel better.
Month: April 2020
Great Sayings – Dale Carnegie (Covid-19)
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
– Dale Carnegie
And that time is upon us. We are about to emerge from the Wuhan virus cocoon that we were forced into. We need to kick start life in the butt.
Great Sayings – Henry David Thoreau
“In the long run men hit only what they aim at.”
— Henry David Thoreau
You also miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Some wander aimlessly through life and wind up lost. Some are too focused on their goal and miss out life. Find the balance, but have a target.
Great Sayings – Robert Frost
Robert Frost – “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
People with stress or anxiety about what will happen to them tomorrow should ponder this. No matter how bad it is, most of the time there is a light at the end of the tunnel unless you close it yourself.
Great Sayings – Things I’d Wished I’d Thought of After the Fact
L’esprit de L’escalier – things you wish you could have said after you leave an argument.
That’s me. I win all my arguments, unfortunately many of them the day after they take place. My response is usually spectacular. I just wish I’d thought of it at the time.
Great Sayings – Peter Drucker on Management
Peter Drucker – “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
I’ve posted on meetings being a waste of time and management ego’s. Great managers lead and let the employees work and succeed. Mostly, the best managers help their employees grow and advance in their careers. I know I’ve had both types. When I was a manager, I did everything I could to those working for me the opportunity to show what they can do and help them when they fell down.
Unfortunately, most can’t seem to get out of their own way and realize that the best managers surround themselves with a good team and give them the power to do their jobs to the best of their ability.
Great Sayings – Ferdinand Porsche
“If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.” -Ferdinand Porsche
People need to overcome challenges and problems in life. They are handed to us everyday whether or not we want them. That is just life and maintaining the balance that humans require.
To get ahead, you must step out, take a risk, use your talents and sometimes you won’t succeed. When you do, you get a sense of satisfaction from overcoming or in the case of Dr. Porsche, you start an iconic car company.
Great Sayings – Political Correctness
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end.”
Here’s where someone is going to get offended. I’m going to go ahead with it anyway even if there are a few people who always try to spoil the party for the rest of us. Most people really don’t care. Call things by whatever you want if it makes you happy. Heck, I’ll be happy for you especially if the PC police would shut up. I just can’t remember all the names you want me to call things I grew up calling something else.
There are so many important things than this in my life that come before being PC like cleaning my nails, sweeping out dust bunnies, contemplating my naval and much more because well, I have a life.
I already have posted that the media is biased from the point of view of the audience they want to reach, all of them. They have their lapdogs the celebtards who gladly will tell us what we should think because of their self-inflated opinion of themselves.
The funny thing to me is that some of this PC crap is made up like in the circle game. Reddit made up a story about the OK sign being offensive or white power or something to see if they could get the offended to bite. Just like Pavlov’s dogs, they salivated when the bell rung.
Great Sayings – Jack Bauer, 24
Senator Blaine Mayer: You’re reprehensible, Bauer. Jack Bauer: And you, sir, are weak! Unwilling and unable to look evil in the eye and deal with it.
This was on Day 7 from 6-7 PM. Sure it was just a TV program, but it shows that some need to stand up and fight the fight that others won’t in times of crisis. Evil is a dark force that must be confronted. This will challenge your inner convictions and take you to the fork in the road in life of right vs. wrong. You will have to face your fears and conquer them first before you can vanquish the enemy.
Jack Bauer was the ultimate bad ass who wasn’t a comic book superhero
Great Sayings – Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell – “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Post Modernism has ruined the quality of life for us. I know there is no going back, but there are but a few of us willing to fight for what is right rather than what the crowd tells us to do. Just being socially accepted is not a reason for not doing what is right and good.
Sowell has said some of he most relevant and meaningful things that can be read. I encourage others to heed his words
Great Sayings In Times of Peril (like Covid-19) – Lucretius
“So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.” — Lucretius
Anybody can be good when times are good. You see what someone is made of in the bad times. How do they act? How do they deal with the trouble, pain, hurt and adversity. When the going gets tough, the tough get going as they say. People are most honest when they are at their end and all the layers of the onion are pealed away.
Great Sayings – Solving Problems by M. Scott Peck
“It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.” — M. Scott Peck
We all have problems. Ignoring them won’t make them go away. One must face them and solve them. Every problem solved increases your arsenal of weapons to take on the next problem. Those who won’t face the issues or deal with them not only don’t grow, they go backwards in life. Oh, and you will have problems to solve until the day you die, deal with it.
Great Sayings – When the Storm is Over, Haruki Murakami
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” — Haruki Murakami
We will be different when the China/Wuhan/Covid-19/whatever virus has run its’ course. Some will act differently like washing their hands more or social distancing. Some may travel less. The smartest of these will stay off cruise ships. The wisest will decide who and what they believe in to as the rock to anchor their life on.
Great Sayings – Hope, G.K. Chesterton
“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” — G.K. Chesterton
Hope is what we have. It is the one thing oppressive regimes try to take away from the people so that they will rely on the rulers in power. This was the case in the USSR, currently the CCP and many other examples in history. If you have hope, you can make it through your trying times.
Who you put your hope in also can change the course of your life, your attitude and your day.
Covid-19, More From The Dark Side and Darth Vader
When I first started liking Star Wars, I never realized how useful the dark side was going to be. See more of Vader here
in social distancing and here in the Circle Game.
Great Sayings – Enduring and Character Building by Joseph B. Wirthilin
“Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.” — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I know that I learn more from mistakes than from success. It hurts more and I never want to repeat it. While we as humans are doomed to go through it, we learn from the suffering, just some more than others.
Great Sayings – Fearlessness and Readiness by Friedrich Neitzsche
“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
This is not a rating system based on grief, rather how one acts in the face of things not going their way. Everyone has ups and downs despite what they post on social media. We all have the choice to give up, or pulling up our trousers and moving ahead. Note: it doesn’t say we won’t grieve or suffer, rather how we persevere.
Great Sayings – Thomas Paine On Overcoming
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.” — Thomas Paine
When I studied Martial Arts, my Sensei told me that the ones who quit are the ones that it comes easy too. The ones who have to struggle or try harder persevere longer and achieve more.
Training for anything is necessary. Enjoying the journey is how to best enjoy the process of overcoming. That is the key to the above saying because life, happiness, freedom and other things we cherish are a journey, not an event.
Journalist Jokes, Because well….They Are Journalists
I worked with the press for decades. The ones I worked with were nice people, but they had to write something that people will read, until now. Journalists are supposed to (try to) and learn about the subject they are covering. Now they write ridiculous stories and then write the opposite. They don’t even bother to fact check anymore. No one reads corrections so they don’t care, and it shows. I can’t even say this current lot are nice. If you see below, they aren’t well liked either.
Lately, they have been circling the wagons to cover one side of the political scene or the other together. They are exposing themselves to the public as to how little they know or how little they want to hide their bias. A bunch of them just want to jam on the president out of spite, but they are either self-owning or he is swatting them like flies, especially Jim Acosta.
Twitter/Twitchy caught on and now instead of lawyer jokes, it is journalist jokes. For the most part, this lot deserves what they are getting. They are now as useless to regular people as celebtards and sports stars trying to give their opinion on something other than their sport.
The hashtag is #JournalistJokes, go see for yourselves. Here is a list of some as a starter. Others are more creative than me.
“Three journalists walk into a building. You’d think one of them would’ve seen it.”
“What’s 5 miles long and has an IQ of 30?” “A JOURNALIST PARADE!”
“Three journalists walk into bar and say ‘ouch’ – then write stories about how the bar is racist and phobic.”
“How does a journalist change a light bulb? He holds while the whole world revolves around him.”
And Twitchy’s pick for the winner: “What are the best four years of a journalist’s life? Third grade.”
“Why are there only 2 pallbearers at a ‘journalist’s funeral?” “Garbage cans only have two handles.”
“How do you make a journalist’s eyes light up?” “Shine a flashlight in his ear.”
“What do you call 25 skydiving journalists?” “Skeet.”
“How do you get a one-armed journalist out of a tree?” “Wave to them.”
“What’s the difference between a smart journalist and Bigfoot?” “Bigfoot has been spotted.”
“Why can’t a ‘journalist’ dial 911?” “She can’t find the eleven.”
“What do you do if a journalist throws a grenade at you?” “Pick it up, pull the pin out, and throw it back.”
“What’s the different between God and a journalist?” “God doesn’t think he’s a journalist.”
Hat tip WND
Covid-19 Social Distancing – Darth Vader Style
I love Darth Vader meme’s. One of my favorites is in the Circle Game, but this one is just as good.
The Queen’s Speech – About Covid-19
God save this Queen. The Commonwealth is lucky to have her. She has served well since WWII and is well respected despite what her offspring has put her through. Maybe they could skip to William to keep the Royals as well thought of as they are with her.
Sayings – Do Humans Learn From Their Mistakes?
Douglas Adams – “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
I guess not. I wonder what lessons we will have from the Corona/Covid/China/Wuhan/Whatever virus? Probably not to trust the media and to carefully evaluate if Congress is working for us or themselves.
Another Great Saying About Winning, And Why We Try
Pain is only temporary, victory is forever -Jeremy H. Winning
No one wakes up and is the best at what they do by accident. It takes training, study and perserverance. The worst place in any competition isn’t last, it’s second because that is the first loser. This goes with the Vince Lombardi quote a few days ago.
We as humans want to do our best, but some strive harder than others. I’m not desparaging those who try their hardest, but someone was better, but no one remembers who lost the presidential elections, or got silver medals at the Olympics.
I know I strive to win anything I do. I try to win practice for anything I compete in, not just the event. I’ve even beaten the Kobayashi Maru, thanks to Captain Kirk.
Another Covid-19 Related Saying That is Relevant – Life
“Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.” — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Coved-19 and Essential Jobs
I love sports as much as any other red blooded American male. I love both playing them and watching the best compete against each other. I just wish they’d realize that with a very few exceptions, athletics is all they are qualified to pontificate on. I’m tired of being lectured about their position on anything other than their sport. I’m willing to bet that I’m not alone and in the majority.
I’ve already posted here that actors (celebtards) are the same.
Even though the meme points to their salary, I don’t have a problem that they make a lot of money. It doesn’t make them smart or qualified to tell the people with essential jobs how we should think though. I’m glad that they worked their way to the top based on their skill and God given talent that they worked hard to perfect. They should be grateful that they were born in a time and a place that allows them to succeed. When anyone succeeds, the tide rises for all boats so good for them.
They are getting a lesson that while we enjoy being distracted watching them, we don’t miss their soapbox spoutings and are managing to survive just fine without them.
I hope they don’t forget that it’s the fans who pay them. They work for the fans, not the other way around.
Scary Sayings – Not the Free Press
I’ve worked with the media for decades. There is nothing independent, nor objective about them, all of them. Comments are welcome if you can show consistent examples of the opposite.
Delusions of Adequacy 