flowback & soften...

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. 

-Washington Irving, writer (1783-1859)

..the extra

"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile."

~ Roger Staubach

Deeds Vs Birth

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

~ Chanakya

Love & Affection

"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."

~ St. Jerome

cannot prevent

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
-Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (1741-1794)

system to reduce waste

1. "To implement the Toyota Production System, you must understand that the purpose is to reduce costs by eliminating waste, nothing more, nothing less."

The poet is a kinsman in the clouds 
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.
-Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic, and translator (1821-1867)

...a habit

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

~ Aristotle

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
-Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 8 Apr 1955)

Fundamental test

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
-Milan Kundera, novelist, playwright, and poet (1929-2023)

unchangeable past

Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past. 

-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

No limit...

1. "Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity."

acts of kindness

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
-William Wordsworth, poet (1770-1850)

...can help

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

~ Ronald Reagan

...comes into

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."

~ Lin Yutang

Capable of Vs at Stake

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
-Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

forget all birthdays...

"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."

~ Ellen Glasgow

...from others

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. 

-John Updike, writer (1932-2009)

...for a few?

I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. 

-William Morris, poet and novelist (1834-1896)

...unchangeable past

Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past. 

-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

peace with ... corrupting

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment -- and nothing more corrupting. 

-A.J.P. Taylor, historian (1906-1990)

Focus ON...

weapons provided for...

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. 

-James Madison, 4th US president (1751-1836)

in a single sentence

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. 

-Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933)

set a priority

if not,

life is a...

All of life is a foreign country. 

-Jack Kerouac, author (1922-1969)

...lion is made up of

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. 

-Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1900-1971)

tolerating evil...

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. 

-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

...not equal, more robust

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.
-Douglas Adams, author (1952-2001)

...best by bitter

The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
-W.E.B. Du Bois, educator, civil rights activist, and writer (1868-1963)

...put a dent

We're here to put a dent in the universe.
-Steve Jobs, entrepreneur and inventor (1955-2011)