text:
Quotes For Marketers
A collection of great quotes for marketers
I love quotes. I have collected them for years, so I decided to publish the best ones, especially for marketers, right here on this hub.
Enjoy! Dave Sherwin
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the willingness to do what needs to be done. ~Cecilia Stoll
"You don't have to be great to get started, but you've got to get started to be great!" ~Les Brown
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ~Elbert Hubbard
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~Henry C. Link
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. ~Margaret Mead
Imagine that! Activity matters most! ~Michael S. Clouse
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. ~Thomas Edison
Act as if it were impossible to fail. ~Dorothea Brande
We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work. ~Les Brown.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henry Bergson
The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. ~Aristotle
You can't hit a home-run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put a line in the water. You can't reach your goals unless you actually do something. ~Kathy Seligman
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. ~Greg Anderson
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. ~Indira Gandhi
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ~Arthur Koestler
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey
If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. - Author Unknown
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Author Unknown
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. ~Orson Scott Card
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~unknown
You don't get to choose how you're going to die- or when. You can only decide how you're going to live- now." ~Joan Baez Singer, Songwriter
Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance. ~Denis Waitley
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser ~ in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all ~ he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. ~Kin Hubbard
Optimists are nostalgic about the future. ~Chicago Tribune
Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~Harry Truman
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ~Douglas Jerrold, "Meeting Troubles Half-Way," 1859
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ~Daniel L. Reardon
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. ~Lucimar Santos de Lima
The biggest miscommunication is to assume communication has taken place. ~Anonymous
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. ~Albert Schweitzer
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. ~John C. Maxwell
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Friends are those souls who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer. ~Ed Cunningham
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ~Plato
Two things you can control: The quality and frequency ofyour message. ~John Kalench
When it comes to perfecting your presentation; stop focusing on whether or not you get them and start focusing on whether or not you give them. ~Michael S. Clouse
Look for the good in every person and in every situation. ~Brian Tracy
Say only what you can prove. Be ready to prove everything you say. ~Jerry Vass
Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking. ~Brian Tracy
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus
Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. ~Isaiah Berlin
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Indian Proverb
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted. ~Andre Gide
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~Author Unknown
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ~Peter F. Drucker
My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. ~Author Unknown
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers
I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said. ~Eli Khamarov, America Explained!
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~James Baldwin
Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~Aristotle
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ~Samuel Johnson
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~Mark Twain
A habit is something you can do without thinking ~ which is why most of us have so many of them. ~Frank A. Clark
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees ~ As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ~John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Rohn
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. ~Somerset Maugham
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ~St. Augustine
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. ~Feodor Dostoevski
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ~Marcel Proust
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ~Eng's Principle
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~Frank Crane
Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. ~Confucius, Analects
Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth. ~George Crabbe, The Borough
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. ~Horace Mann
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. ~Hannah More
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. ~Goethe
Every grown~up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. ~Georges Gurdjieff
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ~Leo Aikman
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it. ~ Elizabeth Dole
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. ~ Walt Whitman
Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills. ~ Al Ries
Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going. ~ John Naisbitt
Marketing is not an event, but a process . . . It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely. ~ Jay Conrad Levinson
What we call results are beginnings. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss- and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last. ~ John Romero
"If you can't describe what you're doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing." ~Edward Deming
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67. ~ Norman R. Augustine
If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying "Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday," that's advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that's promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor's flower bed, that's publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that's public relations. If the town's citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they'll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that's sales. ~ Unknown
If you make a product good enough, even though you live in the depths of the forest the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. ~ William Randolph Hearst
If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language in which they think. ~ David Ogilvy
I once used the word "obsolete" in a headline, only to discover that 43% of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline I used the word "ineffable," only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself. ~ David Ogilvy
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes... ~ Philip Dusenberry
You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in a way that people will feel in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen. ~ William Bernbach
What helps people, helps business. ~ Leo Burnett
Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to. ~ John O'Toole
If you are writing about baloney, don't try to make it a Cornish hen, because that is the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darned good baloney. ~ Leo Burnett
We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready ~ even eager ~ to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. ~ Daniel Boorstin
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men ~~ the man he is and the man he wants to be. ~ William Feather
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. ~ Leo Burnett
We find that advertising works the way the grass grows. You can never see it, but every week you have to mow the lawn. ~ Andy Travis
Advertising is the "wonder" in Wonder Bread. ~ Jef I. Richards
Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them. ~ David Ogilvy
Teamwork is essential. It gives them someone else to shoot at. ~ Unknown
If you think advertising doesn't work, consider the millions of Americans that now think yogurt tastes good. ~ Joe L. Whitley
The way to make money everyday is by e~mailing to your list everyday. ~David Vallieres
In order to get your potential customers to 'break' their concentration on themselves YOU need to communicate a STRONG but SIMPLE to understand message, preferably with an implied or direct benefit, to get them to stop what they are doing in order to pay attention to YOUR marketing message. ~David Vallieres
"They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving faster and faster." ~Vinton Cerf
Network Marketing
Network Marketing is an 'equal opportunity' opportunity. ~Michael S. Clouse
Quit looking for the people who you're looking for, and start looking for the people who are looking for you! ~Doug Firebaugh
You can "get" someone into your business, or you can "let" someone into your business. It's called a mindset... ~Brian Carruthers
Use, recommend, and sponsor. ~Richard B. Brooke
Q: What are the three reasons people join your business? A: They know, like, and trust you. ~Tom "Big Al" Schreiter
Work only with those you would choose as friends. ~Michael S. Clouse
This business is not about "getting them in." It's about "keeping them in." Therefore, continue investing your time with all those you sponsor, until they shift from "being in the business" to "the business being in them." Michael S. Clouse
The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME..." Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?" ~Jeff Olson
Stop worrying about the person who says "No." Focus instead on those who simply "Don't know." ~Michael S. Clouse
In Network Marketing, duplication is what success looks like! ~Michael S. Clouse
The question we should be asking ourselves is: "Would I want to be sponsored by me?" ~Jeff Olson
The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it. Soon it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world. ~Brian Tracy
Marketing is merely a civilized form of warfare in which most battles are won with words, ideas, and disciplined thinking. ~Albert W. Emery
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he tried and failed. ~William James
The more you know, the slower you grow.
Only take the advice from people who are currently building a business.
Teach the people you already know to talk to people they already know.
If you are doing the business right, you never have to look for strangers.
When you have a job, you are helping someone else reach their dreams.
The business is about multiplication, not addition and subtraction.
Network Marketing and sales mix like oil and water; they don't.
Your best tool is your sponsor.
Why isn't everyone in Network Marketing?
It's all about fun, happiness, and a healthy lifestyle.
Make a friend, meet their friends.
Anyone who thinks Network Marketing has anything to do with sales will never make it big in this business, with very few exceptions.
This is a sponsor and teach business, not a recruit and sell business.
Network Marketing is building a family of consumers.
You don't recruit people to sell for you, you sponsor people so you can go to work for them.
You are not duplicating unless the person you sponsor is three levels deep.
If you can't talk to your friends about your Networking business, then you either don't believe it or you don't understand it.
If you want to see a Pyramid, go to Egypt.
You can work hard in the beginning for almost nothing and hardly work at all in the future and make a fortune.
You can help a thousand, but you cannot carry 3 on your back. Learn to help those who deserve, not those who need. ~ Jim Rohn
You don't have to get it perfect, you just need to get it started. ~ Joe Schoeder
With the internet explosion, in the future there will be two kinds of people those with networks (downline) and those without ! ~Unknown
In Network Marketing, the NETWORKING always comes before the MARKETING ~ Silke Stahl
Without promotion, something terrible happens ~ NOTHING! ~ P.T. Barnum
If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people. ~Jim Rohn
You've got to have reasonable goals and the stick~to~itiveness to get there. ~J. Robert Buchanan
Character consists of what you do on the third or fourth tries. ~James Michener
How does one succeed? Try hard enough. ~Malcolm Forbes
They'll tell you, "Quit now, you'll never make it." If you disregard that advice, you'll be halfway there. ~David Zucker
I will persist until I succeed. ~Og Mandino
What counts in battle is what you do once the pain sets in. ~John Short, South African running coach
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ~Sir Francis Drake
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown
When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." ~Author Unknown
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich
You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Personal Development
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you." Now I say, "I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me. ~Jim Rohn
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most homes valued at over $1,000,000 have a library. That should tell us something. ~Jim Rohn
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. ~James Allen
He who stops being better stops being good. ~Oliver Cromwell
One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now becoming. ~Benjamin Franklin
If you will become the very best messenger you possibly can, the message will take care of itself. ~Michael S. Clouse
Growth is the process of responding positively to change. ~Paul Harvey
"We are blind until we see that in the human plan Nothing's worth the making if it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious if man unbuilded goes? In vain we build the world, unless the builder also grows." ~Edwin Markham
The major key to your better future is you! ~Jim Rohn
They can because they think they can. ~Virgil
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. ~Maxwell Maltz
It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~George Eliot
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. ~Cicero
To have more, we must first become more. ~Jim Rohn
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ~Albert Einstein
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Basho
We work to become, not to acquire. ~Elbert Hubbard
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~John Wooden
The key to success is dedication to life~long learning. ~Stephen Covey
Your mind believes what you tell it... ~Paul J. Meyer
Life is divided into three terms-that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present and from the present to live better for the future. ~William Wordsworth
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~Epictetus
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ~John Atkinson (1884 ~ 1932)
Success is something you attract by the person you become. ~John Earl Shoaff
Time will either promote you or expose you. ~Jeff Olson
The secret of success is the consistency to pursue. ~Harry F. Banks
The formula for success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day. ~Jim Rohn
Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort. ~Denis Waitley
Success leaves clues. ~Anthony Robbins
"The real secret to success is enthusiasm." ~Walter Chrysler
"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure." ~Sven Goran Eriksson
There is only one success: To be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. ~Oscar Wild
To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing. ~ Prentice Mulford
We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way. ~ Florence Shinn
If you fail to go within, you will go without. ~ Neal Donald Walsch
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what it is one's destiny to do. ~Henry Ford
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown
Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen
As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin
I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896
Got a favorite quote?! Share it here!
That is a great set of quotes! Thanks. Looks like you've really done your research for this.
This is a great book in the making! It brightened my day which was threatening to be dull. Thanks for taking the time.
A quote for every occasion, very inspirational. I particularly like the ones on just going and doing it. Even the Bhagavad Gita, part of the Vedic tradition, which has been mis-interpreted for years as advocating a renunciation of activity says "not leaning on the fruits of action, do the job that is to be done" and says the true yogi is the one who acts, not the one wthout activity. So doing is a win on many levels.
Anyway, great thoughts, well worth visiting and re-visiting.
What a fab hubpage, I will be back to refer to it , fantastic- thanks for sharing
bring on the books : ) I think the length is fine, when you have loads of quality content why not share it all. My thumbs up to this one.
Hi! I agree with mind-ing for gold, this is a book, not a hubpage!
Jeez - this isn't a hubpage it's a BOOK!
I really like Churchill - "If you're going through Hell, Keep on Going!"
thank for sharing ~Schelli
Great article!
I love the quotes!
wow, what a collection! impressive. I've got a topic for you- what advice would you give to spouses of those who have just started trying to build residual income?


text:
Related places
Residential Building (Apartment / Condo)
- The Thunderdome. in St Louis, MO, 63110, United States Nightclub
- Thunderdome in Farmington, MN, 55024, United States Residential Building (Apartment / Condo)
- Thunderdome in Ohio, United States Resort
- The Thunderdome in 482 Breckenridge St, Buffalo, NY, 14213, United States Gym
- Thunderdome in FL, 34761, United States Home (private)
- Thunderdome in Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil Strip Club
- The Thunderdome in SW Aspen Pl, Tualatin, OR 97062, Tualatin, OR, 97062, United States College Residence Hall
- Thunderdome in Tiffin, OH, United States College Academic Building
- Thunderdome in Boise, ID, 83705, United States Speakeasy
- Thunderdome in Pennsylvania, United States General Entertainment
- Thunderdome in Massachusetts, United States College Residence Hall
- The Thunderdome in Georgia, United States Other Great Outdoors
- The Thunderdome in United Kingdom Nightclub
- Thunderdome in 6001 Cherry St, Kansas City, MO, 64110, United States Speakeasy
- The Thunderdome in Virginia, United States General Entertainment
- Thunderdome in Colona, IL, 61241, United States Residential Building (Apartment / Condo)
- THUNDERDOME in Florida, United States Athletics & Sports
- Thunderdome! in Kingman, AZ, United States Theme Park
- The Thunderdome in Arizona, United States Office
- The Thunderdome in West Nyack, NY, 10994, United States Travel Lounge
- Beyond Thunderdome in Stoughton, WI, 53589, United States Performing Arts Venue
- The Thunderdome in 1100 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90017, United States Hostel
- Thunderdome in College Main St., Bryan, TX, United States Pub
- The Thunderdome in 301-333 Marine Dr, Oceanside, CA, 92058, United States Building
- the Thunderdome in Tampa, FL, 33624, United States

subset: commoncrawl


text:
A heartbroken widower has spoken of his distress after his wife's grave was desecrated.
James Blyden, 67, lost his wife of 44 years, Rebecca, three years ago.
Rebecca, who died aged 61, is buried at All Saints church in Hesketh Bank.
For the past two years flowers and ornaments that adorn her grave have been consistently stolen. Her headstone was also egged on one occasion.
Mr Blyden, who has lived in Hesketh Bank for all his married life, said: "For the first year the grave was marked only by a wooden cross but then I had a headstone put on and things started to go missing.
"My wife loved Westie dogs and I put a statue of a Westie on her grave and this was stolen, the same thing happened with an angel statue and silk flowers and flower pots.
"One time her gravestone was egged, it's just awful.
"I've been to visit her grave everyday since she died and it's very distressing to have to deal with this problem again and again.
"I have absolutely no idea who is doing this, my wife was a lovely woman and never gave anyone any trouble.
"She loved Liverpool Football Club and on her headstone I had the inscription 'you'll never walk alone' , I don't know if this might have something to do with it."
Mr Blyden now lives with his two West Highland Terriers Cindy and Jock. His 37-year-old son David lives in Manchester.
Rebecca's grave is the only grave in the churchyard that has had items removed from it, suggesting vandals are specifically targeting it.
Mr Blyden, who is a former employee of West Lancashire Council is now appealing to anyone who might have any information about this despicable crime to get in touch with police.
Rev Bill Sloan of All Saints Church, said: "It's deplorable and disgraceful that this has happened. We have an open graveyard and have never had any problems like this before.
"We have no idea who is doing this, it's very strange that just the one grave is being targeted.
"I've heard of whole church yards being targeted but this is the first time I've seen or heard of a case like this.
"Our hearts go out to Mr Blyden and we are doing everything in our power to try and catch this culprit, no one should have to go through this."
If anyone has any information about this crime they are asked to contact police on 101, quoting CJ1408173.


text:
Oxygen leaks out of tyres faster.
Nitrogen maintains tyre pressure longer than oxygen. The oxygen molecules in compressed air are smaller and leak out three to four times faster. NitroFill™ generators filter the air we breathe through technically advanced membrane fibres to separate it from oxygen and water vapour.
Nitrogen is no longer prohibitively expensive to produce.
- In the past, equipment to produce nitrogen was large and expensive
- Using the latest Pneumatech technology, NitroFill™ generators produce nitrogen from the air we breathe using compressed air.
- NitroFill™ generators are simple to install, safe and cost effective.


text:
Holiday Inn Cochin
Holiday Inn Cochin
33/1739 A, Chakkaraparambu Junction National Highway Bypass, Vennala,
33/1739 A, Chakkaraparambu Junction
National Highway Bypass, Vennala,
Check In: 2PM
Check Out: 12PM
Check-in Age: 18
Distance from Airport
View Exterior
Directions & Transportation
Book With Us Advantage
- Best Price Guarantee
We promise you access to the guaranteed best available prices, or your first night is free.
- Online Reservation Guarantee
Your room is guaranteed.
- No Booking Fees!
We do not charge any booking fees for making reservations directly with us.
- Data Privacy and Site Security
IHG takes your privacy seriously and works to protect you. All personal information you provide is encrypted and secure.
Welcome to Holiday Inn Cochin
Located in the cosmopolitan city of Cochin, known as the commercial capital of Kerala. Holiday Inn Cochin is a Five Star Hotel located 40 Minutes from Cochin International Airport (CIAL). We are conveniently located on the NH 47 Bypass in close proximity of 3 kilometeres from Infopark, Kakkanad and Smart City.
Holiday Inn Cochin has contemporary designed 212 spacious rooms and suites. The features include Work Smart space with ergonomic chair, high-speed Internet connectivity, iPod docking station, tea/coffee maker and in-room safe which are key essentials for business and leisure travelers. We offer wide variety of dining experience with five food and beverage outlets. Masala, our full service buffet restaurant serves a sumptuous spread of international, Indian and local Kerala cuisine. Deli KC is the 24-hour coffee shop which offers a good selection of quick eats and various flavors of coffee/tea. Roma, the Italian specialty restaurant with live Pizzeria offers an a la carte menu for dinner, and lunch on weekends. Stadia, the sports bar is a great place to unwind over a drink with friends, play snooker and enjoy good music.
Guests can maintain their exercise regime in the Health Club, rejuvenate at the Jacuzzi, steam and sauna or unwind with a dip in the infinity pool. We have multilingual staff and a Business Center which offers a perfect base to do smart business.We are ideally located in close proximity to Kochi Muziris Biennale at Fort Kochi
Kids Stay and Eat Free
Kids ages 12 and under stay for free when sharing their parents' room. Up to four kids ages 12 and under eat free any time of the day in any Holiday Inn® on-site restaurant.
*View Terms & Conditions for Details.
Babysitting Services Available.Children's Activities Available.
We have the following activites available for kids - Play station - Kid's Pool - Chess - FoosBall
|Kids Stay Free
|Kids Eat Free
|Asia Pacific (excluding Greater China), Middle East, Africa
|12 and Under
|12 and Under
Free High-Speed Internet
Standard Wireless Internet service is included for all guests.
Shuttle/ Parking
- Car Parking Available
- Complimentary Daily Self-Parking is available
- Valet Parking is available
- Holiday Inn Cochin shall not be responsible for any loss or damage to the car including contents while parked in hotel area. In case of lost parking ticket, guest will be requested to present a valid identification card for comparision of signature.
Pet Policy
- No pets allowed
- Service Animals Allowed
- Service animals are allowed on the premises. Please call before arrival so that we can arrange pet friendly amenities for the service animals.
Languages Spoken by Staff
Credit Cards
- American Express
- Visa
- MasterCard
- Diners Club
- Carte Blanche
- Number of Floors: 16
- Total Number of Rooms: 212
- Number of Suites: 11
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 154
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 2
- Connecting Rooms Available
- Public Entrance
- Guest Rooms
- Elevators
- Public Restrooms
Accessible Hotel Areas
- Ramp Access
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Guest Rooms
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Public Spaces
Provided by Hotel


text:
Full Service Mortgage Lender
FIRST AMERICAN MORTGAGE, INC. has built a strong reputation as a full-service mortgage lender serving the needs of real estate professionals, builders and individual home buyers throughout Oklahoma.
At FIRST AMERICAN MORTGAGE, INC., maintaining trust and personal service is the cornerstone of our business. Locally owned and operated since 1993, we offer premium customer service, the lowest interest rates and a variety of loan products suited to your needs. Whether it's your first home or an investment property, FIRST AMERICAN MORTGAGE, INC. is committed to the individual, making a difference for every customer, every day.


text:
How many of you have read the book of Genesis? If you haven't, may I suggest that sometime this week you get out the first book of the Bible and read Chapters 37-50. It will make these Old Testament readings make more sense. They really need to be read together to get the whole story of the patriarchs of our faith. The story we have today is about Joseph, the guy with the coat of many colors, the dreamer of Jacob's children, who is obviously obnoxious but is the favorite of the 12 children. If we want a paradigm for raising children, the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or Israel are not the ones we want to emulate.
Joseph is a visionary. And what is insufferable, is that he is his father Jacob's favorite. His brothers are fed up with him. Now most of us don't have siblings that we would sell in to slavery, but I know some of us with siblings might have entertained similar ideas at a weak moment.
The one phrase that struck me as I first read this was: Here comes this dreamer. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Dreams and visions are hard to deal with. Has anyone ever tried to build their 'dreamEvery time you try to get that 'perfect image', you have to face reality. The builder says you can't do it that way, or it doesn't come in that color." Somehow the dream doesn't turn out the way you want it. That's because being human is about being imperfect.
It was the dreamer Joseph who would save his people during a famine by bringing them into Egypt where Pharaoh had prepared for theIt would also be where the Children of Israel would know what it meant to be slaves, gain their emancipation through the graciousness of God and become the nation that gave rise to the Messiah.
But we still dream, don't we? We still hope. That too is part of what it means to be human. There is a passage from the Prophet Joel that is also quoted in the 2nd chapter of Acts that reminds us what happens when the Spirit comes to us: And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
Joseph could not keep his dreams or his prophecy to himself. Prophets can't. It just isn't possible to keep your dreams to yourself when God has given you the vision of what could be.
Five years ago, the people of this parish dreamed a dream. It was one in which love conquered the divisions that had developed in this part of the Church. They dreamed of a church that was built on the love of Christ. Its dream was to become a place where participation, accountability and transparency would operate as primary organizational values. And over the few years I have come here, I have seen that dream begin to be realized among you. It hasn't been easy. I have seen you deal with the warts of your humanity. But most of all, I have watched you share that dream with others. Many of you have shared that vision with me. And through your efforts I have watched you begin to grow beyond the place where you were 'waiting for the Spirit or the courts to save you from your humanity' You have kept your visions despite those who would be fed up with your 'naiveté' or those who would tell you it couldn't work that way.
Over the past few months I have come to the realization that I am getting old. IllnessI have now come to the place of dreaming dreams. I will not see the realization of the vision I had for the new Church that is developing all over the world. But that doesn't bother me anymore. Because it is places like here at St. _______ that I know that the vision is alive and well.
The vision that the Church is a place where people can find the Spirit of God must be kept before those who love Christ. Since I was here last, you have opened yourselvesYou live out the dreams of the ancients. It has been the way that the good news has been passed on for centuries.
For those of us who are living into the dream of God's kingdom, it is probably not looking like we initially envisioned it would be. But those of you who are still proclaiming the vision do well to listen to the hopes of those who now dream. Because the vision is always growing, always changing.
Five years ago, your vision was based upon getting the property back. Now, the vision is 'how can we serve right where we are in the name of Christ'. However, those of us who have become dreamers, those of us who are old enough to remember, keep track of the story, keep track of the values that precipitated the vision, remember the history of what has happened and how not to fall back into past behaviors that led to imprisonment.
When the vision gets lost in 'reality' it is easy to embrace the expedient rather than the movement of the Spirit. All of us in this room are children of God. We long to embrace the Holy One and the lives that are generated by our relationship Go back to when you were first married, the dream spouse that you 'thought' you had, hasn't always been a dream. with God. We envision ourselves as those trying to do what it is we are called to by God.
We long for the goodness that is generated in us by the Holy Spirit. And we know that in goodness is the only way we can know happiness. We call it from ourselves; we invite others to join in that happiness. But like that perfect vision, that 'dream house', it is not always easy to keep our eyes on that vision. It so easy to settle for what works rather than the genuine happiness to which God invites us.
Our Gospel reading is that wonderful story of Jesus walking on the water. We oftenBut walking on water isn't just for Jesus, any more. Please note that Peter walked on the water too. Granted, when he took his eyes off Jesus, he sank. He lost his vision.
The vision we have of a new parish, a new diocese, a new Church depends upon our willingness to keep our eyes on Christ—keeping our eyes on the vision of Goodness and Love—keeping our eyes on Participation, Accountability and Transparency. Our visions must be rooted in the history of who we have been as much as what we hope to become otherwise it becomes 'pie in the sky in the bye and bye." As we all carry the vision and share that vision, more often than not, our dream gets accomplished. It is the willingness to step out on the waters of faith that allow that dream of a better world to be something more than a fairy tale. It is being willing to keep the vision before us all even when there are those who would be willing to sell us into slavery again. Remember slavery is very comfortable—and requires no thought or too much effort. And for some, slavery is the only experience of life they know, so they see dreamers as a real threat.
So today I laud your willingness to walk on the water of your faith, to keep yourself open to the love of Christ, and to share the faith in the Spirit that invites us to dream. Keep visioning. Keep acting on that vision. It is Holy. It is Righteous. It is the way to live into the freedom that God longs for us. It is the way that we will survive. And it certainly will be the way we will grow. AMEN


text:
Quote of the Week
"We believed that if we continued to show love and affection, the situation would turn out OK. We were wrong."
— State Rep. Justin Harris (R-West Fork), speaking at a press conference at the Arkansas State Capitol on March 6. The press conference was held to allow Harris to tell his side of the story — first revealed by Arkansas Times — about his "rehoming" of two little girls he and his wife, Marsha, had adopted. One of the girls was later raped by the man to whom Harris had chosen to hand the girls. At the press conference, Harris claimed the decision to move the girls to the home of Eric Cameron Francis, now serving 40 years for rape, was made because at least one of the girls, who was no older than 5 while in his home, was violent to the point that it made Harris fear for the safety of his family. Read more about Harris and the adoption fallout on page 14.
School Inc.
Legislation filed March 6 by Rep. Bruce Cozart (R-Hot Springs), the chair of the House Education Committee, would set up an "Achievement School District" that would allow the state education commissioner to operate a school or district in academic distress in conjunction with an outside nonprofit. If passed, House Bill 1733 could potentially open the door for some of Arkansas's most troubled schools — up to and including the Little Rock School District — to become a Petri dish for charter school experimentation by the state's ever-willing crop of wealthy education tinkerers. That includes the charter-loving Walton Family Foundation, allied with state Education Commissioner Johnny Key. Among other things, the bill allows the commissioner to waive the Teacher Fair Dismissal Act in "Achievement District" schools, which would allow teachers in those districts to be fired with little or no cause. During this week's meeting of the Arkansas Legislative Black Caucus, Rep. John Walker (D-Little Rock) called HB 1733 an attempt to do away with teachers' unions, and "a blatant attempt to re-segregate schools and do it in a way that will pass constitutional muster." On March 9 over 200 people turned out to oppose the bill at Little Rock's Calvary Baptist Church.
Poor Tom
Not everybody is in the Sen. Tom Cotton Fan Club, it seems. On March 10, the day after Cotton penned a letter — later signed by 46 other Republican senators — to the nation of Iran saying that any agreement forged by the Obama administration to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb could be undone by the next president "by the stroke of a pen," the cover of the New York Daily News looked thusly. Yes, that's the Distinguished Gentleman from Arkansas, second from right. The Daily News (which, it should be noted, is an openly right-wing newspaper, owned by a neoconservative, and which backed Mitt Romney in the last election), twisted the knife by saying Cotton and the other 46 signers of the letter were "engaged in treachery by sending a letter to the mullahs aimed at cutting the legs out from under America's Commander-in-Chief" before adding: "They are an embarrassment to the Senate and to the Nation." The same day, the Daily Kos blog noted that the Twitter hashtag #47Traitors was trending worldwide.
Behold, his mighty hand!
Just when we thought Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway) couldn't waste any more taxpayer dollars fighting patently unconstitutional laws in court, here he comes with more ACLU-bait: Senate Bill 939, which would authorize a monument to the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol. Never fear, though. Rapert said that this monument would be identical to one held constitutional in a 2005 Supreme Court decision. On the upside, Rapert's effort will hopefully spawn some of the same hilarity seen in Oklahoma, where members of the Satanic Temple hope the state capitol's Ten Commandments monument will soon to be joined by a monument to their chosen religion: a massive bronze likeness of the goat-headed Pagan god Baphomet.
Sniffin' out cancer
Everybody loves a dog story, and this one is a humdinger: UAMS recently released research on Frankie, a German shepherd mix rescued from an animal shelter, who has been trained to detect thyroid cancer by sniffing urine samples. In clinical trials, the researchers said, Frankie detected the presence of thyroid cancer 88.2 percent of the time, an accuracy rate approaching that of surgical biopsy. Lead researcher Dr. David Bodenner said dogs like Frankie could someday be used to detect thyroid cancer at an early and more treatable stage. That's a good dog! GOOOOD DOGGIE!


text:
Airlines see fuel costs, flyer loyalty as top issues
While concerns
about the environment are growing significantly in international
markets, fuel costs dominate all other issues impacting the airline
industry, according to results of a survey.
The poll was conducted among North
American and international airline executives by Sabre Airline
Solutions, the global leader of software and services for the airline
By wide margins, leaders of the 197 airlines who participated in
the survey viewed fuel costs as their top challenge and the most
significant impediment to profitability. Government regulations and
customer loyalty round out the top three issues impacting the airline
"While most airline-related surveys reflect the opinion of
passengers on airline service, our survey polled the world's top
airlines on the issues that are directly affecting them, their
operations and roadblocks to their successes," said Gordon Locke, vice
president, Sabre Airline Solutions and Distribution Marketing.
The Sabre Airline Solutions survey highlights the emergence of
environmental issues, as well as the disparity between airlines
headquartered in North America and those based in Latin America, Asia,
Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Only 5 percent of North American
airlines currently view environmental concerns as a major challenge,
while 34 percent of international airlines named it as one of the
three biggest challenges they will face in 2007.
"As long as U.S. carriers are focused on survival and rebuilding
their balance sheets, and their regulatory climate is not pushing
hard, they will not likely embrace environmental concerns as much as
European or other regions' carriers," said Steve Hendrickson, Sabre
Airline Solutions senior strategist. "The momentum for potential
regulatory actions against airlines' carbon emissions is much more
pronounced in Europe than in the United States. Also, U.S. airlines
are still obsessed with the emerging financial recovery they are
slowly achieving, while carriers in many other regions are largely
doing pretty well."
North American and international airlines were virtually identical
on the impact of fuel costs with 95 percent of international and 94
percent of North American airlines saying it will have a "significant"
cost, revenue or operational impact. Eighty-two percent of North
American and 77 percent of international airlines said government
regulations would have a significant impact; and 77 percent of North
American and 74 percent of international airlines cited customer
While high fuel costs are a top airline concern, the Sabre Airline
Solutions consulting practice said cost savings in this unpredictable
facet of operations can be achieved.
"Our consulting group recently engaged with a North American
carrier and a Latin American carrier and found US$5.1 million and US$8
million, per year, of potential fuel savings for these carriers,
respectively," said Khaled Al-Eisawi, of Sabre Airline Solutions
consulting. "This level of savings opportunity is significant for any
He confirmed that high fuel costs are consistently being cited by
airlines as their most pressing issue. "Airlines realize that they
have to absolutely optimize their use of fuel resources to remain
competitive," Al-Eisawi said.
Nearly half of the 197 airlines that participated in the survey,
48 percent, believe developing new revenue streams is important to the
overall airline revenue strategy, but only about a third or fewer
thought some of the most talked-about ideas for generating new revenue
would be effective, such as some airlines moves toward offering
unbundled pricing and service.
Thirty-five percent said charging extra for seat selections would
be an effective source of new revenue and even fewer said in-flight
entertainment (34 percent), meals (24 percent) and in-flight comfort
items such as pillows and blankets (17 percent) would be effective
revenue sources. There was a significant difference of opinion on this
issue between North American and international airlines, however; 30
percent of international airlines said meals could be an effective
revenue source but only 13 percent of their North American
counterparts agreed.
Slightly more than two thirds of the respondents—68 percent (73
percent North American, 57 percent international)—predicted the
number of low-cost carriers would increase by January 2008, while 9
percent believe the number will decrease and 23 percent predict it
will stay relatively the same. Far less than half the airlines
surveyed saw increases in the number of regional or international
long-haul carriers.
While 45 percent of North American airlines said airline
bankruptcies will have a significant revenue or operational impact on
their airline, only 29 percent of international carriers agreed. "Each
region or nation has its own unique bankruptcy laws, and the U.S.
airline industry has now spent many years learning all the ins and
outs of Chapter 11 restructurings," Hendrickson said.
"The ones taking place today are more sophisticated and well
managed than those a decade or more ago. The U.S. industry had a lot
of legacy costs and related issues to cleanse itself of in bankruptcy
court, and they had a lot of intellectual capital—lawyers,
accountants, consultants, etc.—at their disposal to work all the
leverage that a court-supervised restructuring allows. The bankruptcy
gambit in other parts of the world is just not as accepted or
conducive to effective restructuring as it is in the United States and
In another notable difference of opinion, while 30 percent of
international airlines thought the inability to secure new routes
would be among their top three revenue impediments, only 15 percent of
North American airlines agreed.
"The U.S. domestic market is totally deregulated and thus any
airline can fly where it wants, when it wants," Hendrickson said.
"This is not necessarily so for many other domestic markets around the
"Plus, the U.S. government has secured a good array of bilateral
route authorities and even open skies agreements from which its
carriers can draw their expansion opportunities," Hendrickson added.
"Contrast that to some of the other countries around the world where
airlines may still face restrictive route freedoms, slot scarcity or
gate constraints. In some cases, the traditional flag carrier may be
owned by that country's government and hold the majority of route
authorities while newer rivals, who might be privately funded, are
only slowly gaining route authorities from the government."
Respondents expect 46 percent of all passengers will book their
travel directly online in 2007. This number is considered an increase
by 87 percent of the respondents over the number that booked online in
2006. Among those who book their travel online, airline executives
said six out of 10 will book through an airline's Web site while the
others will use online distributor Web sites.
Sabre Airline Solutions conducted the online survey between March
13 and March 23.


text:
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
— Igor Stravinsky
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.
— Chicago DJ Larry Lujack
We called this seasonal-affected disorder A Very Rumpus Christmas, for reasons that will be all too clear if you listen to it!
Danny Henry (the Awesome Snakes, the Soviettes), co-host of KFAI's MN Soundtrack, filled in for Ron and Jean this week. You check it out now, won't you?
Thanks, Danny!
Privacy Statement
© KFAI, 1808 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Tel: 612-341-3144


text:
Monterey Peninsula College
Location: Monterey, California
Website: http://www.mpc.edu
Type: No Type Yet
Federal Circuit: 9th Circuit
Speech Code Rating
Monterey Peninsula College is not currently rated in our system. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form.
Monterey Peninsula College: Ideological Litmus Loyalty Oath for Professors
July 7, 2000
At Monterey Peninsula College Requirement, #14 of the school's "Course Proposal Outlines" forced all professors to address diversity and multiculturalism: "Include a description of how course topics are treated to develop a knowledge and understanding of race, class and gender issues." Professor of English David Clemens refused to go along with the multicultural loyalty oath and submitted a course outline for his English 38-on literature, technology, and human nature-with an objection to the Requirement. His course was not approved by the committee, and he was then criticized and attacked by the administration (including letters in local newspapers). FIRE mounted a […]» Read More
Student Rights and Responsibilities 08-09
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, StatementStudents and student organizations are free to examine and to discuss all questions of interest to them, to express opinions publicly and privately, and to support causes by orderly means which do not disrupt the regular and essential operation of the institution.
Last updated: October 28, 2013
Student Rights and Responsibilities: Discipline 08-09
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies, StatementStudents shall be subject to College discipline for any of the following misconduct which occurs at any time on campus or at any off-campus facility or college approved or sponsored function:
Last updated: December 15, 2013
Physical or verbal abuse of any person or conduct which threatens or endangers the health or safety of any such person;
Hazing or any act that injures, degrades, or disgraces or tends to injure, degrade, or disgrace any fellow student or person.
Halvorssen Fights the PC Fire With FIRE
January 23, 2001» Read More
Prof. Clemens and FIRE Bring Down a New-Age Loyalty Oath
September 14, 2000
MONTEREY, CA—In a resounding victory for freedom of conscience and academic freedom, with implications for countless campuses, Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) has eliminated Requirement #14 of its "Course Proposal Outlines." In doing so, it vindicated the rights of a courageous professor who stood tall for liberty. Requirement #14 forced all professors to address diversity and multiculturalism: "Include a description of how course topics are treated to develop a knowledge and understanding of race, class and gender issues." MPC did not count on David Clemens and FIRE. Administrators at the California college had informed their faculty that Requirement #14 was mandated […]» Read More
What the "PC" in "MPC" Really Means
July 11, 2000
by David Clemens " Course Description : Computers and biotechnology put humans on a collision course with our own creations. Computers reduce people to input mechanisms; machines approach human intellectual functioning; cloning is a reality. As humans become more machine-like, machines become more human-like, a convergence depicted by many 20th century artists." Imagine a college class studying books and films about whom (and what) we may come to define as human. From Metropolis to The Matrix, students would ponder the predictions of visionary authors and directors. Actually, you don't have to imagine because I proposed […]» Read More
English Prof Stands Up to Tyranny
July 4, 2000» Read More


text:
I'm writing this in the garage waiting for my car to have its first MOT. Luckily the radio is on so the other punters can't hear me wheezing like a squeeze box.
Of all the things I expected the young man on the reception to say, when confronted by my lycra-encased lard, "we have no record of your booking " was not one of them. I firmly shook him by the neck until he agreed to book me in.
I found a lovely flat and not too muddy field and managed to get through the run. Really slow and have to say that I hated every minute of it!
My main problem is my breathing as I'm still out of breath after the walks and I feel like I'm struggling to get enough air in. This may be due to having been a committed smoker until December? Any top tips on improving this - don't tell me to slow down - if I go any slower I'll be going backwards 😀


text: My professional journey has led me through a labryinth of experiences – some stellar, some challenging, & some utterly exciting! However there are those experiences that will forever be etched in my mind as absolutely unforgettable, & Friday, March 3, 2017 was one such experience. As I entered the Umstead Hotel, the faintest smell of cedar filled the impeccably carpeted hallway & I immediately realized that this would be no ordinary day. As the representative for the Sandhills region for North Carolina, I am honored & humbled to serve in a cohort of eight school leaders from across our great state who exemplify amazing school leadership! From the Mountains to the Piedmont to the Coastal region, these seven administrators are as diverse & talented as the students we represent, & I could not be more proud to serve alongside them for the next year as an amabassador for public education! It is a rare opportunity to share time, space, & ideas with like-minded leaders in your field, but the dialogue shared among us on Friday inspired me beyond belief. The 2017 NC Regional Principals of the Year are change agents dedicated to student achievement, teacher leadership, & championing the role of school leaders. Watch out North Carolina, because this cohort of amazing administrators is blazing a path toward greatness!


text: I'm having second thoughts about the 4-string Warwick Corvette Pro-line I put on layaway. I love the bass, but it's only 4 strings. I have a 5-string Yamaha at home and I RARELY use the B and now I wonder why it's a problem. I like to play a lot of Primus and Dream Theater stuff and I don't know if I will be able to do it with a 4-string. However, I know I can get a lof more crazy with the popping and pulling on a 4 without having to worry about spacing. What say all of you?


text:
Need 100 Articles Written
Budget $100-300 USD
I have 250 articles divided into 10 article sets. In each set are 25 articles on a particular subject (beach vacations, breast feeding, eating healthy, etc.). I need the articles rewritten and condensed into just 10 articles per set (subject). So basically I need 100 articles written from the original 250 I have. I need good quality articles. Each one must be 400 – 600 words. The articles are going to be used to create small websites. In each set I need one article that is an overview or introduction to the topic, then 9 sub articles. The introduction or overview article needs to include anchor text links within its body text to all of the other 9 articles. The sub articles need to also link together via anchor text, article 2 linking to article 3, article 3 linking to article 4, 4 to 5 and so on. Once finished, I will keep the sole rights to the articles. After the articles are delivered and found to be consistent with the project description, payment will be made via Paypal, credit card or regular check depending on the provider's preference. I intend to have a lot of work available every month, probably 100's of articles.
70 freelancere byder i gennemsnit $182 på dette job
I will be happy to work with you. I'm an expert on this.
I shall provide 10 articles made out of 25 articles for $100 and each article length would vary from 600 to 1000 words. Thank you.
I am currently a freelance writer for various companies. I basically write content on many topics ranging from medical to travel and education to just any subject matter. I have more than 10 collective years of experie Flere
I would love to do your articles 400-600 words at $15 each. Please see my PM
Even though it is impossible for me to give u the vast details of my expertise, I strongly recommend u to try me. And as for a sample, you shud give me a topic and see for yourself. Contact me for a sample and a guaran Flere
Hi!!! I can do this for you at $2 per article which effectively makes my bid $200 for the entire project... I have extensive experience in copywriting and proofreading...I can provide you with two sets everyday so that Flere
Greetings, My name is Pia Sengupta. Im an experienced content writer and web researcher located in India and am interested in bidding on your project. Though it involves a lot of careful reading,I find the pro Flere
Professionalism, timeliness and quality writing is what you can expect. Please see the PMB.


text:
I've discovered I really don't like doing this play every night. Don't get me wrong, that's not necessarily a bad thing. It just is. A close friend came to see the show last night and Angie and I had a conversation outside the theater with her afterwards. And as we were chatting I said as much. I hadn't actually said it out loud until then. Angie looked at me a little askew.
The reason, I finally realized, has nothing to do with the subject matter or the hopelessness inherent in the text or the difficulty in doing it. It has to do with the fact that there are parts (actually massive CHUNKS of the play) that are either right or wrong. That is to say, there is very little room to play. There is either the 'right way to do it' or 'the wrong way to do it.' That doesn't appeal to me.
One of the reasons I became an actor a hundred years ago is because success or achievement or goals or whatever has absolutely nothing to do with 'right' or 'wrong.' This business, this craft, is concerned only with what works or what doesn't work, not 'right' or 'wrong.'
For example, I was watching an old movie the other day. Gene Wilder was playing the lead role. A line was said, a line that probably no other actor on earth could've said 'funny.' Yet Wilder did. It wasn't a funny line, it probably wasn't even intended to be funny by the author. But Wilder, in his inimitable fashion, said the line in such a way that made me chuckle out loud. You see? There was no right or wrong, there was only Wilder's choice. That's a very small example but it's precisely what I'm talking about.
Try to imagine doing 'Hamlet' and after the show someone walks up to you and says, "Sorry, but you did the role wrong tonight. Try harder tomorrow night." You see? There IS no 'wrong' way to do Hamlet. Or hardly any other role for that matter. And that is exactly the beauty of it, the appeal, the excitement, that 'unknown variable.' But, as much as I don't like it, there IS a wrong way to do this role. And again, it just is. No one's fault, no one is the cause of this...except maybe the composer, but that's hardly to be considered a drawback. The music is every bit as genius as I first thought it to be.
In this play, Adding Machine - The Musical, there is so much of it that is complex rhythm and exact counting. It is necessary because other things can't happen next unless it happens exactly right at that moment. I know that's a bit nebulous, but that's the long and short of it. It's like going on stage every night and doing trigonometry. This is, obviously, by design, hence the title of the play. But I don't like it. I don't like not being able to play INSIDE the text.
I suppose it comes from a deep-seated hatred of people telling me there is only one way to do something. So I naturally, given my pre-disposition and distrust of authority in general, gravitated toward this business. I've spent a career, I'd like to think anyway, approaching roles from a different viewpoint, a new way of thinking about something, an eccentric thought process. Maybe I've been kidding myself, but I like to think so, anyway.
There is room to do that in this play, to be sure. Not a lot, but some. But not nearly enough to give me enjoyment over the evening. Our friend said last night, "Well, it's no wonder you're not having a lot of fun. It's a very depressing theme." Honestly, that has nothing to do with it. It has to do entirely with the practical application of what I do. Not the text, not the subject matter, not even the music, really, but the inability to 'play.' I hate actually 'working' when I go to work.
Now, the audience is none the wiser. So, with that in mind, it really doesn't, in the final analysis, matter how I feel. This is entirely my own thought process. It's not about me, never has been. This is one of the reasons I've always disdained 'Method' work. It's not about the actor. It's all, entirely, every bit, always and forever, about the audience. It's about the $45 they shelled out for that seat. To ever, even for a moment, think otherwise is the absolute height of self-indulgence. It's the closest thing to a crime that an actor can commit, as far as I'm concerned. So many actors actually think it's about them. It astonishes me.
So I guess what I'm saying is, it's best to at least acknowledge that I'm not having any fun doing this. Rather than simply walk around in a sort of morass all the time about having to do it again, simply acknowledge what and why it effects me in such a way. And I think that goes a long way to at least accepting the work and the personal effort on a nightly basis.
Sometimes I feel like I'm going out on the boards every night to compete in a spelling bee rather than interpreting a role. It just is. This is one of those rare occasions when one just has to suck it up and do what is necessary. I may not enjoy it, but I sure as hell appreciate it.
See you tomorrow.


text:
Roots (Country, Folk, Americana)
Title I Don't Want To Let You Down EP
Label Jagjaguwar
Van Etten and a sterling crew of collaborators offer documents of surrender and disappointment, admission and longing. The gorgeous 'Just Like Blood' manages to capture all four facets in less than five minutes.
Produced by Van Etten and Stewart Lerman, who also helmed 'Are We There', these songs are as sophisticated and evolved as anything Van Etten has ever done.
Title Sunshine Boy: Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos
Disc One of this 2CD set features outtakes and alternate versions from these albums, while disc two contains rough demos recorded prior to entering the studio.
MOJO ***** (five) "Holy Grail stuff"
Uncut 10/10 "about as good as anything in this world gets"
[See more info for full track list]
Title Bluegrass Bonanza 4CD
Label Proper
Title Bob Harris Presents Americana
Label Proper
Title Fargo Collection Ete 2006 2CD
Label Fargo
Yup, yet another cheap label sampler, this time from the Fargo stable, two CDs of what they're best at, ft. Clem Snide, Neal Casal, Beulah, Great Lake Swimmers & Andrew Bird amongst others.
Title Folk Awards 2007 3CD
Label Proper
Title Folk Off 2CD
Label Sunday Best
2CDs of music, this is the Sunday Best label's summing up of the best in contemporary folk music, though it's definitely broader than that, what with appearances from Jakokoyak, Animal Collective and the Acid Casuals, as well as the more guitar-based songs from Clayhill, Marissa Nadler and Vashti Bunyan. CD1 is UK artists and CD2 is US artists. See review for full tracklisting.
Title Meet On The Ledge - An Island Records Folk-Rock Anthology
Label Island
Title The Empire Strikes Back
Label Glitterhouse
Title The Music Of Wales - Folk Collection
Label Sain
Title The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferon
Label American Roots Publishing
Title You Done Me Wrong
Label Buzzola
Title The Inner Flame
Label Fire
Near the end, during his final interview, when asked the impossible question of what he thinks we are all doing here in this life, Rainer answered without hesitation: "to love away the pain".. If you don't find that touching then this isn't the music for you.
See more Info for full track list.
Title Constant Sorrow
Label Fantatstic Voyage
See 'More Info' for the full low down on this release.
Title Folk is Not a Four Letter Word Vol 2
Label Finders Keepers
Title Bandera Rockabilly and Country Roots
Label Bandera
Title Constant Sorrow - Bluegrass From Root To Flower (3CDm set)
Label Fantastic Voyage
Charmingly known as "Old Time Music" or just "Old Timey", the hillbilly precursor of bluegrass did indeed have a long history stretching back across the Atlantic to the pre-record folk music of Britain and Victorian parlour songs. As a direct result of the enormous growth of the recording industry in America in the 1920s and 1930s, many rural markets were exploited by the early phonograph companies. It was out of this music that bluegrass evolved.
Brother acts were immensely important among the roots of bluegrass. Living, playing and singing together day after day produced recordings that feature the most intricate musical interplay and vocal harmonies ever heard. A notable brother act was The Monroes. Charlie and Bill would ultimately form their own groups, with Bill being acknowledged as the father of bluegrass for his recordings with The Blue Grass Boys.
The Stanley Brothers (Ralph and Carter) formed their Clinch Mountain Boys in 1946 in emulation of Monroe's new Blue Grass Boys. The brothers' legacy has been acknowledged by Emmylou Harris, and Ralph continues to inspire at the age of 83, reaching a whole new audience through his involvement with the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.
Other notable contributors to Constant Sorrow include Uncle Dave Macon, Mainer's Mountaineers, The Delmore Brothers, The Carlisle Brothers, Roy Hall's Blue Ridge Entertainers, Jimmie Skinner, The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah Valley Boys, Mac Wiseman, The McCormick Brothers, Joe Maphis and Jimmy Martin. Classic bluegrass numbers include "I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow", "Footprints In The Snow", "Orange Blossom Special", "I'll Fly Away", "Angel Band" and "Feudin' Banjos".
Title Country Funk 1969 - 1975
Label Ligh In The Attic
What in the hell is country funk you ask? The answer is a complicated one, in part due to the fact that Country Funk is an inherently defiant genre, escaping all efforts at easy categorization. The style encompasses the elation of gospel with the sexual thrust of the blues, country hoedown harmony with inner city grit. It is alternately playful and melancholic, slow jammin', and booty shakin'. It is both studio slick and barroom raw. And while these all may seem unlikely combinations at first glance, upon close listen, it all makes sweet sense.
Light In The Attic presents Country Funk 1969-1975, a melting pot concoction of the music of Dale Hawkins, John Randolph Marr, Cherokee, Johnny Adams, Mac Davis, Bob Darin, Jim Ford, Gray Fox, Link Wray, Bobby Charles, Tony Joe White, Dennis The Fox, Larry Jon Wilson, Bobbie Gentry, Gritz, and Johnny Jenkins.
See More Info for full track list
Title Country Funk Volume II 1967-1974
Label Light In The Attic
In 2012, Country Funk 1969-1975 (Volume I) gathered together songs from a genre with no name. It's a genre created not from geography or shared ideology but a term applied retrospectively based solely on the feel of the songs: hip-swinging rhythms with bourbon on the breath. These were songs to make your cowboy boots itchy, written and performed by the likes of Bobbie Gentry, Johnny Jenkins and Link Wray. Songs that encompass the elation of gospel with the sexual thrust of the blues; country hoedown harmonies cut with inner city grit. Compiled from tracks dating from the late '60s to the mid '70s, Country Funk is the sound of country music blending with sounds and scenes from coast to coast, white America's heartland music blending with the melting pot as the nation assessed its identity in advance of its bicentennial year.
The good news for the people who fell in love with the first volume of Country Funk is this: there's plenty more where that came from. Light In The Attic has followed up that first 16-track disc with a second volume, Country Funk Volume II 1967 – 1974, and a new set of loose-talking, lap steel-twanging tracks. On the single CD / 2xLP volume you'll find household names like Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Kenny Rogers, Jackie DeShannon, JJ Cale, Bobby Darin and Dolly Parton. You'll also find obscure artists like Bill Wilson, whose lost Ever Changing Minstrel album was produced by the feted Dylan producer Bob Johnston, and Thomas Jefferson Kaye, noted producer of Gene Clark's opus No Other. Gene Clark's here too, as half of Dillard & Clark, wringing raw emotion from The Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down".
Title Cowboys In Scandinavia
Label Fargo
1. Allelujah-Christian Kjellvander
2. Mad Horse-The Lancaster Orchestra
3. Twisted Cowboy-St Thomas
4. Soul Rush-Nicolai Dunger
5. Power Failure-Mattias Hellberg
6. The Ghost Of Tom Joad-Junip
7. Defrag My Heart-Britta Persson
8. Quite Alright-Dusty Fingers
9. Oh Lord-Kristofer Astrom
10. Watching You Steal My Pain-Christer Knutsen
11. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing-Tobias Froberg
12. To Hide This Way-Johanna Berhan
13. Dreamweaver-Thomas Dybdhal
14. Browngreen Pounding Eyes-Tarantula
15. Do They Let Me Kind In There?-Mikael Herrstrom
16. Family Values-Johnossi
17. Save Your Day-Jose Gonzalez
18. Take Care-Hederos & Hellberg
19. Theme From 'The Tussler'-Motorpsycho
Title Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Label Fargo
Title Farewell to Ireland
Label Proper
See additional description for full track listing.
Title For A Decade Of Sin: 11 Years Of Bloodshot Records (2CD)
Label Bloodshot
Disc One
1. Blood Sweat & Murder-Scott H. Biram
2. De-Railed-Sixteen Horsepower
3. Glass Of Wine-Paul Burch & Ralph Stanley
4. Close Your House Down-Cordero
5. Ocean Size-Bobby Bare Jr.
6. Behind That Locked Door-My Morning Jacket
7. The Plan-Matt Mays & El Torpedo
8. Little White Pills-The Meat Purveyors
9. A Living Hell-The Bottle Rockets
10. Do You Want To Go Somewhere?-Richard Buckner
See Reviews for full track listing.......
Title Hot Guitars - American Guitar Tracks From 1920s - 1950s
Label Viper
Title Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via The Great Unknown
Label For The Sake Of The Song
Title Levitation, A South Wales Tribute To Jon Langford
This CD is an independently produced tribute to Langford with South Wales' finest musicians giving their nod to this great talent.
See 'More Info' for track listing.
Title Lost Highways: Amerian Road Songs 1920s - 1950s
Label Viper
Title Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton
Label Tompkins Square
Features: Sharon Van Etten, Patty Griffin, Diane Cluck, Julia Holter, Lucinda Williams, Marissa Nadler, Laurel Halo, Larkin Grimm, Isobel Campbell, Tara Jane O'neil and Josephine Foster.
Title The Little Red Box Of Protest Songs (3CD/1DVD)
Label Proper
Title The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Label Shanachie
This is a treat! a double CD in a DVD-sized case of 46 super rarities - classic blues and country performances from the 20s and 30s, including 2 never heard before selections by Son House. Also has a large 20 page booklet, and, not least of all, artwork by Robert Crumb. Very special indeed.
Title To Scratch Your Heart Early Recordings from Istanbul
Label Honest Jons