Quote O' The Day

[Krandall]

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." -Thomas J. Watson


Watson was the chairman and CEO of IBM. He was the man who oversaw the company from the day it became IBM until 1956, the year of his death. The company Watson joined in 1914 -- Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation -- had 1,300 employees and $9 million in revenue; by the end of Watson's tenure, IBM had 72,000 employees, and its revenue had increased 100 times over. Watson's motto "THINK" became emblematic of IBM as a whole.

[Krandall]

"No right way is easy in this rough world." -John Muir


John Muir was one of the most famous American naturalists, known for his preservation efforts (including the founding of the Sierra Club) as well as his writing. This quote comes from Stickeen, Muir's true story of an adventure with the titular dog Stickeen on an Alaskan glacier. The quote continues, "We must risk our lives to save them. At the worst we can only slip, and then how grand a grave we will have, and by and by our nice bones will do good in the terminal moraine."

[Krandall]

[Today at 02:57:37 PM] Langford: im happy as long as this one works...no chatbox = boring days at work

[Today at 02:58:28 PM] Geo: quit ur bitchin

[Today at 02:58:30 PM] Geo: ur black

[Today at 02:58:44 PM] Geo: be greatful we allow u to even ahve a phone

[Peelz]

[Today at 02:57:37 PM] Langford: im happy as long as this one works...no chatbox = boring days at work

[Today at 02:58:28 PM] Geo: quit ur bitchin

[Today at 02:58:30 PM] Geo: ur black

[Today at 02:58:44 PM] Geo: be greatful we allow u to even ahve a phone

[Krandall]

"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

This line is from Emerson's "Spiritual Laws," which appears in Essays: First Series. In the text, Emerson argues that moral nature is malleable, fleeting and impermanent.

[Krandall]

"Few great men could pass Personnel." -Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman was a writer, poet, and psychotherapist. He is remembered mostly for his social criticism, laid out in books like Growing up Absurd, but he also wrote plays and short fiction (Goodman had a bit of a resurgence in popularity following the 2010 documentary Paul Goodman Changed My Life).

[Hefe]

[Today at 02:57:37 PM] Langford: im happy as long as this one works...no chatbox = boring days at work

[Today at 02:58:28 PM] Geo: quit ur bitchin

[Today at 02:58:30 PM] Geo: ur black

[Today at 02:58:44 PM] Geo: be greatful we allow u to even ahve a phone

and a JOB!

[Krandall]

"Every moment of one's existence is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit." -Norman Mailer


This quote from the brash, controversial Mailer appears in a 1959 interview between Mailer and the author Richard G. Stern. Stern reflects in the introduction to this interview that it was an unrehearsed, organic conversation between two men who had met a week ago and become friends.

[Krandall]

"Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man." -Oliver Goldsmith


Oliver Goldsmith was an 18th-century Anglo-Irishman who wrote both novels and verse, and is thought to have written an anonymously published children's book, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes. This line is from The Citizen of the World, Goldsmith's series of letters ostensibly authored by a Chinese traveler visiting England. "I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination," Goldsmith writes. "A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond."

[Krandall]

"The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance." -Henry Parry Liddon

Henry Parry Liddon was an English writer and theologian, and was also friends with the English writer Lewis Carroll -- the two of them traveled to Russia together in 1867. Carroll was merely there for the love of travel, but the intention of Liddon's trip was to strengthen ties between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Church of England.

[phucker]

Hefe: you MUST have a "non registered" firearm there somewhere...
phucker: a?
phucker: more like a pleathora
Hefe: invite him over.. hand him that gun.. shot his ass
Hefe: *shoot
phucker: lol
Hefe: tell me to delete chat history
phucker: lol
phucker: oh dont worry im on like 50 different watch lists
Krandall: dafuq

[Krandall]

"The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure." -John Ruskin

John Ruskin is among one of the most important names in art criticism. From his publication of Modern Painters in 1843 till his death in 1900, Ruskin was so influential that his writing often affected the course of the very art he was critiquing.

[Krandall]

"Happiness, therefore, is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it." -Henry Giles


Henry Giles was a 19th-century writer and minister. This quote is from The Discipline of Life, which Giles saw as an opportunity to expand upon the themes he would often address during a sermon (but then be forced to cut short for the sake of brevity).

[Krandall]

"It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence." -Stefan Zweig



Beware of Pity is the only novel Zweig wrote during his lifetime. Despite this fact, he was, in his era, one of the most well-known authors in the world (his novellas and plays were very successful, and his biography of Marie Antoinette was the basis for the 1938 Hollywood film Marie Antoinette, starring Norma Shearer)

[Krandall]

"The thing that many of us want most in the present grayness and din of the world is... someone with whom we can work with freedom and self-expressiveness and joy. Nine men out of 10 one meets today talk with one as it were with their watches in their hands." -Gerald Stanley Lee

American Congregational clergyman Gerald Stanley Lee was the author of many books and essays, and was known for his subject versatility, ranging from religion to physical exercise.