If you can’t win an argument, correct their grammar instead. (Source unknown) Someone has called this the #1 rule in arguments. That’s really sad, isn’t it? Yet, most of us hate to lose an argument so much that we’ll try anything to win. Correcting grammar might be...
The 1987 stock market was booming, fueled by low interest rates, buyouts, and merger mania. Corporations were growing, and excitement about the personal computer industry was revolutionizing business. This euphoria made investors believe that the stock market would...
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. (Harry Truman, 33rd president of the United States) Similar quotes are attributed to other writers and speakers, and it’s a good reminder. In a “me first” age, we hear athletes,...
Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. (Author Unknown) Picking flowers is a bit like working with students. Gardens may have beautiful flowers, but...
If you aren’t good at anything much, it doesn’t mean that you’re good for nothing. (Kenneth J. Brown, author) Most people probably don’t have a single outstanding talent or ability that makes them appear superior in any public way. Most of us are probably competent in...
We decided to wait for school to be out before moving back to California. Cynthia would be alone with four young boys until we moved in May. Nevertheless, the move should have been easy because we were moving back to our old home. Newsweek magazine offered...
Intense love does not measure; it just gives. (Mother Theresa, 20th century nun and missionary With all the emphasis on love in modern music and theater, you could easily get the impression that it is a highly sought-after emotion because of the personal satisfaction...
Let us remember what hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander. (Elie Wiesel, late Romanian-born American Jewish Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor) We live in a world of widespread violence and terror. Our hearts go...
At the profoundest depths of life, people talk not about God but with Him. (Elton Trueblood, 20th century American Quaker author) Even in a secular society, people often speak about God. Sometimes, they unconsciously take His name in vain. At other times, they refer...
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. (Groucho Marx, 20th century comedian and actor) We joke a lot about age and growing old, but it’s a fact of life; if you’re alive, you’re aging. But, as Chili...
The Toyota legal department insisted that everything about Lexus needed to be separate from Toyota. This meant a separate headquarters building, separate field force offices, a different advertising agency, a different dealer agreement, a new distribution system, as...
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. (Abraham J. Heschel, 20th century Polish-born American rabbi) When we’re having an argument about serious issues, it’s difficult not to become...