Hanging With Famous People
We had a fun Saturday night. My wife & I went downtown Toronto to see a friend of ours open for Sarah McLachlan. Pretty cool, huh? Actually, our friend is the sister of a friend of ours; she and her husband live around the corner from us. We’d met the sister a few times and […]
Quote About Motives
There are six things that keep us going: First, the instinct to live, which we apparently have no part in making or deciding about. Second, group consciousness and the desire that we have to win the approbation of our fellows within the group. Third, the various interests that we may find in life, such as […]
Vacillating People
“Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.” -L.G. Elliott See more quotes
If I Wanted To Become A Failure
“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are […]
Invaluable Fragments of Time
“All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been, and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. If I was ever actuated by ambition its highest and warmest aspiration reached no further than the […]
A Couple of Random Pictures
I regret that I didn’t get out more this past Thanksgiving weekend. We were out at a country fair most of Saturday, and while there we: watched horse-jumping went on rides let the kids try to win carnival games (my son won a guitar seconds after I told him that these games are rigged and […]
Stay Busy…Or Else
“Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not […]
Education Is…
Education Is… “…to be at home in all lands and all ages; to count Nature as a familiar acquaintance and Art an intimate friend; to gain a standard for the appreciation of other men’s work and the criticism of one’s own; to carry the keys of the world’s library in one’s pocket, and feel its […]