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| User: | what_if (1296771) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit
Insanity: doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results |
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| Name: | Andrew the Great...Burden | |
| Birthdate: | 1977-07-30 | |
| Bio: | If you like what you read, drop me a line and add me; I'll check you out and if I like what I read I'll add back :) Stuff I've heard or said that I like: The secret of success: 1. Doubt whomever you will, but never yourself.--Bovee 2. Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better--Samuel Beckett 3. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results--Albert Einstein 4. Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it--Unknown 5. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail--Benjamin Franklin 6. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing--George Bernard Shaw 7. In the end the help you need is the help only you can give yourself.--Me 8. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit--Aristotle 9. Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week--George Bernard Shaw 10. You must be the change you wish to see in the world--Gandhi 11. Every battle is won before it is ever fought--Sun Tzu 12. 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--George Bernard Shaw 13. Never, never, never give up--Winston Churchill 14. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man--George Bernard Shaw 15. Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right--Henry Ford 16. They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers--Bovee 17. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us--Ralph Waldo Emerson (maybe) 18. You're given a hand in life to play. Some people get aces, some dueces, but it is the only hand you get. You don't control the cards you're dealt, all you can do is play them the best you can--Me 19. Slow and stead wins the race--Aesop Enjoy it while it lasts: 1. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.--Ferris Bueller 2. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away--George Carlin 3. You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live--George Bernard Shaw 4. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it, and so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.--Charles Swindoll 5. You're not doing anyone any favors by pretending to be happy. You'll be pissed because they're happy, and you aren't, but you've got this fucking smile on your face, and they are none the wiser because that smile that you're trying so hard to wear looks real to them, especially since they're smiling--Me 6. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind - don't matter, and those who matter - won't mind!--Dr. Seuss 7. It is never too late to become what you might have been--George Eliot 8. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover--Mark Twain 9. Freedom lies in knowing that the last day you'll wake up might have been today--Me 10. He who knows he has enough is rich--Lao-tzu 11. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy--Anne Frank 12. Never regret something that once made you smile--Amber Deckers Observations: 1. For change to happen: the pain of staying the same has to exceed the pain of change--No Idea 2. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance--Socrates 3. When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion--Robert Pirsig 4. Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies--Thomas Jefferson 5. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around--Leo Buscaglia 6. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves--Thomas Alva Edison 7. Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis--Jack Handey 8. Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.--Jack Handey 9. I really didn't say everything I said--Yogi Berra 10. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind--Rudyard Kipling 11. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.--Ben Franklin 12. You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.--Homer Simpson. 13. Runners high: because you can't masturbate all the time--Me This many unique users passed by this counter: hit Counter most didn't make a peep, don't be a number :) Thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} riseoverrun for the how-to-instructions, sizing and selecting the Arrested Development pictures for my emotions icon set :)![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} lansingmetro is hometown love.Made by herekittykitty, Pictures by sabatoa | |
| Memories:: | 82 entries | |
| Interests: | 85: agnosticism, animals, arrested development, art, board games, breasts, camping, car talk, cereal, crosswords, cuddling, curb your enthusiasm, debate, dessert, dire straits, east lansing, eye contact, family guy, femdom, football, friends, game night, giving oral pleasure, helping, history, hugs, kindness, lansing, las vegas, laughter, learning, led zeppelin, lingerie, livejournal, loud music, love, madonna, massages, meeting new people, michigan, michigan state university, movies, music_playing_with_whatever_i'm_doing, napoleon dynamite, nature watching, nine inch nails, overcoming obstacles, people watching, pulp fiction, queen, rain, reading, risk, running, scrabble, seinfeld, settlers of catan, sex, skin, skirts, smiles, succeeding, switch, talks, teaching, the beatles, the bellagio fountains, the big lebowski, the colbert report, the detroit lions, the killers, the princess bride, the rolling stones, the shawshank redemption, thighs, thunderstorms, travel, u2, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, walks, watching_rain_fall_in_front_of_a_street_light, watching_snow_fall_in_front_of_a_street_light, west wing, working out | |
| Schools: | Lansing Community College - Lansing, MI Shawnee Mission West High School - Overland Park, KS (1991 - 1992) Mason High School - Mason, MI (1992 - 1995) Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI (2000 - 2003) | |
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| Member of: | 9: art_nude, feedback, lansingmetro, lj_spotlight, paidmembers, sextips, u2, vintage_sex, ww2 | |
| Account type: | Basic Account | |
