Do you have a fav quote?

[dustybiker2]

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - my man Abe.

I have tons, but I'm a bookworm.

What quote has struck your fancy?

[DJB72]

Two by CS Lewis:

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

and

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

Oh, and this one as well:

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

I'll run out of characters if I tell you all of them...

[dustybiker2]

I especially liked the third. Goodies.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I'm actually of the opposite mindset; better to be known a fool upfront than to leave it a surprise for others to discover later. 😁

The ultimate one for me that I desperately needed (and might have saved me some grief had I known it sooner):

>> To be moved by anger is not manly, but courtesy and kindness, as they are more agreeable to human nature, so also are they more manly; and he who possesses these qualities possesses strength, nerves and courage, and not the man who is subject to fits of rage and discontent. The nearer one's mind is to freedom from anger, the nearer it is to strength, and as pain is a characteristic of weakness, so also is anger. For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and submit. -- Marcus Aurelius

I used to foolishly associate my fiery anger in my teens as a form of manliness and strength. I also thought myself helpless but to have it, so I took pride in it since I didn't know I could control it by changing how I thought.

So to hear a mighty Roman emperor refer to it as a weakness and diagnose it for what it truly is (pain and submission) really started to have me inspired and working to overcome this weakness.

[dustybiker2]

Yes. Excellent spin. I'd take either way.

Really good quote too.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Cheers! I think there's wisdom in being very reserved like the great Abe, although I suspect that's a relatively lonely experience. He seemed to be a very wise but also very lonely man.

Then the opposite extreme of that also always seemed to have its own merit to me, since by putting our thoughts out there very openly (however much it risks making a fool out of ourselves), it makes it very easy to find like-minded people and make friends (even though it has a tendency to repulse some). It also makes it easier to stay deeply connected with our lovers for life by constantly opening up to each other.

And when we're open with just about anyone, then they can't use what we share against us by betraying our trust and sharing it with others, because soon those others will say, "We know that about him. He already shared that with us too."

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

So to me those are two main productive strategies is to only share very openly with the absolute most trustworthy of people so that they never betray our trust, or as I favor it, share very openly with everyone so that betraying our trust is of no consequence.

[dustybiker2]

This is true.
But likewise I have seen more quiet types mesh (example) here on gag too. Like finds like.

[dustybiker2]

Good philosophy.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

For sure! I actually both extremes. The ones in the middle are usually the ones that get into trouble in my estimate since they don't openly share with enough people to avoid leaving their reputation vulnerable if they share with someone who betrays their trust, but simultaneously share with a few too many people and risk having that trust betrayed.

Where I have gotten in the trouble in the past with my favored openness is with my work. I have a name attached to products that have a relatively large number of customers. One time I got scolded for some things my friends and I shared on social media back when I used to use things like Facebook (even though my profile was private and I was very careful about who I added as friends). One of the customers of our software discovered pictures of me completely drunk on weekends like this:



They must have discovered it through one of my friends who were tagging me in photos like these as some of their profiles were public. Then rumors spread about how the lead developer was getting drunk on weekends and it was a PR problem for our company (they didn't mind me getting drunk on weekends, but they did mind that our customers knew about it) and I just deleted my social media.

It's why I cover my eyes on this site. This way of openness that I favor doesn't mix well with our professional lives and the internet has a tendency to bleed the two together. I wish it wasn't that way since I really think life would be easier if we could all just entirely be open books to each other.

[dustybiker2]

Eh. Some mystery is good.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Perhaps so. One thing I'm always kicking myself about is that I didn't create a separate business name for myself. That would have helped to separate my professional life from private life so much better!

But I never anticipated ever receiving so much public recognition for my work, so I started off just sharing all of it on the internet for free when I was a student under my real name. Then the work became more popular that I ever anticipated with people mentioning my name in books I was seeing in Barnes & Nobles like, "WTF, they mentioned my name and site in this book!" Like all sorts of VFX artists were recommending they download my software for their work.

So then I got hired based on that name recognition and I've been stuck that way ever since with my name in a professional spotlight bigger than I'm comfortable with. If it was a business name, I could have divorced all ties to my private life and kept the two completely separate.

[IslaTheWitch]

You should think twice before writing code so you don't have to write code twice before you start thinking.

you can switch writing code with anything else :D

[rachel776]

if you think you are boring the audience, go slower, not faster — Mahler

[dustybiker2]

Smart man, gus.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

“The light at the end of the tunnel could be a freight train” is my all time favorite quote & my second favorite quote I like is as followed. “I have a better chance of getting hit by lightning on a submarine.”

[dustybiker2]

Love these.

[Sonorous]

I have many. But one is:

"What is, in other words, conflict at one level of magnification is harmony at a higher level. Life is a pattern of immense complexity. Each one of us is the delightfully complex undulation of the whole universe."

- Alan Watts

[dustybiker2]

That one is tasty.

[Sonorous]

🤣 it's making your stomach growl

[dustybiker2]

@Sonorous lol 😁

[strateguy632]

i got an email from a guy with a "quote signature" i loved: "great leaders are the ones who inspire great followers" by walton of walmart from wealthiest successful families.

i was pleasantly surprised to see it at the start of some movie recently.

[dustybiker2]

Nice quote of sharing the success.

[Joshydavid25]

"You either die a hero, or live long ago to see yourself become the villain" - Harvey Dent

"Listen… Everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is LIGHT, there will always be SHADOWS to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of VICTORS, the VANQUISHED will also exist." -MU

[dustybiker2]

Those are strong.

[exitseven]

I have many. Some that come to mind is

"Truth is like a dead skunk in the middle of the street, You can walk away from it, but it still stinks." Tony Baretta

"In men that are hard, intimacy involves shame and is thus precious." Frederich Nietzsche

"When you ain't got nothing, You got nothing to lose." Bob Dylan

[DryGermanGuy]

"Of all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: It might have been."

- John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller

[dustybiker2]

Lovely. ✍🏼

[TadCurious]

The difference between genius and stupidity is that are limits to genius.

I think that's an Albert Einstein quote.

[dustybiker2]

I do like it. lol

I think it was a variant from an earlier published work. I just did a quick sweep.
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[strateguy632]

another version "the universe is infinite like stupidity" or "2 things are infinite the universe and stupidity but i am not sure about the universe ".

[dustybiker2]

@strateguy632 lol Both are great

[OtterMan68]

Enlightenment

[dustybiker2]

So true..

[lil_will_12]

"I'll tell you what war is, war is a situation where one has no control whatsoever, you can't live when you want to, and you can't die when you want to either"

Im sure I messed that up in some way, I don't remember it completely, but you get the idea

[Likes2drive]

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results

Life is like a box of chocolates, You never know what you’re gonna get

[dustybiker2]

Excellent. Two great ones.

[Likes2drive]

Thanks

[FunkyMonkee]

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?

[dustybiker2]

Beefheart. This is an interesting one.

[FunkyMonkee]

Thanks!

[dustybiker2]

Of course. 😎

[Wiredone]

Winners never quit, quitters never win, be a winner

[dustybiker2]

Should printed inside every locker room by now. 💪🏻

[ab2shifty]

“Once you get comfortable with the worse case scenario, then it becomes easy”

I forget where I heard it from, but it helped me a lot in situations 🤣

[dustybiker2]

That does make you feel better. lol

[ab2shifty]

Trust when your in a situation, think of it and it becomes less stressful 🤣

[dustybiker2]

I will use this 💪🏻

[Xia1994]

"people say nothing is impossible but I do nothing everyday" Winnie the Pooh.

[dustybiker2]

Lovely. I can still hear his voice.

[Dargil]

'Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.'Gen. George S. Patton

[Charliefretz329]

Lots of great quotes… and that one’s great lol.


The path less traveled by quote is one of my tops though

[dustybiker2]

Oh, yes. Warms the heart of the wanderer.

[Charliefretz329]

Yep, that’s me

[Fuentes]

"Ain't nothing wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target"

[dustybiker2]

haha What is this from?

[Miah04]

This sounds like something a guy said after missing the toilet

[Fuentes]

@Miah04 Jay Z - American Dreaming now I need the fade from both for thinking that its funny lol

[dustybiker2]

Take your best shot, sir. But this target might get changed out if I can bribe someone.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Truer words have never been spoken.

[KrakenAttackin]

"Improvise, adapt, and overcome".

[dustybiker2]

Words to live by.

[Miah04]

"People should pay to watch me eat popcorn"

This dude i went to college with

[Joshydavid25]

😂😂😂

[Miah04]

@Joshydavid25 oh man it was impressive😂

[Joshydavid25]

Watching him eat popcorn or the confidence that people would actually wanna pay to see it? 😂

[Miah04]

@Joshydavid25 both but it would fly everywhere😂

[Joshydavid25]

😂😂

[Miah04]

@Joshydavid25 😂😂😂