Radio and Television Broadcast Engineers Union Local 1212 at WPIX New York
Radio and Television Broadcast Engineers Union Local 1212 at WPIX New York
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"Strike out just 7 out of 10 times and you're in the Hall of Fame." -- Yogi Berra
- Favorite Motivational Quote #1
- Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it anyway.
~ Robert Heinlein
- Favorite Motivational Quote #2
- Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
~ Henry Ford
- Favorite Motivational Quote #3
- An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~ Friedrich Engels
- Favorite Motivational Quote #4
- Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
~ Richard Bach (Illusions)
- Favorite Motivational Quote #5
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time
ago.
~ Warren Buffett
- Favorite Motivational Quote #6
- Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
~ John Wooden
- Favorite Motivational Quote #7
- A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
~ Confucius
- Favorite Motivational Quote #8
- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
~ George S. Patton
Favorite Motivational Quote #9
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
~ Alfred A. Montapert
- Favorite Motivational Quote #10
- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
~ Thomas A. Bennett
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes #1
- Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
~ Richard Bach (Illusions)
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes #2
- Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes #3
- If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
~ Montaigne
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes #4
- Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
~ J.C. Penney
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes #5
- My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
~ Montaigne
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes #6
- The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
~ Noelie Alito
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes #7
- Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
~ Henri L. Bergson
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes #8
- We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing!
~ George Bernard Shaw
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes#9
- Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
~ Bertrand Russell
- Favorite Funny Inspirational Quotes#10
- The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
~ Maureen Dowd
- Favorite Success Quotes #1
- Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
Favorite Success Quotes #2
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
~ Woody Allen
Favorite Success Quotes #3
Don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
~ General George S. Patton
Favorite Success Quotes #4- Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
~ Monty Hall
- Favorite Success Quotes #5
- Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
~ Dale Carnegie
- Favorite Success Quotes #6
- A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
~ Bob Dylan
- Favorite Success Quotes #7
- You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
~ Warren Buffett
- Favorite Success Quotes #8
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby
- Favorite Success Quotes #9
- You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
~ Benjamin Franklin- Favorite Success Quotes #10
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~ Roger Babson
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #11
- God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; heads you win -- tails, you lose.
~ Daraio
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #12
- To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
~ Dorothea Brande
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #13
- Success is a journey, not a destination.
~ Ben Sweetland
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #14
- If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
~ Shelley Long
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #15
- Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
~ Daraio
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #16
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
~ Mark Twain
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #17
- Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
~ Al Bernstein
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #18
- The road to success runs uphill.
~ Willie Davis
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #19
- Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
~ Earl Wilson
- Our Favorite Quote on Success #20
- Dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
~ George Bernard Shaw
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #1
- The game isn't over until it's over.
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #2
- It's like deja vu all over again.
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #3
- When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #4
- It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #5
- If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #6
- You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #7
- I never said most of the things I said.
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #8
- The future ain't what it used to be.
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #9
- Yogi Berra's wife recently asked, "Yogi, when you die, where do you want to be buried, in Montclair, New York, or in St. Louis?" Yogi: "I don't know, Carmen, why don't you surprise me?"
- Favorite Yogi Berra Quotes #10
- When asked into how many pieces he wanted his pizza cut, he said: "Four. I don't think I can eat eight."
- Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #1
- Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
- Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #2
- Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
- Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #3
- If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them.
- Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #4
- Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #5 You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #6 You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #7 A nickel isn't worth a dime today.
Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #8 I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did
- Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #9
- He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
- Favorite Quotes By Yogi Berra #10
- How can you hit and think at the same time?
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #1
- If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #2
- Carpe per diem - seize the check.
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #3
- You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #4
- The only people flying to Europe will be terrorists, so it will be, "Will you be sitting in armed or unarmed?"
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #5
- When the media ask him [George W. Bush] a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #6Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #7
- Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #8
- The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #9
- No matter what anybody tells you, words & ideas can change the world.
- --From "Dead Poet's Society"
- Favorite Robin Williams Quotes #10
- We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. ----From "Dead Poet's Society"
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #1
- I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #2
- I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #3
- I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #4
- I didn't get a toy train like the other kids, I got a toy subway instead; you couldn't see anything but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by.
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #5
- I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #6
- I installed a skylight in my apartment... The people who live above me are furious!
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #7
- I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #8
- It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #9
- I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
- More Favorite Steven Wright Quotes #10
- When I was in high school, I got in trouble with my girlfriend's Dad. He said, "I want my daughter back by 8:15."I said, "The middle of August? Cool!"
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #1
- Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #2
- I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age.
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #3
- I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #4
- You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #5
- If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #6
- My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #7
- (Referring to a glass of water) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #8
- My theory on evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #9
- There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Favorite Quotes By Steven Wright #10
- I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #1
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #2
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #3
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #4
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #5
- If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #6
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #7
- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #8
- I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #9
- Classic -- a book which people praise and don't read.
- Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #10
- It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #1
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #2
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #3 Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #4
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #5
- When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
-- From "The Prince and the Pauper"
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #6
- There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #7
- Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #8
- What, Sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #9
- Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
- More Favorite Quotes from Mark Twain #10
- Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #1
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #2
- Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #3
- Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #4
- If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #5
- What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #6
- After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #7
- Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #8In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made Managers.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #9
- I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Another Favorite Mark Twain Quote #10
- It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #1
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #2
- Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #3
- The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #4
- We must become the change we want to see.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #5
- The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #6
- An eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth only ends up making the whole world blind and toothless.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #7
- Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #8
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #9
- Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Favorite Gandhi Quotes #10
- The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #1
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #2
- I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #3
- The truest test of civilization, culture, and dignity is character, not clothing.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #4
- Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #5
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #6
- It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #7
- There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #8
- Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #9
- They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
- Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes #10
- I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #1
- I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #2
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #3
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #4
- Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #5
- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #6
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #7
- Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #8 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #9
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Favorite Einstein Quotes #10
- The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes #1 Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
- Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes #2 When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes #3 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes #4 Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
- Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes #5
- If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes #6 Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes#7 Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes #8
- The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #1
- The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #2
- One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #3
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #4
- The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #5
- If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Favorite Einstein Quote #6
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #7
- A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #8
- Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #9
- sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
- Favorite Einstein Quote #10
- It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #1
- It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #2
- Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #3
- All that glisters is not gold.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #4
- How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes#5 Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #6
- From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #7
- They do not love that do not show their love.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #8
- To business that we love we rise betime, And go to 't with delight.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #9
- Give thy thoughts no tongue.
- Favorite Shakespeare Quotes #10
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
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