L'optimisme, ce n'est pas le refus de voir ce qui ne va pas, c'est le désir de ne pas s'y attarder. // Donne moi le courage de changer les choses que je peux changer, la sérénité d'accepter celles que je ne peux pas changer, et la sagesse de distinguer entre les deux. (Marc Aurèle) // Don't raise your voice; improve your argument. (Desmond Tutu) // Be the change you want to see in the world. (Gandhi)

6.11.10

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
(Helen Keller) #quote

5.11.10

Nature has given women so much power
that the law has very wisely given them little.
(Samuel Johnson) #quote
Wilson : Be yourself - cold, uncaring, distant
House : Please, don't put me on a pedestal

#quote

2.11.10

Life is like a role of toilet paper;
hopefully long and useful, but it always ends at the wrong moment.
(Rudyh) #quote

1.11.10

C'est ce qui divise les hommes qui multiplie leurs différents.
(Pierre Dac) #quote
I am extraordinarily patient,
provided I get my own way in the end.
(Margaret Thatcher) #quote

31.10.10

De Gaulle en soirée mondaine :
- Excusez moi, mais je ne me souviens plus de votre nom...?

- Convert.
- C'est ça, je ne me souvenais plus de la couleur....
Quand cela nous dépasse ayons l’air d'être les instigateurs.
(Talleyrand) #quote

30.10.10

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples,
don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
(Bill Meyer) #quote

29.10.10

Life is like photography - use the negatives to develop positives.
(Unknown) #quote
A good marriage would be between
a blind wife and a deaf husband.
(Honore de Balzac) #quote

28.10.10

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
(John F. Kennedy) #quote

27.10.10

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
(Albert Einstein) #quote
...Fortunately, the success have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes.
(Walt Disney) #quote

26.10.10

Hot heads & cold hearts never solve anything.
(Billy Graham) #quote
Good friends are like stars....
You don't always see them, but you know they are always there .
(Unknown) #quote

25.10.10

Il faut toujours se réserver le droit de rire
le lendemain de ses idées de la veille.
(Bonaparte) #quote
Si j'avais été Dieu, le 7ème jour au lieu de me reposer
j'aurai fignolé.
(Le chat, acte XVI, P.Geluck) #quote

24.10.10

Si vous n’avez pas le courage de le faire
alors faites le sans courage !
(Anonyme) #quote
L'instinct, c'est l'âme à quatre pattes;
la pensée c'est l'esprit debout.
(Victor Hugo) #quote
L’outil n’est rien. La conscience de celui qui l’utilise est tout.
(Bernard Werber in Le rire du cyclope) #quote
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
(Lou Holtz) #quote

23.10.10

Si vous n'aimez pas la réponse, ne posez pas la question.
(Inconnu) #quote

22.10.10

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
(Lao Tzu) #quote

21.10.10

There is nothing new under the sun
but there are lots of old things we don't know.
(Ambrose Bierce) #quote
Life is tough, get a helmet!
(Unknown) #quote

20.10.10

Q - What's the difference between a SEO consultant and a car salesman?
A - The used car salesman knows when he is lying.
Issues with TwitterFeed - So stopped.
And moved to FeedBurner Socialize
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy,
and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
(Robert Frost) #quote
Testing update twitter from FeedBurner ... Have fun !
One sees great things from the valley;
only small things from the peak.
(Gilbert Chesterton) #quote

19.10.10

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
(Mark Twain) #quote
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
(Matthew Trump) #quote

18.10.10

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
(Henry Clay) #quote

17.10.10

Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people.
Otherwise there would be no religious people.
(Dr House) #quote
If you talk to God, you're religious.
If God talks to you, you're psychotic.
(Dr House) #quote
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.
(George Bernard Shaw) #quote

16.10.10

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
(Abraham Maslow) #quote

15.10.10

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering
- and it's all over much too soon.
(Woody Allen) #quote

14.10.10

The oath of non allegiance from Alistair.Cockburn. - I signed It !

I promise not to exclude from consideration any idea based on its source, but to consider ideas across schools and heritages in order to find the ones that best suit the current situation.



When solving problems,
dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
(Anthony J. D'Angelo) #quote

13.10.10

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
(Anonymous) #quote
Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
(Matthew Trump) #quote

12.10.10

Le goût des Français pour le droit est bien connu;
c'est probablement le seul pays où l'on entende parler d'un "droit à l'erreur", bien que personne ne s'y trompe jamais.
(André Frossard in Les Pensées) # quote
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
(Voltaire) #quote

11.10.10

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
(Unknown) #quote
Stop talking about the problem
and start thinking about the solution.
(Brian Tracy) #quote

10.10.10

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
(Peter Marshall) #quote

9.10.10

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
(W.C.Fields) #quote
A people that values its privileges
above its principles soon loses both.
(Dwight D. Eisenhower) #quote

8.10.10

Don't let anyone put you down. Gravity does that enough.
(Unknown) #quote

7.10.10

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
(Dr Seuss) #quote

6.10.10

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses à admirer
que de choses à mépriser.
(Camus) #quote
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
(Frederick The Great) #quote

5.10.10

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
(Mark Twain) #quote

4.10.10

It is always in the midst, in the epicente, of your troubles
that you find serenity.
(
Antoine de Saint-Exupery) #quote

3.10.10

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
(Hippocrate, Second Law) #quote

2.10.10

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
(English Proverb) #quote
Mais dans tes yeux entr'ouverts
Deux petites vagues sont restées
Démons et merveilles
Vents et marées
deux petites vagues pour me noyer.
(Jacques Prévert - Sables mouvants) #quote

1.10.10

Say NO – Hey man, you need a ‘To-don’t ’ List ! ... #quote
The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.
(Walt Disney) #quote

30.9.10

First impressions are always right, especially when they’re bad.
(Unknown) #quote
He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
(Chinese Proverb) #quote

29.9.10

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
(Unknow) #quote
The smaller the understanding of the situation,
the more pretentious the form of expression.
(John Romano) #quote

28.9.10

Don’t look back, unless it’s a good view.
(Unknown) #quote
It's happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
(Samuel Johnson) #quote

27.9.10

People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year,
people who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.
(Peter Drucker) #quote

26.9.10

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
(Mark Twain) #quote

25.9.10

Quand on m'appelle Monsieur le Ministre,
j'ai toujours l'impression que Jack Lang va surgir derrière moi !
(Frédéric Mitterrand) #quote
Mme Thatcher est au restaurant entouré de ses ministres.

Le maître d’hôtel : Vous avez fait votre choix ?
Mme Thatcher : Un steak !
Le maître d’hôtel : Et pour les légumes !
Mme Thatcher, après avoir regardé les autres convives : Ils prendront un steak aussi !

24.9.10

The question is not “What is the solution?”
but “How do we live without a solution?”
(Moshe Dayan) #quote

23.9.10

I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time.
(Marilyn Monroe) #quote
Rien n’est plus dangereux qu’une idée, quand on n’a qu’une idée.
(Alain, Propos sur la religion, mais applicable plus généralement ...) #quote

22.9.10

We should keep so close to facts
that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.
(F. Marion Smith) #quote
Comment is free but facts are sacred.
(Charles P. Scott) #quote

21.9.10

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
(Spanish Proverb) #quote
Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.
(Unknown) #quote

20.9.10

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
(J.Nehru) #quote
If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein) #quote

19.9.10

If you're not willing to risk it all,
then you don't want it bad enough.
(Unknow) #quote
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant.
(Robert Louis Stevenson) #quote

17.9.10

Il suivait son idée. C’était une idée fixe,
et il était surpris de ne pas avancer.
(Jacques Prévert)

16.9.10

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
(Mahatma Gandhi)

15.9.10

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
(Charles C. Noble) #quote

14.9.10

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
(Frank Crane) #quote
Sachez vous éloigner car, lorsque vous reviendrez à votre travail, votre jugement sera plus sûr.
(Leonard de Vinci) #quote

13.9.10

La chute n’est pas un échec;
l’échec est de rester là où on est tombé.
(Socrate) #quote
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
(John Kenneth Galbraith), #quote

12.9.10

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
(Dilbert's rules of order)
Un père Jésuite demande son chemin à Alphonse Allais, réponse de l'humoriste : vous ne trouverez jamais mon père, c'est tout droit. #quote
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
(Confucius)

11.9.10

Diplomacy is the art to conceal with one hundred words
what one could say with only one word.
(Saint-John Perse)

10.9.10

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
(Evan Esar)
The most important thing in communication
is to hear what isn't being said.
(Peter F. Drucker)
We confess our little faults to persuade people
that we have no large ones.
(Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

9.9.10

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.
(Proverbe français)
There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
(Thomas Edison)

8.9.10

The Obstacle is the Path.
(Zen Proverb)
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
(Anthony Burgess)