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)

17.8.11

Time may be a great healer, but its a lousy beautician
   (Unknown) #quote


Optimism does not say the bad won’t happen.  It says you can cope with it. 
  (Unknown) #quote 

16.8.11

If you can't be a pencil to write anyone's happiness,
at least try to be a nice eraser to remove someone's sadness.
  (Unknown)  #quote

There are no miracles, just unknown laws of Nature.
    (Saint Augustine)  #quote

15.8.11

Life is a team sport.
You will need the help and support of others to reach your goals.
  (Billy Cox) #quote
Children focus on what they can’t do. 
Adults focus on what they can do.
  (Unknown) #quote

14.8.11

There's such a thing as trying too hard.
It causes constipation of the mind.
 (O Dear Red H. !)
Life is like a rainbow.
You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.
   (Unknown) #quote

6.8.11

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
   (Robert H. Schuller) #quote
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
  (John F. Kennedy) #quote

5.8.11

Don’t be irreplaceable.
If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
(Unknown)  #quote
Warning !
The shortest answer is doing. 
    (Lord Herbert) #quote
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
    (Arabian Proverb) #quote
Today is fulfillment'day. A f.... rainy day !



4.8.11

Over my dead body !
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
   (Walter Anderson) #quote
Il y a des gens qui parlent, qui parlent jusqu’à ce
qu’ils aient enfin trouvé quelque chose à dire.
  (Sacha Guitry) #quote
You laugh at me because I am different,
but I laugh at you because you are all the same.
   (Unknown) #quote

3.8.11

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
    (Albert Einstein) #quote 
You must win the battle in your mind before you can win anywhere else.
     (Joel Osteen) #quote

2.8.11

Nobody loves your children like you do seriously (from FTE.com)


Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
   (Jeff Daly) #quote
An optimist laughs to forget. A pessimist forgets to laugh.
  (Unknown) #quote

1.8.11

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
  (Samuel Butler) #quote
Thinking is easy,
acting is difficult,
and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
   (Goethe) #quote
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
   (Martin Luthor King)

29.7.11

Montréal : Dallas sur St Laurent saison 4 épisode 30 acte 5 scéne 2
(message codé à caractère personnel)
I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.
    (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) #quote

28.7.11

Life's too ironic to understand. It takes :
Sadness to know happiness,
Noise to appreciate silence,
Absence to value presence.
  (Unknown) #quote

27.7.11

S'il n'y a pas de solution c'est qu'il n'y a pas de problème.
   (devise Shadok) #quote
The difference between the right word & the almost-right word is the difference between lightning & a lightning bug.
    (Mark Twain) #quote
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
(John Ruskin) #quote

26.7.11


We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.  
   (Carlos Castaneda) #quote
Never argue with a fool.
Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
   (Mark Twain) #quote
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
   (Benjamin Franklin) #quote

25.7.11

Illegitimi non carborundum. //  Don't let the bastards grind you down.
  #quote

To lose patience is to lose the battle. 
    (Mahatma Gandhi) #quote

24.7.11

Un ministre, ça ferme sa gueule ; si ça veut l'ouvrir, ça démissionne.
   (Jean-Pierre Chevènement) #quote
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
  (Steve Jobs)  #quote
Eh bien le roi m'a dit : Vous avez le choix. Ou vous épousez Dona Juana ou c'est les barbaresques
- Et alors ??!!
- Et alors c'est les barbaresques !!
    (La Folie des grandeurs, Gérard Oury, 1971) #quote

23.7.11

Some people grumble because roses have thorns;
I am thankful that the thorns have roses.
   (Alphonse Karr) #quote
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
  (Albert Einstein) #quote
If you lose your temper, you’ve lost the argument.
  (Proverb) #quote

22.7.11

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
   (Sun Tzu, The Art of War) #quote
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
   (Bertrand Russell) #quote
Life will knock us down. But we can choose whether or not to get back up.
   (The Karate Kid) #quote
In National Geographic, Longest Polar Bear Swim Recorded—426 Miles Straight

21.7.11

Chaque matin, il t'appartient de décider:
soit rien n'est grave, soit tout est grave.
   (Alain Chabat) #quote
... pour demain matin je crois avoir déjà décidé ce qui était grave... gasp ! ce n'est ni tout ni rien mais j'ai quelques sujets !
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, prepare to die.
   (Klingon Proverb, Star Trek)
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
   (Moîse Maimonide) #quote

20.7.11

A strategy is a sense of direction around which to improvise. ...
    (Peter Drucker) #quote
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
   (Friedrich Nietzsche) #quote
Religion hinges upon faith,
politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest,
but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resemble what actually happens.
   (Ian Stewart) #quote

19.7.11

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...
    (Lawrence Clark Powell) #quote

18.7.11

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
   (Pierre Corneille)  #quote
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
   (Neale Donald Walsch ) #quote

17.7.11

In the hopes of reaching the moon
men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
   (Albert Schweitzer) #quote
Réussi à passer mon compte messagerie hotmail en IMAP (enfin un mode équivalent, car pas d'IMAP sur hotmail, bouhhhh!). 
Ouf ! la fin de la suppression multiples des messages (sur l'iphone, sur l'ipad et sur le PC... ) . Sounds good.
En résumé, il faut paramétrer un compte Exchange (voir la procédure) sur les appareils Apple ... et utiliser le client web d'Hotmail.
Bémol : un temps infini (plusieurs heures !) pour simplement updater l'OS de mon iphone (3.x vs 4.x)
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
   (Abba Eban) #quote
I started to connect with one guy but then my propensity for screwing things up overtook me.
And then my desire to have fun overcame my propensity.
   (Dr House) #quote

16.7.11

Je hais les coeurs pusillanimes qui,
pour trop prévoir n'osent rien entreprendre.
    (Molière in Les fourberies de Scapin) #quote
Il buvait toutes mes paroles, et comme je parlais beaucoup, à un moment, je le vois qui titubait...
   (extrait du sketch "Supporter l’imaginaire", Raymond Devos) #quote
Moi, lorsque je n’ai rien à dire, je veux qu’on le sache !
   (extrait du sketch "Parler pour ne rien dire", Raymond Devos) #quote
Monsieur, ce que j’admire en vous, c’est que vous avez le courage d’être vous-même ;
avec tout ce que cela comporte de ridicule ! 
    (Raymond Devos) #quote
Vous qui parlez pour ne rien dire, quand vous chantez on entend quelque chose ?
   (entendu sur France Info) #quote
Never use a pound word when a penny one will do.
   (Winston Churchill) #quote

15.7.11

Certaines grosses firmes aiment leurs clients
comme le chasseur aime son gibier.
   (Unknown) #quote
(Keed), I'll give you a little bit of advice.
Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad..
  (B.Ruth) #quote
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
   (Bertrand Russell) #quote

11.7.11

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
   (William Butler Yeats) #quote

6.7.11

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
   (George S. Patton) #quote

5.7.11

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.
    (Joann Thomas) #quote
A lie told often enough becomes truth.
  (Lenine) #quote

4.7.11

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent. 
   (Unknown) #quote
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
   (John Lubbock)  #quote

2.7.11

Life for most of us a continuous process of getting used to things we hadn't expected.
  (Unknow) #quote

1.7.11

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all the fun.
   (Katherine Hepburn) #quote
- Quel est le sport où on est toujours d'accord ?
- le hockey ! (OK)
   (cité par Christella, blague d'école)
Espérer c'est démentir l'avenir
     (Cioran) #quote

30.6.11

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
   (Raymond Inmon) #quote
Chez XXXX quand on prend une décision... c'est le début des discussions.
 (ahahahaha)

29.6.11

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
   (Simone Weil) #quote

28.6.11

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
   (Antoine de Saint Exupery) #quote

27.6.11

Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
    (Unknown) #quote
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that may never be questioned. 
    (Unknown) #quote

26.6.11

- You (h)ave to come and if you don't come i euhhh.. i euuuh... Aaah ben merde alors !
- Comment ça merde alors ?? But alors you are french ??

   (In la Grande Vadrouille)  #quote

25.6.11

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved
but a reality to be experienced.
   (Aart Van Der Leeuw) #quote
Take time to deliberate,
but when the time for action as arrived,
stop thinking and go in.
   (Napoleon) #quote

24.6.11

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterward.
   (Vernon Sanders Law) #quote

23.6.11

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. 
    (Voltaire) #quote

22.6.11

A truly rich man is one whose children run
into his arms when his hands are empty.
  (Unknown) #quote

21.6.11

L'homme dépose toujours une gerbe sur la tombe de sa fidélité.
   (Les chevaliers du fiel) #quote
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
  (Peter De Vries) #quote

20.6.11

Une vieille dame demande à son fils :
- Comment il s'appelle déjà, ce bel allemand qui me rend complètement folle ?
- Alzheimer maman. Alzheimer !
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion
than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
   (Talleyrand) #quote

19.6.11

A la DSI France on regarde les problèmes en face !

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him
won't have time to envy the man above him.
  (Henrietta Mears)  #quote

18.6.11

Girls improve their looks not their mind,
because they know guys are stupid, not blind.
  (unknown) #quote

17.6.11

Life is so much friendlier with two.
  (And Pooh said to Piglet ) #quote

16.6.11

Would you have invested in this team?  



Be honest !   This is the 1st Microsoft team ...