[Perseverance]
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
   (John Wooden) #quote

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
  (Johann W. von Goethe) #quote

Some pills could be useful in 2012,



DAMNITOL


Take 2 and the rest of the world can go to hell for up to 8 full hours.

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days.

Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days,

nor in the life of this administration,

nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

But let us begin.

   (John F. Kennedy) #quote

Facebook is the second most popular word

that starts with "F" and ends with "K".

  (Unknown) #quote

A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert Quotes" contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers.

Amazing ! BearIsCool top 4 --

What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter.
   (Lykes Lines Shipping)

Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule.
    (Plant Manager, Delco Corporation)

We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees.
    (Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division)

One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough.
He said "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!"
    (New business manager Hallmark Greeting Cards.)

Le Prince changeait souvent d'opinion car il n'en possédait point en propre; par cela, qu'il appelait pragmatisme pour se dédouaner d'une pareille absence, il désarçonnait le peuple comme ses courtisans.
    (Patrick Rambaud In 5eme Chroniques du règne de Nicolas 1er)

It takes all sorts to make a world.
   (Miguel Cervantes) #quote

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
   (James Fallow) quote
... He BearIsCool ... STAY COOL !

Optimism : The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones

is how you use them.

   (Unknown) #quote

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
  (Michael Winner) #quote

Discipline:
doing what you have to do,
and doing it as well as you possibly can,
and doing it that way all the time.
   (Bob Knight) #quote

A good tool -  Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?"
   (Richard Carlson) #quote

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
  (Desmond Tutu) #quote

- toc,,toc, - qui est -ce ? - lapinou - lapinou quoi ? - l'happy new year

en 2000, lors d'un débat,
Sarkozy : C'est toujours pareil. Il est gentil au début, puis, après ça tourne mal…
Hollande : Vous, gentil, vous ne l'êtes ni au début ni à la fin.

Plus récemment, par presse interposée
Sarkozy : Hollande est trop intelligent pour ne pas savoir que son programme sera inapplicable avec la crise, mais il n'a pas assez de caractère pour y renoncer.
Hollande : Sarkozy est un piètre président, mais c'est un candidat redoutable.

 Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.

    (David Frost) #quote

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad

has made the world ugly and bad.

     (F.Nietzsche) #quote

 
One more thing ... 


Jobs = Colombo 

Sarko avait promis de faire la pluie et le beau temps
mais depuis qu'il est là il pleut tout le temps.
    (Guy Bedos) #quote

Learn from the mistake of others. 

You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

   (Eleanor Roosevelt) #quote

I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.
   (Woodrow Wilson) #quote

Life is like a Rubik's cube
sometimes you have to make it worse before you can make it better. 
#quote

Entre "J'ai débranché, comment revivre sans Internet après une overdose" ... et un ermitage "Dans les forêts de Sibérie"....  Le second est peut-être le remède au premier.   De bonnes critiques pour le livre "Dans les forêts de Sibérie"  mais bien moins de plaisir que dans les aventures de Derzou Ouzala ...

We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch!
Failure is not an option
   (Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) #quote

Time is more valuable than money.
You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. 
    (Jim Rohn) #quote

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. Cars and planes were thought of as impossible before their time. Persistence is the key to all inventive dreams.    

    (Pearl S. Buck) #quote

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

  (Gandhi) #quote

That's why you need to keep them busy ! 

(from OneFTE.com , Impressions of a corporate life) 

#quote

BearIsCool a apprécié cette belle carte de voeux pour 2012 !

Flatter me and I might not believe you. 

Criticize and I might not like you
Ignore me and I might not forgive you
Encourage me and I will not forget you.
    (William Arthur Ward) #quote

Dream Big ! 

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
   (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes) #quote

- Voudriez-vous bien me prêter toute votre attention ?
- Très volontiers, avec beaucoup d'intérêts même !
#quote

J’ai trouvé ma devise - deux verbes auxiliaires : être vaut mieux qu’avoir.
   (Marina Tsvetaeva, Vivre dans le feu) #quote

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.      #quote

Ca devient difficile d’être de gauche. Surtout quand on n’est pas de droite.      (Guy Bedos) #quote

Les grands bonheurs viennent du ciel,

les petits bonheurs viennent de l'effort.

  (Proverbe chinois) #quote

Trust is like paper once it's crumpled it can't be perfect

 (Unknown) #quote

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue;

it makes it a requirement for survival.    

  (Rene Dubos) #quote

Every child instinctively knows what many adults have long since forgotten
Our differences are not something to be tolerated,

they are something to be celebrated.

#quote

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
    (Platon) #quote

Listen is an anagram of silent.
  (Unknown) #quote

Reality check ahead

Don't go through life, grow through life.
   (Eric Butterworth) #quote

Religions of the world ... "through shit" -- keep Cool !

Noêl by Look Voyages

Believe those who are seeking the truth.

Doubt those who find it.

  (André Gide) #quote

Electric Bear (@ Apt - Provence / France)

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people.
It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
As Napoleon observed, "No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon."
  (Dee Hock's management principle) #quote

SHOPPING MATH 
A man will pay  P200  for a P100 item he needs. 
A woman will pay P100 for a P200 item that she doesn't need. 
.....

Lorsque Dieu voulut éclairer le monde, il prit son messie pour une lanterne.
  (Jean L'Anselme) #quote

Ce n'est pas la gauche molle, c'est la gauche mollet.
  (Henri Guaino, comparant François Hollande à Guy Mollet "qui n'a jamais pris de décision") #quote

Mitterrand est aujourd'hui adulé,
mais il a été l'homme le plus détesté de France.
Ce qui laisse pas mal d'espoir pour beaucoup d'entre nous.
(Laurent Fabius) #quote

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind,
but how to get old ones out.
Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. You must get the old furniture of what you know, think, and believe out before anything new can get in.
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
 (Dee Hock's management principles)  #quote

When you play, play hard;
when you work, don't play at all.
  (Theodore Roosevelt) #quote

Il n'y a pas de pays où la raison soit plus rare qu'en France; 

quand elle s'y trouve, il n'y en a pas de plus pure dans l'Univers.

   (Charles de Saint-Evremond) #quote

We are all travellers in the wilderness of the world,

and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

    (Robert Louis Stevenson) #quote

 Les moments de crise produisent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes.
      (Chateaubriand) #quote

The young don't know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation.

  (PS Buck) #quote

Le Dr House traite la sarcoïdose, mais peut-il traiter la SARKOzïdose ?
  #quote
NB : La sarcoïdose ou maladie de Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann (communément dénommée BBS) ou lymphogranulomatose bénigne est une maladie inflammatoire systémique de cause inconnue, qui atteint préférentiellement les poumons, mais peut atteindre n'importe quels autres organes.

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. 
   (Kenyan Proverb) #quote

Individually, we are one drop.

Together, we are an ocean.

(Ryunosuke Satoro) #quote

J'ai été en Laponie.
J'ai été réveillé un matin: «Police !
Qu'est-ce que vous avez fait dans la nuit du 23 novembre au 27 avril ?       
   (Coluche) #quote
   BearIsCool, sur le départ pour 2 jours en Laponie

C'est une bonne idée d'avoir choisi le référendum,
à condition que la réponse soit oui.
  (Valéry Giscard d'Estaing au sujet du projet de Constitution Européenne) #quote

Le danger, ce n'est pas ce qu'on ignore,
c'est ce que l'on tient pour certain et qui ne l'est pas.
  (Mark Twain) #quote

Don't blame the people, fix the process.
   (Charles Deming) #quote

BearIsCool is a little tired this evening..

Notre propre honneur est intéressé dans de pareilles aventures,
et l'action de ces coquins était si lâche,
que c'eût été y prendre part que de ne s'y pas opposer.
   (Molière in Dom Juan) #quote

C T R L + D E L = Control yourself + delete bad things.
    (Unknown) #quote

PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
  (Thanks Red H.) #quote

Remember that a flower has to push through a lot of dirt to be able to bloom.
    (Unknown) #quote

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
(Winston Churchill)#quote

Don't ask the question if you don't want to hear the answer.
    (Dr House, Saison 5) #quote

The mind is its own place, and in itself,

can make heaven of Hell,

and a hell of Heaven.

(John Milton) #quote

Fly me to the moon

Let me play among the stars

Let me see what spring is like on

Jupiter and Mars

   (Sinatra)

Marriage is the only war, where enemies sleep together.
  (Unknown) #quote

A snowflake is one of the most fragile creations,
but look what they can do when they stick together!
   (Unknown) #quote

L'accent, c'est pas dans la gorge des uns, c'est dans l'oreille des autres !
   (Plume Latraverse) #quote

L'accent du pays où l'on est né demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur,
comme dans le langage.
   (François de La Rochefoucauld) #quote

Belle réplique humoristique d'Eva Joly avec un clip vidéo teinté d'accents pour contrer la polémique stupide autour de son accent et de sa légitimité à postuler à la Présidence de la République Française.
Quand on voit où certains portent le niveau du débat politique on a honte (pour eux) et on est inquiet (pour nous). 

BearIsCool approuve le "Parce qu'une République sans accent(s), ça n'a pas de sens !"

Après les pilules FaiPaChié voici les pilules FukItOl. C'est selon :)

Men always want to be a woman's first love
- women like to be a mans last romance.
   (Oscar Wilde) #quote

Extinct by instinct, paralysis by analysis.

   (Unknow) #quote

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't do !
  (Unknown) #quote

Don't write so that you can be understood,
write so that you can't be misunderstood.
    (WH Taft) #quote

Kindergarten  (literally "children's garden" ) 
.... and not only @ home ... pffffffff

Friends are the sunshine in our darkest of days.

   (Unknown) #quote

Work expands to fill (and often exceed) the time allowed. -- Parkinson's Law


Whatever can go wrong, will. -- Murphy's Law

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

   (John Stuart Mill) #quote

Hell is other people.
   (JP. Sartre) #quote

I dont't hate people. I just feel better when then aren't around.

(Charles Bukowski) #quote

Voter pour le Modem à la présidentielle, cela ne sert à rien!
C'est comme si pendant un match PSG - OM tu étais pour l'arbitre !
  (Jamel Debouzze) #quote

Challenge your own assumptions

(from ThingsWeForget)  #quote

Some people are incapable of making (an informal) decision.
(OneFTE.com , Impressions of a corporate life) #quote

How you spend your time defines who you are.
   (Oprah Winfrey) #quote

Signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

  (Evan Esar) #quote

Company cultures are like country cultures.
Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
   (Peter Drucker)  #quote

Coiffeur : Seul endroit où les joueurs du Canadien peuvent espérer une coupe.
   (une petite dernière avant de quitter Montréal ...)

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
  (Tony Robbins) #quote