A good life is 

when you assume nothing, 

do more, 

smile often, 

dream big, 

laught a lot, 

and realize how blessed you are for what you have. 

When you have exhausted all possibilities,

remember this - you haven't.

  (Thomas A. Edison)

Revenez vers nous avec un timing raisonnable, 

... c'est à dire ASAP. 

Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be. 

(Eckhart Tolle)

When was the last time you did something for the first time ? 

Everything is going to be alright, 

maybe not today but eventually

back from Cancun, but montezunas revenge ....

Equality doesn't mean justice

Un ours et son reflet. Et de la réflexion ...? 

Maroma, la plage de note hôtel

Akumal, une plage sanctuaire des tortues

Un ours au volant d'une 2 CV ce n'est pas banal.  

Photo prise sur le Plateau à Montréal (Merci Red  H.!)

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

Managing IT people is like herding cats. (Unknown)

If it can go wrong it will (Murphy's law). 

If it can't possibly go wrong, it will (O'Malley's corollary to Murphy's law) 

It will go wrong in the worst possible way (Sod's law) 

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion (Parkinson's law) 

Murphy, O'Malley, Sod and Parkinson are alive and well - and working on your project

My mama always said you've got to put the past

 behind before you can move on. 

  (Forrest Gump) 

La bonne politique est de faire croire aux peuples qu’ils sont libres. 
  (Napoléon Bonaparte)

- trop de "bruits de couloir" ? Supprimons les couloirs !
- trop de "radio moquette" ? Supprimons les moquettes ! 

Worry is like a rocking chair; 

it gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.

The most effective medicine here on earth is Love unconditional. 

Ce n'est pas le Tour de France, mais l'étape est belle. 1 000 km en 7 jours pour un Parla-Montcuq. C'est le défi de Jean-Charles Loeb pour assumer le jeu de mots.
 "J’ai envisagé de faire Troyes-Foix-Sète, mais je n’ai pas trouvé de Vingt-et-Un ..."

The past is your lesson. 
                                    The present is your gift. 
                                                                          The future is your motivation

Jalabert déclarait (à la commission d'enquête) 

que son médecin était surnommé "docteur Citroën" 

par opposition au docteur d'Armstrong (Ferrari ).... 

Ceux qui font du vélo savent que dans la vie rien n'est jamais plat.
  (René Fallet)

Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. 

And sometimes, in the midlle of nowhere you find yourself.

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead 

of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

 (Franklin Thomas) 

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. 

  (Ralph W. Sockman)

Exclusif : Le soldat de Marathon (490 av. J.C.) vient d'être reconnu positif. 

(Bernard Pivot, suite aux révélations de dopage de L.Jalabert, 15 ans après les faits ..)

Après le "A l'insu de mon plein gré" de Richard Virenque nous avons le "Je ne peux dire que c'est faux. Je ne peux pas dire que c'est vrai." de Laurent Jalabert, à l'occasion plus normand que béarnais.  
Conclusion ? Effet induit du dopage : la perte de mémoire et la distanciation avec la réalité.

Comment éviter .... Les décisions absurdes (livre de Christian Morel)

1.Privilégier la collégialité des décisions et l'effacement de la hiérarchie

2.Vérifier le consensus:un silence n'équivaut pas à un accord.

3.Introduire un avocat du diable pour débattre de manière contradictoire.

4.Ne pas punir les erreurs, afin que l'information remonte.

5.Appliquer le principe de la check-list, comme dans les avions.

6.Ne pas s'en remettre aveuglément à la technique et à la science.

Histoire de Zèbres : 

- moi mon papa est noire et ma maman est blanche. 

- moi, c'est l'inverse. 

TEAMwork - Together Each Achieve More

Hope is personal. 

Hope is something that no one can give you. 

You have to choose to believe in hope. 

You have to make it yourself. 

 (Joseph Kim) 

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. 
  (Hannah Arendt) #linkedin

Être ancien ministre, c'est s'asseoir à l'arrière d'une voiture

et s'apercevoir qu'elle ne démarre pas.

(François Goulard)

A l'UMP, nous apprenons la démocratie. C'est assez nouveau.
    (Jean-François Copé, masochiste!)

Keep cool bear !

Keep Cool, stay Zen.

When i’m working on a problem, 
i never think about beauty. 
I think only how to solve the problem.
But when i have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful, i know it is wrong.

  (Buckminster Fuller) 

Plein les bottes ! 

(photo prise en Bretagne, entre 2 averses. Merci Michel C.)

Success means having the courage,

the determination, 

and the will 

to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

(George sheehan)

Life is short, live it.
Love is rare, grab it.
Anger is bad, dump it.
Fear is awful, face it.
Memories are sweet. Cherish them

(...)

 

et hop, encore un ours avec le "Restez vivants. Buvez O."

de belles rencontres au Canada by Vacances Transat

Il n'y a plus de saison, 
... 
Il n'y a plus de raison. 
 (Anne Roumanoff, Europe1)

Life is like a book. 

Some chapters are sad, 

some are happy 

and some are exciting, 

but if you never turn the pages 

you will never know 

what the next chapter has in store for you. 

Mais le dernier mot est-il dit ? L'espérance doit-elle disparaître ? La défaite est-elle définitive ? Non ! Croyez-moi, moi qui vous parle en connaissance de cause et vous dis que rien n'est perdu pour la France. Les mêmes moyens qui nous ont vaincus peuvent faire venir un jour la victoire. 
   (Charles de Gaulle)

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.

 (Robert A. Heinlein)

Learning without reflection is a waste. 

Reflection without learning is dangerous. 

(Confucius)

(THE PLAN)

In the beginning was the plan.
And then came the assumptions.
And the assumptions were without form.
And the plan was without substance.
And darkness was upon the face of the Workers.
And they spoke amongst themselves, saying, ‘It is a crock of dung and it stinketh.’
And the Workers went unto their Supervisors and said, ‘It is a pail of manure, and none may abide the odour thereof.’
And the Supervisors went unto their Managers, saying ‘It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none can abide by it.’
And the Managers went unto their Directors, saying ‘It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide by its strength.’
And the Directors spoke amongst themselves, saying to one another, ‘It contains that which aids growth and it is very powerful.’
And thus the Directors went unto their Chief Executive, saying unto him, ‘This plan will actively promote the growth and vigour of the company with powerful effects.’
And the Chief Executive looked upon the plan, and thought that it was good.
And the plan became Policy.

(...)

I'll be out in a moment. 

I'm bearly dressed. 

Impose ta chance,
              serre ton bonheur,
                           et va vers ton risque.

  (René Char) #quote

La spéculation est un luxe tandis que l’action est une nécessité. 

  (Henri Bergson)

In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
 (Winston Churchil) #linkedin

If you keep sending away every person who challenges you, 

you'll never GROW. 

Some people are in your life to sharpen you. 

   (Unknown)

Negative thoughts are not protecting you. 

They are making you smaller.

(Robert Kiyosaki)

Always be prepared to negotiate, 

but never negotiate without being prepared. 

   (Richard Nixon) #linkedin

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister, when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. 

It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.” 

  (Napoleon Bonaparte) #quote

Why worry?
If there is anything that you can do to change it then change it,
if not then why worry?
  (Dalai Lama) #linkedin

C'est quand les carottes sont cuites que l'on reconnaît la vraie daube. 
  (Top Chef Philosophe Zun Tzu, In Best Practises 10 juin 2013, by Olivier Sehiaud)

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."  

(Charlie Brown)

Mitterrander : donner du temps au temps.
(! Ne pas confondre avec Hollander)

Hollander : attendre, faire confiance au temps. 
Ex. : après avoir failli divorcer, ils ont choisi de hollander.

 (d'après des tweets de Bernard Pivot)

It’s not whether you really cry. 

It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.

   (Ingrid Bergman)

Keep calm and travel 

(by Look Voyages )

Life is change. 

Growth is optional.

Choose wisely.

Ctrl-Alt-Delete 

Reboot your business - Reboot your life.

Your future depends on it.

Dans tout excès il y a des erreurs. 
 (Christine Boutin, ... et elle le démontre bien toute seule ....) 

 

Only ever work on the thing that 

will have the biggest impact. 

 (Jason Cohen)

Always know the one thing you really need to get done during the day. 

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
     (Montesquieu) #linkedin

Don’t let the thoughts banging around in your skull delude you into thinking this is how the world really is.

 Words are individual units of meaning that you string together to form your personal narrative about reality…

stop trying to explain everything away.

You’re a prisoner of a story you created – your autobiography.

You are limited because your thinking limits you.
  (The Zen Humanist)

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

  (Tennessee Williams)

On ne nique pas le système en voulant le détruire. 

On nique le système en construisant sans lui. 

(Keny Arkana) 

Perfection is our goal. Excellence will be tolerated.  

  (Motto from the International Association of Business Communication) #linkedin

Life is an open road. 

It's your road and yours only.

Others may drive it with you 

but no one can drive it for you.

I have plenty of management experience. 

I spent 18 years telling my parents what to do. 

(Randy Glasbergen)

De chaudes bises pour affronter la bise. 
 (B.) #

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
   (Henry Kissinger) #linkedin

Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute. 
  (Unknown) #linkedin 

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. 

(Byrd Baggett) #linkedin

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. 

(Steven Wright) 

Des exemples Anglais/Français/Québecois
I'm in trouble / Je suis dans le pétrin / Chu dans marde
I'm so confused / Je suis confus / Ch'toute fourré
(Merci Clo !)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes. 
  (Marcel Proust)  #linkedin

"In the beginning" is a mistranslation of "Once upon a time" 
(God @TheTweetOfGod) 

Vu hier soir "Couple en danger" au petit théâtre Hebertot. 

Bon texte & bonne interprétation. 

Never in reply to the question, to what country you belong, 
say that you are an Athenian or a Corinthian,
but that you are a citizen of the world. 
For why do you say that you are an Athenian, and why do you not say that you belong to the small nook only into which your poor body was cast at birth?    
   (Epitecte)   #linkedin

Copé ou Martine président? Un chef qui barbotte dans la piscine d'un truand ou un qui saute quand y a pas d'eau ? Une gouape ou une godiche .
  (Tweet de Stéphane Guillon)  

A true friend 

warms you with  her presence, 

trusts you with  her secrets, 

and remembers you in her prayers.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  

   (George Santayana) #linkedin

Keep Cool - Take it easy

Life is like vacation. 

It goes way too fast and you wish you had taken more pictures. 

a little TLC for the end of week... ? 

(TLC  = Tender Love & Care)

L'union fait la force.

(sur le drapeau d'Haïti)

Raise your expectations of yourself. 
But don't expect anything from others
   (Unknown) #quote

Time for changes ? Which way ? 

Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. 

I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

(HAL 9000 in 2001, a space odyssey) #quote

Time for change ... 

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. 
   (Aristophene) #quote

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, 

it empties today of its strength.

 (Corrie ten Boon) #quote

et JL. Mélenchon toujours a propos de Marine Le Pen, 
"Je lui souhaite un prompt 'restablishement' pour l'aplatir à la loyale" 
puis 
"... en attendant je me casse le cul pour les ouvriers pendant qu'elle se casse le cul dans sa piscine". 

J'ai touché le fond d'la piscine 
Moi la petite Marine ... 
Tout explosé le sacrum... 
C'est bien fait pour ma pomme... 
Sacré Guillon !

J´ai touché le fond d´la piscine
Dans l´petit pull marine,
Tout déchiré aux coudes
Qu´j´ai pas voulu recoudre,
Que tu m´avais donné.
J´me sens tellement abandonnée.
.... (I.Adjani ...)

This week-end, I'm doing the bear minimum.