Cool bear with hat 

(Thanks red H.)

Be selective in your battles. 

Sometimes peace is better than being right.

Think like a proton 

Be always positive !

Hollande caricaturé par Serge Champleau dans la Presse.CA

- I'll design the system as soon as you give me the user requirement
- Better yet, you could build the system, then I'll tell your boss that it doesn't meet my needs
- I don't mean to frighten you but you'll have to do some actual works
- That's crasy talk
    (Dilbert)

... on ne manque pas de sujets pour nous

faire gicler l'adrénaline des glandes surrénales dans l'hypophyse !

(Olivier Sehiaud in Best Practises n°123)

I'm afraid that Brown and I haven't brought you much luck.

But rough waters bring smooth sailing. Eventually they do

(Hamilton in 12 years a slave)

I don't want to survive. I want to live.

(Solomon Northup in 12 years a slave)

Je suis un mensonge qui dit la vérité (le poète)

Je suis la vérité qui dit des mensonges (le politique)

(Bernard Pivot)

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

    (J. B. Priestley)

Life is the most difficult exam. 

Many people fail because they try to copy others.

Not realising that everyone has a different question paper!

Many eyes, shallow bugs. 

(Linus Law)

Mastering others is strength.

Mastering yourself is true power.

(Lao Tzu)

What goes around turns around

Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête

(source OTH)

Bear don’t give a shit 

(Thanks OTH)

If you talk a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. 

If you talk a man in his own  language it goes to his heart. 

(Nelson Mandela)

La résignation est un suicide quotidien.

    (Honoré De Balzac)

Les seuls beaux yeux sont ceux qui vous regardent avec tendresse. 

   (Coco Chanel) 

Don't step on my toes !

To learn who rules over you, 

simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. 

(Voltaire)

La liberté consiste à faire tout ce que permet la longueur de la chaîne.

(François Cavanna)

You only live once ? False

You live everyday. You only die once. 

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism

or in darkness of destructive selfishness. 

(Martin Luther King Jr)

Prix du café en terrasse : 

- "un café"   7 EUR

- "un café, s'il vous plait"   4,25 EUR

- "bonjour, un café, s'il vous plait"   1,40 EUR

 

Comfort is the enemy of achievement

(10-sentences-can-change-perspective-life )

Its not a walk through a rose garden...

Il s'agit de servir Paris, pas de s'en servir 

(Anne Hidalgo, lors d'un débat sur les municipales pour la ville de Paris)

Adversity : 

what does not kill you, 

often pretends to ignore you... 

for a little while.

2 things define you : 

Your patience when you have nothing. 

Your attitude when you have everything.

Et maintenant qu'il faut partir
On a cent mille choses à dire
Qui tiennent trop à coeur pour si peu de temps
 (Joe Dassin in Les amoureux)

 

Umbrella can't stop the rain but make us stand in the rain.

Confidence may not bring success but give us power to face any challenges.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. 

(Louis Armstrong) #linkedin

On rencontre sa destinée souvent par des chemins qu’on prend pour l’éviter.
  (Jean de la Fontaine)

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me 'I love you'. 

There is an African saying which is : 

be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. 

(Maya Angelou)

The illegal we do immediately. 
The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
    (Henry Kissinger)

Some hit the wall, 

some crush it. 

Which one will you be ?

It's the story of the two salesmen who went down to Africa in the 1900s. 
They were sent down to find if there was any opportunity for selling shoes, and they wrote telegrams back to Manchester. 
- And one of them wrote, "Situation hopeless. Stop.They don't wear shoes." 
- And the other one wrote, "Glorious opportunity. They don't have any shoes yet." 

It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. 

Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.’”

(Benjamin Zander from Ted.Com)

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. 

Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

(George Carlin)

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. 

One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, 

so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

   (Dalai Lama)

When top level guys look down they see only shit. 

When bottom level guys look up they see only assholes.

Si tu as envie de faire durer une situation,

il suffit de la considérer comme provisoire ...

(Murphy law by Rogers)

Don't wait for inspiration. 

Be the inspiration !

Ours des pyrénées

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the Constitution. 

 (Margaret Heckler)

The naked Truth is always better than the best-dressed Lie. 

(...)

I think there are two types of people in this world  : 
- people who can start things 
- and people who can finish things. 
And while I place great value on the finishers, 
it’s the starters who are rare because they can envision what isn’t there.
   (Ed Franck)

No matter how cool your interface is, 
it would be better if there were less of it.

 (Alan Cooper)

It was so cold this morning. 

I actually saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets. 

Nothing can stop automation !

..
Mais les braves gens n'aiment pas que
L'on suive une autre route qu'eux,
...
Tout le monde médit de moi,
Sauf les muets, ça va de soi.
...
Tout le monde me montre du doigt
Sauf les manchots, ça va de soi.
...
Tout le monde se rue sur moi,
Sauf les culs-de-jatte, ça va de soi.
...
Tout le monde viendra me voir pendu,
Sauf les aveugles, bien entendu.
    (La mauvaise réputation, Brassens)

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. 
No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
(Thomas John Watson Sr., IBM)

 

People are like music, 

some speak the TRUTH, 

and others are just NOISE!

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes truth  politics.

Mieux vaut une 2CV sur la route qu'une Rolls au garage.

 (Bear)

I'm a small bear ... but my Mum is there .... 

(Thanks Claudine for the picture)

Superbe ours endormi dans une vitrine à New-York (composition à base de morceaux de bois et bobines de fil). 

Merci Red H pour la photo !

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart. 

Use specific tool for different situations

To resist change is like holding your breath 

– if you persist, you will die… (Laozi)

Modified....

To resist new technology is like holding your breath

 if you persist, you will no longer be in busines

Do not set too ambitious deadlines ....

There are two things people want more than sex and money … 

recognition and praise.

  (Mary Kay Ash, Founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics)

Es mejor morir de pie que vivir toda una vida arrodillado

Mieux vaut mourir debout que vivre toute une vie à genoux.

(Emiliano Zapata)

Start by doing what's necessary;

then do what's possible;

and suddenly you are doing the impossible

(St François d'Assise)

Le BIG DATA c'est comme l'amour  pour les adolescents. 

Tout le monde en parle mais personne ne l'a jamais fait. 

(cité par Erwin J.)

Une excellente année 2014 ... remplie de voyages et de découvertes !

You don't need religion to have morals. 

If you can't determine right from wrong, 

then you lack empathy not religion. 

(Anonymous)

"ego" is the only requirement to destroy any relationship

So, be  a bigger person, skip the "e" and let it "go" !

Bonne à nez -- Bonne année

(P.Geluck, le Chat) 

Je vous souhaite ....

Un ours en Provence ? c'est rare. 

Vitrail vu hier dans une propriété Provencale ....

Des voeux brillants (ceux d'Umanis)  : Prêt à tout pour livrer à temps. 

Resolution : T

his year I will be like a tree. 

Rooted in the past experiences. 

Growing ever outward and upward...

Imagine, if you will,

 a world in which  mirrors reflect your character instead of you face.