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  • #1084003
    moish01
    Member

    awesome, squeak. i’m busy memorizing a nice handful of them…

    #1084004
    kapusta
    Participant

    squeak, all good ones! 🙂

    #1084005
    an open book
    Participant

    🙂

    #1084006
    squeak
    Participant

    It was not meant to be inspiring. Those quotes follow this mission statement that I have come to agree with:

    The War Against Motivation Continues

    For over two decades, the multi-billion dollar motivation industry has unleashed untold suffering upon the workplaces, schools and civil institutions of the world – in the insidious form of the motivational poster. By the millions they have been sold and displayed – these dark instruments of corporate propaganda. While promising to stimulate “Hope”, “Success” and “Teamwork”, instead these tools of coercion and intimidation have inspired only grief, anger and nausea.

    Pessimism. Mediocrity. Failure. Despite the considerable efforts of the motivation industry, each remains an inevitable part of our daily lives. Why, then, do we continue trying to fight them with motivational books, speakers, and posters?

    We believe that such products only perpetuate the cycle of unuhappiness by raising expectations higher than life can meet. We believe that [our insight] will inspire to new heights by lowering your expectations. Let the healing begin!

    #1084007
    torahtziva
    Member

    Every person should have a paper with him at all times saying:

    “The Yetzer Hara wants me to be batul”

    #1084008
    goody613
    Member

    torahtziva: who said it and what does it mean “wants me tobe batul”??????

    #1084009
    kapusta
    Participant

    batul torah 🙂

    #1084010
    torahtziva
    Member

    kapusta, thanks for clarifying it to goody613. This was said by Harav Yisroel Salanter.

    Also, another thing that everyone should have in their pocket is a paper saying

    “Who Am I And What Will I Become”

    #1084011
    an open book
    Participant

    nice one, ames 🙂

    #1084012
    anonymisss
    Participant

    I never make mistakes, once I thought I did but I was wrong.

    ~a~

    #1084014
    kapusta
    Participant

    ames and anonymisss 😉

    #1084015
    22OldGold
    Participant

    “You can’t illuminate someone elses path without brightening your own.” I’m not sure the exact words.

    #1084016
    anonymisss
    Participant

    22OG, nice, I like that one.

    btw, mods, thanks for the updates on friday!

    ~a~

    #1084018
    moish01
    Member

    ames, i LIKE that one. gotta repeat it around here…

    #1084019
    moish01
    Member

    #1. sorry, my clothing is art. not even close.

    #1084020
    moish01
    Member

    ha! i meant to write #1! don’t know why i put a 2… really early in the morning…

    ok, i edited the last one (i love this edit button item thingy)

    #1084021
    moish01
    Member

    i meant isn’t art! god, i DO have a problem this morning!

    #1084022
    moish01
    Member

    ames, i got it – i don’t know why i can’t type or even think straight!

    #1084024
    anon for this
    Participant

    ames, are your clothes like art? If so, do they resemble the work of a particular artist? Which one?

    #1084025
    aussieboy
    Participant

    My clothes are like modern art 🙂 jk

    #1084026
    anonymisss
    Participant

    aussieboy, sharp line!!!

    ~a~

    #1084027
    moish01
    Member

    ames, i don’t exactly wear tie-dye shirts. and my clothes are not for hanging in my closet. they are for getting muddy and going in the laundry.

    #1084028
    an open book
    Participant

    ames: i like that!!! maybe i’ll use it next time someone copies me 😉

    & how are your clothes like art? (besides for the hanging thing, i mean)

    #1084029
    kapusta
    Participant

    pay lots and lots of money for it :p 🙂

    #1084030
    an open book
    Participant

    lol kapusta 🙂

    but ames, i was really asking

    #1084031
    moish01
    Member

    a tie?? who wears ties?? just kidding i think i still have a few (unless my brother stole them.) and i’ve got enough clothes, but if you wanna buy me more – kol hakovod. just don’t make me try anything on.

    and no white shirts, please.

    #1084032
    an open book
    Participant

    ames: ok, i get that. but wouldn’t you picking moish01’s clothes would make his clothes express YOU, & not him then??

    #1084033
    kapusta
    Participant

    ames that was my humor at work (as much as you can get in the CR), and btw, youre adorable… 🙂

    one more thing, did you just google a quote about art? 🙂

    #1084034
    kapusta
    Participant

    moish she was referring to a bowtie, and a stovepipe hat… for purim next year, or Lincolns birthday… :p

    #1084035
    moish01
    Member

    ha AOB – that’s way too true. except i wouldn’t wear something i didn’t want to. like a pink tie.

    #1084038
    moish01
    Member

    an open book, I knew that was coming! yes, If moish wore the clothes I bought him, he would be expressing my impeccable taste rather than his own, but he does seem to working towards self improvement in other areas too, so his clothing might as well reflect that.

    now what is that supposed to mean?

    #1084039
    kapusta
    Participant

    try the difference in style between the different designers :p

    btw, when you come out with a book of quotes, you’d better sign it ames, or I’ll know what your real name is 😉

    #1084040
    anonymisss
    Participant

    Style is a rather relative term, don’t you think? What you call style may not be what moish determines as style.

    ~a~

    #1084041
    an open book
    Participant

    moish01: k good 🙂

    ames: well i guess if he only chose to wear what he liked from the stuff you bought him, it would be all right. and while you’re going, want to shop for me? i need some stuff but i hate shopping 🙁

    #1084042
    kapusta
    Participant

    anonymisss, in fact I’m sure it would not be, I was avtually referring to designs not really style per say 🙂

    #1084043
    moish01
    Member

    anonymisss, “moish” doesn’t care too much about style.

    #1084044

    Way off topic. Lets get back on or we shut down.

    Also, don’t try continuing the conversation and just putting a quote on the bottom. That does not sit well with the Moderators

    #1084045
    aussieboy
    Participant

    Back to quotes.

    “If you annoy the moderators they will shut this thread down”

    Write that down. 😉

    And you want to know why we did not let any posts from teen through. We ARE giving you a second chance, this is neither humourous nor appreciated. Watch yourself

    YW Moderator-39

    #1084046
    moish01
    Member

    “There’s always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain’t happy.”

    “It’s easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.”

    #1084047
    aussieboy
    Participant

    mods: Sorry 🙁

    #1084048
    kapusta
    Participant

    part of the ones that got deleted for an unknown reason…

    Its easier to get out than to stay out -Mark Twain

    🙂

    #1084049
    moish01
    Member

    kapusta, i gotta disagree with him.

    it’s way easier to stay out than to get out. think about it.

    #1084050
    kapusta
    Participant

    whoops sorry botched that up!!! it was supposed to be its easier to stay out than to get out 🙂

    cant believe I did that :/

    #1084051
    moish01
    Member

    ok, kapusta. then i did agree with mark twain after all. it’s you i disagreed with…

    i feel way more confident now… 😉

    #1084052
    kapusta
    Participant

    :p

    #1084053
    squeak
    Participant

    well kapusta, you may be on to something, but you quoted the wrong person. Twain thought it was harder to get out, but here’s another quote from someone who feels the way you mistakenly said:

    “Just when I think I’m out……. they pull me back in”

    #1084054
    moish01
    Member

    squeak, that doesn’t contradict. the key word is “think.” obviously you were never out in the first place. which proves how hard it is to get out.

    #1084055
    kapusta
    Participant

    queen kapusta is always onto something 🙂

    #1084057
    aussieboy
    Participant

    Seeing how were quoting Mark Twain:

    I never let my education get in the way of my learning.

    #1084058
    moish01
    Member

    nice, aussie

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