Great Throughts Treasury

"I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend."

"I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems."

"I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood."

"I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality."

"If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed."

"If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."

"I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead."

"I'd rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer."

"It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent."

"If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home."

"It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do."

"It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return."

"Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes."

"Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp."

"Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping."

"Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service."

"Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different."

"Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store."

"Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail."

"Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity."

"Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows."

"Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors."

"Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before."

"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."

"Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker."

"Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues."

"Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments."

"Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list."

"Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life. I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood."

"Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once."

"Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best."

"Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head."

"Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin."

"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."

"Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read."

"Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much."

"Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself."

"Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds."

"My thoughts are like waffles ? the first few don't look so good."

"No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time."

"Relatively few of us will find the time--or take it--to live an ever enlarging life."

"Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once."

"Q: What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory? A: Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses."

"People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while."

"Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course."

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."

"Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks."

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying."

"Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself."

"Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with."