Something To Think About Archive

It’s been said we can do nothing in the past, we can do nothing in the future, we have only the immediate now. Now is the time to make it count.

According to Coach John Wooden ‘it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.’

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Norman Vincent Peale — ‘Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.’

Don’t just stand there, make it happen – Lee Iacocca

Franklin Rosevelt’s political advisor Harry Hopkins summed up his party’s reason for being, he said, “We will spend and spend and tax and tax and elect and elect.” And the result today? We’d say that Biden hit the mark with the resulting massive deficits enhanced by the Covid pandemic and subsequent spending and now his desire to eliminate the tax cuts of four years ago when he claimed that he wanted to be “Today’s version of FDR.”

The phrase “It has always been done that way” has been called the most damaging in the language.

Actor John Barrymore believed that “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

According to a Puerto Rican Proverb: “There is a great distance between said and done.”

Will Rogers advised us not to “… just grab the first thing that comes by… know what to turn down.”

Michelangelo said: “Genius is eternal patience.”

Joe Biden’s continuing calls for the rich to pay their “fair share” never ends and he never bothers to define what’s “fair.” Consider that the top 10% of earners in 2021 provided nearly 76% of federal tax revenue. And recently released figures for 2021 show that the top 1% of Americans reported 26.3% of the country’s adjusted gross income but paid 45.8% of total income taxes. In any other reference, that would be considered more than “fair.”

Digital pioneer Jerome Blattner believed that “A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.”

Digital pioneer Jerome Blattner believed that “A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.”

Winston Churchill once observed that “We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”

Chinese author and inventor Lin Yutang said: “The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”

According to French playwright Andre’ Gide: “The wise man is he who constantly wonders aloud.”

We have to ask why the Biden administration has relaxed restrictions on Venezuelan and Iranian oil exports while recently curtailing Alaskan oil exploration and production in the NPR? It’s called the National Petroleum Reserve for a reason. It’s not a National Park or a National Forest or a Wilderness Area. It’s under the Bureau of Land Management. Let them manage it for benefit of all Americans. Meanwhile, every time oil spikes, often as a result of their policies, they draw down inventory from the SPR to try and lower high gas prices. Just like the NPR it’s called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for a reason, to protect us during an emergency by ensuring that we have adequate oil available to not shut down the country. It is not there to manipulate market prices, play politics and buy votes.

It’s been suggested that “If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”

Lucille Ball claimed that “In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”