• Chat Pack Friday. Let’s play.

    Posted on December 17th, 2010 by and currently 29 commenting.


    I found this picture “without rain” on flickr via amambay. Nice.

    It’s Friday and we’re happy at 148 River Street. Hope you are too. Well, actually a few of us are sick with the stomach bug. UGH. But those of us here are happy.

    Just a minute ago, Dodds and I made a decision to bring back Chat Pack Friday. I haven’t done this in a while, so I had to dig around my desk to find the cards. But it was worth it.

    Cause here’s the question for you today;

    What’s your favorite saying or quote?

    I have done a lot of thinking about words this year. The ones we use, and the ones we hear in our heads. The power of language intrigues me. I study it for fun. I do.

    I see a lot interesting words floating around on Twitter and Facebook. There’s a lot of inspired communication and sharing going on. So today, think about the most interesting set of words you have heard online or in person. Doesn’t have to be a famous person, but it can be if you like. Since we are all in grad school now learning new ways to communicate with our customers, maybe you have heard a quote or something from a blog or a prezo about that worth sharing. Whatever you like. Just share.

    Ok. I’ll go first.

    Here is my all-time favorite quote from my very wise son Tyler. I love it because he said it when he was three. Tyler was staying with my sister while I was traveling. Her car broke down after a long day and she looked down at his sweet little three year old face and said, “Tyler, when it rains it pours”. And he said back, “Yeah, but when it stops it stops.” Don’t you just love that? Those simple words pop in my head and make me smile often.

    So your turn. Share your favorite set of words/quote with me. We all work so hard, we need to play a little sometimes.

  • http://www.brainsonfire.com Justin

    Wow. I love the “stops” line.

    Hmm… I’m not sure I have a favorite quote.

    Maybe Alfred E. Neuman – “What, me worry?” I’ll have to get back to you.

  • W

    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ~Einstein

  • http://giatalks.com Gia Lyons

    “Don’t get too big for your britches, don’t get your panties in a wad, and pick your battles.”

  • http://www.mynameisbilly.com billy

    Do something you love and you’ll never work another day in your life.

  • Alexis

    My favorite quote is from from mama. The wisest, most beautiful southern woman I know- “You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube.” The learning…what is done is done. Don’t try and fix what is in the past, but move forward to right the future.

  • Caroline

    “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ”
    Buddha

    I love inspiring quotes!

  • eric w

    Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C. S. Lewis

  • Rob

    We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

    -Chief Brody

  • http://thedistractedglobe.blogsome.com Jen

    “My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.” – Ashleigh Brilliant

    “I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo PIcasso

    “One way I think you can tell if you have a curse on you is if you open a box of toothpicks and they all fly up and stick in your face.” – Jack Handy

    I could probably do this all day… but I should go finish some papers instead.

  • http://zerocelsiuswealth.com Ross

    If I didn’t think of it myself, I wouldn’t have believed it.

  • Amy

    Why the hell not?
    ~ Kinky Friedman

  • http://WOMMA.org Tarah Remington Brown

    The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway.

    …Mother Teresa

  • Angie

    “We can only live our lives honestly, lovingly, openly, and hope it stands for something.” – Karen Casey

  • http://www.insidesales.com/insider Steve Watts

    Three entries:

    “A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.” -Marshall McLuhan

    “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” -Oscar Wilde

    “How you perceive your circumstances is far more important than what they are.” -Anonymous

  • http://brainsonfire.com Robbin

    This is a great collection. So far my favorite. “You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube.” From Alexis’s mom. That is staying with me for a long, long time.

  • http://www.GoInfield.com Doug Naegele

    –Ease is a function of cost.–

    “How easy would it be to add XYZ to that project?”
    “Ease is a function of cost”

  • http://freemarketswork.wordpress.com Miguel

    “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
    Buddha

    Helps me stay at peace with myself/others…

  • http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/ john moore (from Brand Autopsy)

    “Funk not only moves, it can remove. Dig?”

    — a Parliament-Funkadelic Thang | (Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton)

  • Dave T.

    “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” – Anonymous

  • http://Terpack.me Shawn T

    We can do it right, or we can do it right now.

  • W

    Walt Disney is also a huge inspiration for me…

    “Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards — the things we live by and teach our children — are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”

    “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”

    “My only hope is that we never lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse.”

  • Ilana rabinowitz

    “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s there are none.”. Shunryu Suzuki

  • Justine

    I can’t beat “You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube.”
    Most excellent – and definitely a keeper for the Foo house.
    Great question Robbin!

  • http://brombergllc.com JB

    I love the Buddha quote.

    Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what we could be, and you make him what he should be. – Goethe

    I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it. – Groucho

  • Hope C.

    While it seems just for kids, it really goes for everyone:

    “You don’t have to be friends, but you must be friendly.”

  • Shannon

    “I’m destined for greatness…I’m just pacing myself.” – SK :-)

  • courtney

    My pop always said 2 things,”Sit down and relax” and “Stick in there and fight em.’” Then, he would chuckle but only with his eyes. Not a sound came out of his mouth. I loved watching him.

  • http://www.bulldogsimplicity.com Peter

    “If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna.” (Napolean). This works in the office and at home. My 13-year-old knows this one by heart as I’ve used it in discussions about both practicing and schoolwork and his older brothers have heard it on many occasions (their little sister gets her Type A personality from her father so it isn’t an issue).

  • http://alterimaging.com Vincent Ammirato

    “Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

    Gustave Flaubert