Alan Quotes

Jesus is God is the unified field theory of Christianity".

Patience is hard when your very soul cries for freedom.

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion.

An organization's proprietary, internal information is constrained only by an understanding that stake-holders will keep organizational matters within the organization.

A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

In the Darwinian environment of business, one's most provocative words are naturally selected by competitors to be hurled back at them at the most inopportune moments. Do not arm your adversaries.

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

Han Solo.A legend of the Rebellion against the Empire. Trader, pirate, con man, and fighter extraordinaire. It was hard to believe he was real, Finn thought. Solo was history come to life.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

Time after time, they brought each other to new heights of ecstasy, until finally, they lay spent in each others arms in the quiet peace and contentment that only lovers know.

Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain?

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Most people do not see their words as power.

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

...with electronic communication, what one writes in a moment, eternity will not erase.

Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart is.

Good books are never finished but abandoned.

While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.'In short, we've voted you out of the family, ' Daffy said. 'It was unanimous.

Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.

One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.

Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

All of material and All of any services can be purchased, with the exception of, Love, Peace and Joy, they are not for sale at any price

The future depends on what choices we make....

Hatred and disdain do harm to the donor not the intended recipient…The Strength in Knowing ----- by I. Alan Appt

When the intensity it takes to extricate one from a negative state is equal to or greater than the intensity that perpetuated the state, then the person can be freed of that state

Excerpt from "The Strength in Knowing"Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

To a certain degree, We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning, love, peace and joy, and knowledge, wealth and power…

We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet....

Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe

Don't settle for less than God's best for you".~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.