User:Buster7/Gleanings

GLEANINGS

• Ask the Universe what you want to know The New Look
• Don't Criticize...Dale Carnegie
• You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig...But It's Still Just a Pig
• We Are Always in the Process of "Becoming" and We Always Will Be
• [[Think Twice Thrice, Edit Once]]
• Let Go and Let the Universe Do Its Job!
• Elvis has Left the Building...and now Edits on Wikipedia
• Are Vowels really necessary?
• Where I Fit in the World is Where I Find Myself
• [["As I go off to spring fishing, I must remember to bring my sketchbook" WINSLOW HOMER]]
• half of 8 is 0
• Perfection is Gods Realm. Excellence is Mans
• Politeness is Necessary Between Faceless Editors
• Who is John Galt?...Atlas Shrugged
• Never Fart in an Empty Elevator. Miss America may be getting on in 5 seconds...B7
• Some ideas float, others sink...Editor Corporate Minion.
• Don't put off a hard decision just becauses it's hard...B7
• Speak Softly, But Carry a Big Shtick...Henny Youngman
• 6,666,666,666 POV's
• How can we know what information JANE will need to save the Galaxy?
• Vanquish the Vandals
• Spend when you have to, Save when you can...Rick
• A Penny Saved is Still Only a Penny
• If it looks like crap and smells like crap and feels like crap, you don't taste it to verify what you know

• Change Your Mind...Change the Results
• If Love is Blind What's the Point of Lingerie?
• Just Because I'm Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get Me
• The Collegial Editing Environment on Wikipedia Would be Just Fine if it Wasn't for All Those Other People
• One thing is crystal-clear: Our country faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins...Either side..

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• What The Truth Sounds Like by Michael Erik Dyson
• Brevity is the Sister of Talent
• Keep an Open Mind...but Not So Open That Your Brains Fall Out
• Trust Yourself when you have an "in the moment" Idea
• In WAR Your Foe Should Remain UN-Enlightened
• When in Rome, Dress Like a Roman
• HINT: Only a Troll Will Call You a Troll
• Manners are the Lubricants between Editors
• [["It's all part of the soup"...GEORGE HARRISON]]
• Fight the Real Enemy--Wasted Time
• What is Your Role Here?
• Don't Panic
• I Didn't Say It Was Your Fault, I Said I Was Blaming You
• TalkSpace is Even More Educational Than MainSpace
• If you Do IT Right the First Time, you Don't Have to Do It Again, Twice
• A Tart is NOT just a Pastry
• To Fish is To Hope
• When You Hear Hoffbeats, Think Horses Not Zebras
• Model the Behavior You Would like to See
• Pigs Get Fat, Hogs Get Slaughtered
• Just Because It Kills Your Liver Doesnt Mean It Isn't Medicine
• When All is Said and Done, All is Usually Neither Said Nor Done
• We Are Each Responsible For Our Own Reality
• The Cock May Crow...but...It's the Hen that Lays the Eggs
• Bad Editors Drive Out Good Editors
• If I Die of Smoking My Wife is Gonna KILL Me
• [["I don't seek, I find"...PICASSO]]
• The Trend is Your Friend
• Opportunity Favors The Prepared Mind
• The Foundation of Integrity--Honor Your Word
• Yes We Can
• "Make the most of your time on Earth"...ROUGH GUIDES
• "My job is to Save Your Ass, not Kiss it"...CHICAGO POLICEMAN
• [[When You Are a Hammer, Everything in the World Looks Like a Nail
• Pack Your Own Parachute
• [["I'm always happy with who I am"...PHILIPPE PETIT, a French High-wire walker and Academy Award winner]]
• It takes Two to Tango...a Bull and a Matador, but Only the Matador has Dinner at Home
• [[Give Them Who You Are...MISTER ROGERS
• Channel your Anger in a Constructive Way
• Be--->Do--->Have
• Our Brains Work Best in Community
• [[Sometimes the Longest Way is the Quickest...EDWARD de BONO]]
• [[Oz Never Did Give Nothing to the Tin Man that He Didn't Already Have...AMERICA]]
• [[Results are the GURU]]
• [[Never Volunteer for Execution...DONALD TRUMP
• A Basic Rule When Using A Public Toilet:Check the Toilet Roll First!
• For Those who Understand, no Explanation is Needed. For Those who do NOT Understand, no Explanation is Possible
• Life is Full of Little Pricks...sign in a Doctors Office
• The Right Changes at the Right Time for the Right Reasons...Anonymous Editor
• Some Worship the Cows, Others Eat Them...Editor NVO

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• Allow People the Validity of Their OWN Emotions
• He who Speaks in Anger Makes His Anger Heard, but His Words are Forgotten...WP:Motto
• "War is a Continuation of Politics - by Other Means"...[[von Klausewitz|von KLAUSEWITZ
• Revenge Yourself on Your Enemies by Not Becoming Like Them
• [[The Problem with Socialism is that Eventually You Run Out of Other Peoples Money...MARGARET THATCHER
• Age Is Mind Over Matter. If You Don't Mind, It Doesn't Matter
• [[The Show Doesn't Go On Because It's Ready. It Goes On Because It's 11:30 Saturday Night...LORNE MICHAELS
• In Politics, Bugs Bunny Would Get More Votes than Daffy Duck
• It Requires far less Skill to Run a Wrecking Company than it Does to Be An Architect
• I Used to be Indecisive, Now I'm Not So Sure...Editor Writegeist
• Actual Practice is Always More Complex than Written Policy...Jimbo
• "Be ever thankful for the two sides, for always between them lies the way. Without the two sides there would be no way, and we would ever wander aimlesessly without a path."...Taoist priest (circa ?)]]
• He Could Sweet-talk a Dog off a Meat Truck
• Its Tough to Make Preditions...Especially About the Future
• I Do Desire that we be Better Strangers...As You Like It
• [[1/3rd of His Weight is Gravitas]]
• [["I have told thee often and I will tell thee again and again---I HATE THE MOOR"}}...The Republican Iago from Othello]]
• It's Tough to Make Predictions. Especially about the Future!
• Wikipedia is like Crack. Those who like it Can't Get Enough of it, and those who don't like it Think it Should be Illegal...Editor GoPhightins
• Religion is what Keeps the Poor from Killing the Rich...Napoleon, I think.
• We can not play innocents in a world that is not innocent...President Reagan
• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing...Dale Carnegie

2023 year-end break

• I will continue to enforce WP:NFC and WP:NFCC as I have done for more than a decade. Editor Hammersoft|29 August 2023
• EVERY word we utter is a conscious choice. Even more so when we type it.
• Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
• Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because, It does. William James
• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent. Madeleine Albright
• We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent...Abner Mikva
• Ek praat 'n ou taal van Vlaams wat baie soos Afrikaans lyk

2024

• "Unhockey" - Is that Canadian for people who still have their teeth? (Space4T)February 2022
• "The last time...despite knowing every evil he committed, 74 million people still voted for Trump." Don Winslow
• "Not all those who voted for Trump are Racists, but, all those who are Racist voted for Trump"
• "I choose the moments of my Life"
• "I own my Life"
• "A is A"
• "Why? Because!"
• "Vanilla or Chocolate? You choose"
• "Opportunity exists only in the future"

"Tears In Rain Monologue"

• fleeting and fragile life truly is for us humans. Everything that I am: my memories, my experiences, my emotions...are all unique to me, and only me. No one else can ever live them or understand them; even if I were somehow able to upload them to a computer for future playback, no one else could possibly understand why I am who I am today. Treasure the life that you have - truly live it
• Collect the clips of your life that you think are important enough to save...and important enough to share with your future generations