Quote of the Day‏

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

If others can do it, let them do it!

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish. Courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Every mistake that I made - and we all make mistakes - came because I didn't take the time to get the facts. I didn't drive hard enough.

LOVE FOR ALL, HATRED FOR NONE

NEOLOGISMS - great classics for Anglophiles

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
 
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
 
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
 
5.  Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
 
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.

9.  Flatulance (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
 
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and  gets stuck there.
 
16. Circumvent  (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers  to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
   
Here are this year's winners:

1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone  layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
 
3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
 
4. Giraffiti  (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
 
5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
 
6.  Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
 
7.  Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.
 
8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
 
9. Karmageddon (n): its like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
 
10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
 
11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
 
12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

14. Beelzebug (n.):  Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

16. Ignoranus  (n): A person who's both stupid and an a$$hole.

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

floc·ci·nau·ci·ni·hil·i·pil·i·fi·ca·tion   [flok-suh-naw-suh-nahy-hil-uh-pil-uh-fi-key-shuhn]
–noun
Rare. the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and you would achieve nothing.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want or you don't want it intensely enough.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right upfront, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

All men who deliberate on controversial matters should do it free of hate, friendship, anger and pity.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The mind is like a parachute it doesn't work unless its open.

Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.

If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Wealth depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.

In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.