QOTD July 15 2016
Friday, July 15th, 2016Plutarch: “Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”
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QOTD July 14 2016
Thursday, July 14th, 2016Michael Patrick King: “That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore.”
QOTD July 13 2016
Wednesday, July 13th, 2016Hugh Macleod: “Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else’s voice but your own.”
QOTD July 12 2016
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016Milton Berle: “Laughter is an instant vacation.”
QOTD July 11 2016
Monday, July 11th, 2016Norman Douglas: “If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
QOTD July 10 2016
Sunday, July 10th, 2016Milan Kundera: “Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.”
QOTD July 9 2016
Saturday, July 9th, 2016Dee Hock: “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.”
QOTD July 8 2016
Friday, July 8th, 2016George Lois: ” Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
QOTD July 7 2016
Thursday, July 7th, 2016Margaret Cho: “Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.”
QOTD July 6 2016
Wednesday, July 6th, 2016Margaret Lee Runbeck: “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
QOTD July 5 2016
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016Saint Francis of Assisi: “Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.”
QOTD July 4 2016
Monday, July 4th, 2016George Eliot: “The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
QOTD July 3 2016
Sunday, July 3rd, 2016Sophocles: “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
QOTD July 2 2016
Saturday, July 2nd, 2016Barbara Hall: “The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”
QOTD July 1 2016
Friday, July 1st, 2016Robert A. Ward: “I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live… More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.”
QOTD June 30 2016
Thursday, June 30th, 2016Kristin Hunter: “First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.”
QOTD June 29 2016
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016Kahlil Gibran: “I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
QOTD June 28 2016 – a day late
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016Benjamin Disraeli: “Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.”
No, no, thereĀ is no mistake in the dates, though June 28 was indeed yesterday. š
This quote is actually quite relevant for the services from GoDaddy, my hosting provider. This blog (actually the whole raymondpoort.com domain, ANDĀ the other domains I have with them, AND all related hosting services!!) only just came back online after beingĀ down since yesterday late afternoon! It took GoDaddy a good 24 hours to get services restored, and still I see ping timeouts.
Being in the services industry myself, I know thingsĀ can (and often will) go wrong, and one can standout by the way issues are dealt with. Well, GoDaddy did bad, very bad in that respect. I called them today asĀ their status page showed all services up and it took the guy on the phone quite some time (and persistence from my end) to realise and confirm that indeed some of their servers experienced problems……sorry GoDaddy, not good enough, I will be looking for anotherĀ hosting provider. The sole reason I ended up hereĀ was becauseĀ Adam CurryĀ providedĀ interesting promo codes in his Daily Source CodeĀ (that was back in theĀ PodShow days, aaaaages ago!)…time to move on! š
QOTD June 27 2016
Monday, June 27th, 2016Seneca: “We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?”
QOTD June 26 2016
Sunday, June 26th, 2016Lord Macaulay: “The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.”
