"Inspirational" quotes...

04-01-2017 4:56pm #1

...they are taking over, social media, chalked on boards in cafes and restaurants, I even opened the box containing runners the other day to be greeted with "obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated". What sort of inane nonsense is this? Why would I need the extra edge of a lame quote after I had bought their bloody runners? Where did this craze start? I get advertising tag lines, but they are usually catchy as opposed to clunky.

Winterlong · 04-01-2017 4:57pm

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it OP.

GLaDOS · 04-01-2017 5:00pm

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

(Terry Pratchett)

uch · 04-01-2017 5:01pm

"Inspirational" quotes...

Ask me Bollix - Works in so many situations

Maximus Alexander · 04-01-2017 5:01pm

What you can do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

jimgoose · 04-01-2017 5:02pm

If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. Then just knock it on the head - no use being a damn fool about it. Find something you're good at, Poindexter.

Peregrine · 04-01-2017 5:03pm

jimgoose wrote: »

If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. Then just knock it on the head - no use being a damn fool about it. Find something you're good at, Poindexter.

Trying is the first step towards failure.

NIMAN · 04-01-2017 5:03pm

When I was growing up, you'd see the odd inspirational quote, from famous philosophers, military tacticians, huge leaders of industry.

Now its the likes of Beyonce, Simon Cowell and Alan Rickman.

How times change.

jimgoose · 04-01-2017 5:03pm

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

What you can do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

The moment you commit yourself, is the moment you are assured the Sales droids will find a way to overcommit you and you'll look like an idiot.

jimgoose · 04-01-2017 5:04pm

Peregrine wrote: »

Trying is the first step towards failure.

You must unlearn what you have learned, Grasshopper. The Empty Head is the beginning of Wisdom.

The_Valeyard · 04-01-2017 5:09pm

You've only got one body, and you've already ruined it.

Your family loves you because they have to.

It's not just Monday, your whole life sucks.

Some people just aren't going to find love.

If you cant laugh at yourself that's okay, because the rest of us can laugh at you instead.

Savage Tyrant · 04-01-2017 5:12pm

To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.... I'm not sure when the transition happens though... I'm feeling older, but non the wiser.

Badly Drunk Boy · 04-01-2017 5:34pm

Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is!

BattleCorp · 04-01-2017 5:34pm

"It's better to have a gun and not need one, than to need a gun and not have one."

Knex* · 04-01-2017 5:37pm

A journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single tumblr quote.

El Weirdo · 04-01-2017 5:48pm

"It's all a load of old ****, isn't it?"

osarusan · 04-01-2017 5:52pm

Push. Go past the max. Reach over the top. Master your ass.

Deise Vu · 04-01-2017 5:53pm

If you are not improving you are dis-improving.

Padraic Harrington on why he was going to change his swing after winning the LAST of his majors.

emo72 · 04-01-2017 5:55pm

Wherever you go, there you are.

I like that one, it's very simple and accurate and makes good sense.

Turtyturd · 04-01-2017 5:57pm

If at first you don't succeed, you shouldn't have started in the first place.

One to keep in mind when starting future threads.

metaoblivia · 04-01-2017 5:59pm

OP, if you wait long enough by the river, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
So just be patient and everything and everyone will eventually die.

jimgoose · 04-01-2017 6:00pm

I'm not pathologically lazy - I refuse on principle to contribute to the eventual heat-death of the Universe.

ChikiChiki · 04-01-2017 6:14pm

"Ah well, sure you're not learning unless you are making mistakes"

*That's what I say everytime I screw up in work

Clarebelly · 04-01-2017 6:21pm

DO A BARREL ROLL!
Peppy Hare

NIMAN · 04-01-2017 6:24pm

Love how must of these quotes about making the most of life, living each day to the max etc are posted by pverweight, lazy bastards who sit on FB all day.

nacho libre · 04-01-2017 6:25pm

Philosophy doesn't get the dishes done. How wise CJ was:D

ChippingSodbury · 04-01-2017 6:25pm

Clarebelly wrote: »

DO A BARREL ROLL!
Peppy Hare

Clarebelly, he was there,
He did his famous roll,
He stuck his head between his legs
And vanished up his hole.

lazybones32 · 04-01-2017 6:29pm

"There are 3 ways to get a thing done: the right way; the wrong way; and the Max Power way"
"Isn't that the same as wrong way?"
"Yes, but faster!"

5rtytry56 · 04-01-2017 6:33pm

Great doors turn on humble hinges.

Eat humble pie OP.

Birneybau · 04-01-2017 6:41pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12031212/Scientists-find-link-between-people-impressed-by-wise-sounding-profound-quotes-and-low-intelligence.html

Scientists find link between people impressed by wise-sounding, 'profound' quotes and low intelligence

A new study has shown that people who believe in psuedo-profound, intellectual-sounding quotes are less intelligent

04-01-2017 7:09pm

Birneybau wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12031212/Scientists-find-link-between-people-impressed-by-wise-sounding-profound-quotes-and-low-intelligence.html

Wonder is there any link with shortening attention spans in a world where we are bombarded with clickbait articles, Twitter etc. I see fewer and fewer wrestling with books and perhaps unaware that it can take a bit more than a few words to convey a message worth considering.

jimmy blevins · 04-01-2017 7:35pm

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth
- Marcus Aurelius

Ted111 · 04-01-2017 7:44pm

"What have I done"!

Marilyn Monroe - When Nagasaki and Hiroshima are bombed Aug 1945.

"Inspirational" quotes...

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