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"Inspirational" quotes...

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  • 04-01-2017 4:56pm
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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭


    ...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.


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    #2
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


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


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    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)

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    "Inspirational" quotes...


    Ask me Bollix - Works in so many situations

    21/25



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    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    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.


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    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.


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    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    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.


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    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    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.


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    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.


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    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.


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    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    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.


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    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    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.


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    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,445 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


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


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    #14
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


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


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    Knex*
    Registered Users Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


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


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    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


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


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    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,545 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


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


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    Deise Vu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    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.


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    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭emo72


    Wherever you go, there you are.

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


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    Turtyturd
    Registered Users Posts: 28,394 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    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.


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    metaoblivia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭metaoblivia


    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.


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


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


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    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


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

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


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    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    DO A BARREL ROLL!
    Peppy Hare


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    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    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.


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    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,637 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


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


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    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    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.


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    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    "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!"


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    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Great doors turn on humble hinges.

    Eat humble pie OP.


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    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


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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