Sunday, February 28, 2010

15 best Henry Ford quotes

Henry Ford
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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and the father of modern mass production assembly lines.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

2
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

3
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

9
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

10
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

12
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

13
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

14
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

15
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

10 best winter quotes

winter
(image credit: Jan Tik)

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Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~ Robert Byrne

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Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~ Stanley Crawford

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I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~ Bill Watterson

four
Every mile is two in winter. ~ George Herbert

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I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. ~ Will Rogers

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Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. ~ Marche Blumenberg

seven
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~ W.J. Vogel

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The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~ Ward Elliot Hour

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Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~ from the movie 'An Affair to Remember'

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Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~ Unknown

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All you need is love: 15 romantic quotes

LOVE
(image created via: Spell with flickr)

1
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb. ~ Robert Browning

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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ~ Morrie Schwartz

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There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach... ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen

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I love her and that's the beginning of everything. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert Heinlein

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It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands. ~ Jaka

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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. ~ Alphonse Marie de la Martine

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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith

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Love is friendship set on fire. ~ Jeremy Taylor

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. ~ Thomas Fuller

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Be mine

Simpsons valentine

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

15 quirky & creative ways to propose to your sweetheart

engagement ring
(image credit: James Jordan)

Valentine's Day is coming up! It is, of course, the traditional day on which lovers express their feelings for each other by sending cards, presenting flowers, or offering candy. It's also one of the most popular days of the year to propose marriage; of the 2.3 million couples who get engaged each year in the USA, 10% of them do it on Valentine's Day!

If you're planning to pop the question this February 14, here are some unique ideas — ranging from super-simple to outrageously extravagant — for making the moment special and memorable.

1. Illustrate it

Guy Shield proposal
(credit: Guy Shield)

Artist Guy Shield proposed to his girlfriend Liz through a series of folded, sequential illustrations.

2. Light it up

light writing proposal
(credit: derrickandemily.com)

Derick designed a light writing proposal that covered several blocks in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. It took Derick (with the help of his friends) 3 nights of shooting and over 800 exposures to create the image asking Emily to be his bride.

3. Act it out


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Ted and Anna fell in love while working as crew members on the TV show Scrubs. When it came time to pop the question, the cast and crew were in on it.

4. Float it

lanterns
(image credit: Kyle~)

In 2008 German police received several reports of strange UFO-like lights floating above the sleepy town of Plattling. The lights were actually 50 paper lanterns sent aloft by a 29-year-old man proposing marriage to his girlfriend.

Neither the man nor the 27-year-old woman were identified, however police report that the woman did say yes.

5. Spell it out

Scrabble proposal
(via: CamWorld)

Cameron Barrett proposed to his girlfriend Bonnie with a heartfelt message on a Scrabble board.

"... I know that somewhere in there I scored a Triple Word Score and we both ended up winning."

6. Film it


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Tracey Wade thought she was viewing just another movie trailer. It eventually dawned on her that the trailer was actually a clever marriage proposal produced by her boyfriend of 14 years ... and the entire movie theater was filled with their friends and family.

7. Build it

Lego engagement
(credit: cheeseslope)

Joe recently proposed to his girlfriend Kristen by first inviting her to a picnic. He then gave her a custom-designed Lego set with the very same picnic pictured on the box!

8. Tweet it

Twitter proposal acceptance

@maxkiesler proposed to @emilychang on Twitter.

Twitter proposal

@emilychang accepted!

9. Launch it

Zero gravity proposal

He'd promised, unrealistically, to take her to the moon. So Alexander Loucopoulos did the next best thing. He proposed to Graciela Asturias, a space enthusiast, in a specially-designed Boeing 727 aircraft that creates the experience of microgravity during four-to-five minute plunges as it flies up and down between 24,000 and 35,000 feet.

10. Advertise it


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Rand set out to make a Super Bowl commercial asking for Geraldine's hand in marriage but, even with thousands of dollars in donations received through his My Super Proposal website, he fell short of the $2.5 million needed. So Rand instead purchased local ad time during Geraldine's favorite TV show, Veronica Mars.


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Geraldine said yes and Rand donated the remaining cash to the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.

11. Whisper it


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In July 2009 Jake Bronstein set the world record for longest whisper chain, successfully passing his message through 59 people. What made the feat all the more exciting was the message itself: a wedding proposal to his girlfriend, Kristina Hoge.

12. Fake it


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Chicagoan George Aye faked an art opening to propose to his girlfriend, Sara Cantor. The fake exhibit was called "My Early Muir Owl," an anagram of "Will You Marry Me." It featured foam-core shapes mounted on poles that, when viewed just the right way, spelled out the all-important question.

13. Webify it

willyoumarrymekc.com

bachelor_no_more launched the clever willyoumarrymekc.com to deliver his eproposal.

daveloveselizabeth.com/

Dave Garr also got engaged after creating a proposal website. He sat his bride-to-be in front of a computer screen and got her to browse over to DaveLovesElizabeth.com. After he popped the question he blogged about the engagement, the wedding, the honeymoon ... and the subsequent births of their babies!

14. Meme it

LOLcats
(via: Neatorama)

Jon proposed using a series of LOLcats. More images were added afterwards to verify that Loretta did, indeed, accept.

15. Sing it


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A magical moment happened on Main Street, U.S.A. in Disneyland last year when John proposed to his girlfriend Erika with an "impromptu" musical number.

Bonus


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This one's actually a Nokia ad ... but it's a fabulous idea nonetheless!

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