A Thought for the Month

February
Wisdom has beeen chasing you but you've always been faster.
-- via Robert Dial

January (2024)
Imagination is more mportant than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

April
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution,
-- Aristotle

March
What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
-- Ava Gardner

February
When the games come, everybody likes the competitiveness, but watching kids grow is really the joy.
-- Gregg Popovich

January (2023)
You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.
-- Ric Flair

December
Ya never too hot, never too cold; never too young, never too old; never too skinny, never too fat; never too dis, never too dat; ya just where ya are & dat's where it's at.
-- Dr. John

Novenber
If someone calls you, the third thing he says is usually the reason he called.
-- Al McGuire

October
The key is not the "will to win"-- everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
-- Bob Knight

September
If ignorance is bliss, why more people ain't happy?
-- Dr. John

August
Really smart people continue to explore and learn every day.
-- Bill Russell

July
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
-- Red Auerbach

June
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

May
Failure is an event, never a person.
-- William D. Brown

April
One of the greatest things you can learn about yourself is your own limitations.
-- Steve (father of Bill) Belichick

March
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
-- Voltaire

February
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers

January 2022
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

December
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
-- Frank Zappa

November
The older you get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
-- Will Rogers

October
Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you're honest with them, then you're an asshole.
-- George Carlin

September 
The world was a better place with George Carlin in it.
-- Matthew Berry

August
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
-- Pastor J. P. Davis

July
You should not speak unless you can improve the silence.
-- J. Simmons

June
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
-- Duke Ellington

May
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

April
There's a reason the rearview mirror is smaller than the windshield.
-- Madea

March
We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.
-- Iyanla Van Zant

February
What we need more of these days -- I don't care how you look at it -- is caring for others whoever that is.
-- Coach John Chaney

January 2021
It's better to be excluded for who you include than included for who you exclude.
-- H. Mayfield

December
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
-- Roy L. Smith

November
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
-- Plato

October
It always seems impossible until it's done.
-- Nelson Mandela

September
An acre of performance is woth a whole world of promise.
-- Red Auerbach

August
Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
-- John Lewis

July
The most interesting things in life happen just outside your comfort zone.
-- Michael Hyatt

June
One can never have enough Whimsy.
-- an Abacus Original

June
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-- Malcolm X

May
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
-- Coach Ron Nacierio

April
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Mark Twain

March
It's a pantomime not a play.
-- Dave Brubeck

February
It’s way more important to teach players how to fish instead of telling them where the fish are.
-- Kobe Bryant

January 2020
You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
-- MLK

December
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
-- Will Rogers

November
Every day isn't gonna be a steak day. There's gonna be baloney days.
-- Coach Wesley "The Undertaker" Boyd

October
You don't stop laughin' cuz you get old ... you get old cuz you stop laughin'.

September
I am basically a cross between a curmudgeon and a cynic.
-- Leon Redbone

August
Funny thing about decisions -- you don't have to talk yourself into the right ones.
-- "Frank Reagan"

July
Craft an illusion and make it real.
-- the artistic ethos of Leon Redbone

June
To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
-- Leon Redbone (RIP)

May
Your edu-ma-cation ain't no hipper than what you understand.
-- Dr. John

April
Don't be a thermometer, be a thermostat -- set your own temperature.

March
Jazz is the Teacher -- Funk is the Preacher.
-- James "Blood" Ulmer

February
Join the War against Stereotypes -- defeat bigotry, one word at a time.

January (2019)
Resolution first and foremost requires a clear focus.

December
You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems,
-- Phylicia Rashad

November
When attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler!
-- unknown

October
Positivity is always on the other side of the comma I just happened to make a period.
-- Krystal Ashade

September
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
-- Bob Dylan

August
I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs ... but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
-- unknown

July
My big advantage over other people is that I've always been less mature than my age.
-- Doug Moe

June
Discipline isn't something you do TO somebody, but something you do FOR somebody.
-- Eric Mangini

May
A man with a hammer sees every problem as a nail.
-- Will Cain

April
I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by dreamers. They never know what can't be done.
-- Bill Veeck

March
Art interprets the mythology of the group of people that it comes out of.
-- Wynton Marsalis

February
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber

January (2018)
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children.
-- Neil Gaiman

December
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
-- Oscar Wilde

November
Life is too short to be normal. Stay weird!
-- unknown

October
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
-- Bob Knight

September
You reach out twice in life -- you reach out for help, you reach back to help.
-- Ken Hudson, Father of the Boston Shootout

August
Ice cream is cheaper than Therapy.
-- Woody Paige

July
I have tried always not to break any rules, but to test highly their elasticity.
-- Bill Veeck (under oath)

June
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy

May
Vision without Resources is Hallucination.

April
The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.

March
One thing about the truth is you don't have to prop it up, it can stand on its own.
-- C. R. Hall-Esq.

February
Hustle until your haters ask if you are hiring.
-- E. Putman, Esq.

January (2017)

School sucks -- the dregs of ignorance from the very core of your being and replaces it with knowledge and sometimes even wisdom.
-- an Abacus original

December

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
– African proverb

November

A great coach can help a team win six or seven games. A good coach doesn't cost his team any games; a bad coach does.
-- Wilt Chamberlain

October

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
-- Muhammad Ali

September

The Celtic ‘system’ was designed to permit intelligent, winning players to endlessly use their own curiosity and creativity to accomplish results.
– Bill Russell

August

Never second guess yourself...If you work toward being normal, you will never know how amazing you can be,
-- George Raveling

July

If the purest form of leadership is service, there is nobody who embodies leadership better than Pat Summitt.
-- Doris Burke, ESPN

June

The vibrant and varied personalities I encounter keep me laughing and reflecting and realizing how much I can learn from the amazing kids I teach.
-- Rebecca "Tutor Me" Guillory

May

We can be disappointed if we fail, but we are doomed if we don't try.
-- Spike Lee

April

Learning to speak [without stuttering at age 28] was my biggest accomplishment and your biggest nightmare.
-- Bill Walton

March

Steph Curry doesn't get into a Zone -- he wakes up.
-- Michael Smith, ESPN

February

The "Un-Zone": playing as if he'd rented his body on game day and got stuck with a size too big.
-- Darcy Frey, "The Last Shot"

January (2016)

A Grandpa doesn't judge, he loves.

December

Big-time college sports is exploitation disguised as education.
-- Dan LeBatard

November

Few minds wear out; most minds rust out.

October

Fundamentals are a crutch for the talentless.
-- Kenny Powers

September

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
-- George Carlin

August

Just what makes that little ol' ant,
Think he'll move that rubber-tree plant?
-- Sammy Cahn's "High Hopes"

July

It's a long road and a little wheel, and it takes a lot of turns to get there.
-- Charlie Daniels

June

The argument that we could have perfection is often the defeating of good.
-- Fay Vincent

May

People born round don't die square.
-- Teddy Atlas

April

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.

March

What nature gives, nurture must refine, hone and tune.
-- George F. Will

February

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up.
-- Bill "Spaceman" Lee

January (2015)

And after all the violence and double-talk, there's just a song in all the trouble and the strife; you do the walk, you do the Walk of Life.
-- Mark Knopfler.

December

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

November

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-- Teddy Roosevelt

October

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.

September

A word to the wise is unnecessary; the stupid need advice.
-- Bill Cosby

August

The only justification for looking down on anyone
is if you're gonna stop and pick them up.
-- Rev. Jesse Jackson

July

The world's comprised of two great schools:
Enlightened rogues and religious fools.
 -- Duane Allman (among others)

June

I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day-to-day.
But tell me,
Where do the children play?
-- Cat Stevens, 2014 inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

May

There are two Rules for Success:
No. 1 Never tell everything you know.
-- Roger H. Lincoln

April

Luck?
That's when opportunity meets preparation.
Are you preparing to get lucky?

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