Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Self, Sojin


I’m not what I used to be. Where am I…?

- PARK Sojin (1986- ), Girl’s Day from Sojin’s Cyworld Entry

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Food, Sojin


You’ll get punished if you throw away a food flyer ad, that means life itself.

- PARK Sojin (1986- ), Girl's Day

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Attitude, Bryan Adams


Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

~ Bryan Adams (1959- )

Friday, December 26, 2014

Attitude, Betty Smith


Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

~ Betty Smith (1896-1972)

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Attitude, Thomas D. Willhite


You don't have to be sick to get better! You don't have to have a bad attitude to get a better one.

~ Thomas D. Willhite

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Girl’s Day, Sojin


Girl’s Day, it’s like having fun everyday when you dance and sing; it’s like a party. We would like everyone to enjoy themselves while listening to our song.

- Sojin (1986- ), Girl’s Day

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Ideals, Carl Schurz


Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

- Carl Schurz (1829-1906)

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Fashion, Tandy


Tandy is special selection. Shoes are not an item to complete you. It's now a leader for your style.

- Tandy, Subway Advertising Copy

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Morning, Takayuki Ikkaku


What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!

- Takayuki IKKAKU

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Panics, Wall Street


Panics on Wall Street are notoriously periodic.

- Wall Street

It’s right to be an optimist, but be prepared for the worst.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Leverage, Wall Street


Don’t speculate with another person’s money.

- Wall Street

Never borrow short-term money on unmarketable collateral.

Monday, December 15, 2014

Investors, Wall Street


Investors are not rewarded for activity. They are rewarded for being right.

- Wall Street

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Friday, December 12, 2014

Dokdo, SHIMABITO Shiori


韓国領であるため、独島って言うんですよ.

- 島人 栞

It's called Dokdo because it belongs to Korea.

- SHIMABITO Shiori (島人 栞)

http://dokdo.mofa.go.kr

Miracle, Shiori MISAKA


起きないから、奇跡って言うんですよ

- 美坂 栞, カノン

Okinai kara, kisekitte iun desu yo.

It's called a miracle because it doesn't happen.

- Shiori Misaka, Kanon (カノン), Japanese visual novel

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Practice, Latin Proverb


Practice makes perfect.

- Latin Proverb


Similar Proverbs

熟能生巧 [shúnéngshēngqiǎo]

- 中國俗談 [From 歐陽文忠公集]

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Beauty, George Santayana


Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

- George Santayana (1863-1952)

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Love, Erich Fromm


Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

- Erich Fromm (1900-1980), "The Art of Loving (1956)"

Monday, December 8, 2014

Beauty, Anne Frank


I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank (1929-1945), The Diary of a Young Girl

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Patriots, Bertrand Russell


Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Risky asset, Wall Street



The longer a risky asset is held, the less the chance of a loss.

- Wall Street

More haste, less speed.

Monday, December 1, 2014

Work, Luke


The Mission of the Seventy-two.

The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.

- Gospel of Luke 10,2

http://www.nccbuscc.org/bible/luke/10

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Youth, English Proverb



An idle youth,a needy age.

- English Proverb

少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲

- 英國俗談

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Appearance, Aaron Hotchner from Criminal Minds


Aaron Hotchner: Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, "Things are not always what they seem. The first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

- Aaron Hotchner, Criminal Minds [4x04 Paradise (Oct 22, 2008)]

Friday, November 28, 2014

Appearance, Phaedrus


Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

- Phaedrus (15BC-50AD, fabulist)

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Money, Chinese Proverb


金钱万能 [jīnqiánwànnéng]

- 中國俗談

Money talks.

- Chinese Proverb

almighty dollar

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Appearance, Tom Robbins


Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving.

- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Monday, November 24, 2014

Beauty, Franz Kafka


Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Friday, November 21, 2014

War, Winston Churchill


Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Tuesday, November 18, 2014