La Vanité ou Allégorie de la vie humaine By/Par Philippe de Champaigne
Memento Mori
Life, death and time
About Me / À propos de moi
My Background
My Background
My Background
Originally from Lac-Mégantic, QC Canada, I now live in Laval, QC and work for Xylem Inc, formerly known as ITT Corporation.
Mes origines
My Background
My Background
Originaire de Lac-Mégantic, QC Canada, j’habite maintenant à Laval, QC et travaille pour Xylem Inc, anciennement connu sous le nom d’ITT Corporation.
Famous Quotes
Famous Quotes
Famous Quotes
Quotes have a way of encapsulating life's lessons in short sentences. See the ones I have captured over the years
Citations
Famous Quotes
Famous Quotes
Les citations ont le don de résumer les leçons de la vie en de courtes phrases. Voici celles que j'ai saisies au fil des ans
Famous Quotes / Citations
Every day / Tous les jours
- Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper! (John C. Bogle)
- It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant --- and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting (H.L. Mencken)
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored (Aldous Huxley)
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety (Benjamin Franklin)
- You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore (William Faulkner)
- Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe (Mark Twain)
- Now is blessed, the rest remembered (Jim Morrisson)
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough (Albert Einstein)
- If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there (Lewis Carroll)
- The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. (Bertrand Russell)
- As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities. Even if an attack isn't against you today, in time attacks on freedom for anyone will hurt everyone. (Mark Zuckerberg)
- If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small (Richard Branson)
- There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. (Adlai Stevenson)
- Le meilleur défaut: L'agressivité. Utilisée de manière positive, elle nous permet d'accomplir de grandes choses. (Anonyme)
- A stranger is a friend that you have not met yet (Anonymous)
- On ne choisit pas comment on meurt, mais on choisit comment on peut vivre. (Anonyme)
- Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. (Barbara Tober)
- If you have a yes-man working for you, one of you is redundant.(Barry Rand - Xerox)
- Le secret de la réussite: Il s’agit de savoir clairement ce que l'on veut, élaborer une stratégie pour l'atteindre, identifier les tactiques nécessaires pour le réaliser, travailler fort, demander de l'aide, combattre la peur et avoir du fun. (Bill Clinton)
- Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. They are Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you are keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that Work is a rubber ball, if you drop it, it will bounce back. But the four other balls, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it. Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends and have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued (Bryan Dyson – Former CEO of Coca Cola)
- You don't know what you can get away with until you try. (Colin Powell)
- The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership." (Colin Powell)
- Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut. Don't take action if you have only enough information to give you less than a 40 percent chance of being right, but don't wait until you have enough facts to be 100 percent sure, because by then it is almost always too late. Today, excessive delays in the name of information-gathering mean analysis paralysis. Procrastination in the name of reducing risk actually increases risk. (Colin Powell)
- La vie n’est pas un espace à conquérir. C’est plutôt un temps pour vivre. (Dany Laferrière)
- Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind. (Edward Bernays)
- If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. (Jim Rohn)
- The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips. (Heine, Heinrich)
- Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results (Einstein)
- Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible. (Herbert V. Prochnow)
- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. (Jay Leno)
- Hard work ain’t easy, but it’s fair (Larry Holmes)
- Hope is not a strategy. (Lou Giuliano)
- The future belongs to those who prepare for it today (Malcom X)
- Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it (Mark Twain)
- Principles are only worth something if you stick to them when it's inconvenient (Movie, The Contender)
- It's easier to get forgiveness than permission? (Oren Harari)
- Less effective managers endorsed the sentiment, if I haven't explicitly been told 'yes,' I can't do it," whereas the good ones believe "If I haven't explicitly been told 'no,' I can." (Oren Harari)
- The most important question in performance evaluation becomes not, "How well did you perform your job since the last time we met?" but, "How much did you change it?" (Oren Harari)
- Be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity. (Randy Pausch)
- Be good at something, it makes you valuable. (Randy Pausch)
- We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. (Randy Pausch)
- Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. (Randy Pausch)
- The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. (Randy Pausch)
- He said, when you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up. And that’s a lesson that stuck with me my whole life. Is that when you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care. (Randy Pausch)
- Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"(Robert F. Kennedy)
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)
- Life is a journey, not a destiny (unknown)
- You miss 100% of the shots you never take. (Wayne Gretzky)
- Le monde de la réalité a ses limites ; le monde de l'imagination est sans frontières. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Finance
- Insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the price will rise (Peter Lynch)
Love / Amour
- The love we give away is the only love we keep. (Elbert Hubbard)
- Sur le mariage : dans toutes les institutions, tu fais le travail et après tu mérites le diplôme. Donc, nous allons passer 20 ans ensemble et après on fêtera ça (Guy Laliberté)
- Rien n'est plus beau qu'un corps nu. Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là. (Yves St-Laurent)
- Le baiser est la plus sûre façon de se taire en disant tout. (Guy de Maupassant)
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