Cats Running across the Street
My father once pointed out that you always see more cats dead from being run over in the street than dogs.
He explained that if a dog is in the street and the driver of a car honks his horn,
that the dog will often look up, see the car and take evasive action if he has time.
He pointed out that a cat is different.
It seems to sit on one side of the street, pick out where he wants to go on the other side, and then begins to cross it.
If the driver of a car honks his horn,
the cat will not look up,
but rather will keep looking at his destination on the other side
and keep on crossing
and while he may speed up from the warning of the horn’s noise,
he doesn’t know to take evasive action and often gets hit.
What this Means to me :
Sometimes focusing on a goal, to the exclusion of other data, can be dangerous.
Robert Jorrie,
Nov 5, 1990
with credit to Bob Sawtelle, Beloved Teacher
When I tell you I want to be friends with you
What I mean is that there is something in that Relationship for Me.
It can be companionship;
or someone to talk & share things with;
or a feeling of trust and perfect security;
or the sharing of joy or pain.
And in exchange for receiving What I Want out of that Relationship,
I will “pay you back” with those things I perceive you want and need
as long as they don’t cost me too much.
If the cost becomes higher than what I perceive I receive,
then you can rely on me to stop being your friend.
Robert Jorrie,
1986
We are all travelers
in the wilderness
of this World,
and the best
that we find in our travels
is an Honest Friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship is like a Drawer,
You find there, what you put there .
Angelo Blangiardo,
a pizzamaker at New York Pizza
on Houston Street, San Antonio about 1984
Where there is no Fear,
there is no Courage.
Where there is no Courage,
there is no Hope.
Unknown Author
The Purpose of Fear is to Warn us of Danger … not to make us afraid.
Robert Jorrie
He who Fears Being Defeated
is Sure of Defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Councils of War
Bred Timidity
and Defeatism.
Arthur MacArthur,
father of General Douglas MacArthur,
and the youngest General in the US Army
in all of History.
Failure is an Event, not a person
Think of Failure as “it” not “me”.
Unknown Author
One day the farmers wife called the pump repair man to ask him to come out to the farm and fix the farm’s water system.
As she stood in the window washing the mornings dishes, he drove up, got out of his pickup truck, waved at her through the window, strolled over and entered the pump house.
He looked at the pressure swithch on the side of the pressure tank for a moment, reached into his tool bag, removed a small brass hammer, tapped the switch gently on the side with the hammer,
and the pump began to run.
A day or so later, the farmer’s wife received a bill in the mail for $50.00.
Furious at such a large bill for so little work, she called him on the phone and angrily demanded that he send her an itemized bill,
which he quickly agreed to send.
In a few says, the farmer’s wife received a bill stating:
ITEMIZED STATEMENT
Author Unknown, contributed by Bobby’s friend Max Biermann