August 27
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
A new study by the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation has found that serving garlic bread with spaghetti helps families get along better. In the experiment, those families who smelled and ate garlic bread not only cut down on the number of negative interactions between family members by nearly a quarter, but positive interactions actually increased by 7.4 percent. Most likely to be affected? Older males — namely, Dad — who both liked and had nostalgic feelings evoked by the aroma.
Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections!
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, or sun without rain, but HE did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears and light for the way.
Fast food restaurants, in an attempt to appeal to consumers looking for so-called "indulgent" food, are increasingly creating meals that consist of giant portions, despite the objections of nutritionists. Burger King's new BK Stackers can include as much as four beef patties, four cheese slices, and four bacon strips.
A single Stacker can contain 1,000 calories and more than an entire day's recommended quanitity of fat. Denny's has also recently introduced an Extreme Grand Slam Breakfast, which includes three pancakes, three strips of bacon, three sausage links, two eggs, and hash browns. It totals 1,270 calories, 77 grams of fat and 2,510 milligrams of sodium.
The commericals for these products tend to emphasize a kind of pride in eating too much. In a commercial for the Extreme Grand Slam Breakfast, a man announces: "I'm going to eat too much, but I'm never going to pay too much."
Nutrition advocates have called such messages irresponsible in an age of rising obesity rates and diet-related diseases. Only half of the nation's top 300 chain restaurants currently give customers nutrition information, and none provide it on the menu.
In 1968 McDonald's had 1,000 restaurants, today it has about 30,000 and opens 2,000 new ones each year. In fact, McDonald's is the largest owner of retail property in the world. The company earns most of its profit from collecting rent, not from selling food.
McDonald's is the nation's largest purchaser of: * Beef * Pork * Potatoes
It is also the second largest purchaser of chicken.
The impact of McDonald's is hard to overstate. The golden arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
And if you are a parent, you know all too well that every month 90 percent of American children between the ages of 3 and 9 visit a McDonald's, where they receive massive doses of soda. McDonald's sells more Coca-Cola than anyone else in the world.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
"Failure seldom stops you, it's the fear of failure that does"
"People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed." -- Bob Moawad
"Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?" -- Unknown
"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." – Henry Winkler
"A skeptic won't take KNOW for an answer." -- Unknown
"He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life." -- Johann K. Lavater (eighteenth century)
Thoughts on golf,
1 "It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling." -Mark Twain
2 "One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball." -Don Carter, pro bowler
3 "I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart." - Buddy Hackett
4 "I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators." - Gerald Ford
5 "I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It is called an eraser." -Arnold Palmer
6 "Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." -Winston Churchill
7 "Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle." - Anonymous
8 "Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt." - Jack Nicklaus
9 "Why is it that when you tell yourself, 'don't hit it in the water' your body only seems to hear the word 'water'?" - Anonymous
10 "The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name...and they say golf is a quiet game." - Anonymous
11 "Golf's a hard game to figure. One day you'll go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink." -Bob Hope
12 "Only a stupid golfer throws his club behind him. The smart golfer throws his club ahead so he can pick it up on the way to the next hole. Anonymous
13 "Corollary: clubs don't float." - Anonymous
14 "He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie." - Mickey Mantle
15 "If there's lightning while you're golfing, take your 2 iron out of your bag and hold it high in the air.For even God can't hit a 2 iron." - Anonymous
Steve phoned his dentist when he received a huge bill. "I'm shocked!" he complained. "This is three times what you normally charge."
"Yes, I know," said the dentist. "But you yelled so loud, you scared away two other patients."
Difficult Sayings
That great American writer, Mark Twain, wrote: "Most people are bothered by those passages in Scriptures which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always notice that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand." I suspect that, at times, we all would like to walk away from the church and never come back. We want a God different from the one we find in Jesus.
Chocolate may contain a chemical that makes one feel loved but when it comes to comfort foods, people also like soup or mom's pot roast. That's according to a survey of 1,005 consumers, conducted by University of Illinois researchers, which found women prefer chocolate and cookies while men gravitate toward soup, pizza and pasta.
WINNERS VERSUS LOSERS
1. A winner says, "Let's find out." A loser says, "Nobody knows."
2. When a winner makes a mistake, he says, "I was wrong." When a loser makes a mistake, he says, "It wasn't my fault."
3. A winner goes through a problem. A loser goes around it, and never gets past it.
4. A winner makes commitments. A loser makes promises.
5. A winner says, "I'm good, but not as good as I ought to be." A loser says, "I'm not as bad as a lot of other people are."
6. A winner tries to learn from those who are superior to him. A loser tries to tear down those who are superior to him."
7. A winner says, "There ought to be a better way to do it." A loser says, "That's the way it's always been done here."
"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose." -- Lou Holtz
"You can't succeed at anything unless you're willing to risk failure." -- Anonymous
"If you want to hit home runs, you need to be willing to strike out. Remember, the year Babe Ruth broke all records for hitting the most home runs, he also broke all records for the most strikeouts." -- Anonymous
"A high jumper never knows how high he can jump until he reaches his failure point." -- Robert Schuller
A new study by the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation has found that serving garlic bread with spaghetti helps families get along better. In the experiment, those families who smelled and ate garlic bread not only cut down on the number of negative interactions between family members by nearly a quarter, but positive interactions actually increased by 7.4 percent. Most likely to be affected? Older males — namely, Dad — who both liked and had nostalgic feelings evoked by the aroma.
Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections!
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, or sun without rain, but HE did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears and light for the way.
Fast food restaurants, in an attempt to appeal to consumers looking for so-called "indulgent" food, are increasingly creating meals that consist of giant portions, despite the objections of nutritionists. Burger King's new BK Stackers can include as much as four beef patties, four cheese slices, and four bacon strips.
A single Stacker can contain 1,000 calories and more than an entire day's recommended quanitity of fat. Denny's has also recently introduced an Extreme Grand Slam Breakfast, which includes three pancakes, three strips of bacon, three sausage links, two eggs, and hash browns. It totals 1,270 calories, 77 grams of fat and 2,510 milligrams of sodium.
The commericals for these products tend to emphasize a kind of pride in eating too much. In a commercial for the Extreme Grand Slam Breakfast, a man announces: "I'm going to eat too much, but I'm never going to pay too much."
Nutrition advocates have called such messages irresponsible in an age of rising obesity rates and diet-related diseases. Only half of the nation's top 300 chain restaurants currently give customers nutrition information, and none provide it on the menu.
In 1968 McDonald's had 1,000 restaurants, today it has about 30,000 and opens 2,000 new ones each year. In fact, McDonald's is the largest owner of retail property in the world. The company earns most of its profit from collecting rent, not from selling food.
McDonald's is the nation's largest purchaser of: * Beef * Pork * Potatoes
It is also the second largest purchaser of chicken.
The impact of McDonald's is hard to overstate. The golden arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
And if you are a parent, you know all too well that every month 90 percent of American children between the ages of 3 and 9 visit a McDonald's, where they receive massive doses of soda. McDonald's sells more Coca-Cola than anyone else in the world.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
"Failure seldom stops you, it's the fear of failure that does"
"People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed." -- Bob Moawad
"Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?" -- Unknown
"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." – Henry Winkler
"A skeptic won't take KNOW for an answer." -- Unknown
"He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life." -- Johann K. Lavater (eighteenth century)
Thoughts on golf,
1 "It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling." -Mark Twain
2 "One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball." -Don Carter, pro bowler
3 "I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart." - Buddy Hackett
4 "I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators." - Gerald Ford
5 "I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It is called an eraser." -Arnold Palmer
6 "Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." -Winston Churchill
7 "Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle." - Anonymous
8 "Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt." - Jack Nicklaus
9 "Why is it that when you tell yourself, 'don't hit it in the water' your body only seems to hear the word 'water'?" - Anonymous
10 "The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name...and they say golf is a quiet game." - Anonymous
11 "Golf's a hard game to figure. One day you'll go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink." -Bob Hope
12 "Only a stupid golfer throws his club behind him. The smart golfer throws his club ahead so he can pick it up on the way to the next hole. Anonymous
13 "Corollary: clubs don't float." - Anonymous
14 "He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie." - Mickey Mantle
15 "If there's lightning while you're golfing, take your 2 iron out of your bag and hold it high in the air.For even God can't hit a 2 iron." - Anonymous
Steve phoned his dentist when he received a huge bill. "I'm shocked!" he complained. "This is three times what you normally charge."
"Yes, I know," said the dentist. "But you yelled so loud, you scared away two other patients."
Difficult Sayings
That great American writer, Mark Twain, wrote: "Most people are bothered by those passages in Scriptures which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always notice that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand." I suspect that, at times, we all would like to walk away from the church and never come back. We want a God different from the one we find in Jesus.
Chocolate may contain a chemical that makes one feel loved but when it comes to comfort foods, people also like soup or mom's pot roast. That's according to a survey of 1,005 consumers, conducted by University of Illinois researchers, which found women prefer chocolate and cookies while men gravitate toward soup, pizza and pasta.
WINNERS VERSUS LOSERS
1. A winner says, "Let's find out." A loser says, "Nobody knows."
2. When a winner makes a mistake, he says, "I was wrong." When a loser makes a mistake, he says, "It wasn't my fault."
3. A winner goes through a problem. A loser goes around it, and never gets past it.
4. A winner makes commitments. A loser makes promises.
5. A winner says, "I'm good, but not as good as I ought to be." A loser says, "I'm not as bad as a lot of other people are."
6. A winner tries to learn from those who are superior to him. A loser tries to tear down those who are superior to him."
7. A winner says, "There ought to be a better way to do it." A loser says, "That's the way it's always been done here."
"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose." -- Lou Holtz
"You can't succeed at anything unless you're willing to risk failure." -- Anonymous
"If you want to hit home runs, you need to be willing to strike out. Remember, the year Babe Ruth broke all records for hitting the most home runs, he also broke all records for the most strikeouts." -- Anonymous
"A high jumper never knows how high he can jump until he reaches his failure point." -- Robert Schuller
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