Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
Bill VaughanMy father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Bill VaughanMoney won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill VaughanA mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
Bill VaughanIraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
Bill VaughanThe best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Bill VaughanThe true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
Bill VaughanPouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.
Bill VaughanAmerican culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
Bill VaughanInsofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
Bill VaughanRarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
Bill VaughanThe message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
Bill VaughanThere is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
Bill VaughanSo there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
Bill VaughanIn a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.
Bill VaughanThere is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
Bill VaughanEvery day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
Bill VaughanAbove all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
Bill VaughanEconomics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
Bill VaughanThe magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Bill VaughanIn today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more effectively against players at all levels of the retail demographic. There is no question that this is a bold and exciting move, and one I believe will have a positive impact on competitive retailing for American consumers in the longer term.
Bill VaughanWe may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
Bill VaughanThe familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.
Bill VaughanAn optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill VaughanSuburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill VaughanThe mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Bill VaughanWere the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.
Bill VaughanLet no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
Bill Vaughan