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« Reply #50 on: August 01, 2006, 10:19:15 AM »
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Done sent to team for comments.

 
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« Reply #51 on: August 01, 2006, 11:59:22 AM »
Is that "Done sent" or "Done, sent"?
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« Reply #52 on: August 01, 2006, 12:00:53 PM »
Exactly.

edit: I'm sure he meant the second, but the first is what the email says.
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« Reply #53 on: August 01, 2006, 12:43:54 PM »
Or he speaks redneck.
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« Reply #54 on: August 02, 2006, 01:55:38 PM »
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"vicks vox vuxen"
What the Swedish gentleman said when he took his pet fox to the vet to be neutered.
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« Reply #55 on: August 03, 2006, 12:05:58 PM »
I keep seeing "Acc. Dist." on this page and thinking it says "Acc. Dat." (abbreviations for two grammatical cases). Obviously my subconscious yearns to relearn Old English.

On the other hand, I keep seeing "bullish" and seeing something else. So maybe my subconscious is just playing tricks on me.
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« Reply #56 on: January 18, 2007, 10:37:09 AM »
I saw a gem of a quote last night: "The key to motivation is motive." Awe-inspiring, it is. I think I feel a paradigm shift coming on.

Also, my brain refuses to recognize "empathic" as a word; I always see it as "emphatic" first. But "emphatic listening" just doesn't make much sense.
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« Reply #57 on: January 18, 2007, 11:29:03 AM »
Sure it does. It means to listen really hard.

Welcome to the language of self-help books. It'll shift your paradigm all right.
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« Reply #58 on: January 18, 2007, 12:08:06 PM »
Whenever I synergize, I get a strange tingling sensation. Should I be concerned?
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« Reply #59 on: January 18, 2007, 12:40:25 PM »
This is a family forum, Jonathon.  Don't you think you ought to dial it back a notch?
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« Reply #60 on: January 18, 2007, 12:50:39 PM »
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« Reply #61 on: January 18, 2007, 01:09:17 PM »
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Whenever I synergize, I get a strange tingling sensation. Should I be concerned?
This is an indication that the sync cable for your PDA is leaking electricity. Time for a new cable!
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« Reply #62 on: January 18, 2007, 01:09:53 PM »
All this talk of pardigms, shifting no less!  I tell you, when I was a kid, paradigms knew their place.
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« Reply #63 on: January 18, 2007, 01:42:48 PM »
Hey, it's the '90s. Times have changed, man. Get with it.


I have a feeling that this job is going to supply a lot of great quotes.
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To listen empathically is to listen with the heart. The word “heart” also contains the words “ear,” “hear,” and “art.”
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« Reply #64 on: January 18, 2007, 01:58:11 PM »
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To listen empathically is to listen with the heart. The word “heart” also contains the words “ear,” “hear,” and “art.”
It's like numerology.
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« Reply #65 on: January 18, 2007, 02:20:10 PM »
Even worse. It's like the Bible Codes.
 
 
Did I mention that my ex adores these books? >.<
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« Reply #66 on: January 18, 2007, 02:20:38 PM »
Bible Codes or Covey's stuff?
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« Reply #67 on: January 18, 2007, 02:53:06 PM »
Covey.

My ex is addicted to self-help books and self-help gurus.
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« Reply #68 on: January 18, 2007, 03:05:16 PM »
The whole idea of a self-help guru is an odd one.  If the idea is to help myself, why do I need to buy your book?
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« Reply #69 on: January 18, 2007, 03:23:54 PM »
Porter, you are spot on today!  I keep reading your posts and cracking the heck up.  You are in the ZONE, man!
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« Reply #70 on: January 18, 2007, 04:09:02 PM »
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The whole idea of a self-help guru is an odd one.  If the idea is to help myself, why do I need to buy your book?
Don't get me started . . .

Especially since many of them have pretty sucky track records when it comes to their own personal lives. Not Covey particularly. But a certain divorced-his-wife-of-25-years-and-married-his-assistant-who-was-half-his-age person comes to mind.

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« Reply #71 on: January 18, 2007, 05:34:04 PM »
Who would that be, Rivka? I haven't studied up on my self-help gurus.

One interesting thing I've already noticed: the original book is far better than any of the stuff written about the book (not that the original doesn't have its share of trite aphorisms, overgeneralizations, and whatnot). All the stuff I've quoted here, for instance, is fluffy commentary presumably written by people in marketing.
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« Reply #72 on: January 18, 2007, 05:58:14 PM »
Really, really tall guy. Featured in Shallow Hal.

I'm sorry, that man's name may not be spoken in my home.
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« Reply #73 on: January 18, 2007, 06:50:38 PM »
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Especially since many of them have pretty sucky track records when it comes to their own personal lives. Not Covey particularly. But a certain divorced-his-wife-of-25-years-and-married-his-assistant-who-was-half-his-age person comes to mind.
It sounds like he actualized his goal.
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« Reply #74 on: January 18, 2007, 07:59:17 PM »
There was probably some synergizing or paradigm shifting going on, too. Sicko. <_<  
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