... and we all realize we've once again over-promised and under-delivered to our colleagues, our friends and our family, may we all be comforted by a bit of doggerel from the great Ken Kesey:
"Of offering more than I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than what I can deliver to be able to deliver what I do."
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This reminds me of a Star Trek quote.
Scotty to LaForge, who has just told Picard how long something would take:
"Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would really take, did you? Oh, laddie, you've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker!"
Posted by Diane | June 29, 2007 10:33 AM
Posted on June 29, 2007 10:33
One more quote:
"Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want."
Posted by Diane | June 29, 2007 10:36 AM
Posted on June 29, 2007 10:36
As a writer once said:
"I'm faster than writers who are better than me, and better than writers who are faster than me."
That's our slogan here at Murray's Freelance Writing.
Posted by David Murray | June 29, 2007 11:01 AM
Posted on June 29, 2007 11:01
Hmmm... That reminds me of another great quote: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
Will
Posted by Will Daniel | June 29, 2007 1:08 PM
Posted on June 29, 2007 13:08
Which reminds me of a great General Patton quote:
"I'd rather have a German army in front of me than a French army behind me."
Posted by David Murray | June 29, 2007 1:54 PM
Posted on June 29, 2007 13:54
Which reminds me of that perennial endocrinological favorite:
"How do you make a hormone....?"
Posted by Jane Greer | June 29, 2007 2:06 PM
Posted on June 29, 2007 14:06
Which puts me in mind of an oldie but goodie from former Ragan Report word maven Alden Wood:
Q. What do you see when you look down a mole hole?
A. Mole asses.
Posted by David Murray | June 29, 2007 3:44 PM
Posted on June 29, 2007 15:44
Murray,
Is that you I hear bitchin about how busy you are? I hate that. I could say OMG am I angry, but I hear that line has already been taken. Busy has become the new status symbol and it's somehow stylish to be tooooo busy. Like busy is some kinda popularity contest instead of symptomatic of poor time management, which in reality it is.
This sage wisdom is coming from someone who double booked herself out of seeing you throw a hissy fit at our IABC session last week. So sorry I missed that performance. Promise you will get all irate about something the next time we meet and I promise to provide the round of drinks I stiffed you for.
Posted by suzanne salvo | June 30, 2007 6:01 AM
Posted on June 30, 2007 06:01
I agree with your sentiment, but you got the wrong man, Salvo. I ain't too busy. I'm about as busy as I want to be.
And if I overpromise and underdeliver, the overpromise is my ambitious youth and the underdelivery is my pleasure-seeking, too-easily satisfied adulthood.
Golf. Naps. Booze. Television. Friends.
Without these I would be King. With them, I'm a happy court jester.
You?
Posted by David Murray | June 30, 2007 9:27 AM
Posted on June 30, 2007 09:27
Substitute books for golf and you're talkin' about me, David. Well, except that without them, I'd be Queen.
Posted by Colleen Hawk | June 30, 2007 1:03 PM
Posted on June 30, 2007 13:03
Traveling, quilting, martinis, food. I can and have obsessed about all of them to dangerous degrees.
Explain the golf thing to me, please. You guys are more fanatical than Mac users, which I do understand because I'm one. And while you are at it explain the PC thing. Why use an inferior product-just because the vast herd does? Or because it's cheaper?
Posted by suzanne salvo | June 30, 2007 2:04 PM
Posted on June 30, 2007 14:04
You're into quilting and I have to explain golf?
As for PCs, there is no explanation. They're the work of Satan.
Posted by David Murray | July 1, 2007 6:43 AM
Posted on July 1, 2007 06:43
I thought the works of Satan were generally more pleasurable, well, at least in the short term.
Posted by Diane | July 1, 2007 7:35 AM
Posted on July 1, 2007 07:35