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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 24, 2021
Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 24, 2021
January 24, 2021
Apoplectic – adj. – Overcome with anger or extreme indignation
January 25, 2021
Serendipity – n. – The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
January 26, 2021
Overt – adj. – Done or shown openly; plainly or readily apparent, not secret or hidden.
January 27, 2021
Intrinsic – adj. – Belonging naturally; essential.
January 28, 2021
Confluence – n. – The act or process of merging.
January 29, 2021
Formidable – adj. – Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively powerful, large, or capable.
January 30, 2021
Obfuscate – v. – Render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of January 24, 2021
Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of January 24, 2021
January 24, 2021
There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
January 25, 2021
It is the working person who is a happy person. It is the idle person who is a miserable person.
January 26, 2021
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
January 27, 2021
The education of a person is never complete until they die.
January 28, 2021
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and go to bed at night and in between do whatever they want to do.
January 29, 2021
The successful person will profit from their mistakes and try again in a different way.
January 30, 2021
In law a person is guilty when they violate the rights of others. In ethics they are guilty if they only think of doing so.
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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of January 24, 2021
Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of January 24, 2021
January 24, 2021
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Rohn
January 25, 2021
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Ryun
January 26, 2021
“Hunger gives flavor to food.” – Kalantri
January 27, 2021
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” – JFK
January 28, 2021
“Trouble springs from idleness, toil from ease.” – Franklin
January 29, 2021
“There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can’t go through life obsessing about what might have been.” – Jackman
January 30, 2021
“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.” – Schuller
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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 17, 2021
Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 17, 2021
January 17, 2021
Ethereal – adj. – Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality – intangible
January 18, 2021
Avuncular – adj. – Kind and friendly toward a younger or less experienced person
January 19, 2021
Licentious – adj. – Promiscuous and unprincipled – lacking moral discipline
January 20, 2021
Eviscerate – v. – Deprive or take away
January 21, 2021
Abate – v. – To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity
January 22, 2021
Futile – adj. – Incapable of producing any useful result
January 23, 2021
Ingratiate – v. – To bring oneself into favor or good graces of another, especially if by deliberate effort.
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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of January 17, 2021
Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of January 17, 2021
January 17, 2021
Being a good person is something you do, not something you are.
January 18, 2021
A wise person proportions their belief to the evidence.
January 19, 2021
Cloths make the person. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
January 20, 2021
The world is a looking glass that gives back to every person the reflection of their own face.
January 21, 2021
Every person must do two things: they must do their own believing and their own dying.
January 22, 2021
A superior person is modest in speech but exceeds in actions.
January 23, 2021
A fool does not see the same tree that a wise person does.
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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of January 17, 2021
Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of January 17, 2021
January 17, 2021
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” – Robbins
January 18, 2021
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” – Ovid
January 19, 2021
“The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment.” – Langer
January 20, 2021
“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” – Cunningham
January 21, 2021
“The idle man is the devil’s hirling.” – Franklin
January 22, 2021
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Rohn
January 23, 2021
“Goals are dots that connect us to our dreams.” – Sorenson
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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 10, 2021
Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 10, 2021
January 10, 2021
Irascible – adj. – Characterized by or arising from anger. Easily made angry.
January 11, 2021
Nescience – adj. – Lacking knowledge or ignorant
January 12, 2021
Acrid – adj. – Having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell
January 13, 2021
Elucidate – v. – To make clear or to explain
January 14, 2021
Contrite – adj. – To be genuinely and deeply sorry. Something done or said out of a sense of guilt or remorse.
January 15, 2021
Precocious – adj. – Manifesting or characterized by unusually early development or maturity
January 16, 2021
Assertive – adj. – Inclined to bold or confident assertion; aggressively self-assured
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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of January 10, 2021
Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of January 10, 2021
January 10, 2021
They are a person of courage who does not run away, but remains at their post and fights against the enemy.
January 11, 2021
You will never discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
January 12, 2021
A person’s friendships are one of the best measures of their worth.
January 13, 2021
Behavior is what a person does, not what they think, feel or believe.
January 14, 2021
Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving their goals; nothing on earth ccccan help the person with the wrong mental attitude.
January 15, 2021
The best measure of a person’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjustment on thier bathroom scale.
January 16, 2021
Every person’s life ends the same way. It’s only the details of how they lived and how they died that distinguish one person from another.
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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of January 10, 2021
Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of January 10, 2021
January 10, 2021
“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.” – Stallone
January 11, 2021
“You can be certain that when you fell you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.” – Hill
January 12, 2021
“A man never was glorious that was not laborious.” – Franklin
January 13, 2021
“To be number one, you have to work like you’re number two.” – Green
January 14, 2021
“We cannot start over. But we can begin now to make a new ending.” – Ziglar
January 15, 2021
“Today I wil do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Rice
January 16, 2021
“Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you’ll have a junk body.” – Jenkins
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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 3, 2021
Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 3, 2021
January 3, 2021
Recondite – adj. – Little known, obscure, abstruse.
January 4, 2021
Obsequious – adj. – Obedient or attentive to an excessive degree
January 5, 2021
Elegiac – adj. – Having a mournful quality
January 6, 2021
Colloquialism – adj. – Language used in ordinary conversation
January 7, 2021
Ignoble – adj. – Not honorable in character or purpose; shameful.
January 8, 2021
Tenuous – adj. – Very weak or slight, insubstantial.
January 9, 2021
Ostracize – v. – Exclude or be excluded from a society or group
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Don Rima
Don Rima is an Information Systems consultant with over 30 years experience in Information Systems. His roles of responsibility have included programming, systems management and IT department management. He's also a technical editor and writer, does regular product reviews, is a very good cook, gardener and avid reader and writer. His sports interest include: the Green Bay Packers, Baltimore Orioles, Clemson Tigers and Chelsea Football teams. The articles on this site are written to be correct, informative, laconic, provoke progressive thought, informative and sometimes make you laugh. They're not designed to be the writing of just another politically correct drone.