Dr Wingnut

Year: 2006

  • Help! I’ve lost my focus

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    This excellent article in Time about “Multitasking”, and the sidebar The Case for Doing One Thing at a Time, 16 January 2006, had some really good quotes from Suze Orman, the diva of personal finance:Personal-finance guru Suze Orman, despite an exhausting array of media and entrepreneurial commitments, utterly refuses to check messages, answer her phone…

  • Still no answer

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    No one has yet been able to tease out the precise mix of genetics, temperament and environment that makes one person a recreational user and another a lifelong addict, but clearly there is no single cause.Time, Balding, Wrinkled, and Stoned, 23 January, 2006

  • Teenagers

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    Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley

  • Mistakes

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    Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce

  • Sometimes…

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    The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.Paul Fix

  • Children

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    Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby

  • Too old

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    You know that you’re getting too old when your hearing starts to go…  Last Saturday (2006-01-14) we got back from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, caught the end of the local news on NBC and then Saturday Night Live came on.Now what I heard after the guest host (Scarlett Johansson) monologue was, “…with Musical Guest,…