Learning from TV

"Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives?" - Jim Urbanovich

The following are from the Star Wars: Clone Wars TV series:

• Great leaders inspire greatness in others.
• Belief is not a matter of choice but conviction.
• Easy is the path to wisdom for those not blinded by themselves.
• A plan is only as good as those who see it through.
• The best confidence builder is experience.
• Trust in your friends and they'll have reason to trust in you.
• You hold onto friends by keeping your heart a little softer than your head.
• Heroes are made by the times.
• Ignore your instincts at your peril.
• Most powerful is he who controls his own power.
• The winding path to peace is always a worthy one, regardless of how many turns it takes.
• Fail with honor rather than succeed by fraud.
• Greed and fear of loss are the roots that lead to the tree of evil.
• When surrounded by war, one must eventually choose a side.
• Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
• Truth enlightens the mind, but won't always bring happiness to your hearts.
• Fear is a disease; hope is its only cure.
• A single chance is a galaxy of hope.
• It is a rough road that leads to the height of greatness.
• The costs of war can never be truly accounted for.
• Compromise is a virtue to be cultivated, not a weakness to be despised.
• A secret shared is a trust formed.

Related Notes »

• Life As Others See It
• Life As I Know It
• Facts of Life
• The Rules of Life
• Secrets of Success

Laugh

"Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life." - Unknown

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

  (Hardly seems worth it.)

• The human heart creates enough pressure, when it pumps, to squirt blood 30 feet.

  (Oh my God!)

• A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

  (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

• A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

  (Creepy ... I'm still not over the pig.)

• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

  (Do not try this at home ... maybe at work.)

• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

  ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

• A flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

  (30 minutes ... lucky pig ... can you imagine??)

• A catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

  (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

  (I still want to be a pig in my next life ... quality over quantity)

• Butterflies taste with their feet.

  (Something I always wanted to know.)

• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

  (Hmm ...)

• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

  (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

  (OK, so that would be a good thing....)

• A cat's urine glows under a black light.

  (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

  (I know some people like that.)

• Starfish have no brains.

  (I know some people like that too.)

• Polar bears are left-handed.

  (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

  (What about that pig??)