The door that’s open is the one you’re leaving through. Your company is just supplying instructions.
There is, however, horned gloom. (OOooOOOoooOOOooOOO!)
Google “zero sum”. In a zero-sum game, the amount won by one or more participants is exactly equal to the amount lost by the others, so the sum of wins and losses is zero. Obviously, there can be no win-win situation in such a game. But not all games are zero-sum. Many situations IRL are non-zero-sum, in which all participants can potentially come out with more value than they went in with.
Maybe it depends on your definition of winning. If winning simply means ending up with more value than you started with, then every non-zero-sum game is, by definition, a potential win-win situation. But if you define winning as getting everything you want, then OK, situations in which everyone can “win” by that definition are pretty rare.
And, of course, there are those people who define winning as making everyone else lose, thereby turning everything in their life into a zero-sum game. Such people are high on my list of what’s wrong with the world.
Wait a minute, wasn’t Helen Keller blind and deaf ? Of course she’s not gonna notice doors opening. Then again, how’d she stare at the closed one ? Who knows, maybe it was a wall all along.
I’ll be here all week. Try the veal !
I believe the best response to this is, ‘But the second mouse gets the cheese’. As pointed out by various comedians over the years,
And Long Red Homo…
That stupid bear blathering about “Only you can prevent a forest fire.”
Last I heard, from 90 to 95% of forest fires were caused by lightning.
It doesn’t necessarily have to have two sides even. You might call it a win-win situation when you are pondering two options for yourself, and both options are equally (or about equally) advantageous.
I just came back from a high school graduation ceremony. It was hours of people saying really stupid things about everything already written on this page.
There is a great website called http://despair.com/
They have “demotivators” which are so much more truthful than “bootstrap crap”.
http://www.despair.com/wailinglist1.html is their webzine. There is also a wonderful store which sells despairwear.
I know all of the intelligent people who use this website will love this website.
Nah, around here they always seem to start in mid-July because of dumbfucks shooting off fireworks in the woods, or else people running around on ATVs in dry grass in the hot summer.
DAMN! You go, Elisha!!
That was one of the few funny moments in Dance Flick (I know, I went with a friend who must see every dance-related film):
“There is no i in team.”
“How about troupe?”
“No”
“Posse?”
“No”
“Crew?”
“No!”
He sure taught them to grin and bear it.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But often we so persistently grope at the closed door that we fail to grope or be led to or feel the breeze coming out of the one that has been open for us all along.”
Yes, but lightning isn’t sentient, so it can’t prevent anything. It doesn’t say “*All *forest fires can be prevented by you,” just that it’s each person’s responsibility to not, through careless action, cause a preventable fire.
Wow, you’re sure hearing from a crappy information source. According to the National Interagency Fire Council, 83% of wildland fires within the United States in the years between 2001 and 2008 were caused by humans.
I personally would rather have a poster of a naked woman knitting than a naked man.
Also, is anyone else thinking…
I have “Cluelessness” hanging in my office. So far no one has complained. I’ve told my wife she should get “Potential” for her office, but she says that might not be a good idea (she’s a probation officer).
The one most appropriate for me is about how the best you can hope for is your life will serve as a warning to others.
"Just Say No"
Hahahahaha. Riiight.