COACHES HOT SEAT NFL

With a few Coaches Hot Seat Members in the City That Never Sleeps getting ready for Super Bowl XLVIII which is now only two days away we thought a quick analysis of the 2014 NFL Head Coaching Hires would be in order and as usual a great resource for head coaching changes is over at FootballScoop.com….

2013 – 2014 Head Coaching Changes, FootballScoop.com

….for all levels of football and with that away we go!

Coaches Hot Seat Analysis of the 7 NFL Head Coaching Changes in 2013 – 2014

Cleveland Browns
New Head Coach: Mike Pettine
Analysis:  We don’t know enough about Mike Pettine to have an opinion on whether he will be a good, bad or indifferent head coach of the Cleveland Browns but we do note that Pettine was the head football coach at…

North Penn High School

….during the 2001 season which means he has completed a rapid rise through the NFL coaching ranks over the past 12 years and will now be on a very big stage where the Hot Seat can get very Damn HOT in a Helluva hurry.

Good Luck Coach Pettine!

 

Detroit Lions
New Head Coach: Jim Caldwell
Analysis:  Jim Caldwell is a nice man and high integrity guy but we have never thought much of Jim Caldwell’s ability to be a head football coach and that goes back to when we followed Caldwell as the head football coach at Wake Forest from 1993 to 2000 when Caldwell put up an overall record of….

26 – 63 (.292)

….in EIGHT seasons on the job.
Wake Forest is a tough place to win football games at but Jim Grobe followed Jim Caldwell at Wake Forest and between 2001 and 2013 put up a record of…

77 – 82 (.484)

….which included an ACC Championship for the Demon Deacons in 2006.

If the Detroit Lions had hired Coaches Hot Seat to come up with a list of 100 names to take over as head coach of an incredibly talented Lions team that….

Bozo the Clown

….could right now lead to 10 wins plus a year there is…

No Way in Hell that Jim Caldwell would have been on that 100 name list

….which says a lot about the current state of Very Damn Warped Thinking in NFL team offices right now where hiring is often done with this kind of thinking….

“Hey, he may not be a great or even good coach but we know what he is compared to hiring a coach that we don’t much about at all.”

NFL Team Executives = For the most part some of the Stupidest Damn People now drawing paychecks on Planet Earth

Detroit Lions Executives and Ownership = Top 0.0000001% of the Stupidest People now drawing paychecks on Planet Earth!

In our opinion of course….

Good Luck to Jim Caldwell and if Caldwell doesn’t easily win the NFC North in 2014 his rear-end will be sitting squarely on the Hot Seat!

 

Houston Texans
New Head Coach:  Bill O’Brien
Analysis:  We followed Bill O’Brien enough with the New England Patriots and at Penn State to know that O’Brien has all the skills to be a very successful head coach but at least for us here at Coaches Hot Seat if we were running an NFL team in the early part of the 21 st Century we would…..

NOT be hiring a Pompous Arrogant Ass off of the Bill Belichick coaching tree that believes he is God’s Gift to the Earth and Universe

….because life is way Damn too short to work with a…

Pompous Arrogant Ass off of the Bill Belichick coaching tree that believes he is God’s Gift to the Earth and Universe

Can Bill O’Brien win with the Houston Texans?

Yes, but then Captain Kangaroo…

….could win with the Texans so we are going to set the bar very Damn HIGH for Bill O’Brien in 2014 and if the Texans aren’t winning the AFC South Title or at worst a Wild Card team in the Playoffs when December rolls around then O’Brien will find his….

Pompous Arrogant Ass on the Hot Seat come December of this year!

 

Minnesota Vikings
New Head Coach: Mike Zimmer
Analysis:  A few Coaches Hot Seat members ran into Mike Zimmer a few times when he was the defensive coordinator at Washington State under head coach Mike Price between 1989 – 1993 but we kind of lost track of Zimmer during his 13 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys working for Barry Switzer, Dave Campo and Bill Parcells.

In those 13 seasons as the defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator in Dallas the Cowboys went from Super Bowl Champions in the 1995 – 1996 seasons under Barry Switzer to not winning a Playoff game in Zimmer’s last 10 seasons in Dallas.

Mike Zimmer did a nice but not great job in our opinion as the defensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals over the past six seasons but certainly Zimmer has earned the chance to be a head coach in the NFL and he takes over a Minnesota Vikings team that should compete in 2014 for the NFC North title.

Good Luck Mike Zimmer!

 

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
New Head Coach: Lovie Smith
Analysis:  In NINE seasons as the head coach of the Chicago Bears Lovie Smith put up the following records:

81 – 63 ( .563)

SIX of NINE .500 or better records

3 Trips to the NFL Playoffs

1 Trip to Super Bowl XLI in 2006 – 2007 season (Lost to Indianapolis Colts)

Although the above records might not look that great for a college head coach they are Above Average for a NFL head coach where the teams are very close to equal when it comes to talent and resources so by any measure we can think of Lovie Smith is a former fired NFL head coach that deserved another shot and now it will be up to Smith to prove he can win again on a consistent basis with the Tampa Bay Bucs.

Over the past three seasons the Bucs won…..

4 Games
7 Games
4 Games

….so the immediate goal for Lovie Smith should be to get the Bucs to at least…

8 Wins in 2014

….which would probably put Tampa in the hunt for a Wild Card Playoff spot come December.

Good Luck to you Lovie Smith!

 

Tennessee Titans
New Head Coach:  Ken Whisenhunt
Analysis:  Below are Ken Whisenhunt’s yearly and overall records when he was head coach of the Arizona Cardinals:

2007:  8 – 8 – No Playoffs
2008:  9 – 7 – Lost to Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XLIII
2009:  10 – 6 – Lost to New Orleans in NFC Divisional Game
2010:  5 – 11 – No Playoffs
2011:  8 – 8 – No Playoffs
2012:  5 – 11 – No Playoffs

Overall Record:  45 – 51 (.469)

Now what would have the Arizona Cardinals’ records have been if Kurt Warner had not been playing for Arizona between 2007 and 2009?

In our opinion the Arizona Cardinals DO NOT go to the Postseason under Whisenhunt if Kurt Warner is not on the Cardinals’ roster and Whisenhunt would have been fired after three or four years on the job instead of six in Arizona.

Can Ken Whisenhunt win with the Tennessee Titans?

Well, in our opinion the Titans DO NOT HAVE right now a NFL-level quarterback on their roster and they have the 11 th overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft but we can find NO NFL Mock Draft that has the Titans drafting a quarterback and without a NFL-level quarterback on the Titans’ roster we only have two words for Ken Whisenhunt and the Titans ownership/management:

HOT SEAT!

Oh, by the way….Bruce Arians took over an Arizona Cardinals team that won 5 Games in 2012 under Ken Whisenhunt and won 10 games in 2013 and came very Damn close to being in the Playoffs and was in our opinion one of the best teams in the NFC as the 2013 NFL season ended.

Hmmmmm…..now that is very Damn interesting……isn’t it?

 

Washington Redskins
New Head Coach:  Jay Gruden
Analysis:   Jay Gruden had a very successful college football playing career at Louisville and has been an assistant coach in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Bucs (under head coach and brother Jon Gruden) and Cincinnati Bengals for TEN seasons and let us not forget that Jay Gruden was a legendary player & coach in the Arena Football League BUT none of the above gives us any Damn clue if Jay Gruden will be a successful head coach in the NFL or not so about all we can say about Jay Gruden is….

Good Luck to you Jay Gruden

….and for Damn sure coach the Washington Redskins the way YOU want to coach them not the way a player or owner wants you to coach them because in the end it will your ass on the Hot Seat and your ass that will be fired.

Of course and as always….EVERYTHING in the Coaches Hot Seat NFL Blog is OUR opinion as Citizens of the American Republic.

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Friday, January 31, 2014 – Frank Sinatra

“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”

And

“I’m for whatever gets you through the night.”

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“I’m gonna live till I die.”

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“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”

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“People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.”

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“The best revenge is massive success.”

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“Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.”

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“I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I’m not looking for the secret to life…. I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.”

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“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”

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“I’m supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I’ve flunked more often than not. I’m very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don’t understand them.”

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“For years I’ve nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin’ redheaded broad … but I could never find me a double hammock.”

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“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”

Wikipedia:  Frank Sinatra

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Thursday, January 30, 2014 – Tom Landry

“A winner never stops trying.”

And

“Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.”

And

“I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.”

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“I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.”

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“If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.”

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“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.”

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“Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.”

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“Right after the game, say as little as possible.”

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“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”

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“The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.”

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“Today, you have 100% of your life left.”

And

“When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.”

Wikipedia:  Tom Landry

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, January 29, 2014 – John Madden

“Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.”

And

“Don’t worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.”

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“If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they’ve had a bad day.”

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“Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.”

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“The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.”

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“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.”

And

“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”

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“When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.”

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“A team should never practice on a field that is not lined. Your players have to become aware of the field’s boundaries.”

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“You can’t win games if you can’t get first downs.”

And

“You can’t win games if the offense can’t score.”

Wikipedia:  John Madden

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, January 28, 2014 – Chuck Noll

“A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.”

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“Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.”

And

“It’s not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.”

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“The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time.  Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.”

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“The thrill isn’t in the winning, it’s in the doing.”

And

“Good things happen to those who hustle.”

Wikipedia Page:  Chuck Noll

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, January 27, 2014 – Joe Namath

“First, I prepare. Then I have faith.”

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“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”

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“Till I was 13, I thought my name was “Shut Up.””

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“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.”

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“We’re going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.”

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“When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.”

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“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.”

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“When you win, nothing hurts.”

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“You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.”

Wikipedia:  Joe Namath

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, January 26, 2014 – Michael Crichton

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”

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“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” State of Fear

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“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”

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“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their ‘beliefs.’ The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Next question.” The Lost World

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“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.” Jurassic Park

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“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.” Jurassic Park

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“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There’s been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away — all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It’s powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that’s happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can’t imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven’t got the humility to try. We’ve been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we’re gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.” Jurassic Park

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“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”

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“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.” The Lost World

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“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.” Eaters of the Dead

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“It’s hard to decide who’s truly brilliant; it’s easier to see who’s driven, which in the long run may be more important.” Congo

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“Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.”

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“The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature–all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn’t care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal’s behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.” Congo

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“In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it’s weird that we have to buy clean water, and that’s how I know we’re going to hell.”

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“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”

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“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

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“Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we’re a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that’s our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.” The Lost World

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“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don’t you take it away from yourself.” The Lost World

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“Anyone who says he knows God’s intention is showing a lot of very human ego.” Next

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“Let’s be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet – or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.” Jurassic Park

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“In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.” Timeline

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“Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It’s the most important thing that happens, and it’s the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.” The Lost World

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“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”

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“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.” Disclosure

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“A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They’ll say, ‘You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?’ They’ll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies… And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That’s the sea. That’s real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That’s all real. Life is wonderful. It’s a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn’t really anything else.” The Lost World

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“Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.”

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“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.” State of Fear

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“Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.”

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“His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success–or the most to lose from failure.” Congo

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“The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.”

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“The purpose of history is to explain the present – to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power – profound power. The power to define a whole society.” Timeline

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“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.”

Wikipedia:  Michael Crichton

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Saturday, January 25, 2014 – Jimmy Buffett

“And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.”

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“And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.”

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“Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.”

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“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.”

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“I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.”

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“I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.”

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“If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.”

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“If life gives you limes, make margaritas.”

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“People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.”

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“Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.”

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“We are the people our parents warned us about.”

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“Well, I’m still here. Didn’t have to go to rehab, and I’m not broke.”

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“If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.”

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“Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.”

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“1. Never forget–“they” are always the enemy.
2. Just remember, assholes are born that way, and they usually don’t change.
3. You don’t want to go to jail.
4. When you start to take this job seriously, you’re in trouble.
5. It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.
6. If you decide to run the ball, just count on fumbling and getting the shit knocked out of you a lot, but never forget how much fun it is just to be able to run the ball!”
Tales from Margaritaville

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“Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.”

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“Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I’ve had a good life along the way.”

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“Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.”

Wikipedia:  Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville – www.margaritaville.com

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Friday, January 24, 2014 – Johnny Carson

“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.”

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“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”

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“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”

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“I know you’ve been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.”

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“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.”

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“My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.”

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“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”

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“Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: “Are your ready?””

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“The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money”

Wikipedia:  Johnny Carson

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Thursday, January 23, 2014 – Barbara Jordan

“But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.”

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“Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”

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“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”

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“For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.”

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“I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in “We, the people.”

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“I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.”

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“If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.”

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“If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.”

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“Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.”

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“Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.”

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“More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.”

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“The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.”

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“There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.”

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“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.”

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“We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.”

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“We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.”

And

“We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.”

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“What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.”

And

“What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.”

Wikipedia:  Barbara Jordan

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