Glenn Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 Anvilicious: highly pleasing to the senses, especially to a blacksmith. Glenn (c) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 1000 hours at a $10 forge will make you a much better smith than 10 hours at a $1000 forge. ~ ThomasPowers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 “You’re going to make a lot of mistakes. Learning nothing from those mistakes is the mistake.” — Daniel Negreanu, six-time World Series of Poker Champion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 George Orwell could have been an IFI member: "So long as I remain alive and well, I shall continue [...] to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven511 Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Could've already been posted, it's a pretty popular saying but no idea who first made the quote: "Knifemakers don't make mistakes. They only make smaller knives." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 In response to my posting a Facebook photo of my latest hammer, a non-smithing friend asked, “What exactly are you making all these hammers for?” To which I replied, ”To have more hammers. Duh.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 To every thing there is a season---and right now it's HAMMER-TIME! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 Twenty years ago I started looking hard for answers on fuel-air heating; I'm still looking hard; mostly what I've learned is how to learn...Mikey98118, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 OHIO: Only Handle It Once Thomas Powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Failure of plan A will directly affect your ability to carry out plan B. Lenny Quites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee188 Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Growing old is mandatory Growing up is an option. Grandma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary fix." ~ ThomasPowers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Me and a bunch of other folks---it's one of those self evident sayings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 I've always thought sanity was overrated. ~ Ohio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn II Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 1) I actually read this entire thread, not a task I usually would have the patience for. So, In honor of Frosty, "Read before you go posting and asking questions!" 2) "There are no mistakes. There are always Second Chances - in Metal and in Men." -Larry from Alabama Not sure who "Larry" is. Just something I glanced over on the internet the other day. Glenn II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Applies to blacksmithing as well as physics. "If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems." ~ Frank Wilczek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzkill Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 My dad has a similar saying with a follow up. "If you never make mistakes you're not working hard enough. If you make too many mistakes we can't afford to keep you around." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 A good reputation takes a lifetime to build, but only a moment to destroy. ~ Glenn II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc1 Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 3 hours ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said: A good reputation takes a lifetime to build, but only a moment to destroy. ~ Glenn II Quoted so often that it seems to be true, yet it is not. However it is more interesting to consider why this quote repeated at nauseam appears to be true. Without getting too technical, the way we perceive others has more to do with what we want to perceive, than what the others really are. In other words, we build up other people's reputation with naivety and tear it down with schadenfreude. Studies show that stakeholders support the fallen and outsiders rejoice in his misdeeds. There is much more to talk about reputation building and destroying, but that popular say is clearly false or at least misleading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Tell that to all those people who have ruined their lifetime reputations and careers because of one misdeed on social media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc1 Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 A "lifetime reputation" ruined by one misdeed and on social media of all places? Then it was a meaningless cardboard cutout of very little value. Hot air, nothing else. Quote Our reputation represents the way others look at us and as such is at once critically important and utterly trivial. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-in-world/201004/the-value-good-reputation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, mugs other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. HojPoj and -- James D. Nicoll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 I have gotten to the age where I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter. And what I came here after. JHCC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another FrankenBurner Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Darn stuff keeps changing and nobody asks me first. - Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casapa Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 If you can't make it perfect, make it adjustable. That will do, its Rudolf Nearenough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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