Bret Smith:  

CLASS OF 1977
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Stagg High SchoolClass of 1977
Stockton, CA
Stockton, CA
Stockton, CA
Stockton, CA

Bret's Story

Bret is from Stockton, California. Bret's schools include Stagg High School, El Dorado Elementary School, Fillmore Elementary School, Stockton Junior High School. Bret later attended Humphreys College (Administrative Management / Law) . Music Bret likes includes Hollie Cavanagh, Skylar Laine, Rock N' Roll. Books Bret likes include Dean Koontz. Movies Bret likes include RED, Wild Hogs, Shawshank Redemption. TV shows Bret likes include Reba, The King of Queens, This Old House. One of Bret's favorite quotes is:""Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow, what a Ride!" - Molly Ivins "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." - Kevin Estey "None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married." - Edgar Watson Howe, 1853-1937 "Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford "A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open." - Frank Zappa "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle "If you cannot convince them, confuse them." - Harry S. Truman “Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw "Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses." - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr "Know women, know pain, no women, no pain." "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away, and barefoot." "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." "It's hard to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man." "Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do to achieve what they want to achieve." "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." "It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end." "The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard." "Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings." "The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on." - Robert Bloch "Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools." - Gene Brown "Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison "What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." - Sir Norman Wisdom "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enoug...Expand for more
h people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright "The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him." - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec "No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him." - W. A. Nance "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown "The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does." "Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair." - George Burns “Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.” “The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” - Sven Goran Eriksson “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” - Benjamin Franklin “To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.” - Benjamin Franklin "Hockey's the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight." - Frank Deford "I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out." - Rodney Dangerfield "Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps." - Tiger Woods "Hockey is figure skating in a war zone." "One day a duck was about to cross the road ~ When out of nowhere a chicken came running up and said NO Don't Do It!~ You'll Never hear the frickin' end of it!" “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value” -- Albert Einstein "He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives." -- Albert Einstein "Time and Talent can often compensate for lack of Money, but Money can NEVER compensate for lack of the Right People" "Leadership is doing the right thing while management is doing things right" "Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led" -- Warren Bennis "We make our living by what we earn, We make our life by what we live" "When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football." “Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night” "I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes." "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen." ~Douglas Adams “Life is all about ass; you’re either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it, behaving like one, Or you live with one!!!” It’s “…one nation UNDER GOD…” or bite my skinny old ass and leave! "Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you. So carve your name on hearts and not on marble." ~ C.H. Spurgeon “Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.” "Before giving someone a piece of your mind be sure you have enough to spare!"".
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