一日一日を自身の代表作とせよ…。人生とは今。「やがて」ではない。 - ジョン・ウッドン［ウッデン］ (1910 - 2010) -- スティーヴ・チャンドラー: 『自分をやる気にさせる100の方法』（47. 今日を傑作に）
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Make each day your masterpiece.... Life is now. Life is not later on. - John (Robert) Wooden (1910 - 2010) -- Steve Chandler: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself (47. Make today a masterpiece)
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: Do not put new wine into old bottles. [Put new wine into new bottles.] / No one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and run out and the skins will be ruined. But new wine should be put into fresh wineskins.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wine-426463_640-100x76.jpg)
![IMAGE: Seize the day(, trusting the future [the next day] as little as possible). [(La.) Carpe diem(, quam minimum credula postero).]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/picking-flowers-391610_640-100x75.jpg)
![IMAGE: He who laughs on Friday shall weep on Sunday. [Fr. Tel qui rit vendredi, dimanche pleurera.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/silhouette-702191_640-100x71.jpg)