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31 October 98 Use your own best judgment at
all times. We are what we repeatly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)
30 October 98 The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. (Thomas Merton) There is something that is much
more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to
recognize ability. (Elbert Hubbard)
If you think you are beaten,
you are. If you think you dare not, you don't! If you want to win, but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't. Become A Possibilitarian. No
matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the
possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. (Norman Vincent Peale)
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them--a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. (Muhammed Ali) A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. (Pearl Bailey)
27 October 98 The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy. (C.C. Colton) I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer)
24 October 98 There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. (Sophia Loren) Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. (Don Marquis)
If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford) Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilightthat knows neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
22 October 98 One of the illusions of life is that the
present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year. He only is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who
allows it to be invaded with worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with
it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with
too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and
fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (both from Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. (Dale Turner) That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along. (Lisa Alther)
16 October 98 I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. (Charles Dickens) A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. (Richard Whately)
15 October 98 I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. (Fidel Castro) If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route. (Malcolm Forbes)
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. (Alexander Graham)
12 October 98 When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. (R. Buckminster Fuller) Success is relevant to coping
with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for
someone to blame instead of something to do. (Fred Waggoner) 11 October 98 If you spend too much time warming up, you'll miss the race. If you don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race. (Grand Heidrich) Never look down to test the ground before
taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the
right road. (Dag Hammarskjold)
If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed. (Dan Dierdorf) If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. (Brian Tracy)
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. (Bertrand Russell) Something in human nature
causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become
successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of
balance, humility, and commitment.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. (Epictetus) There is no royal road to
anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as
rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. (Josiah Gilbert Holland)
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. (Carol Burnett) We must expect to fail...but fail in a
learning posture, determined not to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from
what is learned in the process.
6 October 98 Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. (Tom Peters) Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. (Stephen A. Brennan)
5 October 98
4 October 98 In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. (Albert Schweitzer) If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense
of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. (Rachel
Carson)
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and whatyou don't. (Anatole France)
2 October 98 Something in human nature
causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become
successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of
balance, humility, and commitment.
Deceive the rich and powerful if
you will, but don't insult them. The dog wags his tail, not for you,
but for your bread. Do not employ handsome servants. Do not lengthen the quarrel while
there is an opportunity of escaping. Don't think there are no crocodiles
because the water is calm. Don't throw away the old bucket
until you know whether the new one holds water. Experience is the comb that nature
gives us when we are bald. First secure an independent income,
then practice virtue. Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child. Danish Proverb A lean agreement is better than a
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