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Favorite Quotes from 2002

• "I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand."
        Louis Armstrong.
   
• "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishments rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
        Elinor Smith
   
• "Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope."
        J. Ogden Armour (via Information Week)
   
• "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."
        Winston Churchill (via the Houston Chronicle)
   
• "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
        John Morley (via Information Week Daily report)
   
• "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
        Michel de Montaigne (via Information Week Daily report)
   
• "The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help."
        Napoleon Hill, Author of "Think And Grow Rich"
   
• "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
        Malcom Forbes
   
• "Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
        Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
   
• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
        Albert Einstein
   
• "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the worlds problems."
        Gandhi
   
• "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over"
        Aneurin Bevan
   
• "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
        Douglas Adams
   
• "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
        Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
• "If you've told a child a thousand times and they still haven't learned, then who's the slow learner."
        Anonymous
   
• "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
        Ambrose Redmoon
   
• "Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow."
        Glen Beaman
   
• "Why do so many people dread adversity, when it is only through adversity that we grow stronger? There's not great fun, satisfaction or joy derived from doing something that's easy. Failure is never fatal, but failure to change might be."
        John Wooden, Former head basketball coach at UCLA.
   
• "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
        Oscar Wilde (Thanks to Information Week)
   
• "If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain."
        Charles Newcomb, Screenwriter/Director
   
• "If better is possible, then good is not enough"
        George Graziadio
   
• "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been."
        Wayne Gretsky
   
• "Let's have some new cliches."
        Samuel Goldwyn
   
• "It's never too late to have a happy childhood"
        Johnny Rice "Life get's boring if you stay within the limits of what you already know"
        Joy Edwards-Beckett
   
• "Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."
        William Arthur Ward
   
• "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
        George Horace Lorimer
        "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can somehow become great.
        -- Mark Twain
   
• "Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."
        Peter Drucker
   
• "I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind."
        May Sarton 1912-95
   
• "God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board"
        Mark Twain
   
• "Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer."
        Leo Buscaglia
   
• "It's easy to practice something you're already good at and that's what most people do. What's tough is to go out and work hard on things you don't do very well."
        Pete Rose
   
• "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy."
        Jean Louis Gassˇe then CEO of Apple
   
• "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can somehow become great"
        Mark Twain
   
• "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
        William Ellery Channing,1780-1842, American Minister and Author
   
• "The difference between Success and Significance: Success is when I add value to myself. Significance is when I add value to others."
        Author Unknown
   
• "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."
        English Proverb
   
• "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
        Horace
   
• "Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well."
        Eva Love
   
• "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
        Sam Walton, 1918-1992, Founder of Wal-Mart
   
• It's not the years in your life that count but rather the life in your years.
        Abraham Lincoln
   
• "I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy; The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership."
        Lao Tzu
   
• "Only put off until tomorrow what your are willing to die having left undone."
        Pablo Picasso
   
• "If Man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve Man, but deteriorate the cat."
        Mark Twain
   
• "A person remembers not the hatred and criticism of a million people, but the love and confidence of just one. Don't regret upon what you could have done and prepare for what you have to do."
        Kevin Cho
   
• "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."
        Author Unknown
   
• "There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."
        Cyrus Curtis
   
• "The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."
        Colin Powell
   
• "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
        Sir Winston Churchill
   
• "Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."
        African Proverb
   
• "Our life is what our thoughts make it."
        Marcus Aurelius
   
• "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives,
   
• stop thinking and go in. One man with courage makes a majority"
        Andrew Jackson
   
• "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
        Alexander Pope, "Essay On Criticism"
   
• "It's the scariest thing around. The only thing worse than a lie detector that doesn't work is one that does."
        Physicist Robert Park comments on a new type of brain scans that can reveal when a person recognizes a familiar face, no matter how hard he or she tries to conceal it.
   
• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
        Albert Einstein
   
• "In life there are efforts and results, and the strength of the effort is measured by the result."
        Anonymous
   
• "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
        Arnold Schwarzenegger
   
• "Apologies to Mac owners, I'll be talking about tools for Windows in this posting, but have a little pity on us Windows folks. Video tools For PC's are widely thought of as terrible or ridiculously expensive, While you folks have some wonderful free or cheap video tools. So you Can read the following and laugh at all the calisthenics us poor Windows folks have to go through to make videos." -- Bob Rankin in the Internet Tourbus newsletter.
   
• "Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles."
        Og Mandino - 1923-1996, Speaker and Author
   
• "Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent."
        Marilyn vos Savant
   
• "Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up."
        Edward S. Finkelstein
   
• "Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion."
        Sir Francis Bacon
   
• "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
        Mark Twain
   
• "Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent."
        Marilyn vos Savant
   
• "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
        Maya Angelou
   
• "Happiness is not a goal. It is a by-product."
        Eleanor Roosevelt
   
• "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
        Lilly Tomlin
   
• "You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now."
   
• "Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments." - Kevin Costner
   
• "With so little time, there are just not enough minutes left to hate, not enough time for gossip or fighting. We should all be so busy "doing" and "being" that we have no time left for anything but accomplishing 'good.'"
        Thomas D. Willhite (Note: this comes close to the Optimist Club's Creed.)
   
• "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or to be the mirror that reflects it."
        Edith Wharton
   
• "A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction."
        Rita Mae Brown
   
• "The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
        Oliver Wendell Holmes
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