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Challenges -- Some see mountains and say they are too high. Others wait until they have reached the top before they decide. -- Motivational Classics

A great brand is a promise well-kept. -- Unknown

You can't play every role equally well. -- Katherine Hepburn

Principles -- The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day. -- Motivational Classics

New Beginnings -- In times of change, there is no incentive so great, and no medicine so powerful, as hope for a better tomorrow. -- Motivational Classics

Make no little plans, for they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble logical diagram -- once recorded -- will not die. -- Daniel Burnham.

Take the time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. -- Andrew Jackson

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. -- Whitney Young

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed. -- Booker T. Washington

It's the start that stops most people. -- Anonymous

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse. -- Anonymous

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair. -- Swedish Proverb

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. -- Amy Tan

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. -- Chinese Proverb

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. -- Admiral Hyman Rickover

When someone gets something for nothing, someone else gets nothing for something. -- Anonymous

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job. -- George Crane

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. -- Nikki Giovanni

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. -- Maureen Dowd

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein

I discovered I always have choices, and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. -- Judith M. Knowlton

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you chose for you will become like them. -- W. Clement Stone

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. -- Dave Winbaum

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three. -- Ezra Pound

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. -- Peter Drucker

Go the extra mile. It's never crowded. -- Executive Speedwriter Newsletter

A woman is like a tea bag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. -- Nancy Reagan

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin

Success is 99 percent failure. -- Soichiro Honda

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. -- Sam Walton

I pointed out to you the stars and the moon, and all you saw was the tip of my finger. -- Tanzanian Saying

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. -- Mary O'Conner

There are only two basic ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do things differently. -- Karl Albrecht

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. -- Henry J. Kaiser

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him. -- Aldous Huxley

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. -- Gloria Steinem

A wise man hears one word and understands two. -- Yiddish Proverb

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. -- Arthur Brisbane

No one ever listened himself out of a job. -- Calvin Coolidge

Traditional thinkers say, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." But breakthrough thinkers say, "Fix it before it breaks." -- Gerald Nadler

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning. -- Jesse Jackson

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. -- French Proverb

He who wants the rose must respect the thorn. -- Persian Proverb

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else. -- Will Rogers

The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

We're all in this together -- by ourselves. -- Lily Tomlin

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's -- and worse than tomorrow's. -- Anonymous

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase. -- Harold Wilson

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers. -- Anonymous

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. -- Aristotle Onassis

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -- Anonymous

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -- Victor Borge

Tomorrow is too often the busiest day of the year. -- Spanish Proverb

A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. -- Muhammed Ali

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. -- Josh Billings

Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere. -- Anonymous

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday. -- Anonymous

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. -- Whitney Young

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. -- Paul Valery, French Poet

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time. -- Oprah Winfrey

As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bull ring. -- Spanish Proverb

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -- Kahil Gibran

Do not dig a hole for somebody else, you yourself may fall into it. -- Russian Proverb

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. -- Dan McKinnon

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. -- George Sewell

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -- Jonathan Kozol

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. -- American Proverb

The reason some people get lost in thought is because of the unfamiliar territory. -- Anonymous

The door of success is marked "push" and "pull". Achieving success is knowing when to do what. -- Yiddish Folk Saying

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. -- Norman Vincent Peale

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. -- Harold Stephens

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -- John Wooden

Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way. -- Henry Boyle

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule. -- Barbara Jordan

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. -- Confucius
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue. -- Roger C. Anderson

In an instant, illumination can be achieved, it is as easy as turning on a light. The problem is finding the switch in the dark. -- Proverb

In youth we learn; in age we understand. -- Marie von Ebner Eschenbach

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. -- Henry Ford

No man will listen to you talk if he didn't know his turn was next. -- Ed Howe

Attitudes are like elevators -- they can either bring you up or take you down. -- Anonymous

Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -- Winston Churchill

You are never a loser until you quit trying. -- Mike Ditka

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. -- Yogi Berra

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18. -- Mark Twain

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else. -- Judy Garland

Sometimes you have to make your own luck, create your own way of people looking at something, instead of the traditional mold. -- Lynn Thigpen

The universe is trying to tell you everything you need to know. Just listen. -- Martha Gouin

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Live Today -- Live your best today, for it is your only preparation for tomorrow. -- Motivational Classics

Say nothing. What you are stands out and speaks louder than anything you can say to the contrary. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teamwork -- The question is not how well each person works, but how well they work together. -- Motivational Classics

If you're drilling for water, it's better to drill one one-hundred foot well than one hundred one-foot wells. -- Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations.

If your behavior contradicts your values, your body knows. -- Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations.

Assumptions are the company's "theory of the business". -- Peter Drucker

Hire attitude. Train skill. -- Peter Schultz, former president of Porsche

Make yourself available to whatever is out there with your name on it. -- Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations.

Eighty percent of success is simply showing up. -- Woody Allen

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

If you want to build a ship, don't gather your people and ask them to provide wood, prepare tools, assign tasks. Call them together and raise in their minds the longing for the endless sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The space between thought is the place where insight can make itself known. -- Deepak Chopra

Aim for the chopping block. Aim for the space beneath the brick. Aim for past this conversation, past these words. -- Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations

I don't know the key to success, but I do know the key to failure is to try to satisfy everyone. -- Bill Cosby

Go placidly amid the toil and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. -- Desideratum (first sentence only)
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, and blaming it on you... �- from "If" by Rudyard Kipling

I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself and very likely displeased a great number in the process.... But I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single thing. It's what I wish for you, my dear. A life with no regrets. -- Katharine Hepburn in one of her last TV appearances in NBC's "One Christmas," based on a Truman Capote story that was adapted to include a Hepburn-like character, Cornelia Beaumont.

Just get on with it. -- Katharine Hepburn from her 1991 autobiography, "Me: Stories of My Life"

Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda

Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life. -- The Psalmist

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be. -- William George Jordan

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root. -- David Thoreau

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. -- Cecil B. DeMille

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. -- Albert Einstein

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. -- T.S. Eliot

There is no real excellence in this world which can be separated from right living. -- David Starr Jordan

Pressure is a privilege. -- Billie Jean King.

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. -- Unknown

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it everyday and soon it cannot be broken. -- Horace Mann

We will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire. -- Steven Covey, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal. -- Marilyn Ferguson

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods. -- Thomas Paine

Perseverance - At the end of every challenge is the beginning of something new. -- Motivational Classics

Integrity - Integrity distinguishes itself from other paths because it is the only path upon which you will never get lost. -- Motivational Classics

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than from want of capital. -- Daniel Webster

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves. -- Daniel Webster

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. -- Anne Bradstreet

Stand Tall - Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. -- Helen Keller.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dare to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -- Bruce Barton

If I have seen further it was by standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Sir Isaac Newton's tribute to Tycho Brake and Johannes Kepler

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -- John Wooden

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. -- Harold Wilson

Vision - In the sea of change, it is our responsibility to light the way for others. -- Motivational Classics

Change - Everything flows onwards .. the ages themselves glide by in constant movement .. for still waters never reach the sea. -- Motivational Classics.

Character - Those who preserve their integrity remain unshaken by the storms of life. Character becomes their roots .. it is a strength that exists deep within them. -- Motivational Classics.

Attitude - Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by how we react to what happens. A positive attitude is a catalyst .. a spark that creates extraordinary results. -- Motivational Classics.

Goals - You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. -- Motivational Classics

Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. -- Henry Ford

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in this time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. -- Martha Graham

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. -- George Bernard Shaw

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. -- Attributed to Jesus from The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday ... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered. -- Anna Mary Robertson (Grandmother Moses) 1860-1961

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and, as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -- George Bernard Shaw, from Man and Superman. Dedicatory Letter.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. -- Nietzsche

Mimicking and mugging, I was just a game myself. Ignorant, I thought to be was to name myself. Full of myself, how could I know myself? I emptied myself and became myself. -- Rumi

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau

We create our own world by our thoughts. And thus we make our own heaven, our own hell. -- Swami Muktananda

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. -- W.H. Auden

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. -- Dr. David M. Burns

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsel, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. -- Joseph Addison

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. -- Frank Tyger

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. -- G.W. F. Hegel

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown, and in the process, discovering our own unique potential. -- John Amatt, Organizer and Participant in Canada's first successful expedition to the summit of Mt. Everest.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect. -- W. Clement Stone

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind. -- Denis Waitley

The job is to ask questions -- it always was -- and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answer with a certain humility. -- Arthur Miller

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. -- Scott Reid

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. This is dedication. -- Cecil B. DeMille

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. -- Robert Fulghum

As you wander on through life, sister/brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye on the donut, and not on the hole. -- Sign in the Mayflower Coffee Shop, Chicago.

I am still learning. -- Michaelangelo

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic. -- Anonymous

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. -- Brian Tracy

My attitude is that if you push me toward something that you think is weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. -- Michael Jordan

All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to stop assigning the cause for my inability to the circumstances outside myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference. -- Werner Erhard

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you have lived at all. -- Leo C. Rosten

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -- Theordore Roosevelt, The Art of Manliness

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -- William Butler Yeats

Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. -- Joseph Campbell

I have enough money to last for the rest of my life, unless I buy something. -- Jackie Mason

The trick is not to die waiting for prosperity to come. -- Lee Iacocca

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. -- Anonymous

All that we are arises from our thoughts. -- Buddha

Embrace what does not come naturally. Only then will you stop limiting yourself and allow the deepest part of you to express itself in ways you may not have imagined just yet. -- Swami Chetanandu

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." -- Trina Paulus

Inherent in every intention is the mechanics for its fulfillment. -- Deepak Chopra

If I get stuck in who I am now, I will never blossom into who I might yet become. I need to practice the gentle art of letting go. -- Sam Keen, author

God, give me guts. -- Anonymous

When I do what's right for me, the universe supplies something. It never fails. -- Anonymous

For better to come, good must stand aside. -- Carl Jung
Given the choice of changing and proving there's no need to do so, almost everybody will get busy on the proof. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Anxiety illuminates experience that we could otherwise run away from. It stimulates us to find new ways of meeting problems. -- Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety

Your work is to discover your work, and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it. -- Buddha

The might oak was once a little nut that held its ground. -- Anonymous

You go as far as you can using all that you've got. -- Larry Wilson

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. -- Adlai Stevenson

God gives food to every bird, but does not throw it in the nest. -- New England proverb

Success is the child of audacity. -- Benjamin Disraeli

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; to not dare is to lose one's self. -- Soren Kierkegaard

Start by doing what is necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you're doing the impossible. -- St. Francis of Assissi

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. -- Native American saying

The biggest challenge is not making the money, but managing the money. -- Mary Helen Gillespie

Should extraordinary odds come against you, as they will, do not be a sluggard in the race. -- Mary Baker Eddy

Excellence is an act won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. --- Aristotle.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. -- Goethe (from: www.corporatecoachingintl.com)

Life is a voyage in which we choose neither the vessel nor weather; but much can be done in the management of the sails and the guidance of the helm. -- Unknown

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. -- Unknown

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. -- Plato

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. -- George Eliot

Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. -- Helen Keller

You see things that are and say "Why?" but I dream things that never were and say "Why Not?" -- George Bernard Shaw

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up if thou wilt ever dig. -- Marcus Aurelius

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -- St. Frances de Salas

The journey is the reward. -- Lao Tzu
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. -- Louisa May Alcott

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. -- Anonymous

Each of us should do something everyday to strengthen our backbone and put iron in our soul. -- Henry Hitt Crane

A fanatic is someone who doesn't change his mind and cannot change the subject. -- Winston Churchill

The whole point of living is to believe the best is yet to come. -- Peter Ustinov

You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. -- Wayne Gretsky

And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, then to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527 (Italian writer and statesman, Florentine patriot, author of The Prince, from Chapter 6, "Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired by One's Own Arms and Ability"

Creativity, like energy, is always present. We need only to be open to it. --Holiday Mathis

One way to get what you want is to eliminate, from your mind, any possibility that you won't get it. Doubting can only limit your future. Getting sure is half the battle. -- Holiday Mathis

Winners train. Losers complain.

Pain of discipline. Pain of regret. Take your pick. -- Stenciled on the training room walls of the Bouncing Bulldogs of Chapel Hill, NC, the U.S. National Champion DoubleDutch Jump Rope Team (4 years straight).

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. -- Gloria Steinem

What is to give light must endure burning. -- Viktor Frankel

After I die, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow. -- Abraham Lincoln

Education is learning to use the tools which the race has found indispensible. -- Ernest Carroll Moore, the first provost of UCLA, inscribed over the stage of Royce Hall

Alms destroy initiative and creativity. A charity dollar has only one life. Use it. Achieve the goal, and then it's done. But if you design it as a social business, a social business dollar has endless life, because it recyles. -- Mohammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for "micorofinance," a concept he developed in 1983 with the creation of Grameen Bank. (Mary Ann Lowe. "Visit from a Peaceful Revolutionary." UCLA Assets, Summer 2008, p. 30-32.)

Willing is not enough, we must apply. Knowing is not enough, we must do. -- SiJo Bruce Lee
We lose the ability to transfer knowledge from short-term 'working' memory to long-term memory, where it can shape our world views in enduring ways. -- Nicholas Carr in The Shadows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

We are becoming pancake people -- spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button. -- Richard Foreman

Information consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. -- Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize winning economist

People are drawn to the echo chamber, and they want to have their opinions validated more often than they want to have their opinions challenged. And trying to present an unbiased perspective is simply harder. -- Campbell Brown, upon requesting to be released from her CNN contract May 31, 2010.

You don't need anyone's permission to follow your dreams. -- Kim Yong-Sook, from Ajumma Are the Pillars of the Nation from a book review by John Blionna in The LA Times, 1-22-2010.
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science, is work. -- Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. -- Elizabeth Harrison, educator, founder and first president of what is today National Louis University

Ten Quotes That Can Change Your Life by the late Zig Zeigler, from Kevin Kruse, November 28, 2012 in Forbes

100 Best Leadership Quotes from Kevin Kruse, October 16, 2012 in Forbes.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission. -- Mahatma Gandhi.

There is a reason that every airline in the world warns that, in the event of a life-threatening challenge in mid-flight, every passenger should put the face mask on themselves first to ensure that they will be alive, well, and capable of helping others. They do not say "every woman should give her mask to another." -- Elizabeth Ghaffari

A pitch is any time you speak with the intent to persuade. -- Gary Hankins, in The Power of the Pitch

Brand is the perception people have of the experience of having a relationship with you. -- Gary Hankins, in The Power of the Pitch

What do your clients want in a relationship? Friendliness, promptness, courtesy, empathy, and information. -- Gary Hankins, in The Power of the Pitch

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton, Canadian feminist and the first female mayor of a major Canadian city (Ottawa) in the 1950s and 1960s.

Ginger Rogers danced every dance that Fred Astaire did, only backwards and in 4 inch heels. -- Fran Whitteley

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. -- Most likely from The Theosophical Society, but shared by Marilyn Guarino

I've learned what big goals can do to energize teams. -- Patricia Woertz, CEO of Archer Daniels Midland Company