Quotes To Ponder

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience." - Clarence Day

"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!" - Bob Newhart

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." - Vince Lombardi

Yesbutters have all the answers:
* Yesbut Sales won't listen to our plans
* Yesbut we couldn't sell it to our staff
* Yesbut we can't explain it to our management
* Yesbut the WS doesn't support that
* Yesbut it already didn't seem like a good idea last week either

Yesbutters don't just kill ideas. They kill companies. Whynotters move companies. The next time you are in a brainstorm session, apply the following rules:

1. Whynotters welcome, yesbutters out
2. Say whynot to every (little) idea: let your heart and imagination speak
3. Silence is allowed
4. It is OK to take time for a good idea, when necessary we can sleep on it

Whynotters dare to dream and to act. By acting, they achieve what others see as unachievable. Why not, indeed?
- - - From: Brain Storming Sessions (In "Integral Warehousing" Book, Page 145)

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
- Wayne Dyer

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
- Socrates

"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately."
- Stephen Covey

"To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself."
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"There is no substitute for guts ."
- Paul Bear Bryant

"In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people.. they no longer can lead solely based on positional power."
- Ken Blanchard

"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
- Henry David Thoreau

"The growth & development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
- Harvey S. Fireston

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to see happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

“One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life."
- Alexander A. Bogomoletz

"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."
- Arnold Bennett

“Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?"
- Thomas a Kempis

“You can't choose the ways in which you will be tested."
- Robert J. Sawyer

“You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough."
- Joe E. Lewis

“You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."
- Barbara Hall

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent.
Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."
- Sydney Smith

"Some people make headlines while others make history."
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt

"Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet."
- Chinese Proverb

"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words,
or your reader will be sure to skip them;
and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."
- John Ruskin

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
- Thomas Edison

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?"
- Benjamin Franklin

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
- Raymond Lindquist

“To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes."
- Fritz Kunkel

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way,
ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."
- Deepak Chopra

"A mind that is stretched to a new idea
never returns to its original dimension."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
- David Viscott

“To escape criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
- Elbert Hubbard, American author & publisher (1856-1915)

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."
- Roy Goodman.

Stubbornness is also determination.
It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power."
- Peter McWilliams.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
- Scottish Proverb

"Truth and love are the only things worth living for and the only things worth dying for."
- Rebecca Ann Talcott

"That best portion of a good man's life
- His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
- William Wordsworth