"Here is Edward Bear (Winnie the Pooh), coming downstairs now bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it."
-AA Milne’s classic, Winnie the Pooh
"Individuals are judged not only by their actions, but by their words as well."
-Ben Franklin
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
-Winston Churchill
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
-Albert Einstein
-Henry David Thoreau
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
And the rains fall soft upon your fields,
And, until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
-Unknown Irish Monk, 1100 AD
"To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time."
- Bruce Jenner
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.."
-Charles Darwin
General Colin Powell's Rules:
1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego
goes with it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision. Be demanding.
12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
-General Colin Powell
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
-James Madison
"We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps."
-Nelson DeMille
-Anonymous
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
"We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes."
- Elizabeth Dole
"We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps."
-Nelson DeMille
"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart"
-Thomas J. Watson
-Harold S. Geneen
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
-Henry David Thoreau
"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."
-John Ruskin
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
-Sydney J. Harris (Reader's Digest)
"If you have a job without aggrevations, you don't have a job."
-Malcolm Forbes
"The first venture for the entrepreneur tends to serve as a learning experience, an emphemistic term for failure. It is similar to a baby tooth- soon enough it will be replaced by a stronger more durable one."
-Deaver Brown
The six laws of work are:
1. A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
2. A man must be a master of his hours and days, not their servant.
3. The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
4. A man must earnestly want.
5. Never permit failure to become a habit.
6. Learn to adjust yourself to conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or, correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
-William F. Book
"I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."
-Nelson Jackson
"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting some where."
-Charles F. Kettering
"The beginning is the most important part of any work."
-Plato