 The mere formulation of a problem is often far more essential than its solution. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. -Albert Einstein Being creative involves: a. consistently producing lots of ideas, b. putting existing or new ideas together in different combinations, c. breaking an idea down to take a fresh look at its parts, d. making connections between the topic at hand and seemingly unrelated facts. -The Creative Tools Memory Jogger What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end, there are no certain answers. -Marina Horner The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is NOT 'Eureka -- I found it,' but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. - Henry A. Kissinger My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -Indira Gandhi A ship in port is safe. But that is not what ships are for..... Sail out to sea and do new things. -Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, Computer Pioneer If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -Albert Einstein You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' -George Bernard Shaw Nothing great was ever invented without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Spread infectious enthusiasm. -David Olgivy We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler Yates There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. -Josh Billings What's the difference between a methodologist and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist. -Source Unknown Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. -Henry David Thoreau Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein You can pretend to be serious ... you can't pretend to be witty. -Sacha Guitry Some people like to understand what they believe in, while others like to believe in what they understand. -Stanislaw J. Lec Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. -John Lennon Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. -Congressman J.C. Watts Law alone cannot make men see right. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy It is the nature of a man as he grows older... to protest against change, particularly change for the better. -John Steinbeck History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstance. -Donald Creighton Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -Earl of Chesterfield When you have nothing to say, say nothing. -Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the key to knowledge. -Iranian Proverb Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt Whenever you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth. -Sherlock Holmes If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -Henry David Thoreau Simplify, simplify .... Our life is frittered away by detail. -Henry David Thoreau Sometimes being responsible means pissing people off. -Colin Powell I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man--if you want anything done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher If you know, to recognize that you know, if you don't know, to realize that you don't know -- That is knowledge. -Confucius Few of us know what we are capable of doing . . . We have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. -Alfred A. Montapert Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -William Feather If you want learning, you must work for it. -Josiah Gilbert Holland Achievements are the accomplishment of persistent individuals. -James Jones Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. -Kahil Gibran We get mostly what we go after if we go after it hard enough. -Anonymous Learning anything worthwhile is difficult. -Gilbert Highet If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -Thomas Edison It is not a question of how much a man knows, but what use he makes of what he knows. Not a question of what he has acquired and how he has been trained, but what he is and what he can do. -J. G. Holland It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. -Claude Bernard The things which men cannot perform teach them far more than the things which they can easily do. -Beecher One must learn by doing the thing -- though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. -Sophocles It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers. -James Thurber If we should have new knowledge we must get a world of new questions. -Susanne Langer A person who wants to learn will always find a teacher. -Persian proverb Education is not preparation for life -- education is life itself. -John Dewey The person who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. -Anonymous We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how. -Anonymous We have all much to learn -- Let us teach one another as kindly as we can. -Reade If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. -Mario Andretti Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. -Helen Keller Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. -Helen Keller I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. -Marie Curie You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. -Harriet Woods We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. - Blaise Pascal Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. - Barbara Jordan No good deed goes unpunished. -Clare Booth Luce Whether women are better than men I cannot say -- but I can say they are certainly no worse. -Golda Meir You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. -Ethel Barrymore Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -Wernher von Braun We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. -Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it for himself. -Galileo Galilei Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common) -Voltaire It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. -Barbara Jordan One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. -Barbara Jordan The imperative is to define what is right and do it. -Barbara Jordan If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority. -Barbara Jordan Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost Some cause happiness wherever they go -- others, whenever they go. -Oscar Wilde The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. -Gandhi The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. -Albert Einstein Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint Exupery You wouldn’t worry nearly so much about what other people think if you realized how seldom they do. -Eleanor Roosevelt I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is -- I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West Politics comes from the Greek 'poly' for many and 'tics' for blood sucking pests. -Mark Nicholas If you are going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. -Mark Twain If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears. -Isaac Hayes If you are sure you are right, go ahead and do it - it is far easier to apologize later than to get permission in the first place. But first make sure you are right. -Admiral Grace Murray Hopper As a rule women know not only what men know, but much that men will never know. For how many men really know the heart and soul of a woman? -Eleanor Roosevelt A woman will always have to be better than a man in any job she undertakes. -Eleanor Roosevelt For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. -Eleanor Roosevelt You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face .... You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt Women have one advantage over men. Throughout history they have been forced to make adjustments .... women today appear to be able to adjust themselves to the conditions and the concepts of a changing world more easily than men. -Eleanor Roosevelt Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. The fatal thing is the rejection. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. -Eleanor Roosevelt In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are ... In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly. -Eleanor Roosevelt A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. -Eleanor Roosevelt How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? -Albert Einstein He that's secure is not safe. -Benjamin Franklin You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I'll rise. -Maya Angelou The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. -Edward Koch Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. -Dale Carnegie A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. -Muhammad Ali When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. -Carl Sagan Everything is, in the end, fiction. -George Lucas Creativity: to look where everyone else is looking and see that no one else can see. -Albert Szent-Gyorgy I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not. -Lucille Ball You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -Albert Camus Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself. -Doris Lessing Don't compromise yourself ... you are all you've got. -Janis Joplin You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -Beverly Sills If we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. -Edith Wharton If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. -Mario Andretti Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. -Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930) COHN'S LAW: The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all of your time reporting on the nothing you are doing. -Source Unknown I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. -Claude Monet The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost Youth is a disease that can be cured. -Irwin Weil For years I said, 'Look, you want a solid, stable currency? Invest in the ruble.' Twenty years ago the ruble was worth zero. Today the ruble is worth zero. It just doesn't fluctuate. The dollar goes up, the dollar goes down; invest in rubles and you'll have stability. -Irwin Weil A Russian short story begins on page 1,000. A fellow's got to warm up a little. -Irwin Weil I remember the old story Russians used to tell about their press. It seems there was a celebration day on Red Square and the army was going through and the tanks were going through, and there were three historical people watching. One was Alexander the Great, one was Genghis Khan and one was Napoleon. Alexander looked at the tanks and he said, 'Boy, what chariots! Give me chariots like that, and I would have conquered the world!' In a thick Tartar accent, Genghis Khan said, 'Look at the rockets! If I had rockets like that, I would destroy the whole world.' Meanwhile, Napoleonchik, as they used to call him, put on his glasses and started to read Pravda. He said, 'Boy if I would have had newspapers like this, nobody would have known about Waterloo!' -Irwin Weil Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -H. G. Wells A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. -Sir Winston Churchill Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. -Jack Buck A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. -Frank Lloyd Wright Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. -Mohammed Ali Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. -Aesop If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. -Isaac Asimov A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. -Greek proverb When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. -Mignon McLaughlin The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. -Confucius Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. -Josh Billings It's not over until it's over. -Yogi Berra Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -Ingrid Bergman If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -Mark Twain To be great is to be misunderstood. -Ralph Waldo Emerson What is now proved was once only imagined. -William Blake No one can earn a million dollars honestly. -William Jennings Bryan Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself!) -Chaucer I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant If you want something to happen in your life, work for it, if something happens in you life you don't like, deal with it, grow from it and move on. Just don't wish, complain, and blame. -Old Irish Saying I don't share the blame, I don't share the credit and I don't share dessert. -Beverly Sills Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -Albert Einstein We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower I shall pursue my own straight course and shall do what I believe to be right and honourable. -Frederick the Great We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. -Epictetus Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in your soul and which you dislike people finding out about. -Prophet Muhammad Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -Euripides Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. -Henry Ford I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now... as I shall not pass this way again. -William Penn Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. -E. M. Forster One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. -John Kenneth Galbraith All things are difficult before they are easy. -Thomas Fuller Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. -Alex Hamilton If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -Martin Luther King Jr. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -Gloria Steinem Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -Leonardo da Vinci What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -Albert Einstein Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. -Victor Hugo Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. -Napoleon Bonaparte I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. -Bill Clinton They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -Indira Gandhi Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle In a conversation, keep in mind that you are more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is. -Andy Rooney Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. -Edmund Burke Take away love and our earth is a tomb. -Robert Browning Nobody roots for Goliath. -Wilt Chamberlain Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. -John Quincy Adams To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. -Alan Paton Keep away from the people that belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. -Andrew Carnegie The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory. -Old Chinese Proverb When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. -William Wrigley, Jr. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. -Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no genius without a mixture of madness. -Seneca the Younger (Latin moralist and philosopher) Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. -Helen Keller You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they drive him into the profession of a schoolmaster. -Seneca (Roman dramatist) Nothing of importance happened today. -King George III of England in his diary on July 4, 1776 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -Napoleon Bonaparte You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. -Darwin P. Kingsley Find your dream and commit your life to it. -Gordon MacKenzie The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. -Dr. Dennis Waitley We understand that you can't transform people who don't have internal drive and desire to create. But we also know it doesn't work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out. -Laurie Dunnavant To inspire creativity...you must slow down and reflect. When was the last time you slinked a Slinky or molded Play-Doh or drank coffee out of a mug that's shaped like a cow while you kicked around new ideas? -Kate Kane If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. -Tom Watson, Jr. The Swiss themselves invented the electronic quartz movement, but had rejected it because it didn't fit their present definition of a watch. -Joel Barker I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. -Chinese Proverb We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -Benjamin Disraeli Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. -Julius Sextus Frontinus Interact, interact, interact... get out of your office, pose questions, listen to responses, pose questions, stimulate debate... when you don't know quite what to do, find people to think with you. -Charles 'Chic' Thompson It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. -Robert H. Schuller The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. -Napoleon Hill Focus should be to encourage and develop creativity in all children without the ultimate goal being to make all children inventors, but rather to develop a future generation of critical thinkers. -Faraq Mousa If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trait. -Heraclitus Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers Nurturing is improving your idea; objectively evaluating an idea and rejecting what doesn't work, simplifying the over-complicated, lots of hard work, failing and trying again (over and over again). -Frank's Components for Creativity and Success Another requirement for the creative person is... a willingness to explore everything, to be open, innocent and naive before rejecting anything. -Silvano Arieti Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. -Henry Ford Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. -Thomas A. Edison He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. -Chinese Proverb Stay committed to your decision, but stay flexible in your approach. -Tony Robbins Make it a practice to keep on the lookout for novel and interesting ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you are working on. -Thomas Edison Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. -Babe Ruth Taking the initiative is fixing the problem not just sending the boss a memo that a problem exists. -Tom Peters Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. -Denis Waitley The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. -Charles Dickens Besides the noble art of getting things done, master the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. -Lin Yutang The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. -Alvin Toffler When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. -Geoffrey F. Abert Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. -Stanislaw J. Lee If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more chances to learn and win. -John W. Holt, Jr. Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs? -USA Today You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. -Charles Buxton The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -Bertrand Russell There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. -Edward de Bono An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. -Dr. Edwin Land Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. -W. Somerset Maugham Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Pablo Picasso Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves 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 A true leader will push you, maybe more than you'd like. But that's because he's been where you want to go. He's seen the promised land, and know's it's worth the journey. -Joe Bingham A committee is a cul de sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. -Barnett Cocks, attributed The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. -Anonymous Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. -Horace The price of greatness is responsibility. -Winston Churchill Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. -Anonymous People forget how fast you did a job--but they remember how well you did it. -Howard W.Newton The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. -Franklin Roosevelt One ship drives east and another west, while the self-same breezes blow: 'tis the set of the sail and not the gail that bids them where to go.' -Anonymous Chance favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur When we have done our best, we ahould wait the result in peace. -J. Lubbock One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation. -Sir Walter Scott If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. -Martin Luther King Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Place your trust in hard work, perseverance and determination. -Sir Frederick Treves All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas and good intentions-but precious few of them ever translate those into action. -John Hancock Field The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. -H.W.Arnold Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. -Syrus The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little extra. -Anonymous Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. -Elmer Letterman No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. -Voltaire If you make your job important it is quite likely to return the favor. -Anonymous There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -Robert Half Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Frederick Wilcox Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. -Earl I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angel's swearing I was right would make no difference. -Abraham Lincoln Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. -Harold V.Melchert In golf and in life it's the follow through that makes the difference. -Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. -Anonymous The years teach much which the days never know. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. -C.W. Ceran Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -Abraham Lincoln To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun. -Katharine Graham Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. -Anonymous Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. -Anonymous There's no thrill in sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make. -Spirella A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Gagehot The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who belives he can't. -Anonymous One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson We are continually faced by great opportunities brillantly disguised as insoluable problems. -Anonymous When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it -- but all that had gone before. -Jacob Riis The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not all lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. -Vincent T. Lombardi The will to win is worth nothing unless you have the will to prepare. -Anonymous The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit. -Mark Twain Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have-- so spend it wisely. -Kay Lyons In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. -Anonymous Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. -Willa A. Foster As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who's face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unregarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge 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 Failures are divided into two classes --- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. -John Charles Salak The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee. -H. E. Jansen Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. -Ronald E. Osborn The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. -James M.Barrie He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. -J.F.Clark Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -Vince Lombardi Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. -Robert South Well done is better than well said. -Ben Franklin Success is a journey, not a destination. -Ben Sweetland People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the minds of others. -Pascal If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack. -Winston Churchill Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein I want to know God's thoughts .... the rest are details. -Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age eighteen. -Albert Einstein What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. -Albert Einstein Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. -Albert Einstein The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. -Albert Einstein There are 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 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. -Albert Einstein The environment is everything that isn't me. -Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -Albert Einstein I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be, I’m free to be what I want. -Mohammad Ali, 1966 When a man says, I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that otherwise would have been accomplished. -Mohammad Ali, 1967 There is a special place in hell reserved for women who do not help other women. -Madeleine Albright It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. -Lena Horne Look like a girl, Act like a lady. Think like a man, Work like a dog. -Jean J, Bartik ENIAC Programmer Daring ideas are like chessmen moving forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Well-behaved women rarely make history. -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.' -Admiral Grace Hopper The thing about the bandwagon is, it never takes you where you want to go. -Sun Microsystems The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. -Anna Quindlen If you pretend to know what you are talking about people will think you know what you are talking about and eventually you'll know what you are talking about. -Robin Wilensky It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. -Grace Murray Hopper Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. -Albert Einstein Politics is good even when it is bad... because the only alternative is force - and somebody gets hurt, -Robert Heinlein in in Podkayne of Mars A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill -Robert Heinlein in The Decline and Fall of the Idealistic Spark I never learned from a man who agreed with me. -Robert Heinlein in The Decline and Fall of the Idealistic Spark A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a well, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert Heinlein in Time Enough for Love They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. -Robert Heinlein Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. -Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. --Steve Jobs Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. --Steve Jobs When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. --Steve Jobs Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. -James Madison; If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -James Madison Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -James Madison If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
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