Ponderings ....

Ponderings ....
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"What you are is a question only you can answer."-Lois McMaster Bujold

"Character-the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life-is the source from which self respect springs."-Joan Didion

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."-Dee Hock

"One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of life."-Real Life Preacher

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."-Christopher Morley

"Failure is success if we learn from it."-Malcom Forbes

"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."-Donald H. Rumsfeld

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."-Mark Twain

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb."-Sir Winston Churchill

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."-Lou Holtz

"Change before you have to."-Jack Welch

"When one teaches, two learn."-Robert Half

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."-Vince Lombardi

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."-Thomas J. Watson

"Obstacles are the things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."-E. Joseph Cossman

The only thing that we know about the future is that it will be different."-Peter Drucker

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."-Bertolt Brecht

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."-Will Durant

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."-Seneca

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment"-Baltasar Gracian

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever"-Chinese Proverb

"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."-Florence Shinn

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."-Mark Twain

"That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."-William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

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