Great Quotes

How to make it happen

2012-01-13T02:52:00.001-08:00

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

- Nolan Bushnell

An insight into insecurity

2012-01-02T09:58:00.000-08:00

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlights reel"

-- Steven Furtick

Today is a gift

2010-01-09T13:33:00.000-08:00

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present"
- B. Olatunji

Don't stop

2010-01-08T13:33:00.000-08:00

"If you are going through hell, keep going"
- Winston Churchill

During the coldest night of the year after all that snow

2010-01-07T15:17:00.000-08:00

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."
- AA Milne

Go further than you've gone before

2010-01-07T13:32:00.001-08:00

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore"
- Christopher Columbus

Into the future

2010-01-03T10:36:00.000-08:00

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

There's no such thing as coincidence

2010-01-01T06:55:00.000-08:00

"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys."
- Emma Bull

Starting over

2009-12-31T01:36:00.000-08:00

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
- Maria Robinson

It's amazing how much I learned as my kids grew up

2009-12-30T08:35:00.001-08:00

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Many happy returns

2009-12-29T08:48:00.000-08:00

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
-Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

The promise

2009-12-28T08:49:00.000-08:00

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that promise.
- Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth

Think about it

2008-10-26T03:46:00.001-07:00

"You'll never regret what you couldn't afford"

- anon

Starting over...........

2008-10-19T14:54:00.000-07:00

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

~Maria Robinson~

Jim Ziegler

2008-10-15T09:49:00.000-07:00

"I'm where I am because I'm willing to do things others are not willing to do to get what they say they want"

- Jim Ziegler

The Hansel & Gretal approach

2008-10-14T05:49:00.001-07:00

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson - US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Learning is not the same as doing

2008-10-12T00:51:00.001-07:00

'The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.'

- Marquis De Vauvenargues

Share your ideas

2008-10-06T15:43:00.001-07:00

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas"

- George Bernard Shaw

Acting

2008-10-05T09:07:00.000-07:00

“Acting is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent talent.
But that talent had better be good.”

- Charlie Chaplin

You've more chance achieving a goal if you're clear as to what it is

2008-10-05T03:23:00.000-07:00

'If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.'

- Lawrence J. Peter

Trumpeting your success

2008-09-28T06:42:00.000-07:00

"Unless you blow your own trumpet there is no music"

-Digby Jones (attrib)

"He who blows his own trumpet is usually a soloist"

- anon

Don't Quit

2008-09-22T07:54:00.001-07:00

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh

When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest, you must - but don't you quit
Life is queer with its twists and turns
As everyone of us sometimes learns

And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out
Don't give up, though the pace seems slow
You might succeed with another blow

Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst, That you MUST NOT QUIT!

by Quinton Howell

Problems

2008-09-19T11:05:00.001-07:00

"The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destroy ones spirit by worrying about them too far in advance."

Cicero, Imperium by Robert Harris

It is not the critic who counts:

2008-08-13T03:54:00.001-07:00

"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 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919

This explains it

2008-07-23T00:04:00.000-07:00

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
- PJ Plauger

In July 2007 I wrote a four page leading Comment article for Taxation magazine in which I explained why, after 25 years and after arguably reaching the top of my profession, I gave up giving tax advice.

Conspiracy or cock-up?

2007-03-21T16:17:00.000-07:00

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

- Anon

Don't waste your time

2007-03-14T23:30:00.000-07:00

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

- Unknown

A universal truth - not just for doctors

2007-03-14T08:08:00.000-07:00

"Prescription BEFORE diagnosis is Malpractice"

- Tony Allessandra

Well, what do you know?

2007-03-12T04:20:00.000-07:00

"It ain't the things we know that cause all the trouble in the world - it's the things we think we know that ain't so."

- Will Rogers

Along similar lines

"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things you know that just ain't so."

- Artemus Ward

Effective marketing

2007-03-09T01:21:00.000-08:00

He who whispers down a well
About the goods he has to sell
Will never make as many dollars
As he who climbs a tree and hollers.

- HRH Edward of Wales (1935)

Easy opportunities?

2007-02-12T09:42:00.001-08:00

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

– Thomas Alva Edison

Risk taking

2007-02-08T09:41:00.000-08:00

"A ship in harbour is safe -- but that is not what ships are for."

– John A. Shedd

It's not what you say..

2007-01-28T16:13:00.000-08:00

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

– Carl W. Buechner

Survival

2007-01-02T15:32:00.000-08:00

"It is not always the strongest who survive, nor the most intelligent, but those who adapt and change the most."

- Charles Darwin

Who is it down to?

2007-01-01T13:35:00.000-08:00

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

- Jim Rohn

What do you value?

2006-12-31T07:39:00.000-08:00

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it"

- M. Scott Peck

Life is about giving not getting

2006-12-29T11:26:00.000-08:00

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

Resolve

2006-12-29T07:46:00.000-08:00

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

- Wayne Dyer

Don't think about this one

2006-12-28T11:24:00.000-08:00

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you - but if you really make them think they'll hate you.

- Don Marquis US humorist (1878 - 1937)

Law of Probability Dispersal

2006-12-27T11:23:00.000-08:00

Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Anon

Pioneer or plodder?

2006-12-01T02:59:00.000-08:00

'There are two kinds of people in this world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.'

Henry Ford - in his book Today and Tomorrow

As true today...

2006-11-28T09:57:00.000-08:00

We remember:

90% of what we do
70% of what we say or write
50% of what we hear and see
30% of what we see
10% of what we read

Copyright: Charles Merrill, Education Media 1960

2 timeless quotes from Plato

2006-11-27T10:09:00.000-08:00

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."

Plato

How high do you want to fly?

2006-11-26T22:12:00.000-08:00

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude"

Zig Ziglar

Reality and perception

2006-11-22T01:38:00.000-08:00

"A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness".

Alford Korzybski

What this means is that our perception of reality is not reality itself but our own version of it, or our "map".

How to fail

2006-11-18T13:34:00.000-08:00

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"

Bill Cosby

A flexible approach

2006-11-15T01:30:00.000-08:00

"I never suffer my mind to be so wedded to any opinions as to refuse to listen to better ones when they are suggested to me"

Henry IV
King of France 1553 -1610

Always and Never

2006-10-14T11:43:00.000-07:00

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."

- Wendall Johnson

Can you do it?

2006-08-30T21:18:00.000-07:00

"Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right."

Henry Ford

What goes around, comes around

2006-08-26T18:45:00.000-07:00

"You can have everything you want in life, just as long as you help enough other people get want they want in life"

Zig Zigler

You are better than you think you are

2006-08-25T07:18:00.000-07:00

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Marianne Williamson

Nelson Mandela quoted from this piece in his Inauguration Speech, 1994. As a result he is often incorrectly credited as being the originator.

Want different outcomes?

2006-08-24T11:15:00.000-07:00

"If you carry on doing what you've always done, you'll carry on getting what you've always got"

Jay Abraham

Goal setting

2006-08-20T13:03:00.000-07:00

"Success is the progressive realiazation of a worthy ideal."

Earl Nightingale

The future is unknown

2006-08-19T19:03:00.000-07:00

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow,
Learn as if you were to live forever"

Mahatma Gandhi

Think you can do it?

2006-08-08T14:11:00.000-07:00

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right
Henry Ford

Once you start something...

2006-08-08T14:09:00.000-07:00

A man's mind stretched to a new dimension, never goes back to it's original form.
Henry David Thoreau

What's it all about?

2006-08-07T10:56:00.000-07:00

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we
give.
Winston Churchill

How to learn

2006-08-06T15:44:00.000-07:00

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the
fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third
time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson

Ideally you won't need to work hard

2006-08-04T15:00:00.000-07:00

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
Ray Prince

Don't wait

2006-08-03T15:00:00.000-07:00

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”
Milton Berle

Don't waste your time

2006-07-14T15:00:00.000-07:00

When you’re in the room, be in the room.
When you’re on the golf course, be on the golf course.
Nigel Risner

Looking forwards to looking back

2006-06-28T15:00:00.000-07:00

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

What's the point?

2006-06-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.
Dorothy Galyean

Where do you focus?

2006-05-20T15:00:00.000-07:00

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
Babs Hoffman

be stupid

2006-05-07T16:00:00.000-07:00

Stupid questions are better than stupid mistakes.
Japenese proverb

If you believe you can... do it

2006-05-03T15:00:00.000-07:00

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill