What do you value?

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

Resolve

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

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

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

Anon

Pioneer or plodder?

'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...

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

"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?

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

Zig Ziglar

Reality and perception

"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

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

Bill Cosby

A flexible approach

"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

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

- Wendall Johnson

Can you do it?

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

Henry Ford

What goes around, comes around

"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

“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?

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

Jay Abraham

Goal setting

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

Earl Nightingale

The future is unknown

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Think you can do it?

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

Once you start something...

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?

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

How to learn

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

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

Don't wait

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

Don't waste your time

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

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?

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?

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

be stupid

Stupid questions are better than stupid mistakes.
Japenese proverb

If you believe you can... do it

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