Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Bobby Knight: Preparation, not luck
“I don’t believe in luck — I believe in preparation.”– Bobby Knight, American basketball coach. ELMENDORF AIR FORCE, Alaska — Coach Bobby Knight, Texas Tech University basketball, watches his players practice at the fitness center here Nov. 21. Coach Knight spoke with Airmen and Soldiers before his team began practicing for the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska…
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Jean de la Bruyere: Unconcealed folly
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ” —Jean de la Bruyere.
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Igor Sikorsky: Spark
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.” — Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer
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Anatole France: Beautiful path
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” — Anatole France, French poet
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Dr. Mark Goulston: Apologies
“Never assume that part of the apology can be left unsaid. To really repair a rift, even [the] unsaid needs to be spoken out loud.” — Dr. Mark Goulston, author, writing at Harvard Business Review’s HBR Blog Network. Embed from Getty Images
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Og Mandino: Success
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.” Og Mandino
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Publilius Syrus: Favors
“The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. ” Publilius Syrus
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James E. Casey: Success
“One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself. ” James E. Casey
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Charles Dickens: Nonsense
“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” —Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870).
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Jacqueline Cochran: Risk
“To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. ” Jacqueline Cochran.
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Orison Swett Marden: Finding one's place
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. ” Orison Swett Marden
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Albert Einstein: Solving the created
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~Albert Einstein
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Confucius: Forgiveness
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Peace
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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Benoit B Mandelbrot: Grand promise
“…the promises that science makes to society to win its support. The grand promise is to endeavor solving the great mysteries… But there is also a more practical promise. It consists in helping society to improve, to prevent it acting on the basis of theories that sound nice but are not true to the facts,…
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George Eliot: Buzzing glory
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ” —George Eliot.
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Aleksandr Pushkin: Dear illusion
“The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.” —Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, and playwright (1799-1837).
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Oprah Winfrey: So fall down…
“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. ” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Abraham Lincoln: Knowing better
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. ” —Abraham Lincoln
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Martin Luther King Jr.: End of our lives
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
As you know there are many reasons why I run, but perhaps one of the finest is the community that running manifests. Celebrate your community, any chance you get —Kristin Armstrong, South Meets West, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com
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Dean Inge: Honesty
“Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. ” ~Dean Inge.
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Robert Francis Kennedy: Ripples and currents
“Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls…
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Helen Rowland: The hardest task
“The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ” Helen Rowland
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Publilius Syrus: Identity
“It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.” —Publilius Syrus.
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Peter Jennings: Objectivity
“I’m a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective. ” Peter Jennings
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Madonna: True bravery
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.” Madonna
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Robert Frost: Poetry
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ”—Robert Frost
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James Truslow Adams: Age
“Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. ” James Truslow Adams
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Thomas Aquinas: Law
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. —Thomas Aquinas
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Alan Bleasdale: Parallel vigor
“To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. ” —Alan Bleasdale.
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Kurt Vonnegut: No wiser than before?
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ” Kurt Vonnegut
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Jack Layton: Responsible government
“The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government. ” Jack Layton
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Jules Feiffer: Great vocabulary
“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.” Jules…
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Jim Taylor: Running
Focus on what it’s like to be outdoors, to feeling your body move, to the relationships you may have built through running. These are experiences that can be reproduced with every run—you don’t need a good finish time to produce them. By shifting the focus from results to running itself you’ll feel empowered. Jim Taylor,…
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James Allen: Sacrifice
“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much. ” —James Allen.
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James Carville: Catholicism and abortion
“Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion. ”—James Carville.
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Amy Peavy-Smith: Running
Running has taught me that we are capable of doing more than we ever imagined, that we can overcome huge obstacles, and that consistency pays off! Running is my sanity and my sanctuary. Amy Peavy-Smith, Runner’s World Challenger of the W eek
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Thomas Edison: Tenant farmers
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and…
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Daniel Pickle: Running
Experience running. There are amazing things that happen when you run. Make sure that you take the time to recognize and appreciate them Daniel Pickle, Runner’s World Challenger of the Week
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Bitterness
“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Kathrine Switzer: Running
Ever since I began running when I was thirteen, there was a palpable difference between the days I ran and those I didn’t: My running days had more significance. Missing a day wasn’t a major tragedy or anything – sometimes you can’t help it or you just don’t feel like it. A day I didn’t…
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John Ciardi: Courage of their confusions
“It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions. ” John Ciardi
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Prophet
“If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer.
