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David Jury: Rules
Rules can be broken—but never ignored.—David Jury.
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James Thurber: Rules and exceptions
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. –James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961) Related articles Are You the Exception or the Norm? (betterlifecoaching.wordpress.com) Today’s Birthday: James Thurber (1894) (euzicasa.wordpress.com) Happy Birthday James Thurber (waldina.com) Motivational Monday #6 Awareness (edenchanges.wordpress.com)
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Winning
The only one who can beat me is me. – Michael Johnson
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Rick Beneteau: Wisdom
“Wisdom is the lesson learned, applied.” —Rick Beneteau.
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Edward B Butler: Enthusiasm
“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. ” —Edward B Butler. Related articles The Value of Enthusiasm (flbl.wordpress.com) Enthusiasm Sells! (lifeworkelements.wordpress.com) Enthusiasm (akissofbliss.wordpress.com)
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William Makepeace Thackeray: The secret
“Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed. ” —William Makepeace Thackeray
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Never wrong…
“A person determined never to be wrong won’t likely accomplish much.” —Ken Wisdom Related articles Wisdom vs Knowledge (naydanielle.wordpress.com) Discovering Wisdom Through Practice (metaphyzgirl.wordpress.com) 3. Proverbs 1:1-6 The Personality Of Wisdom part 3 v.2 (stevemidkiff.wordpress.com) James 3: Doing Wisdom (kingdomnewtestament.wordpress.com) Words of Wisdom (auntymoggsblog.wordpress.com) Whats the Point of Wisdom in Business Intelligence? (b-eye-network.com) Wisdom (joequatronejr.wordpress.com)
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Margaret J. Wheatley: Aggression
“Aggression only moves in one direction – it creates more aggression. ” —Margaret J. Wheatley.
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Service
“Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ” —Shirley Chisholm
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Jane Austen: Voluntary spies
“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ” —Jane Austen.
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Time
“Time is not a line, but a series of now-points. ” —Taisen Deshimaru
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Ed Parker: Intelligent man
“The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. ” —Ed Parker. Related articles Some Great Martial Arts Quotes (tricitymartialartsblog.com)
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Purpose of business
“The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. ” —Leo Burnett Related articles would you make leo burnett proud? (brandflakesforbreakfast.com)
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Mark Twain: Faith
“Your faith is what you believe, not what you know. ” —Mark Twain.
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Hope, passion and skills
“Just having hope ain’t going to cut it. You’ve got to have hope, passion and skills. ” —Tim Reid
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Leadership
“You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ” Gene Mauch
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Cicero: Decisions, decisions, decisions
“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.” —Cicero
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Kurt Vonnegut: Voce populi
“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say. ” —Kurt Vonnegut.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: It worked
“It worked,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer after witnessing the first atomic detonation.
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Byron Pulsifer: Be brilliant and thoughtful
If you cannot be silent be brilliant and thoughtful. —Byron Pulsifer.
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George Bancroft: No authority
“Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. ” —George Bancroft
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But who is to guard the guards themselves?
“But who is to guard the guards themselves” —Juvenal
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Praise
“The sweetest of all sounds is praise. ” —Xenophon
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Jesse Jackson: Tears and sweat
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. ” —Jesse Jackson.
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William Penn: Patience and diligence
“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ”—William Penn.
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Think no evil….
“Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. ” —Logan Pearsall Smith
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Philip Emeagwali: Interest
“I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me. ” —Philip Emeagwali.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas: Penance
“Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. ” —Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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Steve Jobs: Secondary
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you…
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Rene Descartes: Candles in the wind
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ” —Rene Descartes. Related articles Rene Descartes on the Dependency of Man and the Independency of God (jdylanparker.wordpress.com) Descartes Knew More Than He Thought (wmbriggs.com) Descartes Got It Wrong (intermittentlyknownlife.wordpress.com)
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Albert Einstein: Fish climbing trees
“Everyone is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” —Albert Einstein.
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Kevin Nelson: Every day
“Every day is a good day when you run.” ~Kevin Nelson, author and runner.
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Oscar Wilde: Saints and sinners
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” —Oscar Wilde.
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William Arthur Ward: Encouragement
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.” —William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994).
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Robert H Schuller: Winning
“Winning starts with beginning. ” Robert H. Schuller
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Margaret J. Wheatley: Magnetic
“Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us. ” —Margaret J. Wheatley.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Belief and unbelief
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Albert Einstein: Simplest way
“God always takes the simplest way.” —Albert Einstein. Related articles Albert Einstein famously said that “politics is more difficult than physics.” …Union of Concerned Scientists (ynative77.wordpress.com) Albert Einstein’s 10 Biggest Scientific Mistakes [Daily 10] (io9.com) Einstein (therightglass.wordpress.com) Einstein And The Mind of God (panokroko.wordpress.com) Einstein on radio (johndcook.com)
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Reasoning it out…
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” -Marcel Pagnol
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: How and why
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some,…
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Symptom rather than cause
Too often, look and feel, color scheme, layout, and identity are presented as solutions to problems discussed in these conversations long before regard is given to other less-aesthetic issues that may very well be the root of the problem. The old warning against treating symptom rather than cause comes to mind. – Cameron Moll
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The Wolf and the Lamb
A WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice,…
