"Believe you can, then you will."
~ Mulan
..no one observes
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
-Anthony Trollope, novelist (1815-1882)
Power of team
"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team."
- Reid Hoffman
must be earned
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.
- Naval Ravikant
Teaching children
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
- Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)
Supreme Lesson
a supreme lesson my mother taught me: |
"What's yours is yours Robin, and what's not yours will never be yours."
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rich & poor
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
- Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
ultimate sophistication
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
birds in cages
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
-Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)
More & Less likely
The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.
- Taiichi Ohno
Blur the line...
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
-Arnold J. Toynbee, historian (1889-1975)
Single Sentence
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
-Scott Turow, author and lawyer (b. 12 Apr 1949)
5 Magic Words
The words you deploy can be weapons of mass inspiration.
"I CAN get this done,"
- Robin Sharma
progress is future...
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
- Khalil Gibran
Exerting Strength
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
-Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (1856-1915)
change them yourself
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol
Always fashionable...
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
- Amelia Barr, novelist (1831-1919)
...novel by people
History is a novel whose author is the people.
-Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (1797-1863)
string our experiences
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
-Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Worry and Joy
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Continuous improvement
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date.
..no compassion?
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
-Anne McCaffrey, writer (1926-2011)
Walking lexicons
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
-Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933)
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