"It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different"
- John Templeton
3 things... lack of others
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
-William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962)
..learn to tap
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
-Sophia Loren, actor and singer (b. 20 Sep 1934)
..corrupted and weakened by
Very few established institutions, governments, and constitutions ... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
-Walter Lippmann, journalist (1889-1974)
something never done...
"Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before."
- Shigeo Shingo
...used to do
"A spaghetti chart is a map that shows the tangled and inefficient paths that are used to do a job."
- Mike Rother
...not to give
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)
No greatness...
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
-Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)
The Toyota Style...
The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says, "there is no limit to people's creativity." People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.
- Taiichi Ohno
..next generation
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
-Claude Pepper, senator and representative (1900-1989)
...burn none at all
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
-Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate (1862-1949)
No yesterdays...
When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
-William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
Poem was a whisper...
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
-Rita Dove, poet (b. 28 Aug 1952)
Foundation and markers
"Trust is the foundation of everything, milestones are just markers along the way"
...about answering
"Anyone can be a leader; in their home, business, community. It's about answering the call."
- Tony Robbins
Rightness of a thing
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
-Mary Renault, novelist (1905-1983)
Something to take & give
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
-Sarah Orne Jewett, poet and novelist (1849-1909)
...cause for prejudice
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
-George D. Aiken, US senator (1892-1984)
Greatest Asset & Resource
"Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time."
- Brian Tracy, Canadian American Author & Speaker
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