Archives for the 'QOTD' Category
Quotes - March 17 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.” —Janet Erskine Stuart
“With more success, comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them.” —Mark Victor Hansen
“Challenge everything you do. Expand your [...]
Quotes - March 10 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen R. Covey
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” —Albert Einstein
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” —Mark Twain
“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.” —Henry David Thoreau
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Quotes - March 3 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“If you know what to do to reach your goal, it’s not a big enough goal.” —Bob Proctor
“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. It is what you would like life to become. A goal is what, specifically, you intend to make happen. Goals should be just out of your [...]
Quotations - February 25 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.” —Frederick e. Crane
“Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.” [...]
Quotes - February 18 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. There’s no such thing as life in-between.” —Pat Riley
“A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.” —Nido Qubein
“I was taught that the way of [...]
Quotes - January 28 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.” —Elizabeth T. King
“If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” —Maya Angelou
“Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is [...]
Quotes - January 21 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.” —Mother Teresa
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell’em, ‘certainly I can!’ - and get busy and find out how to do it.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Beginning is half done!” —Denis Waitley
“The fact is, that to do [...]
Quotes - January 14 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.” —Jean Anouilh
“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.’” —William Hazlitt
“Do [...]
Quotes - January 7 [Ian's Messy Desk]
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John C. Maxwell
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.” —Oscar Wilde
“A leader is best when people barley know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We [...]
Do You Have Any Predictions for 2008? [Ian's Messy Desk]
Just make sure they are better than these:
“Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.” —Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus, A.D. 100
“The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.” —John Eric Ericksen, surgeon to Queen Victoria, [...]