Never
discourage anyone . . . who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato
(Children)
Train
up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from
it.
- Old Testament
Let
early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out
the natural bent.
- Plato
Education
is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Treat
your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Be
sure to get enough sleep and rest, since fatigue can reduce your ability to cope
with stress. Eat regular,
well-balanced meals with enough variety to assure good nutrition and enough
complex carbohydrates (starchy foods) to guarantee a ready energy reserve.
Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for
breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper. . . . Revitalize through
exercise. . . . Exercise enhances, rather than saps your energy; it also has a
distinct relaxing effect.
- Jane E. Brody
You
only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored
and therefore tired of doing nothing . . . . Get interested in something!
Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be
somebody! Do something . . . . The more you lose yourself in something
bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), clergyman and writer
We
have more days to live through than pleasures.
Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with
pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
Enjoyment
is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
- Paul Goodman
There
are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that,
to enjoy it. Only the wisest of
mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
You
can do anything with enthusiasm. Enthusiasm
is the yeast that makes your hope rise to the stars.
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, it is the swing in your gait, the
grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to
execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters.
They have fortitude. They
have staying qualities. Enthusiasm
is at the bottom of all progress. With
it there is accomplishment. Without
it there are only alibis.
- Henry Ford
The
entrepreneurial function, he wrote, “does not essentially consist in either
inventing anything or otherwise creating the conditions which the enterprise
exploits. It consists in getting
things done” right down to “making a success of a particular kind of sausage
or toothbrush.”
Each
of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity.
But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own
hart.
- Luigi Pirandello
Never
open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in
after it.
- Baltasar Gracian
If
you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Example
is better than precept
- Aesop's Fables
Let
him that would move the world first move himself.
Example is not the main thing in influencing
others. It is the only thing.
- Albert
Schweitzer
Just
make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for
quality . . . that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything
that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of
excellence.
- Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924), editor, Success
magazine
Nor
deem the irrevocable past
As wholly wasted, wholly vain
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To
know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
- Chinese proverb
The
desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
- John Le Carre, Writer
A
proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
- Miguel de Cervantes
An
expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow
field.
- Neils Bohr (1885-1962), Physicist and Nobel laureate
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