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A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Somewhere, Somewhere, something great something great is waiting to be is waiting to be knownknown Carl SaganCarl Sagan
The brain can only absorb what The brain can only absorb what
the seat can endure.the seat can endure. AnonymousAnonymous
A lie can travel half way around the world before truth can put its pants on.
Mark Twain
Question the answersQuestion the answersBumper stickerBumper sticker
Question the questionsQuestion the questionsZuhair SuidanZuhair Suidan
Success is a journey,Success is a journey,not a destination.not a destination.
AnonymousAnonymous
Nothing great is Nothing great is ever achieved ever achieved without without enthusiasm.enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson
Luck happens Luck happens when preparation when preparation meets opportunity.meets opportunity.
SenecaSeneca
Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
Mitch: What? Your finger???Mitch: What? Your finger???
Curly: Just one thing…Curly: Just one thing…
Mitch: What is it?… What’s the ONE thing?Mitch: What is it?… What’s the ONE thing?
Curly: That’s for you to figure out. Once you Curly: That’s for you to figure out. Once you figure it out, then nothing else means *@#%&... figure it out, then nothing else means *@#%&...
City Slickers movie
Scene with Jack Palance and Billy Crystal
If you want to If you want to double your double your success rate, success rate, just double your just double your failure rate.failure rate.
Tom Watson
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my careercareer
I’ve lost almost 300 gamesI’ve lost almost 300 games
26 times I’ve been trusted to take the 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the winning shot and missedwinning shot and missed
I’ve Failed I’ve Failed over and over again in over and over again in my life.my life.
And that’s whyAnd that’s why I Succeed I SucceedMichael Jordan
Success isn’t Success isn’t measured by the measured by the position you reach position you reach in life…in life…
It is measured by It is measured by the obstacles you the obstacles you overcome.overcome.
Danny ManningDanny Manning
Life is a daring adventure Life is a daring adventure – or nothing.– or nothing.
Helen KellerHelen Keller
I cannot live I cannot live without books.without books.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson
The older I get, The older I get,
the better I used to bethe better I used to be
Connie ‘The Hawk’ HawkinsConnie ‘The Hawk’ Hawkins
A halo needs to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
Anonymous
Wealth lost, something lost;
Honor lost, much lost;
Courage lost, all lost.
German proverb
Judge a man by his Judge a man by his questions, rather questions, rather than his answersthan his answers
VoltaireVoltaire
Paz con hambre no dura*.
Painted on wall in Bogota, Columbia
* Peace with hunger does not endure.
If the human brain was so If the human brain was so simple that we could simple that we could understand it, we would be understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.so simple that we couldn’t.
Emerson Pugh
Life can only be Life can only be understood understood backwards, backwards, but it must be lived but it must be lived forwards.forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
When everyone else When everyone else is looking for gold, is looking for gold, it’s good to be in the it’s good to be in the pick and shovel pick and shovel
business.business. Mark TwainMark Twain
The truth is more The truth is more important than important than the facts. the facts.
FrankFrank LloydLloyd WrightWright
You can't be a vegetarian
only between meals,
and you can't be a pacifist
only between wars.
Kathy Kelly
A MIND TEASER:
There are three extremely bright men seeking the hand of Ms. Sweet Mensa. Sweet loves her men smart, but cannot decide which one of the three is the smartest. Consequently, she proposes a test. Sweet places a mark on each man’s forehead and tells them that each of them has either a blue mark or a red mark. She instructs them to raise their hand if they see a blue mark on either of the other two. The first man to determine what color his mark is, and explain how he arrived at that conclusion will have her hand in marriage. Each man raised his hand, and a few moments later, one of them had the answer. What color was the winner’s mark and how did he know?
ANSWER (click here to see it more clearly):
Since all three men raised their hands, the winner knew there could only be two possibilities. There had to be two blue and one red mark, or three blue marks. If there was a red mark on any forehead, the two men with the blue marks would each see a red and a blue mark and know immediately that his had to be a blue mark since all three raised their hands. The smartest man deduced that since nobody answered immediately all three marks must be blue.
A MIND TEASER:
Use each of the following numbers and symbols
once and only once to come up with a valid
equation:
2 3 4 5 + =
Can you come up with a second valid equation?
The best things in life The best things in life aren’t things.aren’t things.
Art BuchwaldArt Buchwald
You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.
Sidney Friedman
A Harvard MBA and an encyclopedic A Harvard MBA and an encyclopedic knowledge of management manifestos knowledge of management manifestos can get you only so far. The real can get you only so far. The real challenges executives face are the ones challenges executives face are the ones you simply can’t study for – those you simply can’t study for – those unexpected tests of endurance, unexpected tests of endurance, patience, and wit that make or break a patience, and wit that make or break a company. company.
Business 2.0 12/03Business 2.0 12/03
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
Dr. Martin Luther King
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.
The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed.
If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Mark Twain
Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.
Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna
The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.
Sir Winston Churchill
When you choose to live in gratitude, your cup is always full.
Joe Momyer
Sleep footballSleep footballDrink footballDrink football
Eat sausageEat sausage
Wisconsin bumper stickerWisconsin bumper sticker
You can count on You can count on the Americans to the Americans to always do the right always do the right thing after doing all thing after doing all the wrong things.the wrong things.
Sir Winston ChurchillSir Winston Churchill
When two men in When two men in business always business always agree, one of them is agree, one of them is unnecessary.unnecessary.
William Wrigley Jr.William Wrigley Jr.
No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
George Patton
Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be careful what dreams Be careful what dreams you have, for dreams you have, for dreams come true.come true.
AnonymousAnonymous
There is a loftier ambition than There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world.to stand high in the world.
It is to stoop down and lift It is to stoop down and lift
mankind a little highermankind a little higher
AnonymousAnonymous
There is no charm so great There is no charm so great as the charm of a cheerful as the charm of a cheerful temperament. temperament.
AnonymousAnonymous
Never pick a fight with Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the someone who buys ink by the barrel.barrel.
An old sawAn old saw
The most effective way to The most effective way to cope with change is to help cope with change is to help create it.create it.
AnonymousAnonymous
Being broke is a condition. Being broke is a condition.
Being poor is a state of mind.Being poor is a state of mind.AnonymousAnonymous
Speaking the truthSpeaking the truthin times of universal in times of universal deceit is a deceit is a revolutionary act.revolutionary act.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell
Life is like a toilet paper roll.Life is like a toilet paper roll.It keeps going faster as you It keeps going faster as you approach the end.approach the end.
AnonymousAnonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.sophistication.
Asian sayingAsian saying
The definition of The definition of insanity is doing the insanity is doing the same thing over and same thing over and over and expecting over and expecting different results.different results.
Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein
Twenty years from now you Twenty years from now you will regret the things you will regret the things you didn’t do more than the didn’t do more than the things you did, so throw off things you did, so throw off the bow line, sail away from the bow line, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, trade winds in your sails, EXPLORE, DREAM, EXPLORE, DREAM, DISCOVERDISCOVER, because , because that’s what life is all aboutthat’s what life is all about
Mark TwainMark Twain
Vision without action Vision without action is a daydream; is a daydream; action without vision action without vision is a nightmare.is a nightmare.
Japanese proverbJapanese proverb
