QOTD October 31 2009
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Tryon Edwards: “The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.”
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QOTD October 22 2009
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Chinese Proverb: “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
QOTD October 20 2009
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Robert Louis Stevenson: “The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.”
QOTD October 13 2009
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009William Raspberry: “Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction – the things that constitute real success – is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.”
QOTD October 9 2009
Friday, October 9th, 2009Jerry Chin: “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”
QOTD September 28 2009
Monday, September 28th, 2009Jawaharlal Nehru: “Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
QOTD September 22 2009
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Morrie Schwartz: “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
QOTD September 16 2009
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Sylvia Robinson: “Some think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.”
QOTD September 9 2009
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Thich Nhat Hanh: “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
QOTD August 31 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009Robert Louis Stevenson: “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
QOTD August 25 2009
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Leonardo da Vinci: “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
QOTD August 18 2009
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Hugh Macleod: “The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.”
QOTD August 13 2009
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Adam Curry: “There Are No Secrets, Only Information You Don’t Yet Have”
QOTD August 9 2009
Sunday, August 9th, 2009Malcolm Gladwell: “We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
QOTD August 4 2009
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Michael Patrick King: “Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it’s comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you’re very lucky, a plane ride away.”
QOTD July 25 2009
Saturday, July 25th, 2009Amber Deckers: “Never regret something that once made you smile.”
QOTD July 20 2009
Monday, July 20th, 2009Howard Thurman: “Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive… then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
QOTD July 10 2009
Friday, July 10th, 2009Liz Friedman: “If you really want to do something, you do it. You don’t save it for a sound bite.”
QOTD July 3 2009
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Cecil B. DeMille: “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.”
QOTD June 25 2009
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Eddie Cantor: “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
