"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
Thomas H. Huxley
"...conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference."
-- Ronald Heifetz
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
-- Annie Dillard
"When you speak of someone or about someone, you should speak as though they were in the room with you. The ears that you speak to today are attached to the mouth that could relay the message tomorrow."
William 'Biddy' Allen
Definition of wealth
"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."
Samuel Johnson
"Life is what happens to us when we are making other plans"
-Thomas la Mance
"So it is, life is actually made up of our choices. We are the sum total of them, and if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success."
Delma Neeley
The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
A. J. Cronin
(Overcome your fear of public speaking, and WIN!!)
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
-- Erica Jong