Sunday, February 28, 2010

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Washington Irving

There is in every woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Don't be afraid to assign a person more than they deem themselves capable of. Make them rise to the occassion. In this way you compel them to discover fresh resources both in themselves and others, thus enlarging the capacity of all and binding the group together for the reward.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Jane Howard

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Monday, February 22, 2010

George Washington

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." Happy Birthday Mr. Washington

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Booker T. Washington

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life."

Saturday, February 20, 2010

... if force must be employed with a subordinate, take care that it be minimal. If I tell you to do something and hold a gun to your head and you do it you will say "he made me do it, I had not choice." But if I only suggest and you comply, then you must own your compliance and, owning it, stand by it.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Bob Hope

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."

Thursday, February 18, 2010

John Abrams

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Herodotus

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their son's.

Monday, February 15, 2010

The chameleon they say, may turn every color but white.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Happy Valentines Day

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Charles Schwab

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things."

Friday, February 12, 2010

Sam Levenson

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Sir Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Happy Birthday To ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Steven Pressfield - The Tides of War

A soldier must not own too much imagination. In victory it overheats his ambition; in defeat it infames his fears. A bave man possessed of imagination will not be brave long.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Clarence Darrow

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Emo Philips

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Harold Wilson

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Friday, February 5, 2010

...to he extent to which a man unites his self-conception to his flesh, to that measure will he be a villain. To the extent he unites it with his woul, he will be divine.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Don Marquis

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed

Monday, February 1, 2010

Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."