Insights #77

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." - Bill Bradley

"Change before you have to." - Jack Welch

"Change will not come if we wait for som e other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - President Barack Obama

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them." - Orison Swett Marden

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes." - Zig Ziglar

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates

"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world." - George Bernard Shaw

"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions." - Peter Drucker

"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do." - Stephen Covey

"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller

"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions." - Earl Gray Stevens

And finally...

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't." - Steve Martin

"Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!" - Steve Martin

Quotes #76

"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thought upon the unthinking." - Maynard Keynes "

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention" - Herbert Simon

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve

"When the world says, 'Give up,' hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.' " - Author Unknown

"If you act as though it matters, and it doesn't matter - then it doesn't matter. If you act as if it doesn't matter, and it does - then it matters!" - Harlan Cleveland

"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human." - Anthony Robbins

And finally...

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

Insights, Axioms & Nuggets... #75

"Respect is love in plain clothes." - Frankie Byrnes

"Our consistent thinking patterns create our experience. By changing our thinking we also change our experience." - Suzi Gablik

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours." - Ayn Rand

"Your life is an occasion; rise to it." - Dustin Hoffman in "Mr. Magorium"

"This is our destiny." - Jamal (Slumdog Millionaire)

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - Alfred North Whitehead

"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier." - Roy Disney

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

"New ideas are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." - John Locke

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed." - Harvey S. Firestone

"Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind." - Debbie Coulter

And finally...

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain

"Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you." - Winston Churchill

Insights... #74

"There is no secret ingredient. There is only you." - Kung Fu Panda

"Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (First Inaugural Address, 1933)

"We are all in the process of becoming." - Audre Lorde

"It takes a long time to grow young." - Pablo Picasso

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." - Abraham Lincoln

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth." - Baha'u'llah

"The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment." - William Arthur Ward

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." - G.K. Chesterton

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." - Bruce Barton

"You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit." - Truman by David McCullough

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." - Chili Davis

And finally...

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." - Charles Schulz

Lines, ideas & nuggets #73

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad." - Salvador Dali

"When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion." - African Proverb

"Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable." - Zig Ziglar

"Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give." - Edwin Arlington Robinson

"It always seems impossible until its done." - Nelson Mandela "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller

"Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul." - William Hazlitt

"Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day." - Author Unknown

"We need not think alike to love alike." - Francis David

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%." - Andrew Carnegie

"What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity." - Father Andre

And finally...

"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from." - Eddie Izzard

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun)." - Eddie Izzard

Insights, Axioms & Fragments #72

"While culture and technology are cumulative, innate intelligence is not." - Ronald Wright

"Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt." - Orlando A. Battista

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality" - Joe Paterno

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." - Peter F. Drucker

"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you." - African Proverb

"Without passion, man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom." - Mark Twain

"The best days go fastest. Keep up." - Sign at Starbucks

"Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them." - Josie Bisset

"In the absence of anything better, I am going to resort to the truth." - Simon Remo

"If you knew the secret history of those you would like to punish you would find a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm, all your hostility." - HW Longfellow

"Within sorrow is grace. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature." - Wayne Muller

And finally and somewhat pertinently...

"Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?" - George Carlin

Insights, Axioms and Aphorisms...#71

“No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.” - Zig Zigla

“Hello darkness. My old friend.” - Art Garfunkel & Paul Simon.

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” - Colin Powell

“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.” - Pablo Picasso

“Chance favors only the prepared mind.” - "Louis Pasteur

“The best part of creating a symphony is being able to see the whole of it at a single glance in my mind.” - Mozart

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” - Pablo Picasso

“If strategists think only in spreadsheets, how much use of imagination can we expect?” - Jeanne Liedtka and Robert Friedel

“Instead of protecting aircraft from over the shoulder missiles and terrorism at the cost of $20bio ($1mio per plane) - think differently was the strategy. Protect the airports instead was the outcome at a cost of $2bio!" - Raytheon Project Vigilant Eagle

“IKEA's strategy was completely by accident, today we would call it co-creation. The original store was so understaffed that frustrated customers would wander off and get the stuff themselves. The genius is in the fact that they were open to this possibility and imagined the future" - Observed

“Integrative thinking shows us a way past the binary limits of 'either/or'. It shows us that their is a way to integrate the advantages of one solution without cancelling out the advantages of an alternative solution, affording us, in the words of poet Wallace Stevens, "the choice not between, but of.” - Roger Martin

“In following a single hypothesis, the mind is led to a single explanatory conception. But an adequate explanation often involves the coordination of several agencies, which enter into the combined result in various proportions. The true explanation is therefore necessarily complex. Such complex explanations of phenomena are specially encouraged by the method of multiple hypotheses, and constitute one of its chief merits." - Thomas Chamberlain

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

And finally...

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx


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