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2009 QUOTES

 

ON FAILURE*

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed
than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
~ Woodrow Wilson (posted 2/25/10)

Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.
~ Winston Churchill (posted 2/24/10)

Failure is instructive. The person who really
thinks learns quite as much from his
failures as from his successes.
~ John Dewey (posted 02/23/10)

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure
until he begins to blame somebody else.
~ John Burroughs (posted 01/19/10)

When all is said and done, success without
happiness is the worst kind of failure.
~ Louis Binstock (posted 02/18/10)

We fall forward to succeed.
~ Mary Kay Ash (posted 02/15/10)

"Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own,"
he said. "Don't put limitations on yourself.
Other people will do that for you...
failure has to be an option in art
and exploration because
it's a leap of faith.
"In whatever you're doing,
failure is an option,
but fear is not."
~James Cameron,
"Avatar" creator (posted 02/14/10)

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
~ Robert Schuller (posted 02/12/10)

There is no comparison between that which is lost
by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.
~ Francis Bacon (posted 02/11/10)

Winners lose more than losers.
~ Terry Paulson (posted 02/10/10)

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently. 
~Henry Ford (posted 02/08/10)

A garden is always a series of losses set
against a few triumphs, like life itself.
~ May Sarton (posted 02/05/10)

There are no failures - just experiences
and your reactions to them
~ Tom Krause (posted 02/04/10)

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
~ Sven Goran Eriksson (posted 02/03/10)

If you are not big enough to lose,
you are not big enough to win
~ Walter Reuther (posted 02/02/10)

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
~ Elbert Hubbard (posted 01/22/10)

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions
I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed.
And I have failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed.
~ Michael Jordan (posted 01/19/10)

*A front desk receptionist shared with me about her husband's love for bonsai. He had lost some bonsai over the years to weather up north. Since moving to Florida, he has lost a lot more due to the warmer climate. But his 30-year love for bonsai is as strong as ever. I too like bonsai. I quit after I lost a few. I was afraid to lose another.

 

ON TRUE SUCCESS

"Don't aim for success if you want it;
just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
~ David Frost (posted 12/04/09)

“Success builds character, failure reveals it”
~ Dave Checkett (posted 12/02/09)

“God doesn't require us to succeed;
he only requires that you try”
~ Mother Teresa (posted 11/17/09)

“If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get the other person's
point of view and see things from that person's
angle as well as from your own.”
~ Henry Ford (posted 11/10/09)

“Success is doing ordinary things
extraordinarily well.”
~ Jim Rohn (posted 11/02/09)

“Success is 99 percent failure”
~ Soichiro Honda (posted 10/21/09)

“Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing,
you will be successful.”
~ Herman Cain (posted 10/20/09)

 

ON GENTLE LEADERSHIP

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more
powerful than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
~ Henry David Thoreau (posted 10/06/09)

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own;
and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave,
it is but a succession of changes so gentle and
easy that we can scarcely
mark their progress."
~ Charles Dickens (posted 10/05/09)

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi (posted 10/02/09)

“Through patience a ruler can be persuaded,
and a gentle tongue can break a bone."
~ Proverbs 25:15 (posted 10/01/09)

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can
only be expected from the strong.”
~ Leo F. Buscaglia (posted 09/30/09)

“The finest workers in stone are not copper
or steel tools, but the gentle touches
of air and water working at their
leisure with a liberal
allowance of time.”
~ Henry David Thoreau (posted 09/24/09)

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
nothing so gentle as real strength”
~ St. Francis de Sales (posted 09/14/09)

 

QUOTE: LIFE'S PLEASURES

"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought.
Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled
by unexpected sparks. "
~ Samuel Johnson (posted 09/10/09)

"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure
than uniformity of something."
~ Jean Paul (posted 09/08/09)

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action
by stealth and have it found out by accident."
~ Charles Lamb (posted 09/01/09)

"True artists are almost the only men
who do their work for pleasure."
~ Auguste Rodin (posted 08/28/09)

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life,
a dichotomy in which you hate what you do
so you can have pleasure in your spare
time. Look for a situation in which
your work will give you as much
happiness as your spare time."
~ Pablo Picasso (posted 08/26/09)

"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure,
stop trying to balance them. Instead make
your work more pleasurable."
~ Donald Trump (posted 08/26/09)

“Simple pleasures are always the
last refuge of the complex”
~ Oscar Wilde (posted 08/21/09)

“He who eats with most pleasure is
he who least requires sauce”
~ Xenophon (posted 08/20/09)

“The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it,
and not according to the work or the place”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (posted 08/19/09)

“Most men pursue pleasure with such
breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
~ Soren Kierkegaard (posted 08/18/09)

“No one can read with profit that which he
cannot learn to read with pleasure.”
~ Thomas Hardy (posted 08/17/09)

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
~ Aristotle (posted 08/13/09)

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr (posted 08/12/09)

 

 

QUOTES ON PRACTICE**

"For every pass I caught in a game,
I caught a thousand in practice."
~ Don Hutson (posted August 9, 2009)

"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
~ Aristotle (posted July 29, 2009)

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is."
~ Yogi Berra (posted July 24, 2009)

"The formula for success is simple:
practice and concentration then
more practice and more concentration."
~ Babe Didrikson (posted on July 21, 2009)

"It's not necessarily the amount of
time you spend at practice that counts;
it's what you put into the practice."
~ Eric Lindros (posted July 20, 2009)

"If I don't practice one day, I know it;
two days, the critics know it;
three days, the public knows it. "
~ Jascha Heifetz (posted July 15, 2009)

"Failure happens all the time. It happens
every day in practice. What makes
you better is how you react to it.
~ Mia Hamm (posted July 12, 2009)

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in.
He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
~ Charles Kettering (posted July 11, 2009)

"Practice does not make perfect.
Only perfect practice makes perfect."
~ Vince Lombardi (posted July 10, 2009)

"Everything is practice."
~ Pele (posted July 8, 2009)

"If you want to shine, put in 10,000 hours."
~ Malcolm Gladwell (posted July 7, 2009)

**In his book "Outliers", the research by by Malcolm Gladwell affirms what I believe about practice and preparation with respect to success. Intelligence and talents have their place. But the nurturing process is often the tipping point.

ON DO IT NOW*

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait
a single moment before starting
to improve the world."
~ Anne Frank (posted June 30, 2009)

"Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle. "
~ Abraham Lincoln (posted June 29, 2009)

'Nothing would be done at all if one
waited until one could do it so well
that no one could find fault with it.”
~ John Henry Newman (posted June 26, 2009)

“Don't wait until everything is just right.
It will never be perfect. There will always be
challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions.
So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will
grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more
and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
~ Mark Hansen (posted June 25, 2009)

"If you wait until all the lights are "green"
before you leave home, you'll never
get started on your trip to the top."
~ Zig Ziglar (posted June 24, 2009)

“In a moment of decision,
the best thing you can do is the right thing to do.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt (posted June 23, 2009)

"Those who make the worst use of their time
are the first to complain of its shortness."
~ Jean de La Bruyère (posted June 19, 2009)

"You will never find time for anything. 
If you want time you must make it."
~ Charles Buxton (posted June 16, 2009)

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard,
and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."
~ George Lonmer (posted June 12, 2009)

"What may be done at any time
will be done at no time."
~ Scottish Proverb (posted June 11, 2009)

"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. "
~ Eva Young (posted June 10, 2009)

"Do it now! can affect every phase of your life.
It can help you do the things you should do but
don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating
when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you
do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those
precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved."
~Napoleon Hill (posted June 9, 2009)

*The passing of our family friend, Hilda Juhl, had a great impact on me. She is the most Christlike and most positive person I have ever met. She told me and Amy at many occasions that she enjoyed my singing very much and would like to hear them again even though we have moved away. I wanted to record some favorite hymns for her but took too long to do them. A month before her passing, I told myself I should do it and started recording a couple. But it was too late...

 

ON RISKS*

"When you cannot make up your mind
which of two evenly balanced courses of
action you should take - choose the bolder."
~ William Joseph Slim (posted 05/04/09)

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took
the one less traveled by, and that has
made all the difference."
~ Robert Frost (posted 04/28/09)

“I've found that luck is quite predictable.
If you want more luck, take more chances.
Be more active. Show up more often.”
~ Brian Tracy (posted 04/13/09)

“The only time you run out of chances
is when you stop taking them”.
~ Author Unknown (posted 04/10/09)

"Never let the odds keep you from doing
what you know in your heart
you were meant to do."
~ Jackson Brown (posted 04/08/09)

"We must walk consciously only part way
toward our goal and then leap in the
dark to our success."
~ Henry David Thoreau (posted 04/07/09)

"The more you seek security, the less of
it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is
that you will achieve the
security that
you desire."
~ Brian Tracy (posted 03/31/09)

"There is as much risk in doing nothing
as in doing something."
~ Trammell Crow (posted 03/30/09)

"Only those who risk going too far can
possibly find out how far they can go."
~ T. S. Eliot (posted 03/27/09)

"Twenty years from now you will be
more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the
ones you did so.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain (posted 03/25/09)

"If you don't risk anything,
you risk even more."
~ Erica Jong (posted 03/24/09)

"A ship in harbor is safe - but
that is not what ships are for."
~ John A. Shedd (posted 03/23/09)

"You'll always miss 100% of
the shots you don't take."
~ Wayne Gretzky (posted 03/20/09)

"There is no security on
this earth. Only opportunity."
~ Douglas MacArthur (posted 03/17/07)

*I'm reading a book by Dr. Ben Carson on "Taking Risks". Over the years, I have taken my fair share of risks. Generally, they are based on what I believe I need to do. I tend to see risks as opportunities that I can't afford not to seize.

 

HEALTH*

"Take care of your body.
It's the only place you have to live."
~ Jim Rohn (posted 03/06/09)

"Most people don't have a problem going
on a diet. Their problem is being
consistent on their diet.
~ Karen Sessions (posted 03/05/09)

"To eat is a necessity,
but to eat intelligently is an art."
~ La Rochefoucauld (posted 03/04/09)

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."
~ Benjamin Franklin (posted 02/27/09)

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more
good for an unhappy but otherwise
healthy adult than all the medicine
and psychology in the world."
~ Paul Dudley White (posted 02/23/09)

"Exercise is labor without weariness."
~ Samuel Johnson (posted 02/20/09)

"If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow."
~Rockefeller Institute of Medicine research
(posted 02/12/09)

"We don't have to keep God's laws
(of our body), we get to".**
~ Dr. George Guthrie (posted 02/10/09)
**The last line of his sermon at the Forest Lake Church,
culminating a weeklong Festival of Health

Those who think they have not time
for bodily exercise will sooner or
later have to find time for illness."
~ Edward Stanley (posted 02/05/09)

He who has health has hope;
and he who has hope has everything."
~ Arabic Proverb (posted 02/04/09)

"The part can never be well
unless the whole is well."
~ Plato (posted 02/02/09)

"He who takes medicine and neglects
to diet wastes the skill of his doctors." 
~ Chinese Proverb (posted 02/02/09)

“Health is not a condition
of matter, but of Mind.”
~ Mary Baker Eddy (posted 01/29/09)

“The first wealth is health.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of my favorite American Lit writers (posted 01/27/09)

*I started in the new year jog/walk on the average of an hour a day. It's not only good for my health but also a great stress reliever. I hope to run at least one marathon in the near future. It's important for me to make health an absolute priority from now on. I don't think I have a choice at my age. I can give my best only if I have the best of health.

 

Happy New Year!

“The journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step.”
~ Lao Tzu (posted Jan 19, 2009)

"One step must start each journey."
~ Anonymous (posted Jan 16, 2009)

"For last year’s words belong
to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
~ T.S. Eliot (posted Jan 14, 2008)

"You'll accomplish more if you start now."
~ From a Fortune Cookie (posted Jan 12, 2009)

"All glory comes from daring to begin."
~ Eugene Ware (posted Jan 09, 2009)

"We need a new beginning
and not an old ending.”
~ Sergey Lavrov (posted Jan 08, 2009)

"Making the beginning is
one third of the work."
~ Irish Proverb (posted Jan 07, 2009)

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
~ Maria Robinson (posted Jan 02, 2009)

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 
To rise above the little things."
~ John Burroughs (posted Jan 01, 2009)

"I think in terms of the day's
resolutions, not the year's."
~ Henry Moore (posted Dec 31, 2008)

"Never tell your resolution beforehand,
or it's twice as onerous a duty."
~ John Selden (posted Dec 30, 2008)

"Many people look forward to the new year
for a new start on old habits."
~ Author unknown (posted Dec 29, 2008)

 

 

2008 QUOTES:

ON CHRISTMAS*

"It is Christmas every time
you let God love others through you."
~ Mother Teresa (posted 12/24/08)

"Wouldn't life be worth the living
Wouldn't dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?"
~ Anonymous (posted 12/23/08)

"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
~ Oren Arnold (posted 12/22/08)

"if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under the tree."
~ Charlotte Carpenter (posted 12/18/08)

"The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom."
~ Fulton Sheen (posted 12/17/08)

"May we not 'spend' Christmas or 'observe' Christmas, but rather 'keep' it."
~ Peter Marshasll (posted 12/16/08)

"Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience."
~ Handel Brown (posted 12/15/08)

"This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ." ~ Frank McKibben (posted 12/12/08)

"Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight." ~ Author unknown (posted 12/11/08)

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'." ~ Bing Crosby (posted 12/10/08)

"Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking." ~ Patricia Clafford (posted 12/09/08)

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." ~ Charles Schulz (posted 12/08/08)

"The only blind person at Christmastime
is he who has not Christmas in his heart."
~ Helen Keller (posted 12/06/08)

"It is Christmas in the heart that
puts Christmas in the air."
 ~ W.T. Ellis (posted 12/05/08)

*The Christmas season tends to bring the child out of me. No wonder it's that time of the year that I feel closer to my children. Family and friends mean so much more as we cherish what matters more to the heart. Happy holidays to all!

 

ON THANKSGIVING*

"Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words,
and a giving in return"
~ John Wanamaker (posted 11/21/08)

"Who does not thank for little
will not thank for much"
~ Estonian Proverb (posted 11/21/08)

"Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing."
~ Zig Ziglar (posted 11/20/08)

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."
~ G. B. Stern (posted 11/19/08)

You won't be happy with more until
you're happy with what you've got.
~ Viki KIng (posted 11/17/08)

“I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God”
~ Helen Keller (posted 11/14/08)

"It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment."
~ Naomi Williams (posted 11/13/08)

"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake.
If you are not content with what
you have, you would not
be satisfied if it
were doubled."
~ Charles Spurgeon (posted 11/12/08)

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
~ Rabbi Harold Kushner (posted 11/11/08)

"People who live the most fulfilling lives
are the ones who are always
rejoicing at what they have."
~ Richard Carlson (posted 11/10/08)

"We can only be said to be alive in
those moments when our hearts
are conscious of our treasures."
~ Thornton Wilder (posted 11/07/08)

"Thanksgiving like contentment
is a learned attribute. The person
who hasn't learned to be content will
not be thankful for he lives with the
delusion he deserves more
or something better."
~Robert Flatt (posted 11/06/08)

"Not what we say about our blessings,
but how we use them, is the true
measure of our thanksgiving."
~ W.T. Purkiser (posted 11/05/08)

"Some people are always grumbling
because roses have thorns;
I am thankful that thorns have roses."
~ Alphonse Karr (posted 11/04/08)

*While contemplating what to plan for the Thanksgiving week, I turn to thoughts about counting blessings and contentment. I realize that thanksgiving is an outlook on life. It is an attitude that accompanies us in all circumstances.


ON IMAGINATION*

"See things as you would have them be
instead of as they are."
~ Robert Collier (posted 11/03/08)

"Anyone who lives within their means
suffers from a lack of imagination."
~ Oscar Wilde (posted 10/30/08)

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming,
we lose the excitement of possibilities.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
~Gloria Steinem (posted 10/28/08)

"What is now proved was once only imagined."
~ William Blake (posted 10/23/08)

"One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as they can be."
~ Denis Waitley (posted 10/22/08)

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
~ Pablo Picasso (posted 10/17/08)

“Live out of your imagination,
not your history.”
~ Stephen Covey (posted 10/16/08)

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
~ Mark Twain (posted 10/15/08)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
~ Albert Einstein (posted 10/14/08)

"Imagination will often carry
us to worlds that never were. 
But without it we go nowhere."
~ Carl Sagan (posted 10/13/08)

"Imagination is not a talent of some men
but is the health of every man."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (posted 10/12/08)

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will
continue to grow as long as there
is imagination left in the world."
~ Walt Disney (posted 10/09/08)

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
~ John Lennon (posted 10/07/08)

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." ~ Henry Thoreau (posted 10/06/08)

*After reading today's (Oct 6, 2008) online devotional passage from Charles Spurgeon, this thought came to my mind: There is no “trap” in life.  There are only mental “traps.”  No physical hold can trap one whose mind is free.  A mind that is free can imagine, visualize, and see beyond any barrier.


ON LEARNING*

"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to
one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
~ William Arthur White (posted 10/03/08)

"I forget what I was taught.
I only remember what I have learnt."
~ Patrick White (posted 10/02/08)

"A good teacher must be able to put himself
in the place of those who find learning hard."
~ Eliphas Levi (posted 10/01/08)

"Some people will never learn anything,
for this reason, because they
understand everything too soon."
~ Alexander Pope (posted 09/30/08)

"You don't understand anything
until you learn it more than one way."
~ Marvin Minsky (posted 09/29/08)

"Whoever ceases to be a student
has never been a student."
~ George Iles (posted 09/25/08)

“I never teach my pupils;
I only attempt to provide the
conditions in which they can learn.”
~ Albert Einstein (posted 09/24/08)

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~ Mahatma Ghandi (posted 09/23/08)

"What we have to learn to do,
we learn by doing."
~ Aristotle (posted 09/19/08)

"The biggest enemy to learning
is the talking teacher."
~ John Holt (posted 09/18/08)

"We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it than we
do from learning the answer itself."
~ Lloyd Alexander (posted 09/16/08)

"I have never in my life learned anything
from any man who agreed with me."
~ Dudley Field Malone (posted 09/15/08)

*The start of a new academic year is a good time to ponder about learning. It's important to BE a "learning" person throughout one's life, especially when one gets older.

 

on PERSPECTIVE*

"The eye sees only what the mind
is prepared to comprehend."
~ Henri Bergson (posted 09/11/08)

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
~ Marcel Proust (posted 09/10/08)

"If you look at your life one way,
there is always cause for alarm."
~ Elizabeth Bowen (posted 09/09/08)

"What the caterpillar calls the end,
the rest of the world calls a butterfly."
~ Lao-tsu (posted 09/08/08)

"Complete possession is proved only
by giving. All you are unable
to give possesses you."
~ Andre Gide (posted 09/05/08)

"Some men see things as they
are and ask why.  Others dream
things that never were and ask why not."
~ George Bernard Shaw (posted 09/04/08)

"In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting;
there are only uninterested people."
~ Brooks Atkinson (posted 09/03/08)

"What we see depends
mainly on what we look for."
~ John Lubbock (posted 08/29/08)

"When one door closes another door
opens; but we so often look so long
and so regretfully upon the
closed door, that we do not
see the ones which open for us."
~ Alexander Graham Bell (posted 08/28/08)

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
~ Winsdon Churchill (posted 08/27/08)

"If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail."
~ Abraham Maslow (posted 08/25/08)

*Tropical Storm Fay brought a lot of water damage to Central Florida this past week. This is our first experience with a significant named storm since we moved here. Although living in Florida is nice, we need to put things in perspective during the hurricane season, which is stormy and hot. Some folks here told me that it's the flipside of Minnesota.
~08/25/08


on BEIJING OLYMPICS

"Winning is only half of it.
Having fun winning is the other half."
~ Bum Philips (posted 08/22/08)

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something
they have deep inside them --
a desire, a dream, a vision."
~ Muhammad Ali (posted 08/21/08)

"Sports do not build character.
They reveal it."
~ Heywood Hale Broun (poste 08/20/08)

"You can't put a limit on anything.
The more you dream, the farther you get."
~ Michael Phelps, the greatest Olympian
(posted 08/19/08)

"The most important thing in the
Olympic Games is not winning but
taking part; the essential thing in life
is not conquering but fighting well."
~ Pierre de Coubertin, Founder of
Modern Olympics (posted 08/18/08)

"Failure lies concealed in every success,
and success in every failure."
~ Eckhart Tolle (posted 08/15/08)

"Many of life's failures are people
who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up."
~ Thomas Edison (posted 08/14/08)

"Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position."
~ Theodore Roosevelt (posted 08/13/08)

"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
(posted 08/08/08 - The auspicious day of 3 "8s"
& the Opening Day of Beijing Olympics)


on SIMPLICITY

"Life is really simple, but we insist
on making it complicated."
~ Confucius (posted 08/07/08)

“Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.”
 ~ David Lewis (posted 08/05/08)

"Genius is the ability to reduce
the complicated to the simple."
 ~ C.W. Ceram (posted 08/04/08)

"Simplicity is an exact medium
between too little and too much."
~ Sir Joshua Reynolds (posted 08/01/08)

"The obvious is that which is never seen
until someone expresses it simply."
~ Kahlil Gibran (posted 07/31/08)

"It is proof of high culture to say the
greatest matters in the simplest way."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (posted on 07/30/08)

"Make everything as simple as possible,
but not simpler " -- Albert Einstein
(postged on July 29, 2008)

"Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are. 
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you"
-- Lao Tzu, my favorite philosopher
(posted on July 28, 2008)

"The ability to simplify means
to eliminate the unnecessary
so that the necessary may speak"
-- Hans Hofmann (posted on July 25, 2008)

"Simplicity is making the journey of this
life with just baggage enough”
-- Charles Dudley Warner (posted on July 24, 2008)

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
-- Leonard da Vinci (posted on July 23, 2008)