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)

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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)

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• "The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough" -- Randy Pauch, the Cornell professor who gave the "Last Lecture" (posted on July 21, 2008)
• "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves" -- Abraham Lincoln (posted on July13, 2008)
• "What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life" -- Leo Buscaglia (posted on June 10, 2008)
• "Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power" --Stephen Covey (posted on June 10, 2008)
• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it" -- Theodore Roosevelt (posted on June 9, 2008)
• “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" -- Winston Churchill, one of my favorite world leaders (posted on June 5, 2008)
• "Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest" -- E. G. White (posted on May 30, 2008)
• "Motivation will almost always beat mere talent" -- Norman Augustine (posted on May 26, 2008)
• "The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning" -- Oprah Winfrey (posted on May 19, 2008)
• "A minute's success pays the failure of years" -- Robert Browning (posted on May 6, 2008)
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” -- Marcel Proust (posted on April 20, 2008)
• "Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited" -- C.S. Lewis (posted on April 11, 2008)
• "The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men" -- Havelock Ellis (posted on April 4, 2008)
  
• "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do" -- Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple (posted on March 27, 2008)
  
• "If you know, recognize that you know,
  If you don't know, then realize that you don't know: That is knowledge" -- Confucius (posted on March 25, 2008)
• "Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food" -- Confucius (posted on March 21, 2008)
• "Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it” --
  Charles Swindoll, my favorite radio preacher (posted on March 13, 2008)
• "We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning" -- Elliott Masie (posted on March 5, 2008)
• "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods" -- C.S. Lewis (posted on Feb 29, 2008)
• “Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat” -- Caroline Schoeder (posted on Feb 15, 2008)
• "Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse" -- Nigerian proverb (posted on Feb 4, 2008)
• "I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn" -- Albert Einstern (posted Jan 30, 2008)
• "Learning is not taught" -- Nicholas Negroponte (posted on Jan 28, 2008)
• "When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us" -- Helen Keller (posted on Jan 16, 2008)
• "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun" -- Thomas Edison (posted on Jan 15, 2008)
• "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness" -- Charles Spurgeon (posted on Jan 13, 2008)
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character" -- Albert Einstein (posted Jan 8, 2008)
• "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most significant success is achieved" -- Anne Sullivan (posted Jan 4, 2008)