Growing wiser on the wisdom (or stupidity) of others
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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Augusten Burroughs on Being Flawed

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions." -- Augusten Burroughs

Thanks to Doug, who found this one at http://familyhoodchurch.blogspot.com/2007/06/day-of-small-things.html

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Crow Nation Chief on White Man's Religion

"Their wise ones said we might have their religion, but when we tried to understand it we found that there were too many kinds of religion among white men for us to understand, and that scarcely any two white men agreed which was the right one to learn. This bothered us a good deal until we saw that the white man did not take his religion any more seriously than he did his laws, and that he kept both of them just behind him, like helpers, to use when they might do him good in his dealings with strangers." -- Plenty-Coups (1848-1932), a chief of the Crow Nation (extract from his autobiography), via http://kendallball.com/2007/06/21/and-the-truth-shall-set-you-free/

Thanks to Doug, who found this one at http://familyhoodchurch.blogspot.com/2007/06/day-of-small-things.html

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Charles Schulz's new philosophy

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time." -- Charles M. Schulz

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Charles Wadsworth with perspectives on fatherhood

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." -- Charles Wadsworth, via "By Ken Levine - Happy Father's Day"

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Shakespeare on wise fathers

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -- William Shakespeare, via "By Ken Levine > Happy Father's Day"

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Bill Cosby's advice for American fathers

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby, via "By Ken Levine - Happy Father's Day"

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Ernest Hemingway's advice for new fathers

"To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway, via "By Ken Levine - Happy Father's Day"

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You know you're growing old when...

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, via "By Ken Levine - Happy Father's Day"

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Jeff Bezos on Customer Service

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better." -- Jeff Bezos, via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week

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Monday, June 11, 2007

Successful people have goals

"All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go." -- Norman Vincent Peale, via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week newsletter

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Highest reward for your work

"The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it." -- John C. Maxwell, via a company intranet home page

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Monday, June 04, 2007

James Hollis on a life that constricts meaning

"A life that constricts meaning wounds the soul." -- James Hollis, in Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

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A few sincere words can have an impact

"You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life." -- Zig Ziglar, via Elite Etiquette Tip of the Week

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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Music is Therapy

"For those of us who don't have money, there's music. For the rest of the world, there's therapy." -- Dave Jackson, Musician's Cooler episode 142

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Friday, June 01, 2007

Keith Ferrazzi on what it means to be the best

"There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best in the world, as long as you remember that doing so also means wanting to be the best for the world." -- Keith Ferrazzi, in his book Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, page 297

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