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Thursday, September 29, 2016

So no one can use them against you...

"Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you." -- Tyrion Lannister, "Game of Thrones"

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Monday, June 01, 2015

Churchill on Tact

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip." -- Winston Churchill

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

John Barrymore on Aging

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." -- John Barrymore

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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Collier on Success and Consistency

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." -- Robert Collier

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Friday, May 29, 2015

The standard is different...

"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everyone desires something

"There is no man who doth not lust for something." -- King Uther Pendragon

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Drucker on Decision-Making

"Fast personal decisions are likely to be wrong." -- Peter Drucker

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Joseph Fischer on Sex

"Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either." -- Joseph Fischer

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Simplicity vs Complexity

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity." -- Doug Horton


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Oscar Wilde on Journalism

"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." -- Oscar Wilde

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Beauty lives

"Beauty is momentary in the mind --The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives." -- Wallace Stevens

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Mary Kay Ash on what we really want

"Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine him wearing an invisible sign that says: make me feel important." -- Mary Kay Ash

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Everyone has something to bring

"Each of us bring to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values." -- Sandra Day O'Connor

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Thomas Jefferson on Brevity

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Monday, October 06, 2014

Aim Higher

"The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and reaching it." -- Michelangelo

Friday, October 05, 2012

Storytelling jokes, quotes, etc. - YouTube playlist

I've been fascinated with storytelling for a long time now. I've created a YouTube playlist about it, and it somewhat relates to quotes, etc., so I'm sharing it here.



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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012

Chesterton on getting enough

Challenge #1 - Simple/Simplicity
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"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." -- G.K. Chesterton



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Saturday, February 04, 2012

Oprah on not letting others play you small

"Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your Creator gave you and destroying your design." -- Oprah Winfrey, as  found in Book Yourself Solid (affiliate link) by Michael Port, 1st edition, p. 31

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Monday, October 24, 2011

What optimism really is

Never Give Up via verylol.com
"Optimism is, when faced with a set of circumstances, choosing to see that the best possible outcome is still possible." -- Daniel Johnson, Jr.,

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