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If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin
The quickest way to get back on your feet is get down on your knees.
- Vern McLellan
Nothing can keep an argument going like two persons who aren't sure
what they're arguing about.
- O.A. Battista
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly
made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
- Doug Larson
Think twice; do once.
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare
up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.
- Vance Havner
A lawyer is someone willing to spend every cent you own to prove
he's right.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
- St. Francis de Sales
Democracy does not guarantee equality, only equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol
Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing
in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing
at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so
he can tell when he's really in trouble.
- Fennis Fakes
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
- Louis L'Amour
What is art but a way of seeing? - Thomas Berger
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. - Ruth Graham
Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it. - Cullen Hightower
You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think
you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships
or opportunities.
- Barbara Bush
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The
activist is the man who cleans up the river.
- Ross Perot
It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life
and those of opportunity.
- Frederick Phillips
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books
alone but in every leaf of springtime.
- Martin Luther
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Romance is about the little things. - Gregory J. Godeck
Words can be beautiful. So can dreams. So can hopes.
-- F. Clifton White
Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing
can bring us together better than an educated population.
-- Martin Ragaway
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment
to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
-- Vince Lombardi
Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it.
-- Robertine Maynard
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things
he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
--Earl Wilson
Economist: Someone who doesn't have the personality to be an accountant.
-- Robert Reich
Expert: A person who may not have all the answers but is sure he
could get them with the proper funding.
-- Ivern Ball
Nothing is really lost. It's just where it doesn't belong.
-- Suzanne Mueller
Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker" let it go at
that instead of giving a demonstration?
-- Kin Hubbard
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
A sense of self means knowing what you have to offer and not
offering it too quickly.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be
happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
- Deepak Chopra
Hot words make a real cool friendship. - Flo Ashworth
Journalism is merely history's first draft. - Geoffrey C. Ward
Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees
it first.
- Job E. Hedges
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling
blocks.
- Jack Penn
Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they
feel the heat.
- Caroline Schoeder
The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. - Franklin P. Jones
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- The Rev. Peter Marshall
We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
- Dale E. Turner
You cannot paint the "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a
thousand painters.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
It's more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be
called sure-thing-taking.
- Tim McMahon
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
- George Orwell
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't. - Bern Williams
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows
up all by itself.
- Tom Wilson
The difference between practice and theory is greater in practice
than in theory.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries
of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual
attraction of rain and weekends.
- Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.
Leadership is the courage to admit mistakes, the vision to welcome
change, the enthusiasm to motivate others, and the confidence
to stay out of step when everyone else is marching to the
wrong tune.
- E.M. Estes
MYTH: A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
FACT: A winner is someone who knows when it's time to quit.
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