from Chrysalis
from Chrysalis
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."- Peter Drucker
"If you can dream it, you can do it."- Walt Disney
"Change your thoughts and you can change the world."- Norman Vincent Peale
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."- Jonathan Swift
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."- Albert Einstein
"Most new ideas have a certain foolishness to them when first produced."- A. N. Whitehead
"If you insist on waiting for certainty, you will paralyze yourself."- J. P. Getty
"There is nothing permanent except change."- Heraclitus
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. "- David Lloyd George
"A problem well-stated is a problem half solved."- Charles Kettering
"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."- Mark Twain
"It"s not as important where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still."- Chinese Proverb
"If you always do what you always did, you"ll always get what you always got."- Anonymous
"What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I know."- Confucius
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few."- Shunryu Suzuki
"Whether you believe you can or not, you"re right."- Henry Ford
"One of these days is none of these days."- English Proverb
"What is now proved was once only imagined."- William Blake
"To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act."- Anatole France
"A pile of rocks stops being a rock pile when somebody looks at it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."- Antoine Saint-Exupery
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."- Japanese Proverb
"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away."- Linus Pauling
"Without a deadline, Baby, I wouldn"t do nothing."- Duke Ellington
"Try? There is no try. There is only do or not do."- Yoda
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."- Wayne Gretzky
"The biggest obstacle to learning anything is believing you already know it."- Karl Albrecht
"A definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results."- Rita Mae Brown
"The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise."- Robert Fritz
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."- Jonas Salk
"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."- Louis Mercer
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once the child grows up."- Pablo Picasso
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."- Anna Freud
"The real voyage of discovery is not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."- Marcel Proust
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."- Pablo Picasso
"This ain"t no time for slow ponies."- Will Rogers
"You can"t solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem in the first place."- Albert Einstein
"Most of what we say and do is unnecessary -- choose your words and actions wisely."- Marcus Aurelius
"Over time, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure -- Life us either a daring adventure or it is nothing!"- Helen Keller
"Hasten slowly" - Roman Proverb
"Once the information you have is in the 40 to 70% range—go with your gut." - Colin Powell
"I not only use the brains I have—I use all the brains I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson
"I tried to think, but nothing happened." - Curly Howard
"With too much consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never attribute to malice that which is easily explained by stupidity." - Hanlon’s Razor
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any good." - Samuel Johnson
"When you’re finished changing—you’re finished." - Benjamin Franklin
"Character is doing the right thing, even when no one is looking." - Bill Clinton (not!)
"My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but if you are content with you’re failure." - Abraham Lincoln
"Sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can." - Vince Lombardi
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing." - Thomas Jefferson
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." - Hosea Ballou
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." - Erma Bombeck
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not." - Anonymous
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills
"Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so." - Thomas Carlyle
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. " - Edith Wharton
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Cortia Kent
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." - Khalil Gibran
"Leaders who never get carried away should be." - Malcolm Forbes
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius
"Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is." - Catfish Hunter
"Never let yesterday use up today." - Richard H. Nelson
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Cortia Kent
"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him." - Henry Stimson
"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you." - Herbert Gasser
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life without a friend is death without a witness." - Spanish Proverb
"It is enough that I am of value to somebody today." - Hugh Prather
"Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball." - Mitzi Chandler
"Rule No. 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff." - Robert Eliot
"The future comes one day at a time." - Dean Acheson
"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." - William James
"All forms of fear produce fatigue." - Bertrand Russell
"Trouble shared is trouble halved." - Dorothy Sayers
"Be like a postage stamp -- stick to one thing until you get there." - Josh Billings
"Fear is the prison of the heart." - Anonymous
"Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind." - Timothy Fuller
"Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
"Above all, try something." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time." - Isabelle Adfani
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, when?- Hillel
"A man wrapped up in himself is a very small bundle." - Benjamin Franklin
"The reward of thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short." - Shelley Winters
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." - Dion Boucicalt
"Who begins too much accomplishes little." - German proverb
"We must act in spite of fear....not because of it." - Anonymous
"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. " - Ruth Ann Schabaker
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." - Mother Teresa
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." - Mae West
"Success has made failures of many men." - Cindy Adams
"I invent nothing. I rediscover." - Auguste Rodin
"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it." - Anne O'Hare McCormick
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." - H. L. Mencken
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong." - Kin Hubbard
"You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough." - Joe E. Lewis
"There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere." - Carl Sandburg
"Aim at nothing and you'll succeed." - Anonymous
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"Never change things by fighting the existing reality. Instead, build a NEW model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller
"The future depends on what we do in the present." - Mahatma Gandhi
"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up; figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it." - Michael Jordan
"Doing your best is taking action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward." - Don Miguel Ruiz
"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson