One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

- A. A. Milne
(Story of my life.)

Do more than is required.
What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following?
The extra mile.

- Gary Ryan Blair

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.

- Maxwell Maltz

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

-- Horace MannI have fallen out of the habit of blogging daily, and the result has been that my backlog of to-be-written entries has steadily increased this year instead of shrinking.  My husband would point to my new habit of coming home from work and wasting a ( Read more... )

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong...in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

-- Jonathan SwiftSome very wise words from a great English author that I should really keep in mind as I learn this new job.  I need to learn from my inevitable mistakes and not repeat them instead of sinking into a shame ( Read more... )

When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

-- Dale Carnegie

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands...you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

- Carl Schurz

Every one of us has in himself a continent of undiscovered character.  Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

- Sir J. Stevens

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump.
You may be freeing him from being a camel.

-- G. K. Chesterton