Seneca said, “When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” I like thinking of goals as harbours. It somehow makes them easier to navigate to because a harbour is so…
Mignon McLaughlin wrote, “We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.” I was going to write about the ‘waste’ that is the BP oil slick of the coast of America but…
Someone once said, “Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.” How true is this statement? You only have to take a little peek around at the world and you can see people picking up lost opportunities….
Max Eastman said, “I don’t know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.” Do you stop for a minute…
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The only gift is a portion of thyself.” If you have children you will know this to be very true. The box a gift came in is as much a gift as the box itself and…
Arthur C. Clarke, “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” How many times a year do you push through to the impossible? This is a great quote by the…
Chinese Proverb, “Talk does not cook rice.” There is only one way to cook rice. Put water in a pot and boil it. It is the same for everything.
Someone once said, “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” The NZ’er who just won the World Plowing Champs would have to agree with this quote. He had to get out there, set his blades…
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” There is no one like…
Leon J. Suenes said, “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” Have you ever seen someone unhappy to be doing what they are passionate about? Highly unlikely even when…
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