Frank Lloyd Wright said, “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” There is always a price to pay for the success of any enterprise but it…
Goethe said, “Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.” Isn’t it so often the quirks of your friends that make them so fun to be around. Whether it’s wit or…
Robert Benchley said, “Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” Often I find myself able to do a whole bunch of things that I enjoy but…
Nadia Boulanger said, “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”” How often do you miss a spot or forget something minor that can cause no end of chaos….
From a billboard, “Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes.” The pressure of the ‘last minute’ seems to bring out the best in most people. Those finishing touches and flourishes, that can really make something, happen in those moments. Giving…
Theodore Roosevelt said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” We’re back and kicking it off with a great quote from Theodore Roosevelt that at this time of the year I think is very pertinent. Print…
Ellen Goodman said, “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the…
George Bernard Shaw said, “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea…
Charles Dickens said this about Christmas, “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year,…
Jane Haddam said, “In my day, we didn’t have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.” Self-esteem is a term that hinders because of it’s lack of a concrete concept to build on –…
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