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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
– Unknown
Attitude
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the
most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most
patient of teachers.”– Charles W. Eliot
Books
“Creativity is inventing,experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making
mistakes, having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook
Creativity
Confidence
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from
not fearing to be wrong.”
– Peter T. McIntyre
“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.”
Democracy
– David Ben-Gurion
Decision
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Events will take their course, it is no good
of being angry at them.”
Events
– Euripides
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Excellence
– Booker T. Washington
Future
– Charles F. Kettering
“My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the
rest of my life there.”
“Give to every human being every right that you claim
for yourself.”
Give
– Robert Ingersoil
“History is gossip but, scandal is gossip made tedious
by morality.”
– Oscar Wilde
History
“Hold a true friend with both hands.”
– Nigerian Proverb
Hold
“I think, therefore I am.”
– Descartes
I
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you
desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
– George Bernard Shaw
Imagination
“Intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do, when we have to grope rather
than using a standard response.”– Jean Piaget
Intelligence
Journalism“Journalism largely consists in saying ‘Lord Jones is dead’ to
people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing oneself is
enlightenment.”
– Lao Tzu
Knowing
“Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.”
– Alvin Toffler
Knowledge
“Learning is weightless, a treasure you can
always carry easily.”
– Chinese Proverb
Learning
Library
“A library is a hospital for the mind.”
– Unknown
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Luck
“Man ruins things much more with his words than
with his silence.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Man
“Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it.
Women sell their bodies for it.”
– Joseph Pulitzer
Money
“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”
Nature
– Mark Twain
“I don't so much mind thatnewspapers are dying - its
watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”
– Molly Ivins
Newspaper
“Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a
teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.”
Optimism
– Unknown
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
– Voltaire
Originality
“People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge.”
– Belasco & Stayer
People
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as
a contest of principles.”– Ambrose Bierce
Politics
“None is poor save him that lacks knowledge.”
– The Talmud
Poverty
“Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality
will not bring quality.”
– W. Edwards Deming
Quality
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the
wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
– Seneca
Religion
“Silence never won rights. They are not handed down
from above; they are forced by pressures from below.”
Silence
– Roger Baldwin
“Success is the prize for those who stand true
to their ideas.”– Josh S. Hinds
Success
“If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you’ll eventually be accused
of treason.”– Mort Sahl
Treason
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
– Stephen R. Covey
Understanding
– Ross Perot
Vision
“Seeing is auditing life. Vision is interpreting life so
that others may see it.”
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to
public office.”– Aesop
We
“Words are the voice of the heart.”
– Confucius
Words
“Worry is the interest paid on trouble, before it falls due.”
– W.R. Inge
Worry
“You are what you think about all day long.”
– Dr. Robert Schuller
You
“Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind.”
– Douglas Mac Arthur
Youth
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is
but human, the latter is divine”
– Hosea Ballou
Zeal
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