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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
10/01/11 | "It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's." - Andre Gide |
10/02/11 | "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
10/03/11 | "What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do." - Aristotle |
10/04/11 | "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer |
10/05/11 | "The argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." - Ayn Rand |
10/06/11 | "We're here to put a dent in the universe." - Steve Jobs, entrepreneur and inventor (1955-2011) |
10/07/11 | "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Baltasar Gracian |
10/08/11 | "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." - Barry LePatner |
10/09/11 | "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - Thomas Jefferson |
10/10/11 | "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." - Ben Hecht |
10/11/11 | "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli |
10/12/11 | "There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing." - James Kouzes and Barry Posner |
10/13/11 | "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach." - Benjamin Mays |
10/14/11 | "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell |
10/15/11 | "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
10/16/11 | "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin |
10/17/11 | "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie |
10/18/11 | "There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life." - Booker T. Washington |
10/19/11 | "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb |
10/20/11 | "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth |
10/21/11 | "Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy." - Charles Peters |
10/22/11 | "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously." - Charles F. Kettering |
10/23/11 | "The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." - Charles Bukowski |
10/24/11 | "Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." - Chang-Tzu |
10/25/11 | "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung |
10/26/11 | "When the student is ready the teacher will appear." - Buddhist Proverb |
10/27/11 | "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope |
10/28/11 | "A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements." - Bo Bennett |
10/29/11 | "Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action." - Bill Raeder |
10/30/11 | "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby |
10/31/11 | "When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween." - Author Unknown |
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