The Power of an Idea
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
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Example and Opinion
“The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” – Paul Coehlo
Continue reading →Your Trip to the Top
“If you wait until all the lights are green before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top.” – Zig Ziglar
Continue reading →Discovering New Oceans
“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Continue reading →Simplicity and Complexity
“Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better.” – Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Continue reading →The Challenge is to Stay Grateful
“Anyone can be happy when they get what they want; the challenge is to stay grateful and peaceful even when the world around you feels crazy and dangerous and horrible.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
Continue reading →Death and Transformation
“A part of us has to die to transform; and a part of us dies if we don’t. Which part will prevail?” – Jett Psaris
Continue reading →We are All Shape Shifters
“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? …We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.” – Diane Ackerman
Continue reading →Medical Technology
“That it will ever come into general use, notwithstanding its value, I am extremely doubtful; because its beneficial application requires much time, and gives a good deal of trouble both to the patient and the practitioner; and because its whole … Continue reading →
The Obstinate Lighthouse
Although this story is said to be true, the U.S.A. Navy claims that it is not. It still makes a very good point… “This is the transcript of an ACTUAL radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities … Continue reading →