Quote of the Week*:

Week 38 (September 19th, 2010)
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Week 37 (September 12th, 2010)
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” (Victor Frankl)

Week 36 (September 6th, 2010)
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” (Flora Whittemore)

Week 35 (August 30th, 2010)
“The road to success is always under construction” (Lily Tomlin)

Week 34 (August 22nd, 2010)
“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.” (Margaret Mead)

Week 33 (August 16th, 2010)
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” (Robert Collier)

Week 32 (August 9th, 2010)
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” (Evan Esar)

Week 31 (August 1st, 2010)
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” (Earl of Beaconsfield)

Week 30 (July 26nd, 2010)
“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” (Aristotle Onassis)

Week 29 (July 18th, 2010)
“The only journey is the journey within”. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Week 28 (July 11th, 2010)
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” (George Eliot)

Week 27 (July 4th, 2010)
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.” (George Bernard Shaw)

Week 26 (June 27, 2010)
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” (John W. Gardner)

Week 25 (June 21, 2010)
“When we can’t dream any longer we die.” (Emma Goldman)

Week 24 (June 14, 2010)
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” (Pablo Picasso)

Week 23 (June 7, 2010)
“Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.” (C.S. Lewis)

Week 22 (May 30, 2010)
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” (Stephen Covey)

Week 21 (May 24, 2010)
“We don’t stop playing because we grow older, we grow older because we stop playing.” (Nana, age 103)

Week 20 (May 17, 2010)
“A crisis is just the end of an illusion.” (Gerald M. Weinberg)

Week 19 (May 10, 2010)
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” (Leonardo da Vinci)

Week 18 (May 2, 2010)
“The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes.” (Marcel Proust)

Week 17 (April 25, 2010)
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” (Hans Hofmann)

Week 16 (April 19, 2010)
”It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” (John Wooden)

Week 15 (April 11, 2010)
“A paradigm shift occurs when question is asked inside the current paradigm that can only be answered from outside it.”(Marille Goldberg)

Week 14 (April 5, 2010)
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” (Henry David Thoreau)

Week 13 (March 29, 2010)
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” (Anne Frank)

Week 12 (March 22, 2010)
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead)

Week 11 (March 14, 2010)
“There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.” (Jim Rohn)

Week 10 (March 8, 2010)
“The methodology is a journey.” (Sandra Janoff)

Week 9 (March 1, 2010)
“The mind’s direction is more important than its progress.” (Joseph Joubert)

Week 8 (February 21, 2010)
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” (Rosalia de Castro)

Week 7 (February 14, 2010)
“Not all those who wander are lost.” (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Week 6 (February 7, 2010)
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” (Peter Drucker)

Week 5 (February 1, 2010)
“Activism is my rent for living on this planet.” (Alice Walker)

Week 4 (January 24, 2010)
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. (Robin Williams)

Week 3 (January 17, 2010)
“It is always better to try than to do nothing, because not trying secures complete failure.” (Miep Gies)

Week 2 (January 10, 2010)
“Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris.” (James March)

Week 1 (January 3, 2010)
“I make no claim that any one tradition or practice is superior to any other. I have pursued my own awareness of these concepts with a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.” (Wayne W. Dyer)

* The short quotes that I use come from various sources.  However, I must say that I found that I get a lot of inspiration from  Berrett-Koehler Publishers bi-monthly  BK Communiqué.

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