Food For Thought

We are bombarded with many truths, sayings, et cetera. But certain ones stick to our heart & soul and help shape who we are as unique individuals. The following are some thoughts which are shaping me.

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• "He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." - Tryon Edwards
  
  
• "Where there is no vision, the people perish" Proverbs 29:18
  
  
• "As iron sharpens iron, so to a man another." - Proverbs
  
  
• "One hand doesn't clap without the other." - One of my Mom's favorite quotes
  
  
• "You have to have a dream, to acheve it!" - Dr. Robin S. Kurtz, Ed.D Licensed Psychologist
  
  
• "Believe in yourself, and everything is possible." - My Mom's favorite saying.
  
  
• "Work Smarter, Not Harder."
  
  
• "It's at our moments of decision, that your destiny is formed." - Thomas K. Williams
  
  
• "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results."
  
  
• "If you always do, what you've always done, you always get what you already got."
  
  
• "I don't know ... but, I'll find out!"
  
  
• "Sometimes succes is simply a matter of doing the detail, and doing them well."
  
  
• "Remember ... Good service isn't what we perceive it to be, it is what our customers perceive it to be."
  
  
• "Think twice before you speak, especially if you intend to say what you think."
  
  
• "Don't confuse your net-worth, with your self-worth." - Carolyn
  
  
• "We are deciding what color to paint the deck chairs on the Titantic ... it really doesn't matter." - Jim Tessier 10/15/01 in a Project Meeting
  
  
• "When in doubt, you tell the truth." - Robert Condon - about status reports on projects
  
  
• "I want you [the programers] to understand what the application does." - Robert Condon - To Project Programmers
  
  
• "A true mistake is one not corrected." - Pickworld, Jul/Aug 1992.
  
  
• "You don't get to the top by doing things differently. You get there by doing the right things better than everybody else." - Business Week, Nov. 25, 1991
  
  
• "Maturity is ... The ability to stick with a job until it's finished. The ability to do a job without being supervised. The ability to carry money without spending it. And the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. " - Dear Abby column.

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• Proactive language: Let's look at our alturnatives......I can choose a diffent approach ... I control my own feelings ... I can create an effective presentation .... I will choose an appropriate response .... I choose ... I prefer .... I will!
  
  
• THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by Robert Frost ....
  "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
  And sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler,
  long I stood
  And looked down one as far as I could
  To where it bent in the undergrowth;
  Then took the other, as just as fair,
  And having perhaps the better claim,
  Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
  Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
  And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.
  Oh, I kept the first for another day!
  Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
  I doubted if I should ever come back.
  I shall be telling this with a sigh
  Somewhere ages and ages hence:
  Two roads diverged in a wood,
  and I -
  I took the one less traveled by,
  And that has made all the difference."

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