“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
– Marie Curie
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”
– Serena Williams
“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.”
- Eloise Ristad, A Soprano on Her Head: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life and Other Performances
“Often we mistake knowledge for truth and forget that the sun shines on truth from different directions and casts a different shadow each time. When we look only at high noon, we miss a lot. If we mistake the shadow for truth itself, we delude ourselves. Our understanding must shine from ever-new directions.”
- Eloise Ristad, A Soprano on Her Head: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life and Other Performances
“They’re trying to figure out what “works” instead of just telling their truth.“ - Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk is a Belarusian American entrepreneur, author, speaker and internet personality. First known as a wine critic who expanded his family's wine business, Vaynerchuk is best known for his work in digital marketing and social media, through New York–based VaynerMedia.Wikipedia
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov
"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing." - Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Wikipedia
“In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to use the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all. Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving.” - Andrew Carnegie
"Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory." - Andrew Carnegie
"The story of innovation has not changed. It has always been a small team of people who have a new idea, typically not understood by people around them and their executives." - Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." - Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google
"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." - Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American software engineer, businessman, as well as the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. In 2013, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world, with an estimated … More Wikipedia
'The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." - Vincent van Gogh
"Snow, you miss it until you get it." - Pat Larson, Tipp City, Ohio
"All new knowledge comes out of a degree of chaos, confusion and cognitive dissonance... I must be getting smarter every day." - Dave the Psych
Dave the Psych is a brilliant psychologist in our local school district. We appreciate his wisdom and service. To keep the fanfare low and the paparazzi away, he will be known only as "Dave the Psych".
