Words and Wisdom

The greatest unexplored territory in the world is the space between our ears.
William O'Brien

The next time you do something really nice for someone else, keep it to yourself and revel in the abundant joy of giving.
Richard Carlson

The more he gives to others, the more he
possesses of his own.
Lao Tzu

Most of the time, for most of the world, no matter how hard people work at it, nothing of significance happens. Some
of the time, in some places, significant change happens, especially when people aren't working hard at it.
Gerald Weinberg

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson never played golf.
Jay Morelli

Scheme not to make what's another's your own.
Be not a dog for the sake of a bone.
Arthur Gutterman

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge;
it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Marshall McLuhan

The future belongs to those who earn it.
Smith Barney

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is
bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are
we now afloat. And we must take the current when it
serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make a better chain or knives, crucibles, or church-organs than anybody else, you will find
a broad, hard-beaten road to his house,
though it be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing grows well without space and air.
Patricia Monaghan

One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson

Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and
Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and
Newton, and every pure and wise spirit
that ever took flesh. To be great is
to be misunderstood! Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't settle for less than is possible.
Tom Peters

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