Friday, March 31, 2006

Bits and Pieces

POSITIVE vs. NEGATIVE

"Don't let negative people determine your self-worth." -- Denis Waitley

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -- Charles A. Beard

"If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon." -- Alan Loy Mcginnis

"Keep your face in the sunshine and you can never see the shadow." -- Helen Keller

 

 

APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCES

History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change the present does; each generation asks new questions of the past, and finds new areas of sympathy as it relives different aspects of the experiences of its predecessors.

Christopher Hill (1912-2003)
Historian



It is far more delightful to be fond of the world because it has thousands of aspects and is different everywhere…for every divergence deserves to be cherished, simply because it widens the bounds of life.

Karel Capek (1890-1938)
Writer

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Bits and Pieces

PERCEPTION/OPINION 

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." -- Albert Einstein

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one." -- Thomas Carlyle

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." -- John Locke

"One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions."
-- Admiral Grace Hopper

 

CHARACTER

Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.
C. H. Woodward


Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for.
Ruth Boorstin
Writer and editor