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- Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
- Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
- Eddie Myers
- It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
- Robert Solow
- There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
- Phylicia Rashad
- If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
- Claude Roy
- Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
- Michael Johnson
- The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
- Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New World
- The great discoveries are usually obvious.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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