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Direction

2011-01-01T00:38:00.000-08:00

"Who can direct when all pretend to know?" - Oliver Goldsmith

Big Eyes

2010-12-31T00:31:00.000-08:00

"Fear has big eyes" - Unknown

Thought-Life

2010-12-30T00:35:00.000-08:00

"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Basic Fundamentals

2010-12-29T00:24:00.000-08:00

"Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals" - Jim Rohn

Giving Much

2010-12-28T00:27:00.000-08:00

"Giving much to the poore, doeth inrich a mans store" - George Herbert

Worst Wheel

2010-12-27T23:55:00.000-08:00

"The worst wheel makes the most noise" - Unknown

Silence

2010-12-26T00:00:00.000-08:00

"A silent man's words are not brought into court" - Unknown

A Day's Work

2010-12-25T23:41:00.000-08:00

"Beauty is also to be found in a day's work" - Mamie Sypert Burns

Nibbled Away

2010-12-24T23:39:00.000-08:00

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience and by parts" - Edmund Burke

Set Yourself

2010-12-23T23:31:00.000-08:00

"Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do and then set yourself earnestly to do it" - Phillip Brooks

Haste & Waste

2010-12-22T23:30:00.000-08:00

"Haste makes waste and waste makes want" - Unknown

Halting Steps

2010-12-21T23:27:00.000-08:00

"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved" - Anne Sullivan

Willing Mind

2010-12-20T23:23:00.000-08:00

"Nothing is difficult to a willing mind" - Unknown

Challenge of Leadership

2010-12-19T23:17:00.000-08:00

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly" - Jim Rohn

Gift & Giver

2010-12-18T23:14:00.000-08:00

"When you look at what is given, look also at the giver" - Seneca

Three Classes

2010-12-17T23:11:00.000-08:00

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move" - Unknown

A Fraction

2010-12-16T23:08:00.000-08:00

"We live but a fraction of our lives" - Henry David Thoreau

If Winter Comes

2010-12-15T23:04:00.000-08:00

"O wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" - Percy Bysshe Shelly

Deeds Alone

2010-12-14T23:00:00.000-08:00

"Deeds alone suffice" - John Greenleaf Whittier

Making of Wisdom

2010-12-13T22:58:00.000-08:00

"Your enemy makes you wise" - Unknown

Enforcing Truth

2010-12-12T22:52:00.000-08:00

"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing" - Robert Collier

Teaching & Discovery

2010-12-11T22:54:00.000-08:00

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery" - Mark Van Doren

Exercising

2010-12-10T22:50:00.000-08:00

"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body" - Richard Steele, Snr

What Costs?

2010-12-09T22:37:00.000-08:00

"What costs little is little esteemed" - Unknown

Greatly Thought

2010-12-08T22:34:00.000-08:00

"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared" - Homer

Once Owned

2010-12-07T22:03:00.000-08:00

"What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose" - Henry Ward Beecher

Own Teacher?

2010-12-06T22:01:00.000-08:00

"He who is his own teacher has a fool for his pupil" - Unknown

Historian?

2010-12-05T21:58:00.000-08:00

"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent" - Stendhal

Good Book

2010-12-04T21:56:00.000-08:00

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversing with Angels

2010-12-03T21:54:00.000-08:00

"Faith converses with the angels and antedates the hymns of glory" - Jeremy Taylor

Doing Without

2010-12-02T21:51:00.000-08:00

"What a lot of things there are a man can do without" - Socrates

Becoming

2010-12-01T21:49:00.000-08:00

"Life is a lively process of becoming" - Douglas Macarthur

Divine Order

2010-11-30T21:46:00.000-08:00

"Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body" - Theodore Parker

Shakespeare & the Devil

2010-11-29T21:43:00.000-08:00

"What can the devil speak true?" - William Shakespeare

Making Mistakes

2010-11-28T21:41:00.000-08:00

"Only he who does nothing makes a mistake" - Unknown

Giving Apples

2010-11-27T21:37:00.000-08:00

"Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself" - Unknown

Fine Manners

2010-11-26T21:39:00.000-08:00

"Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds" - Amos Bronson Alcott

Master Painter

2010-11-25T21:35:00.000-08:00

"Apelles was not a master painter the first day" - Unknown

Often Suffers

2010-11-24T21:30:00.000-08:00

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers" - William Penn

Dream Together

2010-11-23T21:33:00.000-08:00

"When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality" - Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Many Friends

2010-11-22T21:28:00.000-08:00

"One God, one wife, but many friends" - Unknown

No Country

2010-11-21T21:26:00.000-08:00

"The merchant has no country" - Thomas Jefferson

Difficulty of Literature

2010-11-20T21:21:00.000-08:00

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean" - Robert Louis Stevenson

Knowing & Doubting

2010-11-19T21:24:00.000-08:00

"He doubts nothing who knows nothing" - Unknown

Golden Hammer

2010-11-18T21:18:00.000-08:00

"A golden hammer breaks an iron gate" - Unknown

Big Steps

2010-11-17T21:15:00.000-08:00

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps" - David Lloyd George

What's Better?

2010-11-16T21:13:00.000-08:00

"It is better to refuse than to accept and not go" - Unknown

Admirations & Hostilities

2010-11-15T12:42:00.000-08:00

"Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities" - Elizabeth Bowen

Rediscover

2010-11-14T12:40:00.000-08:00

"I invent nothing, I rediscover" - Rodin

Double Share

2010-11-13T12:38:00.000-08:00

"What is strength without a double share of wisdom" - John Milton

All Criticism

2010-11-12T12:35:00.000-08:00

"All criticism is self-criticism" - Harry Hooton

No Eyes

2010-11-11T12:33:00.000-08:00

"Money has no eyes, it will go where you send it" - George Repnin

Deeper Dye

2010-11-10T03:12:00.000-08:00

"If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty train of human vices, it is ingratitude" - Henry Brooke

Art & Wit

2010-11-09T03:10:00.000-08:00

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit" - Alexander Pope

Richness of Life

2010-11-08T03:07:00.000-08:00

"The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten" - Cesare Pavese

Ability to Adapt

2010-11-07T03:05:00.000-08:00

"The key to success is often the ability to adapt" - Unknown

Great Leap

2010-11-06T03:04:00.000-07:00

"A great leap gives a great shake" - Unknown

Light & Shade

2010-11-05T03:01:00.000-07:00

"When a man turns the light on others he must not expect to stay in the shade himself" - Unknown

Example

2010-11-04T02:58:00.000-07:00

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing" - Albert Schweitzer

Glowing Hot

2010-11-03T02:56:00.000-07:00

"You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot" - Publilius Syrus

True Riches

2010-11-02T02:53:00.000-07:00

"Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind" - Unknown

Boatwood's Rule

2010-11-01T02:48:00.000-07:00

"Anything that can be tangled around something else, will" - J. D. Boatwood

Speaking to Hear

2010-10-31T02:42:00.000-07:00

"Speak so that if you closed your eyes, you could hear your smile" - Unknown

Love & Laugh

2010-10-30T02:47:00.000-07:00

"The man that loves and laughs must sure do well" - Alexander Pope

Contrary to Belief?

2010-10-29T02:37:00.000-07:00

"The exact contrary of what is believed is often the truth" - Jean De La Bruyere

Treasure & Wisdom

2010-10-28T02:40:00.000-07:00

"Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man" - William Penn

Keeping Traditions

2010-10-27T02:34:00.000-07:00

"If the very old will remember, the very young will listen" - Unknown

Lesser & Greater

2010-10-26T02:29:00.000-07:00

"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one" - Mark Twain

Spare & Spend

2010-10-25T02:32:00.000-07:00

"Spare well and spend well" - Unknown

Cheap Defence

2010-10-24T02:27:00.000-07:00

"Education is the cheap defence of nations" - Edmund Burke

In the Marrow

2010-10-23T02:24:00.000-07:00

"What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone" - Unknown

Best Pace

2010-10-22T02:22:00.000-07:00

"Send a boy where he wants to go and you see his best pace" - Unknown

Many Heads

2010-10-21T02:20:00.000-07:00

"It is difficult to get many heads under one hat" - Unknown

A Great Wrong

2010-10-20T02:17:00.000-07:00

"Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong" - Unknown

Communication

2010-10-19T02:15:00.000-07:00

"Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person" - Unknown

Hardest Thing

2010-10-18T02:13:00.000-07:00

"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn" - David Russell

Altering All

2010-10-17T02:11:00.000-07:00

"Altering the eye, alters all" - William Blake

What is Proper?

2010-10-16T02:08:00.000-07:00

"Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and space" - John Milton

Freud on Morality

2010-10-15T02:00:00.000-07:00

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral they can imagine" - Sigmund Fraud

Masterpiece

2010-10-14T01:58:00.000-07:00

"When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece" - John Ruskin

Going the Distance

2010-10-13T01:56:00.000-07:00

"One may go a long way after one is tired" - Unknown

Three Options

2010-10-12T01:52:00.000-07:00

"Tolerate, change or be grateful" - Unknown

The Whole

2010-10-11T01:49:00.000-07:00

"No one is able to understand one part before he has again and again read through the whole" - Legal Maxim

Sleep & Ideas

2010-10-10T01:47:00.000-07:00

"Our pillow should be our counselor" - Unknown

An Opportunity

2010-10-09T01:43:00.000-07:00

"Every temptation is an opportunity to get closer to God" - John Q. Adams

Teacher for Life

2010-10-08T01:40:00.000-07:00

"Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime" - Chinese Proverb

Success & Failure

2010-10-07T22:05:00.000-07:00

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal" - Unknown

Virtue & Nobility

2010-10-06T22:03:00.000-07:00

"Virtue is the only and true nobility" - Juvenal

Management & Mistrust

2010-10-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior" - John Churton Collins

Satisfied

2010-10-04T21:59:00.000-07:00

"He is rich who is satisfied" - Unknown

Aristotle on Dignity

2010-10-03T21:56:00.000-07:00

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them" - Aristotle

Hardly Attained

2010-10-02T21:55:00.000-07:00

"Things hardly attained are the longer retained" - Unknown

Throwing Stones

2010-10-01T21:50:00.000-07:00

"A fool throws a stone into a well and it requires a hundred wise men to get it out again" - Unknown

Corner of Democracy

2010-09-30T21:47:00.000-07:00

"Compromise is the corner of democracy" - W.G.P.

Occupation

2010-09-29T21:46:00.000-07:00

"Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment" - Leigh Hunt

Wisest Mind

2010-09-28T21:44:00.000-07:00

"The wisest mind mind has something yet to learn" - George Santayana

Sense & Knowledge

2010-09-27T21:42:00.000-07:00

"A man of sense does not hang up his knowledge" - Unknown

Heart & Head

2010-09-26T21:40:00.000-07:00

"If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain" - Edward Young

What You See

2010-09-25T21:37:00.000-07:00

"What you see in yourself is what you see in the world" - Unknown

Sharp Ends

2010-09-24T21:35:00.000-07:00

"No needle is sharp at both ends" - Chinese proverb