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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
--Unknown

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
--Cicero, De Senectute, IX

Abe read diligently.... He read every book he could lay his hands on' and when he came across a passage that struck him, he would write it down on boards, if he had no paper, and keep it there until he did get paper. Then he would rewrite it, look at it, repeat it. He had a copy-book, a kind of scrap-book, in which he put down all things, and thus preserved them.
--Sally Lincoln, Step-mother of Abraham Lincoln, from "A Short Life of Lincoln"

Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue abstinence.
--Herrick, from "Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations"

It is so easy for things to happen.
--Unknown

A good and faithful servant is never afraid or unwilling to have his conduct looked into, but the reverse, because the more it is inspected, the brighter it shines.
--George Washington

The house praises the carpenter.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1836

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
--Longfellow

Great teams do the fundamentals.
--Unknown

Requisites how to rise in the world:
Knowledge of ourselves and others. Know thyself is valuable chiefly as a means of knowing others.
We must diligently inform ourselves of the particular persons we have to deal with. Their tempers, desires, views, customs, habits. The assistances, helps and assurances whereon principally they rely and whence they receive their power. Their defects and weaknesses whereat they chiefly lie open and are accessible. Their friends, factions, patrons, dependents, enemies, enviers, rivals. Their times and manner of access. But the surest keys for unlocking the minds of others turns upon searching and sifting either their tempers and natures or their ends and designs.
How to collect this info.:
1. Procuring numerous friendships.
2. Observing a balance between discourse and silence (prudent balance).
3. Not to desire one's self by to much sweetness in good nature which exposes a man to injury and reproaches.
--Francis Bacon

The way of a superior man is threefold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
--Unknown

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.
--Maltbie D. Babcock

Hitch your wagon to a star.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him . . . Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
--H.S.M Burns, president, Shell Oil Co.

Aviation is proof that, given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
--Eddie Rickenbacker

One of the big differences between the non-achievers and the achievers is that the latter has mastered the art of applying the obvious.
--Allan Cox

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noon day.
--The Bible, Isaiah 58:10

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
--Sir Walter Scott

LOOK the part, BE the part, DRESS the part, WALK the part.
--Ulysses Joseph, High School Principal, Zachary, LA

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you--trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
--William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 2

Unpolished actors often speak all the words in their lines with equal emphasis--a dead giveaway that they are novices. . . the simple practice of elongating key words often makes for much more believable performance.
--David J. Lieberman, Ph.D.

To know God so as to walk aright before him is the greatest of all the applied sciences.
--Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David

Deeds are the measure of a man.
--Chief in India who surrendered to Alexander the Great

Action must be founded on intelligence.
--Unknown

It is one thing to propose, another to execute.
--Aesop

Deeds, not words.
--George Washington's Motto

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Patience and positive action.
--Description of George Washington

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
--Jesus Christ, The Bible, Anonymous Child 7:7-8

Deeds not talk are what are needed now.
--Robert F. Kennedy, April 1, 1963

When it's all said and done, I want more said than done.
--Jim Fossil, NY Giants Head Coach

An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by an external force.
--Law of Physical Science

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
--Robindranath Tagore

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
--Mother Teresa

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
--Thomas Huxley

If we never try, we shall never succeed.
--Abraham Lincoln, Oct, 13 1862, Letter to General George McClellan

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
--Thomas Edison

Most people want to improve themselves, but not many want to work at it.
--Unknown

This is a world of action, not for droning in.
--Charles Dickens

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
--John Locke

He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time.
--Chinese proverb

Only people who do things get criticized.
--Saying

Actions speak louder than words.
--Saying

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
--Saying

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
--Thomas Carlyle

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
--Anonymous Child Carnegie

Well done is better than well said.
--Benjamin Franklin

A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
--John Stuart Mill

His indecision is final.
--Saying

One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
--Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
--Conrad Hilton, hotel executive

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead
Act, -act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Enthusiasm--A Psalm of Life

Action is eloquence.
--William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
--William Shakespeare

A rolling stone gathers no moss.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 524

The main difference between a winner and a loser is action. Winners habitually act while losers habitually delay.
--China Sinclair

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
--Florence Nightingale

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

The bell never rings of itself; unless someone handles or moves it, it is dumb.
--Platus, Trinummus. IV. 2. 162.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
--Henrik Johan Ibsen

Acta non verba.
Action not words.
--Latin Quotation

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
--Shakespeare, Otheleo, Act 2, Scene 3

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
--William Hazlitt, Table Talk

Actions lie louder than words.
--American proverb

A man's actions are motion pictures of beliefs.
--American proverb

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.
--C.S. Lewis

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 469

Every place you go should be an adventure.
--Judy Freeman, EBR Video

I want to go where no one on earth has gone before.
--Earthsuit Lyric, Noise for your Eyes, Wheel of God

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
--Winston Churchill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
--Mark Twain

Their is no education like adversity.
--American proverb

To lose
Is to learn.
--Unknown

What some Americans said about Lincoln:
"He's the biggest ass in America"
"You are nothing but a God damn black Niger"

Einstein called a "dumb Jew bastard" in one letter. Another letter: "ego-idiot".
Dec. 1914, after Edison laboratory fire. Lost $2 million worth of equipment and the records of much of his life's work in one night.

"There's great value in disaster. All of our mistakes are burned-up. Thank God we can start anew."
--Thomas Edison

But I do say meet it (trouble) as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
--Thomas Paine

Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
--William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, sc. 1

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
--Carl Jung

I remember living the entire day of September 11, 2001. I remember my imagination going crazy with the thoughts, "What bad news will be next? Where will the next plane crash be?"
--China Sinclair

Wise people learn not to dread, but actually to welcome problems and the pain of problems.
--M. Scott Peck, M.D.

Failure is not the enemy of success. It is a teacher--a harsh teacher, but the best . . . If you are going to be a high achiever, you must learn to "fail" your way to high achievement.
--John R. Noe

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
--Henry Ford

Before human beings can reach their potential they have to get a realistic grasp of who they are. In the midst of life, tragedy comes and it strips away our illusions. Those moments are times to realize our potential, our possibilities.
--Don Jones

When fate is adverse, a wise man can always strive for happiness and sail against the wind to attain it.
--Rousseau

Always expect the worst, and when it comes, make the best of it.
--Saying

What a testing of character adversity is!
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
--Lowell, My Study Windows: Lincoln

Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
--Tryon Edwards

Grief drives men (to) serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart.
--John Adams

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know . . . one who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise.
--William Saroyan

When the going gets tough . . . the high achiever shifts gears, and keeps going.
--John R. Noe

Strength grows out of struggle. Life is a struggle and the rewards go to those who meet difficulty face to face, overcome it and move on to the next challenge. Run to embrace struggle.
--Napoleon Hill

The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
--Charles de Gaulle

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
--Unknown

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
--Thomas Fuller, 1732

A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
--Unknown

Let tough times sharpen you. Pursue relationships that will challenge you.
--Mike Hamman

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
--Paul Galvin, Founder of Motorola

Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it's over it isn't so bad.
--Harry S. Truman

Every path has its puddle.
--Old saying

Out of difficulties grow miracles.
--Jean de la Bruyere

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
--Seneca

Our greatest foes, and who we must chiefly combat, are within.
--Miguel de Cervantes

It is indeed a remarkable fact that sufferings and hardships do not, as a rule, abate the love of life; they seem on the contrary, usually to give it a keener zest; and the sovereign source of melancholy is repletion. Need and struggle are what excite and inspire. Our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
--William James

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
--David Ogilvy

Remember that you're marketing a pretty good product--yourself. Go at it in a business-like way packaging all of your credentials and selling your abilities in the job market. With a positive attitude your are likely to be successful.
--Robert Colson

Successful advertising is the result of good writing and strong frequency.
--Roy H. Williams

Would you like to have a new heart, a new spirit, a new attitude?
--Billy Graham

Good advertising is about communicating with symbols--words, pictures, sounds, to engage attention and capture imagination.
--China Sinclair

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.
--Bill Bernback

Casious Clay's trainer in youth made instant celebrities out of his children by putting them on his TV program.
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
--Chinese proverb

An example of good advertising, "The most astonishing and interesting curiosity in the world."
--P.T. Barnum

Barnum. . . was quite a letter writer. From his youth to his old age, he wrote letter after letter to the editors of newspapers. It was his favorite way to get his ideas before the public. He often got up at four in the morning and wrote for hours.
--Ann Tompert, The Greatest Showman on Earth

7 Power words
Time-tested terms to make your ad copy sell like crazy:
1. Sale
2. Free
3. New
4. Breakthrough
5. Miracle
6. Closeout
7. Bargain

Advertising is about creating confidence for your product. Does your ad copy build an excellent track record for your product in the buyer's mind. Why should your customer-to-be trust your product more than all others? Why is your product or service bigger and better than any other similar product or service?
--China Sinclair

Publish, publish, publish or perish, perish, perish.
--Brain Brew, Radio Show, April 13, 2006.

Scarcity--the rule of the rare. Emphasize the special qualities of what you are offering--a product, information or your skills for a new job.
Example: When Empress Catherine the Great of Russia wanted to overcome her people's dislike for potatoes, she erected high fences around potato fields. Signs warned of stiff fines for stealing potatoes. Almost overnight, the potato became a staple of the Russian diet.
--Harry Mills, Bottom Line Personal, 9.1.2000

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.
--Michael Schudson

Advertising--a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
--Northrop Frye

The average customer responds to the third direct mail piece.
--Jamie Fountain

Joe Romano and I step into a fine Italian restaurant called "Onofrio's" and see a sign prominently displayed in the lobby: "This restaurant is highly recommended by the owner." Audacity is another literary tool that leverages the power of the unexpected. Audacious statements have far more impact than those that are predictable.
--Roy H. Williams

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
--Samuel Johnson

The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.
--David Ogilvy, (advice to advertising copywriters)

One of the goals, set by its founder, of the newspaper USA Today was that it be wrapped in color.
--China Sinclair

Guerrilla Seller: bring and place business cards, a stack full, at restaurants and businesses.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
--George Herbert

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
--Robert Keith Leavitt

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
--Abraham Lincoln

Opportunity creates desire.
--Dutch proverb

If one does not toot one's own horn, it has a way of not getting tooted.
--Lewis Carroll

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
--Demosthenes, 384-322 BC

People think about themselves, not you.
--Jack Canfield, Success Principals

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out.
--Mother Teresa

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
--Josh Billings

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
--Leonardo Da Vinci

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you would accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
--Proverb

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
--Ben Jonson

Whatever advice you give, be short.
--Horace

A good scare is worth more than good advice.
--Horace

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
--Francis Bacon

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
--Seneca

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Do not listen to someone who is broke tell you how to be rich.
--Larry Winget, Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
--Pietro Aretino

Old age is time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
--Igor Stravinsky

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance.
--William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 2, sc. 3

1 out of 18 people in our culture are confirmed alcoholics in need of treatment.
--Wayne Dyer, How to be a No Limit Person

Put all of my senses on alert.
--Sherlock Holmes, The Lion's Maine

The opposite of being alert is being asleep. A sleeping person cannot receive new sensory input. A sleeping person cannot gather new ideas because his human cameras, microphones and sensors are turned off. To learn well a person must have their eyes, ears, and sensors set on full alert mode.
--China Sinclair

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
--Sylvia Plath

. . . and to live means to be aware . . .
--Henry Miller, U.S. author

We will always be prepared so we will always be free.
--Ronald Reagan, Speech at Normandy Site

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
--Thomas Jefferson

Alexander the Great tamed wild horses as a youth.
Alexander gave Aristotle 800 talents for physical & biological equipment and research. ($4,000,000 in today's worth)

The same ambition can destroy or save, and makes a patriot as it makes a knave.
--Alexander Pope, 1732

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
--C. Archie Danielson

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
--James T. Farrell

He pledged his life, fortune, and sacred honor
To the Independence of his country.

--Inscription on Tomb of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
America was born with 4 million souls.
--Book: Patriarch-George Washington

People gave their blood and laid down their lives so I can sit here in America today.
--Kevin

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
--Andre Malraux

I was not in love with America until I was deprived of her company. My obligation to them (the Vietnam war dead) is to see that never again do we repeat so many errors.
--Senator John McCain

This government, the world's best hope . . .
--Thomas Jefferson

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
--Thomas Paine

It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, widespreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities.
--Jay, The Federalist Papers

I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this declaration and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even although we should rue it, -- which, I trust in God, we shall not."
--John Adams, 2nd President of the Untied States of America

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in the labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion.
--Abigail Adams, Letter Nov. 27, 1775

There are two parents at every generation. Trace back 5 generations--there are 64 ancestors. Trace back 10 generations--there are 4096 ancestors.
--Alfred Adler (paraphrased)

Oh Dad, I just came up with the goodest idea!
--Anonymous Child , 11.4.99

"Daddy do you think I'm a good colorer?"

"Daddy, do you know how to make a story? You color a picture and then make things come alive."
--Anonymous Child , 12.8.99

Anonymous Child (5 years old) invented THUNDER DOG this week, a cute stuffed dog with a cloth diaper tied around his shoulder for a cape. Great idea!
8.6.98

On the day we were leaving for a trip I caught Anonymous Child outside looking up into the sky saying, "God, speak to me! God!" I asked him, "What are you doing? Are you talking to God?" He answered, "Yes, but I think he's busy or something (someping)."
8.14.1998

Every seventh day God gets a day off.
--Anonymous Child , 6 yrs old

Dad, I'm trying to obey today.
--Anonymous Child, 8.22.98 (5 yrs. old)

Dad: Anonymous Child, do you know why they are arguing on TV? (Chris Anonymous Childs, Hard Ball)
Anonymous Child: Why?
Dad: Because the President lied and he got caught. Now He's in big trouble.
Anonymous Child: What kind of President?
Dad: The President of the United States of America right now.
Anonymous Child: Not Abraham Lincoln kind of President? Abraham Lincoln didn't lie.
Dad: Why is it bad to lie?
Anonymous Child: Because God dont's like it. Because Jesus hates lying. That's why he doesn't lie to everybody.
Dad: Is it OK to disobey?
Anonymous Child: No if they disobey they get a big whoopin.
Dad: What makes God happy?
Anonymous Child: Be good. You always be nice and sweet to God. Why did Bill Clinton lie? Some people know how to lie. When they lie they get in big trouble and they get in jail.

Dad, I'm trying to obey today.
--Anonymous Child, 8.22.98

(5 yrs. old) Thanks for yelling at me!
--Anonymous Child , 8.29.98

Called daddy "Bookhead"
9.1.98

Anonymous Child told me that if you are in a fire like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and if you are a christian you will not get burned. Does this story teach small children to play with fire? Showed Anonymous Child picture on bills of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He said in a sad voice, "I miss him" (Washington), "I miss my friends I didn't ever meet."6.5.98

The family was driving back from eating lunch at Wendys on a Friday. D. and I were talking about how important it is to let children share in some of the responsibilities of the family. Then we began thinking of little jobs that Anonymous Child does and could possibly do. Anonymous Child was listening from the back seat and then spoke up and said, "I have a lot of possibilities."
5.12.2000, Anonymous Child 7 years old

Where's my Bible? I want to read to God.
I want to obey.
Prayer: Jesus, forgive me of my sins. Thank you for dying on the cross. Help me not to disobey but obey. Jesus protect me. Amen.
--Anonymous Child , 9.11.98
"This is a good day."

Played imagination game with Anonymous Child before going to bed last night. Closed eyes and pictured whatever I said. "Did you know you have pictures in your mind?"
7.14.98

Anonymous Child's first piano lesson was on July 14, 1998. His first song was "Two Black Cats" out of Bastien Primer A. Anonymous Child learned to ride bike without training wheels today, April 18, 1998!

"Everybody is special in God's town."
--Anonymous Child

"Old man river, he sat on hot lava."
Anonymous Child , 9.29.1999

Daddy: Anonymous Child, if you scratch my back I will give you $1,000,000 in heaven.
Anonymous Child (5 yrs old): How 'bout you give me $10 tomorrow?
11.21.98

You know what dad? God can fly . . . He's invisible.
--Anonymous Child

We were watching a shot from NASA about the earth on TV. Anonymous Child asked, "How did we get here? Did I fly down to Mommy's tummy or what?"
--Anonymous Child , 2.19.2000

Caught his first fish on July 8, 2004 at the Mississippi River. Matt caught first fish on same day. Anonymous Child caught first fish on July 9, 2004.

Anonymous Child always chooses the new untried soft drink from the fountain just to be different and try something unique.

Anonymous Child and Daddy were sitting on the curb behind Circle K. Anonymous Child asked, "Ants can have cancer, too, huh dad?"
2/2/1999

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
--Ambrose Pierce, 1842-1914

"I know that the great volcano at Washington aroused and directed by the evil spirit that reigns there, is belching forth the lava of political corruption in a current broad and deep which is sweeping with unbridled corruption, frightful velocity over the whole length and breath of the land."
--Abraham Lincoln Boredom is often a symptom of rage and anxiety.
--Peter Gay

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
--Attributed to Queen Elizabeth I

Count to ten before you do anything, and if very angry, count to a hundred.
--Thomas Jefferson

Anger and worry are like black holes--they suck away a person's life and energy.
--China Sinclair

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
--Romain Gary

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
--Francis Bacon

Self-command is the main elegance.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
--English Proverb

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
--Benjamin Franklin

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
--Aristotle

Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again during the day, but others will.
--Unknown

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
--Coleman Cox

Man often appears more cold and selfish than he really is.
--Napoleon

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
--Cesare Pavese

We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
--French Proverb

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
--William James

Recognition of the quality, value, significance, or magnitude of people and things.
--The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

An expression of gratitude; "he expressed his appreciation in a short note".
--WordNet 1.6, 1997 Princetone University

We tend to glamorize what we don't have and despise what we do have.
--Unknown

God, help me to appreciate,
The moments of today,
That flow toward me,
As they are,
And not waste my strength,
Wishing for them to be,
What they are not.
--China Sinclair

Perhaps the greatest place to live is right where you do. It is in looking for interesting things where you currently are that happiness is captured. Human nature's default mode to not look for the unique in the field of grass where you lay. It seems to believe that happiness is in a distant country, on another hillside, on another field of grass. Nothing is a bigger lie, nothing blinds human eyes more than this notion of distant fulfillment. Fulfillment and wonder can be found in the city in which you live. Believe it and start finding it now. Everything you touch and see is a wonder, a miracle. So go ahead, touch it, see it for more than it first appears to be.
--China Sinclair

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
--Unknown

When you're 18 you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when your 40 you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; and when you are 60 you realize noboy's been thinking about you at all.
--Dr. Daniel Ammons

I call architecture frozen music.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
--William Shakespeare

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.
--Voltaire

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.
--Irish Proverb

The bitterest wars are over the slightest variations of purpose or belief.
--Will Durant

Aristotle--the most synthetic thinker in the history of thought. Coordinated such a wealth of knowledge as probably never before had passed through the mind of one man. 53 yrs old when stablished school, Lyceum in Athens, Greece. Had at disposal 1000 men collecting specimens of the forna and flora of every land (Greece and Asia). Established first great zoological garden the world had seen. Married into wealthy family.
--Will Durant

Aristotle was the founder of science. Plato referred to him as "Intelligence personified".
--China Sinclair

Work drawn up for Aristotle by aids and secretaries:
"Digest of 158 Political Constitutions"

Terms Aristotle invented:
Facility, mean, maxim (major premise of asiligism), category, energy, actuality, motif, end, principle, form.

Aristotle organized the acquisition of data on an impressive scale.
--Unknown

Wrote 400 to 1000 volumes.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
--Pablo Picasso

Art plays second fiddle to bread.
--German saying

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form--or else it is not art.
--Jacques Barzun

A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
--Lawren Harris

Real life doesn't make a lot of sense a good deal of the time. Art is a world that makes perfect sense within its own limits. We go to art for an escape from the chaos of reality. Maybe the whole impulse to create art comes from this urge to have some islands of perfection amid the imperfections of real life. Real life confronts us with diametrically opposed ideas that have to be held in our minds simultaneously, like reflections in a shattered mirror. Art is purified ideas, focused as in a single point of light.
--Pat & Pete Luboff

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.
--Auguste Renoir

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.
--Marc Chagall

Fain would I Raphael's godlike art rehearse,
And show th' immortal labours in my verse,
Where from the mingled strength of shade and light
A new creation rises to my sight;
Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,
So warm with life his blended colours glow.
--Joseph Addison, "A Letter from Italy", 1704

"Daddo, look!"
--Anonymous Child Nicole while holding open a kids music book in my music office, 11.5.99

July 1998, Anonymous Child was ATTACKING the garbage can in our kitchen on Meadowbrook Ave.

Sissy came in Wed night church service for first time in a long time. When the big people started clapping she looked surprised then she started clapping with them and thought is was a game. Every time the clapping began she thought it was a very novel thing and started laughing and playing the game with the big people. 3.15.2000

My go to the doctor guys!
--to Anonymous Child and Matt on Wednesday 6.28.00

"I put my pants off"=I'll pull my pants down.

Ash to Danny (both two yrs old). Sissy was putting a few legos together. Danny was disturbing a little. "You make my mad. You make my mad."
7.30.2000

Sissy got to buy power-puff girls underwear from Wal-Mart today. She was officially potty trained today!
--9.30.2000

A hiccup came out of my mouth.
--Anonymous Child Nicole, March 2001

How doing, daddy?
--Ash, 12.8.00

I was laying down to take a short afternoon nap. Anonymous Child crawled up on the bed and pointed quickly at me and said, "That's you", then she pointed the finger at herself, "that's me."
3.13.2000

My eyes are about to fall asleep.
--Anonymous Child , 10,5,2002

What are you thinking, Dad?
--Anonymous Child , 5.8.2001

Man, Daddy, I'm doing like a fine job.
--Anonymous Child , 4 years old while filling up bags with different candies and chocolates.
5.19.2002

Shel Shilverstein poem going to bed at night:
Who is going to move the trees?
Two year old Anonymous Child: I will!
9.16.2000

Sissy learned how to ride her bike without training wheels today, Saturday, April 26, 2003.

Anonymous Child learned how to tie her shoe by herself today, Wednesday, January 7, 2004. Anonymous Child also slammed the bathroom door on her foot and made her cry. A small spider came out of sissy's new shoe. Anonymous Child and Anonymous Child both saw it. Anonymous Child didn't want to sleep in his bed because he was afriad of the spider. Mommy prayed for Anonymous Child to be protected by big angels and to get a good night's sleep so he could do a lot of school work tomorrow and have fun at homeschool P.E. class.
--KW

The family just finished eating at Jack in the Box. We dropped Anonymous Child off at the house to be picked up by Aunt Doris to go to the movies. While waiting in our quite van Anonymous Child spoke up, "Can you turn the music on? It's so PLAIN in here."
July 3, 2004

D.: It takes you ten minutes to get your clothes off (for the shower).
Anonymous Child: That wasn't not no ten minutes.
11/28/2004

Anonymous Child ran across the kitchen floor barefoot and her stinky feet squeaked on the tiled floor.
1.7.2000

A clear thinker always putts his or her assumptions to the test.
--China Sinclair

Sometimes we go along reading words thinking we know what they mean but we're really not sure.
--Mr. Patterson, School Principal

Don't get rid of the old watering can 'til you know the new one holds water.
--Saying

Assumption is the mother of disaster.
--Saying

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
--Aristotle

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind.
--William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which more than anything else, will determine its outcome.
--William James

Attitudes can bring you down.
--Barbara Nasca

Although we cannot choose what happens to us, we can choose how we respond.
--Epictetus

It's not what happens to you that is crucial, but your interpretation of what happens to you that is important.
--Stephen Covey

I am convinced that life is 10 % what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
--Charles Swindoll

I am your man!
--Movie "Big Green", Small boy's comment

No life is so hard that one can't make it easier by the way one accepts it.
--Glasgow

When things go wrong, don't go wrong with them
--Unknown

Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
--Sir Walter Scott

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
--Michel de Montaigne

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
--Unknown

There are only two ways to live your life. One is a though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
--John F. Kennedy, DNC Acceptance Address, July 15, 1960

Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse. Not to hope is unthinkable. Not to care is unforgivable.
--Nigerian saying

Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. vii. 27.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
--Harry Truman

. . . every experience gets meaning by our attitudes.
--Hugo Muensterberg

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
--Albert Einstein

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
--Thomas Jefferson

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
--Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Number 291

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
--Martha Washington

Attitudes speak louder than words.
--China Sinclair, July 3, 1997

Awards are those things which "mere worms bestow on other worms," to borrow a phrase from Volatiare.
--China Sinclair

Johann Sebastian Bach's music works filled 60 volumes.
At night by the light of the moon Bach would secretly copy volumes of compositions by older German masters. Using these composers as models, he taught himself to write music before he was even in his teens.
--Johann Sebastian Back, Intelquest, The World's 50 Greatest Composers

His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world, "This was a man!"
--Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good,
A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly;
A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud;
A brittle glass, that's broken presently;
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

And as good lost is seld or never found,
As fading gloss no rubbing will refresh,
As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground,
As broken glass no cement can redress,
So beauty blemish'd once, for ever's lost,
In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.
--William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, Number IX.


Nobody believes the official spokesman . . . but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
--Ron Nesen

Whatever you want, if you really can see it, the clearer the better, if you really believe you're worthy of it and your desire is great, if you grit your teeth when you say the word ardently, and if you act upon it everyday, enthusiastically, and make the wisest decisions you can, then it's going to happen.
--Skip Bertman, National Champions LSU Baseball Coach

I've always believed that anything you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must, absolutely must, come to pass. I've always been a believer in visualization.
--Skip Bertman, National Championship LSU Baseball Coach

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports that myth.
--Edward de Bono

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
--Charles F. Kettering

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
--Henry Ford

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
--Louisa May Alcott

The right of private judgment involves the right of forming our opinions according to the best light we can obtain.
--A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts

People who believe in absurdities will eventually commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

To betray you must first belong.
--Harold Philby, The New York Times, Dec 19, 1967

History textbooks commonly draw attention to the fact that the Bible was the popular encyclopedia of the middle ages.

This book (the Bible) has been my best friend and counselor.
--500 Ilustraciones, Alfredo Lerin, pg. 204

History may be formed from permanent monuments and records; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost for ever.
--Samuel Johnson, "Life of Addison"

Finally her bitterness drove off even such listeners as we, and one by one the winters nailed more cold into her house, until the decade crippled her, and she was dead. Her presence had been tiresome, cheerless, negative, and there was little range or generosity in anything she said.
--Heather McHugh, Poem, "Take Care"

When a person feels confident about a situation in conversation he stands erect or sits up straight. This behaviour also indicates how people feel about themselves in general. Those who are secure and confident stand tall, with shoulders back. Those who are insecure or unsure of themselves often stand hunched over with their hands in their pockets.
--David J. Lieberman, Ph.D., Never Be Lied to Again

The gods favor the bold.
--Ovid

Fortune favors the bold.
--Terence

The future is to those who take it.
--Adalai Stevenson

If you are reluctant to ask the way, you will be lost.
--Malay Proverb

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
--Emerson, Journals, 1842

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
--Mark Twain

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person had thought for you, you are on your way to being a remarkable man.
- J.M. Barrie

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone and as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others."
--Nelson Mandela, Inauguration Speech given after spending 30 years in prison

Run in God's name and let the world stand back in wonder.
--Chariots of Fire (movie)

Unlike others who preceded them, the Wright Brothers embraced the idea that their vehicle would more closely resemble the precarious bicycle rather than the steady wagon.
They saw the airplane as an inherently unstable vehicle, yet one that could, through calculation and boldness, be mastered or controlled.
--Jerry Daniels, President, Boeing Military Aircraft and Missile Systems

The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks it's own thoughts, it reads it's own books, it develops it's own hobbies, and it is governed by it's own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.
--Raymond B. Fosdick

Let us dare to face the situation.
--Albert Schweitzer

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
--Basil King

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
--Menander, 343-291 B.C.

He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
--French Proverb

There is always room for a man of force.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can do everything.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nobody get unanimous praise--ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.
--Seth Godin

Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.
To boldly go where no man has gone before.
--Latin Quotation

Books read by China Sinclair

TRUMAN
by David McCullough
29-90 min cass

THE GREATEST MYSTERY IN THE WORLD, by Og Mandino

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING
by Norman Vincent Peale
10-short cassettes

DRUMS OF CHANGE
by Janette Oak, 5-90 min. cassettes

THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH
--Dr. Sidney Lecker
6-60min tapes

HOW TO BE A WINNER
by Zig Ziglar
1-90 min. cass.

ISSAC NEWTON: THE LAST SORCERER
by Michael White
10--90 min. cass.

Secrets to Success and Happiness POWER UNDER PRESSURE
by Robert Kriegel, Ph.D.
4-90 min cass

THE CRAFT OF INVESTING
by John Train
6-90 min tapes Galileo
by James Reston, Jr.
9-90min cassettes

THE FOUNDING FATHERS ON LEADERSHIP
by Donald T. Phillips
7-90 min cass

EINSTEIN LIVED HERE
by Abraham Pais

THE NEW TOUGHNESS TRAINING FOR SPORTS
Mental, Emotional, and Physical Conditioning from One of the World's Premier Sports Psychologists
by James E. Loehr, Ed.D.
194 pgs.

OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET
7-1 hour cass.
--C.S.Lewis

WILBUR & ORVILLE
A biography of the Wright Brothers
by Fred Howard
15-90min tapes

THE WRITER MAGAZINE 9/98 (6 articles)

THE WRITER MAGAZINE 7/98 (4 articles)

THE WRITER MAGAZINE 8/98 (8 articles)

SUCCESS MAGAZINE, 10 Emotional Triggers
by Joseph Sugarman, Dec 1998

GREAT AMERICAN ESSAYS ( 7-1 Hour Cass)

THE 29 MOST COMMON WRITING MISTAKES
--Judy Delton

THE WRITER MAGAZINE 1/98 (6 articles)

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH (P. T. Barnum)
by Ann Tompert, 116 pages

IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE
By Tom Peters (9-90 min tapes)

EISENHOWER
by Geoffrey Perret
21-90 min. cass.

THE SOUND OF YOUR VOICE
By Carol Fleming
4-60 min tapes

THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR
The Suprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
--Thomas J .Stanley and William D. Danko
--7 CDs 8.25 hours

JACK--STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT
by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne
CEO General Electric
12 CDs, 14.25 hours

ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING
Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
by Ray Bradbury,158 pgs.

Never Be Lied To Again
by David J. Lieberman, Ph.D.
4 cass/5.25 hours

SAM WALTON--MADE IN AMERICA
by Sam Walton with John Huey
7-90 min cass.

LEWIS CARROLL: A BIOGRAPHY
by Morton N. Cohen
16-90 min. cass.

All The Best, George Bush
by George Bush
Four Cass., 90 Min- each

Language 30--Latin
1 1/2 hours, 2 cass.

Parenting Isn't for Cowards.
by Dr. James Dobson
5 cass./7.5 hours

Don't Know Much About History
by Kenneth C. Davis
12-90 min. cass

Book Title Ideas by China Sinclair

2000 ANGLES OF ADVICE
A Myriad of Thought to Challenge and Sharpen your Mind

COURAGEOUS COMPANIONS
300 Inspiring Thoughts From Earth's Great Lives

UNIQUE THOUGHTS FROM GREAT MINDS

You don't know what good friends books can be till you try them, till you try many of them."
--Carl Sandburg's sixth grade teacher

Books rule the world, or at least those nations in it which have written language, the others do not count.
--Voltaire

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
--Chinese proverb

(In books) we converse with wise men.
--Francis Bacon

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
--Matin Farqular Tupper, 1838

Literature is my utopia . . . No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse of my book friends.
--Helen Keller

From my infancy I was passionately fond of reading and all the money that came into my hands was laid-out in the purchasing of books.
--Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
--Rene Descartes

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
--James Russell Lowell

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
--Horace Mann

. . . I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any others than such.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rules for Reading

I cannot live without books.
--Thomas Jefferson

Aristotle tells us that the World is a Copy or Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of the first Being, and that those Ideas, which are in the Mind of Man, are a Transcript of the World: To this we may add, that Words are the Transcript of those Ideas which are in the Mind of Man, and that Writing or Printing are the Transcript of words.

As the Supreme Being has expressed, and as it were printed his Ideas in the Creation, Men express their Ideas in Books, which by this great Invention of these latter Ages may last as long as the Sun and Moon, and perish only in the general Wreck of Nature . . . There is no other Method of fixing those Thoughts which arise and disappear in the Mind of Man, and transmitting them to the last Periods of Time; no other Method of giving a Permanency to our Ideas, and preserving the Knowledge of any particular Person, when his Body is mixed with the common Mass of Matter, and his Soul retired into the World of Spirits. Books are the Legacies that a great Genius leaves to Mankind, which are delivered down from Generation to Generation, as Presents to the Posterity of those who are yet unborn.
--Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 166., September 10, 1711.

The man who enters a library is in the best society this world affords; the good and the great welcome him, surround him, and humbly ask to be allowed to become his servants.
--Anonymous Child Carnegie

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Books

Books read by China Sinclair

BY THE BOOK, by Joe Paterno with Bernard Asbell (autobiography), 6 sound recordings, 540 min, 1 7/8 ips. Penn State Head Coach, National Champions

HOW TO SPEAK/HOW TO LISTEN
by Mortimer J. Adler, 5 cassettes, A short course in effective communication.

TOM LANDRY, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Tom Landry with Gregg Lewis, 6 cassettes-9 hours, Dallas Cowboys head coach.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 4 cassettes-330 min., U.S. Statesman.

WITH REAGAN--THE INSIDE STORY
by Edwin Meese

THE SECRETS OF POWER PERFORMANCE
by Roger Dawson

FIRST IN HIS CLASS
by David Maraniss

ETHICS
by Aristotle

JFK--A Self Portrait-Audiocassettes
MOTHER TERESA--THE EARLY YEARS

Audiocassettes

INSTANT RAPPORT
by Michael Brooks, Audiocassettes

MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING
By Viktor E. Frankl

101 IDEAS TO ORGANIZE YOUR BUSINESS LIFE
by Paulette Ensign

MEGA MEMORY
by Kevin Trudeau, 2 audiocassettes-90 min.

THE YES FACTOR
by Ivan Burnell, audiocassettes

THE SECRETS FOR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS
By Og Mandino, 339 p., Diary.

CREATIVE GENIUS
by Michael J. Geld, 2 90-min. audiocassetes

WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS AN "A"
by ???, audiocassettes

SPEAKING IN PUBLIC
by Reid Buckley, 7-90 min. cassettes

WHAT EVERY YOUNG PERSON SHOULD KNOW
by Earl Nightingale

DEVELOPING WINNERS HABITS
by Dennis Waitley

MUHAMMAD ALI--HIS LIFE AND TIMES
by Thomas Hause (14 Tapes)

HOW TO GET RESULTS WITH PEOPLE
By Jeff Salzman (4 Tapes)

WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE (Bio of Lincoln)
by Stephen B. Oates (16 Tapes)

SECRETS TO SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS
by Og Mandino

OG MANDINO'S GREAT TRILOGY, by Og Mandino, 419 p., Contents: The Greatest Salesman in the World, The Greatest Miracle in the World, The Greatest Secret in the World. The Art of Creative Listening
1-90min. tape

The HP Way
by David Packard
4-90 min. tapes

Speak to Win
by Bert Decker
6--90 min. tapes

The Nature of Alexander
by Mary Ren
6--90 min. tapes The Mind of the Enlightenment
Professor Alan Charles Kors
4-90min tapes

Possibilitiy Thinking
by Robert H. Schuller
6-90min tapes

Super Learning
by Sheila Ostrander &Lynn Schroeder
1-90 min. tape THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY
--by Will Durant, c.1933 (16 tapes) 297 pgs.

MOTHER TERESA--THE EARLY YEARS
3-60 min. tapes

HOW TO DEVELOP THE POWER OF ENTHUSIASM
by Paul J. Meyer
1 tape

A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD
--by Roger Von Oech, 1 tape

MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING
--by Viktor Frankl, 4-90 min. cassettes

THE EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE
--by Peter F. Drucker

6-1 hour cassettes GETTING THRU TO KIDS
by Phillip Mountrose
2 90-min tapes

WALK LIKE A GIANT, SELL LIKE A MADMAN
by Ralph R. Roberts with John Gallagher,
4 90 min tapes, America's top selling real estate agent

ON WRITING WELL
by William Zinsser
1-90min tape

FORBES: GREAT MINDS OF BUSINESS
4-90min tapes

LINCOLN'S PROSE
2-90min tapes

ACHEIVING CREDIBILITY: THE KEY TO EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
--By James M. Kouzes
2-90min tapes

HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME
by Gery Spence
One of America's most successful trial lawyers
8-90min tapes JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Inteliquest, 90 min cassette

HOW WE THINK
by John Dewey
--Summary, 45 min cass

WALDEN
by Henry David Thoreau
Summary, 45 min cass

MACBETH
By William Shakespeare
Summary, 45 min cass

THE TEMPEST
by William Shakespeare
Summary, 45 min cass

ALL TOO HUMAN
a political education
by George Stephanopoulos
14-90 min cass. IRON AND SILK
by Mark Salzman
4-90 min cass.

GUITAR, VOL 1.
Hal Leonard, 40 mon

GUITAR, VOL 2
Hal Leonard, 40 min The Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant

Opens vistas of intellectual adventure and growth.
The wisest answers of the world's greatest philosophers.

THE ANIMAL WITHIN US
by Jay D. Glass
4-9 min cass.

GREAT SPEECHES OF THE 21ST CENTURY
3 tapes

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A BIOGRAPHY
by Brand Whitlock

FREUD: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME
Part 1
by Peter Gay

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED
by M. Scott Peck
6-60min cass

FREUD, A LIFE FOR OUR TIME
Part 2-12 90-min tapes

YOU'RE ON THE AIR (Video)
90 min

PATRIARCH-GEORGE WASHINGTON
by Richard Norton Smith
14-90 min cass.

BEING THE BEST
by Dennis Waitley
1-90 min cassette

MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS
by John Gray, Ph.D.
6-90min cassettes

LINCOLN
by David Herbert Donald
21-90min tapes

BASICS OF SINGING
by Jan Schmidt

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL
by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen
8-1 hour tapes

A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD
By Roger Von Oech
1-cassette

Super-Learning 2000
Sheila Ostander & Lynn Schroeder
1-cassette

EDISON, INVENTING THE CENTURY
by Neil Baldwin
14--90 min cass.

GUERILLA SELLING
By Bill Gallagher, Ph.D., Orrell Ray Wilson, Jay Conrad Levinson
6-90 min cass.

THE ESSENCE OF PLAYING CONGAS (Video)
--Jerry Steinholtz

HITLER (Part 1)
15-90 min cass.

RONALD REAGAN
by Dinesh D'Souza
9-90 min cass.

THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
by Alfred Adler
4 of 5 90 min cass.

SELF DISCIPLINE & EMOTIONAL CONTROL
by Tom Miller
4 cass.

Exercise the little gray cells.
--Peter Ustinov, Murder on the Nile--Movie

The human brain is the organ or instrument of thinking.
--China Sinclair

To prosper you must improve your brain power; and nothing helps the brain more than a healthy body.
--Orison Swett Marden

Each of our brains 100 billion neurons (about the same number of stars in the Milky Way) is a sophisticated computer.
--Scientific American, Gerald D. Fischbach (paraphrased)

The human brain has the power to retrieve images and create them at will.
--China Sinclair

We have 40 to 50 thousand thoughts a day. If you can direct one to two thousand thoughts a day towards your goal you'll have a much better chance of achieving it.
--Teri Muench, The Songwriter's Workshop

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as some racing cars. The fastest impulses recorded, in experiments carried out in 1966, traveled at nearly 180 mph. Nerve impulses move slightly more slowly in elderly people, at up to about 150 mph.
--Reader's Digest Book of Facts

Each day it (the human brain) triggers hundreds of millions of impulses--more than all the world's telephone systems put together.
--Readers's Digest Book of Facts

The human brain is built of 100 billion neurons or cells--each is a computer within itself.
--Unknown

Your human brain is your own personal copy of the most advanced electrochemical computer in the universe.
--China Sinclair

Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.
--Da Vinci

Technology is so sophisticated that we can detect a single neuron firing in the brain, measuring down to a millionth of a volt.
--Unknown

Some years ago scientists were asked to construct a computer that could perform all of the functions of the human brain. To reproduce actions and components would have to build a structure the size of the U.N. building filled with the latest computer technology.
Require a cooling system with output equal to Niagra falls.
Power source that would produce as much electricity as is needed in the entire state of California.
--THE YES FACTOR, Ivan G. Burnell

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
--Clive James

The human mind is limited, so we sometimes use different aids to help us remember things.
--C.W. Bess & Roy E. DeBrand

When reading, the conditioned human brain is able to decipher thousands of different words instantly.
--China Sinclair

Use the cushion between your ears.
--China Sinclair

We consciously forget 90% of what is learned in our lifetime. Brain stores ten times more information that the 20,000,000 volumes in the Library of Congress.
THE YES FACTOR, Ivan G. Burnell

As memories crowd my brain.
--Abraham Lincoln

The occipital lobe is your own personal biocomputerized archive, storing billions of images with the potential to create billions more.
--Unknown

There are 30 billion brain cells. Each cell body has 10 to 100 dendrites (long tentical-like arms.) Each dendrite has 100 to 1000 chemical sacks called dendritic spines. Electrical energy pulses through dendrite. There are 100,000 chemical reactions in brain every second. Professor Onokin has estimated that the number of possible patterns of connections in brain is 10 to the 800th power, or 1+6 1/2 million miles of typewritten 0's. The neurocircuitry of the human brain is estimated to be 1400X's more complex than the entire global telephone network.
--Michael J. Geld, Creative Genius (paraphrased)

The retina seems to process about 10 one million point images per second.
--Unknown

The brain is the ultimate problem-solving machine. It works best when it is focused on one idea over and over until it can glue enough data together to invent a wise solution.
--China Sinclair

The human brain has the capability of automating thousands of instructions and tasks. Practice (attention, repetition and effort) is the only way known to man for knowledge to be encoded in the brain for future recall and use.
--China Sinclair

Our imagination has instant access to billions of archived pictures, thousands of sound effects, and unlimited amounts of smell-taste-touch sensory memory recalls. It is those who have understood the brains ability for instant recall who have become our greatest writers, producers, and communicators.
--China Sinclair

If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial.
--Wilbur Wright

Let us die in harness.
--Macbeth

It's hard havin' brother. That's why I don't like having a brother.
--Anonymous Child Deloch, (4 year old, with tears in his eyes after his brother woke him up from a nap)

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
--G.K. Chesterton

All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
--Charles W. Eliot

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen.
--Robert Heller

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.
--Thorstein Veblen

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
--Peter F. Drucker

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
--Elbert Hubbard

Every businessman must ask himself, "How is my customer's life somehow improved, upgraded, bettered because he uses my product or service? What is my contribution to society beyond that of earning a living?"
--Earl Nightingale

The secret of business is to know something that no one else knows.
--Aristotle Onasis

Never promise more than you can perform.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 528

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
--Peter F. Drucker

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
--William Blake, 1757-1827

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
--Lee Iacocca

I never say anything OF a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying TO him.
--George Washington

The most important affair in life is the choice of a calling.
--Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Number 97

It is not rushing that is important, it is making sure.
--Maasai of East Africa Proverb

Make haste slowly.
--A motto of the Emperor Augustus

If you are checking on your child at the day care, never go at the same time each day. You may go one day and find them beating your child.
--Earl Blanchard

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
--Anonymous

For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. --Plutarch, Life of Pericles

Bacon made a strict study of cause and effect in human action.
--Unknown

Happy the man who has learned the causes of things and has put under his feet all fears and inexorable fate and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
--Virgil

Trace and damn the sources in error.
--Francis Bacon

Spiritual demands that we actively seek the threatening and unfamiliar and deliberately challenge what we have been taught and hold dear. The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.
--M. Scott Peck

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be a dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying affair.
--J. Paul Getty

In the real world chance accounts for a great deal.
-- Jack Miles

Chance is the name of a thing that does not exist.
--Francis Bacon

Time and chance happen to us all.
--Ecclesiastees

As the unthought-on accident is guilty
Of what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.
--Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 3

Where there is no strife there is decay. The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.
--Herecletus

All things forever flow in change. Even in the stillest matter there is unseen flux and movement. Cosmic history runs in repetitious cycles each beginning and ending in fire.
--Herecletus

Change is the essence of progress.
--Irene Mc Dermott, Success Unlimited

Do not spend too many hours trying to make people comfortable. You may be encouraging them to keep bad habits. It is when we make people uncomfortable that we are also encouraging them to change.
--China Sinclair

Without change there is no growth.
--Sonia Levitin

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change . . . so is the whole universe.
--Marcus Aurelius

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
--Caroine Schoeder

When you're finished changing, you're finished.
--Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing permanent except change.
--Will Rogers

Everything flows and nothing stays.
--Heraclitus

We (the Arab and Muslim world) are living in a world that was not there 20 years ago. Whoever fails realize this will go nowhere. So we have to accentuate our ability to realize the extent of change that is taking place and to try to adapt our lives to that . . .
--Ahmed Kamal Aboulmagd, Professor at Cairo University, Charlie Rose Show, 1/7/2005

To be sure, one should keep his eye on change, but not to the exclusion of ignoring the many constants.
--China Sinclair

So man, who here seems principal alone,
Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown,
Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal;
'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
When the proud steed shall know why man restrains
His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains;
When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod,
Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god;
Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend
His actions', passions', being's, use and end;
Why doing, suffering checked, impelled; and why
This hour a slave, the next a deity.
--Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle 1, Part 2

Change is a fact of God. From this no one is excused.
--Grace Paley

Character and personality are formed by nature and nurture.
--Unknown

The force of character is cumulative.
--Emerson, Self-Reliance

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.
--Silas W. Mitchell

Character is power.
--Brooker T. Washington

The best test in deciding whether doing something is right or wrong is: does it ADD VALUE or SUBTRACT VALUE to the society you live in?
--China Sinclair

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
--Jean Paul Richter

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said, "Men succeed less by their talents than their character." There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
--Wendell Phillips

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters.
--Lavater

Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has in substance been said, is "victory organized."
--Bovee

Some have said of George Washington that he had a charisma of competence.
--Unknown

If you have extra clothes, you should share with those who have none. And if you have extra food, you should do the same.
--John the Baptist, The Bible, Luke 3:11, New International Reader's Version

Then Jesus spoke to his host. "Suppose you give a lunch or a dinner," he said. "Do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors. If you do, they may invite you to eat with them. So you will be paid back. But when you give a big dinner, invite those who are poor. Also invite those who can't walk, the disabled and the blind. Then you will be blessed. Your guests can't pay you back. But you will be paid back when those who are right with God rise from the dead."
--Jesus Christ, The Bible, Luke 14:12-14, New International Reader's Version

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the word will let them.
--Logan Pearsall Smith

Dear distant Land of Childhood! God doth know
That I have longed to dwell in thee again,
As when by care unvexed, by doubt undriven,
With eyes as blue, and heart as pure, as Heaven.
Sweet are the days of childhood, glad the flow
Of unhurt joyous life in every vein.
--Thomas S. Chard, Across the Sea and Other Poems, 1875.

The only practical method to reform mankind is to begin with children.
--Noah Webster

Children need acceptance not comparison.
--Wayne Austin

Much joy could be had from the little ones if there were not so many scares.
--Freud

150 WAYS CONTINUED(3). . .

120. Write a chalk message on their sidewalk.
121. Create a safe, open environment.
122. Be available.
123. Cheer their accomplishments.
124. Encourage them to help others.
125. Tackle new tasks together.
126. Believe what they say.
127. Help them take a stand and stand with them.
128. Daydream with them.
129. Do what they like to do.
130. Make decisions together.
131. Magnify their magnificence.
132. Build something together.
133. Encourage them to think big.
134. Celebrate their firsts and lasts, such as the first school day.
135. Go places together.
136. Welcome their suggestions.
137. Visit them when they're sick.
138. Tape record a message for them.
139. Help them learn from mistakes.
140. Be sincere.
141. Introduce them to people of excellence.
142. Tell them what you expect of them.
143. Give them your phone number.
144. Introduce them to new experiences.
145. Share a meal together.
146. Talk directly together.
147. Be spontaneous.
148. Expect their best; don't expect perfection.
149. Empower them to help and be themselves.
150. Love them, no matter what.
--by Jolene L. Roehlkeptain.
Lutheran Brotherhood
800-888-7828

150 WAYS CONTINUED. . .

60. Give them lots of compliments.
61. Catch them doing something right.
62. Encourage win-win solutions.
63. Give them your undivided attention.
64. Ask for their opinion.
65. Have fun together.
66. Be curious with them.
67. Introduce them to your friends and family.
68. Tell them how much you like being with them.
69. Let them solve most of their own problems.
70. Meet their friends.
71. Meet their parents.
72. Let them tell you how they feel.
73. Help them become an expert at something.
74. Be excited when you see them.
75. Tell them about yourself.
76. Let them act their age.
77. Praise more; criticize less.
78. Be consistent.
79. Admit when you make a mistake.
80. Enjoy your time together.
81. GIve them a special nickname.
82. Marvel at what they can do.
83. Tell them how proud you are of them.
84. Pamper them.
85. Unwind together.
86. Be happy.
87. Ask them to help you.
88. Support them.
89. Applaud their successes.
90. Deal with problems and conflicts while they're still small.
91. Chaperone a dance.
92. Tell them stories in which they are the hero.
93. Believe in them.
94. Nurture them with good food, good words, and good fun.
95. Be flexible.
96. Delight in their uniqueness.
97. Let them make mistakes.
98. Notice when they grow.
99. Wave and honk when you drive by them.
100. Give them immediate feedback.
101. Include them in conversations.
102. Respect them.
103.Join in the adventures.
104. Visit their schools.
105. Help them learn something new.
106. Be understanding when they have a difficult day.
107. Give them good choices.
108. Respect the choices they make.
109. Be silly together.
110. Hang out together.
111. Make time to be with them.
112. Inspire their creativity.
113. Accept them as they are.
114. Become their advocate.
115. Appreciate their individuality.
116. Talk openly with them.
117. Tolerate their interruptions.
118. Trust them.
119. Share a secret. 150 WAYS TO SHOW KIDS YOU CARE

1. Notice them.
2. Smile a lot.
3. Acknowledge them.
4. Learn their names.
5. Seek them out.
6. Remember their birthdays.
7. Ask them about themselves.
8. Look in their eyes when you talk to them.
9. Listen to them.
10. Play with them.
11. Read aloud together.
12. Giggle together.
13. Be nice.
14. Say yes a lot.
15. Tell them their feelings are okay.
16. Set boundaries that keep them safe.
17. Be honest.
18. Be yourself.
19. Listen to their stories.
20. Hug them.
21. Forget your worries sometimes and concentrate only on them.
22. Notice when they're acting differently.
23. Present options when they seek your counsel.
24. Play outside together.
25. Surprise them.
26. Stay with them when they're afraid.
27. Invite them over for juice.
28. Suggest better behaviors when they act out.
29. Feed them when they're hungry.
30. Delight in their discoveries.
31. Share their excitement.
32. Send them a letter or postcard.
33. Follow them when they lead.
34. Notice when they're absent.
35. Call them to say hello.
36. Hide surprises for them to find.
37. Give them space when they need it.
38. Contribute to their collections.
39. Discuss their dreams and nightmares.
40. Laugh at their jokes.
41. Be relaxed.
42. Kneel, squat, or sit so you're at their eye level.
43. Answer their questions.
44. Tell them how terrific they are.
45. Create a tradition with them and keep it.
46. LEarn what they have to teach
47. Use your ears more than your mouth.
48. Make yourself available.
49. Show up at their concerts, games, and events.
50. Find a common interest.
51. Hold hands during a walk.
52. Apologize when you've done something wrong.
53. Listen to their favorite music with them.
54. Keep the promises you make.
55. Wave and smile when you part.
56.Display their artwork in your home.
57. Thank them.
58. Point out what you like about them.
59. Clip magazine pictures or articles that interest them.

What lessons will young children learn (by our example)?
Acts must have consequences.
--William Bennett, Global Viewpoint, 9.16.1998

Heraclitus was asked by the citizens of Ephesus to become a law-maker. He refused, replying, "If I do so, who would play with the children in the temple?"
--Unknown

A torn jacket is soon mended; but harsh words bruise the heart of a child.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many children have a desire to be noticed.
--Alfred Adler

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
--Chinese proverb

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
--Aristotle

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun.
--Jean Paul Richter

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
--Robert Frost

The best compliment to a child or friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
--Alistair Cooke

As a man thinketh so is he, and as a man chooseth so is he.
--Emerson, Spiritual Laws, 1841

Mr. Kevin: Why do we practice the drums?
Christian: To get better. Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
--William Blake

Everyone needs some place to go once a week where they are picked up, given the long view, and strengthened with renewed hope.
--Alan Loy McGinnis

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
--Herodotos

620,000 killed in civil war.
--A&E Video

In this struggle for the nation's life . . .
--Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Governor Bradford, November 2, 1863

Look for in leadership:
1. Humility
2. Is he fearless?

He played possessed
crowd erupted, pandemonium
A heart, a capacity
hand picked twelve men, combustible
about tore the roof off
these were the pastor's finest men
I shared from my mistakes
what happened shocked me
you would think, but no
rank, base sins
have you ever considered who God is?
that's how big it is out there
what kind of hand is that?
Do you know what the Bible says?
Can I tell you who this Guy is?
This is what is going to happen
ceaseless infliction of unbearable pain
Uses dramatic illustrations to paint a point
spiritual, logical sequence
are you there?
poor in spirit=blessed are those who realize without God's power we can do nothing.
now watch
Donnie I see that in you

the prayer of St. Francis
this was off the charts
I am going to share with you what I have found to be the key
At 500 mph it would take 5.3 billion years to reach the nearest star.
heaven is going to be a celebration
word of god+fire=
beatitude=what be your attitude
Compared to God we realize our poverty of spirit
diagnosed the play
spilled over into the locker room
combustible
--Coach McCartney, Promise Keepers

What I'm going to do, I'm going to drive you. I know the average level of conditioning at other schools, we're going to surpass that.
--Vince Lombardi

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

kw.YOUR-DJ73Z52ZUB It is my full intention to devote my life and fortune in the cause we are engaged in if need be.
--George Washington, at beginning of Revolution

Common sense is the genius of humanity.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There can be no community without conversation and communication.
--Mortimer J. Adler, How to Speak/How to Listen

Emotion beats intellect every time.
--Roy H. Williams

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
--Alfred North Whitehead

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
--Walter Bagehot

Personal communication was often necessary to back-up written instructions.
--David Packard of the Hewlett-Packard Company
We cannot cure our social ills with wholesale ideas.
--John Dewey

We fling abstractions at one another's heads.
--John Dewey

Emptiness of abstractions.
--William James

In Abidjan, the largest city of the Ivory Coast, 66 languages are spoken.
--Steven Gaddis

Neurolinguistic Programming is about communicating on 3 distinct human frequencies. Those frequencies are: 1. Audio=Sound, 2. Visual=Pictures 3. Kinesthetic=Tactile, sensations or feelings, and emotions.
--Unknown

Reading is getting a message in print.
--Jan Joss

Site your source, it add's credibility to your presentation.
--China Sinclair

In communicating the gospel you must start by helping the listener acknowledge they have a need.
--Dave Ohlerking

Shall we whine and cry for relief and see one province after another fall prey to despotism. I think the parliament of Great Britain hath no more right to put their hands into my pocket without my consent than I have to put my hands into yours for money.
--George Washington, 1774

Brian Jud--"You're on the Air" Video
How to promote a book:
Sell with:
Smile, persistance, believe in book, relate to audience, passionate, info, tips, give them something they can take away with them, interesting guest, chip on shoulder, author tell good anectdotes, bring story to life, not stats or intellect, understand subject, folow instinct.

Everyone needs an IMAGE. Project an image.
Consulting a professional is always safe.
Video camera is the best self analyzing tool

Planning:
Start with 5,000 or 10,000 book titles.
Publishers will not do everything for you
two years before pub date review mailing
What outlets?
Distance yourself from own book
Reread own book like you've never seen it before,
Go with gut.

Know your audience:
People want to know, "What can I learn, How can this info make me better, successful, happier.
See from audiences viewpoint, "Here's info that I have that will be of interest to your audience."

Demographics--who is your audience?
college
laid-off
blue collar

Hit the nerve
Decide who your audience is and then talk right at them.

LEARN ABOUT THE MEDIA
What is it about that author that made me feel good?
Find out what is in the news, read NY Times, Wall St Journal, USA Today

1-pg Pitch letter
Use Bullets
Producers care only about ratings, not you or your book.
Do media training
Don't read your notes.
Little tricks of the trade:
Fear Q: Have own agenda, turn around to your own agenda, tell people a secret.
That's a great question, but what I want the American people to know . . .

Tape record
Look at yourself like others will see you.
Brian Jud (cont. pg. 3)
Make host look good, but take control, eye contact with your interviewer, look into their eyes
share a different opinion
"I know you're busy but if you don't get anthing else . . ."
Learn about interest of host, this guy cared about me.
People remember you, people are always sizing you up.
Send thank you note after interview, fed-ex.

RADIO
Verbal, vocal (create visual image)
Great medium
Can do from home
Audience is involved
800# on radio
Reach and frequency
Have main points in front of you
Satellite or radio media tours
Teleprint conference service
Everyone has a different attention span.
Helping someone help themselves.
Cluster in 3's, use fingers for three points
Eye contact show respect for your listener
Be natural, be in the moment
Being confident, fill the screen, speack clearly
Clothes-shirt 3 buttons

TV is a two dimensional box.
Sit on edge of seat.
One foot in front of other.
Leaning forward is OK
Have fun
You will always be the author of this book.
Bring VHS tape with to show.

PLAN, IMPEMENT, EVALUATE

You are never there.
Always strive to be better than you are.
Brian Jud Cont. (page 2)

30 seconds to answer a question (15 to 20 sec) in a 3 min segment.
Come prepared
Remember stories
Enjoy yourself
The power of 3 Q's
You're in control
Don't wait to be asked the right Q.
Choreographers only want a great segment.
Make them fall in love with you
Can't give them to much, but not obnoxious.

PLANNING YOU MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Press kit-packet, bio info, pictures, samples, book
Press release, sample questions, newspaper stories, what's newsworthy.
Letter with press kit.
Why you are going to make a great show
Go on as an expert in a particular area.

Radio/TV Interview Report
Have a list of goals
Local cable access
Paying dues
Pay pros
Mark Hansen
Chicken Soup
Distribution Set-up
800# fulfillment service

Keep Video Log of Everything
Go to local cable TV show
Are you compelling on TV?
Timing is crucial, momentum
Meet store managers and local medias
Know what producers need, animation, passion, enthusiasm, body language

Telephone--pre-interview, talk about passion.
Think on feet/field questions
Looking for energy, know subject, how well do you know my audience?
Have visuals (gripe bag, things husband and wife argue over)
Care about you audience

PERFORMING ON THE AIR
Give examples
1. problem
2. example
3. solution
"one of hundreds of ideas"
concrete examples
Teasers--look at covers of magazines
3 big point, what are the big issues here? abc
This is going to help you
How can you make it relevant?
Relate your book to a current event.

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
--Joseph Joubert

Words are by their nature imprecise.
--Michal G. Trachtman, Tape Course, What Everyone in Business Better Know about the Law

There are approximately 3000 different spoken languages on planet earth.
--Unknown

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.
For, thus friends absent speak
--John Donne

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I think we crave that detail, and to me one of the quickest ways to get into someone's heart . . . is through a very specific detail.
--Helen Bendler, Poets in Person

"When someone shouts at you, "Look out!" and you jump just in time to avoid being hit by an automobile, you owe your escape from injury to the fundamental cooperative act by which most of the higher animals survive, namely, communication by means of noises. You did not see the car coming; nevertheless, someone did, and he made certain noises to communicate his alarm to you. In other words, although your nervous system did not record the danger, you were unharmed because another nervous system did. You had, for the time being, the advantage of someone else's nervous system in addition to your own."
--S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought & Action, pg. 8-9.

To make one's self understandable to people, one must first speak to their eyes.
--Napoleon

Our eyes and our stance tells so much about who we are.
--Pete Wunstel

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
--William Stafford

You cannot imagine how unbelievably effective gesturing is in the communication ideas. Drawing pictures in the air with your hands has a way of suggesting images to the listener that words alone cannot do.
--China Sinclair

He has everybody's approval who mixes the useful with the sweet.
--Horace

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Speech is civilization itself.
--Thomas Mann

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
--George Bernard Shaw

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
--George Szell

Good communication leads people or "sets them up" to create new associations--connect new dots--in their minds. It leads, it shows, it guides; it generally does not tell, preach, or yank along--it questions, it probes, it searches.
--China Sinclair

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
--German proverb

In communicating, pause, sometimes, to, let, a, point, sink, in.
-China Sinclair

Think before you speak; pronounce not imperfectly, nor bring out your words to hastily, but orderly and distinctly.
--110 Rules of Civility

Great communicators involve their audience by sharing common every day human experiences with them.
--China Sinclair

Connect with the 5 senses.
--Dino Rizzo

The best measure of whether a person communicated well is this: Did he caputure his audience's imagination?
--China Sinclair

A web developer in the 90's stated, "content is king." What is content? Content is a picture, a video, text, a graphic, an animation or any other medium that people have interest.
--Bent Harshbarger, Church Production, Marcg/April 2002

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos, and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings, to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.
--Mortimer J. Adler

If you want to really connect with people, nothing does it like direct honesty. It shocks and wakes up.
--China Sinclair

The wise know how to speak in parables, metaphors and maxims.
--China Sinclair

The best leaders . . . almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
--Tom Peters

A good presentation has as many questions as answers.
--Unknown

Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it.
--Unknown

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Them come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a trmendous whack.
--Winston Churchill

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.
--Adolf Hitler

To communicate with children be dramatic and combine action with words to enhance learning.
--China Sinclair

If you make a bold, strong statement but at the end give yourself an out, you have in effect said nothing.
--China Sinclair

The Bible uses the natural to illustrate the supernatural.
--Jim Rentz

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
--G. K. Chesterton

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards--the things we live by and teach our children--are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
--Walt Disney

Stop having a voice, start using your voice.
--Unknown

A 3-Step Communication Process:
1. Transmit as clearly and accurately as you possible can. Select visual words-EVOKE CRISP IMAGES.
2. Get feedback-what is your understanding of the benefits of this new service.
3. Change, correction, clarify, confirmation.
--Unknown

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
--Joseph Joubert

We listen to understand, we speak to be understood. This is the foundation of society and of peace.
--China Sinclair

Remember: It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.
--Duncan Maxwell Anderson

To be an orator, you have to use your own words and be on fire with them.
--Fulton J. Sheen

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
--Feltham

It is a great mistake to think anything too profound or rich for a popular audience. No train of thought is too deep or subtle or grand; but the manner of presenting it to their untutored minds should be peculiar. It should be presented in anecdote, or sparkling truism, or telling illustration, or stinging epithet, etc.; always in some concrete form, never in a logical, abstract, syllogistic shape.
--Rufus Choate

Comparisons are slippery.
--Plato

Culler believed that computers should be true problem-solving tools--ones that helped users understand how to solve problems rather than just flexing mathematical muscle.
Scientific American, April 2000

A silicon chip is a universe of knowledge in a few grains of sand.
--Unknown

I believe that prophecies fulfill themselves, but only when they're rooted in genuine belief. If your mind and will are really focused on an outcome you can almost compel it to happen . . . I know the power of concentrating a brain, your whole body, your whole nervous system, your adrenaline, all your will on a single goal. It's an almost unbeatable concentration of force.
--Joe Paterno, By the Book

You cannot fail in any laudable object unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
--Abraham Lincoln

Focusing your attention on a target is stress; allowing your mind to wander is recovery.
--James E. Loehr, Ed.D.

The knowledge that you are to be hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully.
--Johnson

Game:
Have student concentrate on playing a piece, try to distract them with movement and funny faces. Jimmy Connors once said he could see the tennis ball as big as a watermelon moving in slow motion toward him.
--Unknown

Students with the most concentration solve the most problems and get the most done.
--China Sinclair

The mind can only deal with one thing at a time; the mind's eye must have a single focus.
--Robert Cohen, Acting Power

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The youthful mind, and indeed the average adult mind as well, is singularly non-logical and incapable of continued concentration, and loses interest under too consecutive thought and sustained style.
--Bertha M. Clark, "General Science", 1912

Reward students with MEGA-SECRETS roles. Quotations and proverbs for kids to make them smarter.
Create practice awards.
1000 minutes award
2000 minutes award
10000minutes award

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 1060

I believe players are free to perform at their best only when they know what the expectations are.
--Tom Landry

Careful preparation fosters confidence. That confidence becomes contagious and translates into a lasting kind of emotion that really pays off.
--Tom Landry, Autobiography

You gain confidence by doing, behavior, risk taking!
--Wayne Dyer

They are able who think they are able.
--Virgil

Signal loud and clear with your body that you love being right where you are. Physically radiate fun, fight, passion, and poise, no matter what the circumstances.
--James E. Loehr, Ed.D.

Hold your head up high in the world.
--Unknown

No such thing as being over prepared.
--Rick Pitino

Preparation reduces stress.
--Rick Pitino

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive self-affirmations from "Where there's a Will there's an A": 1. I have a really good memory. 2. I am good at solving problems. 3. I am quick and alert.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me . . . but I had high expectations for myself.
--Shannon Miller

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
--Michael O'Brien

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
--Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address, Feb, 27, 1860

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
--Thomas Jefferson

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
--William Jennings Bryan

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
--Ann Landers

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
--George Herbert

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
--Orison Swett Marden

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rid yourself of this I-am-a-poor-worm-in-the-dust idea. You are a god, with infinite capabilities.
--Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwin, The Art of Public Speaking, 1915

The secret with me is that in success as in failure, in the consciousness of my doing as in my habits, I am myself. There are a great many who dare not, or lack the ability, to be themselves.
--Björnstjerne Björnson, from "Short Stories"

This is the temptation of the time: as the bulk of men think, so think you, and as the bulk of men say, so say you, and as the bulk of christian professors talk, so talk you.
--Charles Spurgeon

Welcome disagreements.
Build bridges of understanding.
--Dale Carneige summary

When attempting to correct someone, try not to question their motives. Always try to make your point from facts or observations. This will allow them to save face while the problem is getting the attention it deserves.
--China Sinclair

When confronting ask descriptive questions instead of evaluative questions.
--Unknown

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
--Edward R. Murrow

New York in Washington's day was "a bable of tongues." Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
--110 Rules of Civility

To find the meaning of an idea, we must examine the consequences to which it leads in action, otherwise dispute about it may be without end and will surely be without fruit.
--Charles Pierce, 1878

All sins cast long shadows.
--Irish proverb

Life is just like a garden! You get what you plant.
--China Sinclair

Those things that God tells you not to do will hurt you. The things he tells you to do will bless you.
--China Sinclair

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
--Lawrence J. Peter

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
--Edmund Spenser, 1590

In piano instruction, variety of sound stimulates the student's ear and imagination more than the recognition of just one key color (Middle C five finger postition).
-China Sinclair

In life there are controllables and uncontrollables.
--China Sinclair

Be careful when you use extreme modifiers like 'never' and 'always'. If you are not choosy with your words, people are likely to start blocking you out as soon as you open your mouth.
--China Sinclair

Be not tedious in discourse, make not many digressions, nor repeat often the same matter of discourse.
--George Washington's "Rules of Civility"

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
--Benjamin Franklin

Do not betray even to your friend to much of your real purposes and thoughts. In conversation ask questions oftener than you express opinions and when you speak, offer data and information rather than beliefs and judgments.
--Francis Bacon

Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive.
--George Washington, Rules of Civility

It is not every question that deserves an answer.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 581

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.
--Southey

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man. --Lavter

Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. --G.A. Sala

Many can argue, not many converse. --A. Bronson Alcott

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. --William Temple, Heads of an Essay on Conversation

In my whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it was pleasant to speak--i.e., who keep to the subject, do not repeat themselves, and do not talk of themselves; men who do not listen to their own voice, who are cultivated enough not to lose themselves in commonplaces, and, lastly, who possess tact and good taste enough not to elevate their own persons above their subjects.
--Metternich, Many Thoughts of Many Minds

Francis Bacon called for the cooperation of minds.

When the sea rises all the boats rise with it.
--Rick Pitino

The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
--John Marshall

Every year the dollar cost of corporate crime to Americans is over ten times greater than the combined arsons, robberies, burglaries and auto thefts committed by individuals. One in five of America's 500 largest corporations has been convicted of at least one major crime or has paid civil penalties for serious misbehavior.
--Gerry Spence

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
--Jacob Bronowski

Corruption wins not more than honesty.
--William Shakespeare

Almost all music sales in Pakistan are of illegally copied CDs. Cheap medicine flows across the border from Mexico, nearly 25% of it fake, contaminated, or even poisoned.
--Hot Property, Book Review, Harvard Business Review, April 2005, page 26.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
--Rousseau

These are the three reality checks:
1. Hope=confident expectation of the future.
2. Depression=hopelessness
3. Find Purpose
--Dave Smith, Baton Rouge, LA Counselor

No problem was ever fixed without courage.
--China Sinclair

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

Doubt indulged becomes doubt realized. To determine to do anything is half the battle. Courage is victory, timidity is defeat.
--Nelson

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
--Plato

You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . .You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Pray about everything and fear nothing.
--Joyce Myers motto for life

If I falter, push me on. If I stumble, pick me up. If I retreat, shoot me.
--Motto of the French Foreign Legion

If God be with us, everything that is impossible becomes possible.
--Greek Proverb

Step on your fear and it will turn into courage.
--Bob Lee

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
--Vince Lombardi

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
--Helen Keller

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
--Michael Jordan

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
--General George Patton

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
--Theodore H. White

Keep you fears to yourself, but share your courage.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
--Aristotle

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
--Euripides

Courage is having done it before.
--Saying

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with lips only, follow me.
--Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian Patriot

They conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man with courage makes a majority.
--Anonymous Child Jackson

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossiblity.
--Charles F. Kettering

It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena,
who strives valiantly, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at his best,
knows the triumph of high achievement; who, at his worst, if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly, so his place will never be with
those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory or defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger but in seeing and conquering it.
--Jean Paul Richter

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men and women whose timidity prevented from making a first effort; who, if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone the great length in the career of fame. The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks and adjusting nice changes; it did very well before the flood, when a man could consult his friend upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years, and still live to enjoy success afterwards; but at present, a man waits, and doubts, and consults his brothers and his particular friends, till one day he finds he is sixty years old and that he has lost so much time in consulting cousins and friends that he has no time remaining to follow their advice.
--Sydney Smith

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
--Samuel Butler

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where the way is hardest, there go thou:
Follow your own path, and let people talk.
--Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy

He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern.
--Thomas Jefferson on George Washington

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin

Screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
--Shakespeare, Macbeth

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
--Baltasar Gracián y Morales

One and God make a majority.
--Frederick Douglass

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
--Louisa May Alcott

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
--Winston Churchill

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
--Miguel de Cervantes

By religion I mean the power, whatever it be, which makes a man choose what is hard rather than what is easy, what is lofty and noble rather than what is mean and selfish; that puts courage into timorous hearts and gladness into clouded spirits.
--Arthur C. Benson

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
--Aristotle

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
--Aesop

Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes.
--Sir James Anonymous Child Barrie

Accordingly, when I considered in my own mind how absurd a performance it must seem to those who know that the judgment of many centuries has approved the view that the Earth remains fixed as center in the midst of the heavens, if I should, on the contrary, assert that the Earth moves; I was for a long time at a loss to know whether I should publish the commentaries which I have written in proof of its motion . . .
--Nicolaus Copernicus, The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies

My desire of deserving your satisfaction is stronger than ever, and everywhere you will employ me you can be certain of my trying every exertion in my power to succeed. I am now fixed to your fate, and I shall follow it and sustain it as well by my sword as by all means in my power.
--Letter of General Lafayette to General Washington, December 30, 1777

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained—who can say this is not greatness?
--William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians

If courage is gone, then all is gone! 'Twere better that thou hadst never been born.
- Johann von Goethe

Have the courage to appear foolish, for the real fools are those who never attempt anything.
 --Ralph Marston, The Daily Motivator


Kevin: I don't believe you.
Courtney: You can't not believe. Why do you like music?
"It's so pretty."
They're talk-dreaming (the turtles in piano book).
--Courtney Fischer 2.29.2000

Lovely Mr. Kevin.
--Courtney Onion=Unjun
9.1.98

That's my favorite best beenie baby in the whole world.
--Courtney Fisher, 5.9.00

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
--Ralph Rapson

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
--Linus Pauling

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee, (1879-1940), Swiss artist

If you are going to find the truth you have to employ fantasy, you have to play at invention and guess a little. When I'm looking for the truth I always look for the opposite because great good and great evil are always there together like chickens at the market.
--Gallileo Galleli

To be fruitful in invention, it is indispensable to have a habit of observation and reflection.
--Abraham Lincoln, 1859

My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery.
--Unknown

Free Association--Person A says word at random, person B says first word that comes to mind that the random word triggered. When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
--Wilson Mizner

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
--Dale Carnegie

No truth is without some mixture of error and no error so false but that it possesses some elements of truth. If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it and in accepting the arguments of the other man he is sure to get some error with it. Honest argument is merely a process of mutually picking the beans and motes out of each others eyes so both can see clearly. Men become wise just as they become rich more by what they save than by what they receive. After I get hold of a truth I hate to loose it again and I like to sift all the truth out before I give up an error.
--Wilber Wright

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
--William James

"Rapid impressions" An idea will just fly away unless you can stab it with a pencil and write it down.
--Bert Decker

In writing poetry, "a mistake is obviously a point where originality can begin.
--A. R. Ammons

One poet took her spelling words list in school as a child and used them to craft a story.
--Unknown

Inventors work in much the same way as writers do, by trial and error, and experimentation with modifications.
--Genie Dickerson, The Writer 8/1998

The secret to being original lies in the ability to see relationships.
--Judy Delton

Steal and adapt the best of everything that's on TV or in the magazines or in other newspapers.
--Al Neuharth, founder USA Today

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
--Andre Gide

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
--Le Corbusier

Music creativity starter:
Think fast, think slow
Think LOUD, think soft
Think pretty, think ugly
Think high, think low
Think staccato, think legato
Think ad lib, think precision rhythm
--China Sinclair

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis--analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say--meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
--Paul Cezanne

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
--Pablo Casals

One of the ways that I exercise my imagination is by trying to ask "why?" about everything.
--Janis Ian, Songwriter, The Songwriter's Workshop

But ideas lie everywhere, like apples fallen and melting in the grass for lack of wayfaring strangers with an eye and a tongue for beauty, whether absurd, horrific, or genteel.
--Ray Bradbury

Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images . . . they love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form . . .
--Rollo May

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
--T. W. Higginson

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
--Thomas Edison

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
--Thomas Edison

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
--Thomas Edison

Tips for beginning drawing artist from a 25 year practicing artist. For an interview with Bob at the LA State Capital Building on October 27, 2004, by China Sinclair.
1. The lines are the most important things.
2. Doodle whenever you can.
3. You have to get past the point of discouragement.
4. Draw upside down. This will help you get rid of your preconceived notions of what the proportions should be.
5. Anything you learn outside of school is extra.

If you are struggling to think creatively, imagine what a thing or action would look like in REVERSE. This will give you more creative ideas than you can handle for a while.
--China Sinclair

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

The variety and the constant change was the thing that gave us our strength.
--Robert Plant, Lead Singer of Led Zeplin, Charlie Rose Show, May 11, 2005

If you really, really, really want to be an inventor and an innovator, do this: ask 100 crazy "why?" questions every day. This will set you on the right track.
--China Sinclair

ACHEIVING CREDIBILITY, by James M. Kouzes
Credibility=credo=credit. You have to establish a line of credit with people.

Reputation is human collateral

Stanton said of Lincoln, "That giraffe."

Consider the source in criticism.
--Tom Landry

Good managers see criticism as a source of information instead of an emotional attack.
--Unknown

Do what you feel in your heart to be right--for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Those who do well, like criticism; those who do not do well, resent it.
--Unknown

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
--Mary Kay Ash

To escape criticism--do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
--Elbert Hubbard

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
--Benjamin Disraeli

For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is not love.
--Francis Bacon

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.
--Shakespeare, Macbeth

The passions of wonder and awe are natural to the human heart.
--Leon R. Kass

Our people look to English books as the standard of truth on all subjects and this confidence in English opinions puts an end to inquiry. Our gentlemen even in the colleges and professions rarely question facts that come from English authors of reputation, hence we have no spirit of investigation.
--Noah Webster

Thomas Edison was constantly discovering phenomena, always asking questions as a child. Once he asked his father, "Why don't you know."
--China Sinclair

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning.
--Eugene S. Wilson

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
--Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
--Albert Einstein

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
--W. Somerset Maugham

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
--William Shakespeare

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not wither they are going, and give chance a chance.
--Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition

Dare to be naive.
--Buckminster Fuller

Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
--Cecil Beaton

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire--the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale--and that alone can guide.
--Aristotle

What we get from evolutionary theory is not the peaceable kingdom of a providencial God. We get a hellish place of violence and competition and conflict; it's a bloody sort of thing.
--Prof. Daniel N. Robinson

Darwin and the (blind) Purposes of Nature, lecture Darwin's strength--made notes on those things which did not support his theory of evolution. 58,000 Americans lost their lives in the Vietnam War.
--Unknown

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
--John Donne

Remember Guatemala special on Odyssey. A man left his boy like a "dead dog" after he was shot by the military.

Remember that you will die.
--Latin proverb

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
--Plato

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
--Miguel de Cervantes

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. ix. 3.

Argument method used by Freud--submit an position to a "critical attack". Coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies.
--Einstein

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
--Publilius Syrus

Don't be deceived by the same thing over and over. Try something new for a change.
--Darren Myles, Address to Recovering Addicts, 4/22/2005

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
--Aristotle

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
--John Beecher

Organized willpower is the combustion that forces the engine of progress forward. A committee of one gets things done.
--Joe Ryan

Here with firm resolve and iron determination.
--Winston Churchill

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
--John Beecher

Men are attracted to decisive personalities. Indecision drives the world crazy.
--China Sinclair

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.
--Lester B. Pearson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 675

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
--Harvey Fierstein

The one who wills is the one who can.
--Proverb

We are all pivot points in history. If you think about the vastness of the future stretching out ahead of us, each and every one of us, in what we do or fail to do, affects the weave of what's to be. We are all living, breathing points of departure between history as it will be, and alternate histories that could be.
--Jay Solo

I will make millions of choices over the course of my lifetime.
--China Sinclair

Decisions carry outcomes with them.
--China Sinclair

Who benefits?
--Ciciero
cui bono?

On 10.15.1999 an Ohio man was crossing the street from Holiday Inn on Siegen Lane in Baton Rouge to get to the Speedway on the other side. He tripped and got back up but did not see a truck coming his way. It ran him over and he lost his life. One bad decision cost him everything. When making decisions don't forget to "do the math".
--China Sinclair

I count this thing to be grandly true,
That a noble deed is a step toward God;
Lifting the soul from the common clod
To a purer air and a broader view.
--Richard Watson Gilder

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.
--Norman Mailer

Quantum Mechanics--theory of molecular and atomic motion and energy.

The difference between blurred vision and focused was hit home with me when I went several days without contacts until new ones arrived. Without contacts the moon looked like a distant blur of light, with contacts I could see craters on the moon! Trees were not just shapes anymore, now they had thousands of microscopic looking leaves!
--China Sinclair

Discipline--training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character.

Every good definition has two parts:
1. Assigns object to class or group of generally same characteristics.
2. How it differs from others in same class or group.

Aristotle drops an object into the ocean of its class, then takes it out all dripping with generic meaning with the marks of its kind and group, while its individuality and difference shine out all the more clearly for this juxtaposition with other objects which resemble it so much and are so different.
--Will Durant

When there is a diffusion of responsibility the impetus to act just isn't there. If you want answers or if you want somebody to do something, you have to increase his responsibility. This is best accomplished by appealing to one person at a time.
--David J. Lieberman, Ph.D.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
--Theodore Rossevelt

Aristocracy and monarchy are more efficient than democracy but they're also more dangerous.
--John Dewey

Democretus (Aristotle's predecessor) had a nose for facts, rather than an eye for the clouds.
--Francis Bacon

Water is the most dense thing we have on earth.
--Jamie Fountain

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone. We should therefore act as if we were alone, and in that case should we build fine houses, etc. We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
--Blaise Paschal, Pensees, Thought 211

When humans are not allowed to express themselves creatively, they turn to destructive habits to deal with their lack of fulfillment.
--China Sinclair

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
--Rollo May

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
--C. S. Lewis

We should desire nothing for ourselves which we do not desire for the rest of mankind.
--Spinoza

Thought should not lack the heat of desire, nor desire the light of thought.
--Spinoza

The will to know builds the brain just as the will to grasp forms the hand or as the will to eat develops the digestive track.
--Shopenheimer

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
--La Rochefoucauld

If you don't have any desires then you have stopped living.
--Tonja Myles, Address to Recovering Addicts, 4/22/2005

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
--Jean de la Fontaine

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.
--Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964

I believe God has built me and given me a life to be responsible for. I must not wait for a voice from heaven to start making a difference. Today I must start doing what I know to be right. When I practice what I know, more of God ’s will will be shown to me.
--China Sinclair

In order to find who you are and what your calling is life you must survey all of your experiences, all of your knowledge, all of your abilities. As you spend time in connecting these dots, you will discover your own uniqueness and what contribution you can make to this planet.
--China Sinclair

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto, but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow-men.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933, 1st Inaugural Address

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one think I do know--the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
--Albert Switzer

You can learn much about who a man IS by observing how he reacts to every day occurrences. Watch how he greets an new acquaintance. Watch how he treats the McDonald's attendant taking his order.
--China Sinclair

My observation is that frequently the most insignificant matter is the foundation for the worst scandal.
-- Abraham Lincoln

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
--William Blake

Those who understood delicacy and nuance.
--Unknown

Just a small, small drop in the bucket.
--Daurie Schaffer

Small things make big differences.
--China Sinclair

Small changes have big results.
--Issac Asimov

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
--Frank A. Clark

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little every day penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown . . .
--G. C. Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German Physicist, philosopher

It's the little things in life that determine the big things.
--Unknown

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
--Napolean Bonaparte

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
--John Wooden

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
--Blaise Pascal

Affairs of war, like the destiny of battles as well as of Empires, hang upon a spider's thread.
--Napoleon

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
--Orison Swett Marden

The determination to strive to do our best will inevitably improve the quality of our lives.
--Tom Landry Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
--Abraham Lincoln

Hold on with a bull dog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
--Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses Grant during war

Ague and fever, small-pox, dysentery, violent headaches, aching teeth and rheumatism, each surrendered to Washington's massive will.
"Let it go as it came."
--George Washington

George generally carries through anything he undertakes.
--Casual remark of Washington's mother when she received a letter from her son telling of a continental triumph at arms.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
--John Donne

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
--Abraham Lincoln

I'm telling you, I don't believe in luck, good or bad. Most fellows try a few things and then quit. I never quit until I get what I am after. That's the only difference between me that's supposed to be lucky and the fellows that think they are unlucky. Then again a lot of people think that I have done things because of some "genius" that I've got. That too is not true. Any other bright minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember that nothing that's any good works by itself just to please you, you've got to make the damn thing work.
--Thomas Edison

You must make yourself into the person you dream to be, no one else will do it for you.
--China Sinclair

Man is a stubborn seeker of meaning.
--John Gardner

When one must, one can.
--Yiddish proverb

Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there.
--Unknown

We shall not fail; if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
--Abraham Lincoln, June 17, 1858

A man of science should think of what will be said of him in the coming centuries, not of the insults or the compliments of the present day.
--Louis Pasteur

He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We will beat you, yet we won't hurt you. We will remember that you are as good as we are, there are no differences between us except those of circumstance. You are brave and gallant, but man for man you are no braver than we are and we outnumber you. You can't master us."
--Abraham Lincoln

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in our Nation’s history and has caused unimaginable devastation and heartbreak throughout the Gulf Coast Region. A vast coastline of towns and communities has been decimated.
--President George W. Bush, September 8, 2005

Most of the people of San Francisco were asleep at 5:13 o'clock this morning when the terrible earthquake came without warning . . . At first the upheaval of the earth was gradual, but in a few seconds it increased in intensity. Chimneys began to fall and buildings to crack, tottering on their foundations. The people became panic-stricken, and rushed into the streets, most of them in their night attire. They were met by showers of falling bricks, cornices, and walls of buildings. Many were crushed to death, while others were badly mangled. Those who remained indoors generally escaped with their lives, though scores were hit by detached plaster, pictures, and articles thrown to the floor by the shock.
--New York Times, April 18, 1906


The best way to know what a brain is thinking is by listening to what it's mouth is speaking.
--China Sinclair

You must look into people, as well as at them.
--Lord Chesterfield

What to say to a misbehaving child; "It would be nice if you could be nicer."
--Laura Schlessinger

Disciples=Learners Successful people are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures, on the other hand are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods. Failures are satisfied by whatever results can be obtained by daring only the things they like to do.
--Earl Nightingale

Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
--Josiah Quincy

The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.
--Orison Swett Marden

Great discoveries are, every day, right in front of our eyes, there for the taking, to someone, anyone who will see the application, hear the insight, smell the innovation, taste the invention, or touch the solution to a problem. Could it be that solutions are begging to be discovered, raising their hands hoping to be picked out of their fellow solutions in the classroom of the universe.
--China Sinclair

David Ohlerking has a picture of a 23 year old man who is 19 inches long. "The children always lose the war-any war."

Human dissection was not practiced in Aristotle's time.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.
--Charles Burchfield

When you correct your children don't scream at them, pull them over and whisper softly in their ear.
--Eula

There are rattles for all ages.
--Napoleon

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
--Henri Frederic Amiel, Journal, Dec. 26, 1868, tr. Mrs. Humphry Ward

He who does not see the vanity of the world is himself very vain. Indeed who do not see it but youths who are absorbed in fame, diversion, and the thought of the future? But take away diversion, and you will see them dried up with weariness.
--Blaise Paschal, Thoughts, Number 164

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
--Cullen Hightower

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
--John Donne

The amount of knowledge available to us doubles every 40 months.

To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.
--French Proverb

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
--Shakespeare

Dream=a wish in action
--Freud

Noticed in dream that at building’s height represented time of day (11:00pm)

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
--John Updike

Dreams are wish fulfillments.
--Freud

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.
--Steven Spielberg

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
--Victor Hugo

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
--Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
--Henry David Thoreau

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
--Langston Hughes

Whoever sticks a pencil in someone's face and says, 'it was an accident' is a liar.
--Anonymous Child , 6 yrs. old

Words are, or course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
--Rudyard Kipling T

Rosecram had acted confused and stunned, like a duck hit on the head.
--Abraham Lincoln

Let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have.
--Abraham Lincoln

By executing faithfully the small duties of daily life, we make this world a brighter and better place to live in--more than we know, more than we imagine.
--China Sinclair

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
--John Quincy Adams

Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temptation, and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking-forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
--Charles Kingsley

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

God and mother are blamed for all the wrongs.

Taking responsibility for everything in your life that goes on. No blame is allowed.

We are taught to just cope with life.

How to avoid feeling guilty
How to eliminate approval seeking
How to not allow yourself to be victimized

What's more important, what I KNOW or what I FEEL?

Why don't our schools and churches teach on the how I feel side too?

--Wayne Dyer, How to be a No Limit Person

Don't equate your image of yourself was a human being with how well you do things in life. You are not what you do.
--Wayne Dyer

I am a valuable worthwhile human being. If you suddenly discovered you only had six months to live, what would you do?
--Wayne Dyer

It ain't WHO you are, it's WHAT you are.
--Earl Blanchard

The economic fundamental is labor. Labor is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men's labor that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental; every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature.
--Henry Ford

The primary functions are agriculture, manufacture, and transportation. Community life is impossible without them. They hold the world together. Raising things, making things, and earning things are as primitive as human need and yet as modern as anything can be.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Times

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
--Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Edison--His imagination and persistence led to three of the most important inventions in history.
--A&E Video

Precocious powers of observation and retention.
--Niel Baldwin, Edison Biographer

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
--Helen Keller

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
--George Santayana

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
--Jacques Barzun

The essence of a higher education is the search for ideas.
--Plato

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
--William Butler Yeats

Each of us is educated by our experiences. This education is unique to each individual since no two people ever have the same experiences.
--China Sinclair

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
--Abraham Lincoln

I get stronger and wiser every day I do school work.
--China Sinclair

Our students are lugging home heavy texts full of disconnected facts that neither educate nor motivate them.
--George Nelson, USA Today 9.29.1999

In the teaching of history, we find a certain apathy as history has been replaced by courses in social studies and these diminish the role of historic figures such as George Washington. Courses concentrate on great movements and social forces, not the role individuals play in making history or causing certain events. . . Personalities and heroic actions no longer are taught as part of history.
--Donald J. Senese, Historian

What is necessary is an understanding of how this child feels and thinks, how he interprets his situation, and not what his parents think.
--Alfred Adler

My most important job is to raise saints, not scholars. I feel that the scholarly thing happens along the way.
--Pattie Kelley-Huff, home schooling mother

Education is about rooting out student's mistakes one by one so he or she is not doomed to a life of useless habits.
--China Sinclair

The goal of education is to learn how to think for yourself. You can learn to solve your own problems instead of waiting in line all day to ask someone else what the right answers are.
--China Sinclair

I most sincerely wish that some more liberal plan might be laid and executed for the benefit of the rising generation, and that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging learning and virtue.
--Abigail Adams, Letter to husband, John Adams

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
--Aristotle

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
--Aristotle

The ideal school situation is one in which the spirit of inquiry and investigation is constantly encouraged and in which children are developing ideals of service by virtue of their activity.
--George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy, How to Teach

At the age of seventeen he left the College Louis-le-Grand, where he said afterwards that he had been taught nothing but Latin and the Stupidites.
-- Henry Morley Editor's Introduction to "Letters on England" by Voltaire

In this state, there is nothing more important than providing our children with a strong and sure educational foundation. Education is poverty's mortal enemy. It is the number one ticket out of poverty. Education opens the door to better jobs and is the foundation for successful economic development.
--Kathleen Blanco, Governor of Louisiana, August 22,2006.

It would be nice to win the national championship every year. But what really matters is that the kids compete hard and succeed off the field as well.
--Skip Bertman Born March 14, 1879 11:30am

11 yrs old--intense religious phaze
12 yrs old--exposed to science

War years 1814-1916 Einstein wrote 1 book and about 50 papers.
Electrochemical conduction

An emotion can neither be hindered or removed except by a contrary and stronger emotion.
--Spinoza

Who, offered magic insists on logic?
--Richard Norton Smith

Make no mistake about it. Emotion runs the show in sport. Some emotions are empowering and free your talent and skill; other emotions are disempowering and effectively lock your potential out. Empowering emotions are those associated with challenge, drive, confidence, determination, positive fight, energy, spirit, persistence and fun. Disempowering emotions are those associated with feelings of fatigue, helplessness, insecurity, low energy, weakness, fear and confusion.
--James E. Loehr, Ed.D.

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
--Dale Carnegie

The emotions, as a rule, are in excess and detain the mind in the contemplation of one object so that it cannot think of others.
--Spinoza

You have to take emotions out of the equation. Know what your downside is. When you've reached it, get out of the house, work out, exercise your mind and muscles.
--Greg Wascher, Day-Trader

The connection between thoughts and emotions is very real.
--James E. Loehr, Ed.D.

Is it possible to create your own emotions? How? Does auto-suggestion accomplish this? Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
--William Hazlitt

I believe the theme of 'Of Human Bondage' is that emotions rule the intellect and that all of us are victums of our heart.
--Judy Delton

The itellect is always fooled by the heart.
--La Rochefoucauld

When we are experiencing happiness our mind remembers all the happy things that it has experienced. The same is true for experiencing sadness, all the negative memories come flooding in. The experience and emotion triggers every other similar experience and emotion we have lived through. Our minds are amazing associating machines.
--China Sinclair

Thoughts engender feelings.
--China Sinclair

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
--Pablo Picasso

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
--Edward Hopper

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
--Albert Camus

Seeling's believing, but feeling's the truth.
--Thomas Fuller

At the deepest level all decisions are emotional.
--Guerilla Selling

Attitudes are more important than facts.
--Dr. Karl Menninger

Empathy is "crawling into the hide of the other."
--Gerry Spence

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
--Harper Lee

Every day I tried to get into the skin of every person in the place.
--Jack Welch, CEO General Electric

Do unto others as you would have them do to you is synonymous with the ability to empathize. If you have the ability to put yourself in another persons shoes then you have the ability to understand them. Kindness, understanding and wisdom will be the outflow.
--China Sinclair

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement.
--Donald A. Laird

A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success.
--Saying
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
--Walt Kelly

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
--Malayan proverb

An insect's life is prolonged to the following spring by not procreating. Secret of Edison's eating: careful mastication, thoroughly chewed every particle of starchy or vegetable food so as to extract the full nourishment and energy from it. "Unassimilated food is only a drag on our digestive systems."
--Edison

The world belongs to the energetic.
--Emerson

The brain gets its energy from sugar that is carried in the bloodstream.
--Source: The Economist (US), Feb 24, 1996

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
--Louis Auchincloss

I am an engine of progress, an engine of change.
--China Sinclair

Enthusiasm is the greatest assest in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
--Henry Chester Enthusiasm--when you are possessed with an idea.
--Unknown

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost enthusiasm. Let him lose everything but enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.
--Unknown

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
--Buxton

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
--Henry Truman

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
--Thomas J. Watson, President of IBM

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I show that I'm 100 percent alive by thinking, acting and speaking with great enthusiasm.
--Unknown

Enthusiasm reflects confidence, spreads good cheers, raises morale, inspires associates, arouses loyalty, and laughs at adversity . . . it is beyond price.
--Allan Cox

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
--Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Every man is my equal.
--China Sinclair

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.
--Michael de Montaigne

Calls for equality, not of ability but of opportunity for the development and application of ability. (With) Jesus every man was of equal worth and had equal rights. Out of his doctrine came democracy, utilitarianism, socialism.
--Neitzche

Error is certainty's constant companion.
--Louis Aragon

Eula
born August 12, 1912
"I was born street wise"
Washed training hats at 14 yrs. old

It is better to examine your own mistakes than those of others.
--Democritus

A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom.
--Proverb

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 459

Being evil is the art of taking advantage of others weaknesses.
--China Sinclair

Children have more need of models than of critics.
--Joseph Joubert

Children have never been very good a listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
--James Baldwin

Nothing is so infectious as example.
--American proverb

We impart what we are, not just what we say.
--Dino Rizzo

Bach needed a model. Picasso needed a model. They didn't spring full blown as Bach and Picasso.
--William Zinsser

The virtues of the father are his gifts to the child.
--Gerry Spence

Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
--Emerson,

Each and All There is no such thing as leading from the top. You LEAD by example every day. It's all about making a difference by daring to be different in a constructive way.
--Michael Capellas, CEO Compaq

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.
--Robert E. Lee

We must have role models in life. We must learn from the people who have made the journey before us.
--Rick Pitino

Take advantage of the lessons learned by people who have made the journey before you.
--Rick Pitino

Our children and young people do not understand theology or doctrine, they understand role models.
--Bill Smith

Be the change you want to see in the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi

I bid him look to the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
-Terence 190-159 B.C.

As humans, we spend our lives, money, and energy trying to copy our ideal of God and our ideal of the perfect human.
--Unknown

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
--The Bible, Proverbs 13:20 NIV

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
--Edmund Burke

Follow the example and reap the benefit.
--Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.
--Benjamin Franklin

A father's temperateness is the greatest precept for his children.
--Democritus

Your child is a reflection of you.
--Wayne Austin

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
--Albert Einstein

Where example keeps pace with authority, power hardly fails to be obey'd.
--William Penn

Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work.
--Wain

Judge a leader by the followers.
--Saying

The most valuable gift you can give another is a good example.
--Unknown

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day. In short, doing and showing are more important than telling.
--Unknown

Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself; for example is more prevalent the precepts.
--110 Rules of Civility

Are you going to follow the dope heads?
--Kevin Mawae, NFL Center

You contract the mannerisms, the habits, the speech and the life of the people you go to school with and work with. It is vital, therefore, that you make the choice of your friends a deliberate choice and not a default choice--you will end up like them!
--China Sinclair

A 14-year-old once asked what advice Warren Buffett would give a young person on how to be successful. Buffett answered, "It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."
--Jason Zweig, money.cnn.com, "What Warren Buffett Wants You to Know", May 3, 2004

Example is the best precept.
--Aesop

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
--George Bernard Shaw

Copy righteousness. Study those who succeed in life. Your mind will begin to understand what goodness is and invent ways to work it out in your daily practical life.
--China Sinclair

One example is worth a thousand arguments.
--William E. Gladstone

Quotation in Cowboy's Locker Room under Tom Landry:
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
--Unknown

Age quod agis.
Do what you do well, pay attention to what you are doing.
--Latin Quotation

Quaity & Excellence, Streching beyond your limits, dare to try new things, to be better than we ever thought we could be, only the limits of their creativity and drive would be the ceiling on how far and how fast they would move.
--Jack Welch

Courage and honesty, thoroughness and originality, intelligence and genuine effort--these are the keys to excellence in any direction.
--Peter Chernin, Chairman & CEO, FOXi n Los Angeles

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
--Booker T. Washington

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.
--Unknown

The quest for excellence gives dignity to a person.
--Earl Nightingale

People remember quality long after they have forgotten price.
--Saying

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
--Paul Dudley White

Motion is life.
--Dr. Harrie E. Wolverton, Chiropractor, Palmer Graduate

The one thing that seems to be true about exercising is that it releases this flood of endorphins into your system and it wakes up the thought processes sometimes.
--Stephen King

Yoga stretches muscles. Tension saps energy and enthusiasm. Walking burns calories, improves health, wards off disease, improves well-being and mood, and is, for millions of people the best path to fitness.
--Alice Lesch Kelly

Senior Editor or Walking Magazine When I exercise and sleep well I discover myself being proactive (on the attack) all day long. When I don't, I spend much of the day running to catch up and in a haze.
--China Sinclair

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
--Harry S. Truman

Exciting=Electrifying, eye-popping, mind-blowing, spine-tingeling Excuses are bridges to nowhere.
--Unknown

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
--Benjamin Franklin

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence and to live as if he were poor.
--Sir William Temple

When you get there, there isn't any there there.
--Gertrude Stein

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
--Patricia Neal

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
--Bruce Lee

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
--John F. Kennedy

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
--Michael Jordan

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.
--Tom Hopkins

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
--Greg Anderson

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
--Publilius Syrus

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
--Stevie Wonder

High expectations are the key to everything.
--Sam Walton

Life . . . it tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
--Richard M. DeVos

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
--Ralph Charell

Expectations always make us humans neglect the present.
--Freud

Expectations communicated create an atmosphere felt.
--China Sinclair

They (leaders who execute) set clear goals. People want to know what you expect from them. Ambiguity is a bad thing in business.
--Larry Bossidy, CEO of Honeywell

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
--Charles F. Kettering

Radical Empericism says that no set of experiences has an authority superior to some other set of other experiences.
--The Great Ideas of Philosophy, Lecture 46

Experience teaches only the teachable.
--Aldous Huxley

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
--John Keats

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinnner.
--Eric Hoffer

Every instrument requires to be made by experience.
--Da Vinci

Experience is the best teacher.
--Latin proverb

A two year old child at play in the sand does not have the knowledge or experience to understand that sand thrown in the wind will return immediately back into the eye.
--China Sinclair

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
--Viola Spolin, b. 1911, U.S. theatrical director, producer

Should our knowledge be grounded and proved by experience. Is Biblical truth by proven by experience?
--China Sinclair

Not to know what happened before us is to remain perpetually a child. (??? exact)
--Cicero

Sometimes I think you have to live through something yourself before you can really understand it.
--Walter Dean Myers

. . . I have traveled a long and bumpy road--from the horror of being a drunken bum to the delight of being a best-selling author. Experience has been a stern but excellent teacher.
--Og Mandino, Secrets for Success & Happiness, pg. 7

The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
--Mohandas Gandhi

It is by experience and comparison that agriculture, like all other sciences, improves itself.
--Napoleon

Except in the abandoned sphere of the dead languages, no one has discussed what part of education has, in his personal experience, turned out to be useful, and what not.
--Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
--Werner Heisenberg

As flat a pavement.
--George Washington

Fiber optic lines are smaller than a strand of hair and allow information to travel as light through clear glass.
--Unknown

Each one (microchip) may bear a pattern of circuitry as intricate as a street map of the entire state of California.

Venus's-fly-trap is an insectivorous plant.

In 1880--72,000+ pop. 1 in 10 inhabitants of Vienna was a Jew.

1790--entire federal budget=$2,000,000.
1790--Cattle was sold on Wall Street.

Einstein never owned or drove a car.

"War Heads" candy has been known to pop a person's taste buds. 600,000+ died in civil war. $25,000 annual salary as president (Lincoln)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
--The Writer, 9/98, pg 27

Steinway pianos have 12,000 precision made parts and take one year to build.

9% of European households are wired for the internet compared to 37% in US.
--USA TODAY July 16, 1999

The space station circles earth every 90 minutes.
-Kenner Tour Guide

This curious blending of high and low life, refinement and rawness quickly became a characteristically New Orleanian quality.

1721 census of New Orleans:
470 souls:
145 men
65 women
38 children
29 white endentured servants
172 negro slaves
21 indian slaves.

Thomas Jefferson's annual salary as Secretary of State was $3,500.

The temperature on the moon ranges from a maximum of 261 degrees Fahrenheit at lunar noon to a minimum of -279 degrees Fahrenheit just before lunar dawn.
--Simon & Schuster New Millennium Encyclopedia

The entire moon has about 3 trillion craters larger than about 1 meter in diameter.
--Simon & Schuster New Millennium Encyclopedia

The largest crater on the moon is about 13,000 feet deep; the tallest mountains are about 20,000 feet tall.
--Simon & Schuster New Millennium Encyclopedia

In September and October 1902, nearly 1,000 gliding flights were made, several of which covered distances of over 600 feet. Some, made against a wind of 36 miles an hour, gave proof of the effectiveness of the devices for control. With this machine, in the autumn of 1903, we made a number of flights in which we remained in the air for over a minute, often soaring for a considerable time in one spot, without any descent at all.
--WIlbur Wright

There are over 10,000 drugs for available for use by our doctors in this country.
--Dr. Richard Becker

The estimated total net worth of every American, including Bill Gates and other billionaires, is only about $47 trillion.
--David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States

Theories are of little use, but facts are of infinite importance (in medicine research).
--Noah Webster

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can -- it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
--Samuel Butler

Gravity--objects accelerate to the ground at the rate of 32.18 feet per second squared (ft/s2).

Anaxagoras (500-428 B.C.)--teacher of Paraclus, discovered the processes of respiration in plants and fishes.

The electric guitar was invented in 1948.

There is no substitute for facts.
--Harry Truman

Facts are stubborn things.
--Lennin

I am a very fact-driven person.
--Jim Brandt

You need the ability to fail. You cannot innovate unless you are willing to accept mistakes.
--Charles Knight

You've got to be willing to fail.
--James Berk, CEO J&J

Intel CEO advice:
1. Examine failure, not to fix blame but to find causes.
2. Keep desired final result always in front of you.

Football is a game of mistakes . . . don't beat yourself.
--Coach McClandin

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school team because his coach saw nothing special. He wasn't good enough. Sometimes a nice solid failure can do more to make you care than a million casual successes. Allow failure to mobilize you instead of immobilize you.
--Wayne Dyer

Champions have to make lots of tries and consequently suffer some failures or the organization won't learn.
--Tom Peters, In Search of Excellence

If I wasn't making mistakes I wasn't making decisions.
--General Johnson, J&J's founder

I trust the experience of error will enable us to act better in the future.
--George Washington 1781

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
--Peter F. Drucker

Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times. He hit home runs only 714 times. What a failure. Thomas Edison had millions of failed experiments and only about 1200 patents.

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.
--Old saying

Failure is only fertilizer for future success.
--Rick Pitino

Success is the result of making many mistakes and learning, and learning from experience.
--Winston Churchill

Six years after taking command, June 1781:
I trust the experience of error will enable us to act better in future . . .
--George Washington

I am not discouraged because in every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
--Thomas Edison

I learned everything I could about possible causes of failure.
--David Packard, Early job training

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
--Henry C. Link

Psychologists know that the fear of failure is often the product of a distorted view of events, caused by long-established beliefs.
--Joseph A. Llardo, PhD

A failure believes that everyone is against them and that the problem always lies outside of themselves. A success believes that everyone is for them and that if there is a problem it is their responsibility to see that it gets fixed.
--China Sinclair

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
--Sir Humphrey Davy

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
--William Saroyan

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
--Samuel Smiles, 1816-1904

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
--Edwin L. Cole

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
--Albert Einstein

Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 120

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
--Charles F. Kettering

When you make a mistake don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom . . . The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
--Hugh White

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
--Aesop

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
--Publius Syrus

a=Faulure-talk, b=Success-talk
1. a.Schoolwork is hard.
b.I can improve myself in school.
2. a. If I ask for help I am stupid.
b. I learn by asking for help.
3. a. I can't stand people criticizing me.
b. I can handle criticizm.
4. a. I have to get what I want.
b. I can live without it; I sometimes get what I want.
5. a.Things are unfair.
b. I can handle it when things are unfair.
6. a.Nobody likes me.
b.Some people like me.
7. a.I must be perfect.
b. I can learn from my mistakes.
8. a. I have to do it this way
b. I can look for different ways to do things.
9. a. That person makes me angry.
b. I am responsible for what I feel, think, and how I behave.
10. a. Lying getts you out of trouble.
b. I can be more honest, I tell the truth.
--Getting Thru to Kids, Phillip Mountrose

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity.
--John Donne

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
--Plato

Above the logic of the head is the feeling in the heart.
--Rouseau

Faith is beyond the reach or realm of reason. The moral basis for religion must be absolute, not derived from questionable sense experience or precarious inference, not corrupted by the admixture of corruptible reason.
--Kant

Cartoon said, "Give me sight beyond sight".

It is hard to draw conclusions from ideas that are not testable. Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
--Vincent van Gogh

Faith=Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. Watch out for the incredibly thin line between absolute faith and serious stupidity.
--China Sinclair

Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He (God) gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends he ordains.
--Abraham Lincoln

Conviction of things merely hoped for.
--Larry Burkett

Our eyesight has a very limited range of view, God's eyesight is 20/20, 360 degrees, 24 hours every day.
--Kevin Anonymous Child

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
--Norman Cousins

Faith attracts the positive. Fear attracts the negative.
--Ed Cole

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
--Soren Kierkegaard

To be forced into believing something without verifiable evidence sounds like a trick of man and not of God.
--James Ketterling

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
--Thomas Carlyle

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
--Unknown

They conquer who believe they can.
--Emerson, 1803

These then are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
--William James

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
--Blaise Pascal

To live by faith is a far surer and happier thing than to live by feelings or by works. The branch, by living in the vine, lives a better life than it would live by itself, even if it were possible for it to live at all apart from the stem.
--Charles H. Spurgeon, Faith's Checkbook

There is a Power whose care
 Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.
 --William Cullen Bryant, To a Waterfowl

One day the faithful will have it all.
--Neal A. Maxwell

. . . fashion is the deity every one worships in this country, and from the highest to the lowest, you must submit.
--Abigail Adams, Letter from France to sister, Sept. 5, 1784

The gods thought otherwise.
--Virgil

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
--Marie Curie

We must travel in the direction of our fear.
--John Berryman

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4, 1933

Fear cripples, boldness invigorates.
--China Sinclair

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
--Edmund Burke

Fear always springs from ignorance.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Terror . . . will always be successful unless opposed by equal terror.
--Adolf Hitler

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
--Florence Nightingale

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
--Miguel de Cervantes

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
--Lord Byron

Pay attention to your feelings and inner emotional reactions. These can teach you much about your own true nature.
--China Sinclair

(Men think) they are led on by what they see, when in truth they are driven on by what they feel, by instincts of whose operation they are half the time unconscious.
--Schopenhiemer

Never underestimate the power of music. Music rules the world.
--China Sinclair

To feel we must take the risk, the risk of pain, our pain. We must take the risk, the risk of criticism even of rejection. But the reward is to be alive.
--Gerry Spence

To feel is to live. Use words that convey feeling. Dogs feel love and hate.
--Gerry Spence

Palette of feelings when telling a story or arguing a case.
--Gerry Spence Book

Lightning speed.
--Bruce Lee

We are fire and clay, brain and body.
--William James (para.)

Seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting--these are the only concrete means known to man for inputting new information into his memory databank.

When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be."
--Henry Van Dyke

Aim your concentration.
--China Sinclair

Abraham Lincoln's principle for greatness can be adopted by nearly all. This was his rule: whatsoever he had to do at all, he put his whole mind into it and held it all there until that was done. That makes men great almost anywhere.
--Russell H. Conwell, "Acres of Diamonds"

Distractions destroy focus.
--Larry Barker, PhD

To do two things at once is to do neither.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 7

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Orison Swett Marden asked Thomas Edison in an interview: "What do you think is the first requisite for success in your field, or any other?" Edison replied, "The ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
--Little Visits with Great Americans, 1903

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."
--Stephen Leacock

Food=the stuff of life. Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.
--Polish Proverb

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
--Unknown

Knowledge which is acquired under compunction has no hold on the mind.
--Plato

Don't fight forces; use them.
--Buckminster Fuller

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
--Peter F. Drucker

A man of intelligence will, by foresight, sets straight most everything in his life.
--Democritus

Don't spit in a well. You might want to drink from it.
--Scottish Proverb

Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.
--Unknown

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
--Chinese Proverb

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
--Arab Proverb

A believer has the power to free people by announcing to them that their sins are forgiven them. It is a great pity we rarely ever exercise this greatest of gifts.
--China Sinclair

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
--Charlotte Bronte

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
--Paul Boese

The more you comprehend where we have come from in Earth's history, the more you will understand where we are going.
--China Sinclair

To discover, explore and invent solutions to problems. We do not believe in . . . the continuance of economic dependence for millions of our citizens upon government . . . we stand for a free America--an America of opportunity created by the enterprise and imagination of its citizens.
--Wendell Willkie, Cooperation But Loyal Opposition Radio Address, November 11, 1940

... a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange -- meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State.
--Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, Chapter 21

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
--Abraham Lincoln

You can't enjoy true freedom without limits. . . Life without limits results in anarchy and misery.
--Tom Landry

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
--Abraham Lincoln

The oldest democracy in the world (America).
--Robert F. Kennedy, April 1, 1963

When we have learned to reverence liberty as well as wealth, we, too, shall have power--renaissance.
--John Dewey

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.
--John F. Kennedy, June 26, 1963 in West Berlin

. . . lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice.
--John F. Kennedy, June 26, 1963 in West Berlin

Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau, (1712-78)

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. . .
--Thomas Jefferson

We have confused the free with the free and easy.
--Adlai Stevenson

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
--Abraham Lincoln

The problem with a dictatorship is that the government is not of the people, by the people and for the people. It is government of the king, by the king and for the king. The function of government becomes the good of one instead of the good of many.
--China Sinclair

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.
--Galileo Galilei

Before all else, be armed.
--Niccolo Machiavelli

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
--Lord Acton

To abuse your freedoms is to insure that they will eventually taken away.
--China Sinclair

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
--Viktor E. Frankl

Freedom is the best antidote to terrorism.
--Dick Cheney, 10/30/04

Freedom is when you own you the property called you. Slavery is when you are owned by someone else--you are their property.
--China Sinclair

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
--John Locke

Our life is made by the death of others.
--Leonardo Da Vinci

Freedom is the right to work a decent length of time and to get a decent living for doing so; to be able to arrange the little personal details of one's own life. It is the aggregate of these and many other items of freedom which makes up the great idealistic Freedom. The minor forms of Freedom lubricate the everyday life of all of us.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Work

In unity is American strength--and freedom.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Work

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
--James Madison

My Father, as I pause this day to think of the brave men and women who have given their lives for the sake of others, may I be thankful for them.
--Margaret Bird Steinmetz, Leaves of Life for Daily Inspiration

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
--W.E.B. Du Bois

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is wiling, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
--Aristotle

Can we not call it plain old-fashioned selfishness if we ignore the possibility of responsibility to others and to God as the road to freedom?
--Elisabeth Elliot

(In dream interpretation) All objects capable of elongation are symbols of the male organ.
--Freud, Dreams

Free association, aggressive listener, alert passivity.

Outline of Psychoanalytic technique:
1. Close observation.
2. Apt interpretation.
3. Free association unencumbered by hypnosis.
4. Working through.

Martha Freud thought her husband's psychoanalytic ideas a form of pornography.
--Freud Bio.

I am nothing but an intellectual researcher into nature.
--Freud

Freud studied and analyzed over 1000 of his own dreams.

The end of Freud's four sisters:
Adolphine perished of starvation at the Terusian Staf? Camp. The other three were murdered probably at Austwich in 1942. Freud died at 3am, Sept 23, 1939

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
--Samuel Johnson

A friend is an ear.
--Francis Bacon

Calculate carefully who you want your friends to be.
--China Sinclair

How to make friends:
Say "hi" to them first.
--Phillip Gaddis, when in a new group of people

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
--George Washington, Rules of Civility

We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 16

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
--Miguel de Cervantes

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
--Ibn Gabirol

Generosity is the core of building relationships.
--Keith Ferrazzi, Interview with managementconsultingnews.com

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
--William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-night's Dream

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.
--Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Be courteous to all, intimate with few, for true friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
--George Washington

A hedge between keeps friendship green.
--German proverb

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
--Paramahansa Yogananda

What is dignity . . . what is appearance, if it keeps us from talking together?
--Ray Hill

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
--Arthur Balfour

When to the sessions of sweet, solemn thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sight the lack of many a thing I sought.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
--William Shakespeare

0. INTEGRATED 0. MANAGEMENT 0. OPTIONS
1. TOTAL 1. ORGANIZATIONAL 1 .FLEXIBILITY
2. SYSTIMATIZED 2. MONITORED 2. CAPABILITY
3. PARALLEL 3. RECIPROCAL 3. MOBILITY
4. FUNCTIONAL 4. DIGITAL 4.PROGRAMMING
5. RESPONSIVE 5. LOGISTICAL 5. CONCEPT
6. OPTIONAL 6. TRANSITIONAL 6. TIME-PHASE
7. SYNCHRONIZED 7. INCREMENTAL 7. PROJECTION
8. COMPATIBLE 8. THIRD-GENERATION 8. HARDWARE
9. BALANCED 9. POLICY 9. CONTINGENCY

Given the bombardment of ads, faxes, e-mails and competing letters assaulting the potential donors' senses, your challenge is to capture the readers' interests with an opening line that crashes through. Ask a provocative question. Make a bold statement. Share a fascinating anecdote. Do whatever it takes to get in step with your reader, seize their attention and keep them reading.
--Steve Brown,Campaigns & Elections, Dec. 2003

If nothing is serious, nothing is funny.
Oscar Wilde

As dumb as a rock.
--Preacher at Trinity Christian Center, Baton Rouge, LA

They switch names on them banks just about as often as I mow my grass.

u e u a a ting tang walla walla bing bang
1 2 3& 4 1 2 3e&a4e& &2 3&4&1&a2&3
--Kenny Washington

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
--Henry G. Strauss

There is no certain future.
--Bob Woodward, 10.4.01, Pete Rose Show

How to predict the future. No gains without pains.
--Adlai Stevenson

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."
--Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Colleagues

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.
--Marguerite Yourcenar

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
--Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973

Genius is intensity.
--Honore Balzac

A genius is usually, simply, someone who connects ideas not previously connected which have a practical value to humanity. Example: Da Vinci imagined and drew blueprints for a bicycle.
--China Sinclair

(Livingston) added more facts to geographical knowledge than any other man of his time.
--John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
--Kahlil Gibran

Since the mind is a specific biocomputer, it needs specific instructions and directions. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
--Denis Waitley

Measure yourself against others only to learn how to you can improve yourself. Set the standard you want to reach regardless of others standards and you will have a sense of happiness when you know you have reached what you set out to do.
--China Sinclair

Better aim at the moon than shoot into the well.
--American proverb

Real goal setting is seeing into the future to catch a vision of what the end result should be. One should be able to SEE the final product.
--China Sinclair

Goals are "tangible action items"
--Rick Pitino

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
--La Rochefoucauld CNN--12.31.1997

For goals to be realistic they must be measurable.
--Unknown.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy.
--Samuel Johnson

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy day. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merrily to the chance of incidents, all things lie huddled together in one chaos, which admits of neither distribution nor a review.
--Victor Hugo

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

A life lived without definite goals is as a man who waits and watches for a tree to grow in which the seed was never planted first.
--China Sinclair

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
--Benjamin E. Mays

In teacher--student partnerships . . . success depends on a common understanding of clear goals.
--Unknown

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
--Mohandas Gandhi

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
--Joseph Joubert, (1754-1824)

If God uses the physical world to illustrate the spiritual world much like Jesus did, then it follows that every thing on this planet is an object lesson from its Creator. It seems hard to look into God's cards, but I cannot for a moment believe that he plays dice and makes use of telepathic means as the current quantum theory alleges he does.
--Albert Einstein

The will of God prevails . . . by His mere quite power on the minds of the now contestants, he could have either saved or destroyed the union without a human contest . . .
--Abraham Lincoln

Everything my eye can take in is a revelation of God. Do you believe you have direct contact with God? If there is one God, why did he make it such a guessing game as to how to reach Him.
--Radio Caller, WJBO

He's the boss of the whole entire world.
--Courtney Fisher

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
--Albert Einstein

God is spirit, we are finite.
--Steve Robinson

If God can read the minds of men, that means he knows every thought that has ever been thought by any person, anywhere, in any time.
--China Sinclair

If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don't separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That's why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the "ocean" in which we live.
--Robert Fulghum

God--the Unmoved Mover.
--Aristotle

. . . Jehovah's self transcends his noblest works.
Earth's ponderous wheels would break, her axles snap,
If freighted with the load of Deity.
--Charles H. Spurgeon

Sally: I always do my best to stay hungry for more of God.
Mrs. Finkenbinder: Be sure you don't try to stay so hungry that you fail to go ahead and eat what God has already served up.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork.
--Psalm 19:1

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
--Henry James

The function of government is to help and develop the individual.
--Unknown

The design and end of government (is) freedom and security.
--Thomas Paine

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
--Lydon B. Johnson

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence--it is force.
--George Washington

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as of duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails it will be from this weakness.
--Thomas Jefferson

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
--Alexander Hamilton, 1788

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
--Motto of Thomas Jefferson

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?
--French Proverb

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves; our help may, however, go to Washington as a sort of central distribution point where all our efforts are coordinated for the general good. We may help the Government; the Government cannot help us.
--Henry Ford

Grant was commander of 860,000 Union soldiers. The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burden cheerfully; who is the calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
--Seneca

To be great is not to be placed above humanity ruling others, but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uniformed desire and to rule one's self.
--Spinoza

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself--and thus make yourself indispensable.
--Andre Gide

Perhaps there are greater souls than Shakespeare's and greater minds that Plato's waiting to be born.
--John Dewey

If you wish to become a master, study the masters. Every great man is unique.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.
--Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds

When has lasting greatness ever been achieved by one who sought greatness for itself rather that allowing it to move quietly upon him as he worked for others . . .? What did Dooley, or what did Rusk, or Kendall or Schweitzer set out to do but help his neighbor in the way he knew best?
--Dr. George Fister

The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Winston Churchill

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
--William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, c. 1601

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
--Thomas Carlyle

The disciple Kung Tu asked his mentor Mencius the following question: "All are equally men, but some are great men and some are little men, how is this?" Mencius replied, "those who follow that part of themselves which is great are great men. Those who follow that part which is little are little men. The mind belongs to the office of thinking. By thinking it gets the right view of things. By neglecting to think it fails to do this. Let a man first stand fast in the supremacy of the nobbler part of his constitution and the inferior part will not be able to take it from him. It is simply this which makes the great man.
--Mencius

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
--Horace Mann

(Benjamin Franklin) built new hospitals, and improved old ones.
--"Historic Americans"

Hey! Anything new going on? The bad man is the man who, no matter how good he has been is beginnning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
--John Dewey

Not perfection as a final goal but the ever enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim in living.
--John Dewey

Remember, no stress, no growth.
--Jame E. Loehr, Ed.D.

The biggest dog has been a pup.
--Joaquin Miller

Never associate with those who share your defects. They will reinforce everything that holds you back. If you are sullen, seek out the happy. If you are shy, force yourself to befriend the outgoing. You're judged by your peers -- make sure they have the qualities you want to develop.
--Robert Green, Bottom-Line/Personal Magazine

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
--Henry Miller

"Who will guard the guards themselves?"
--Juvenal

You cannot operate on the basis of what you think you know.
--Michael C. Trachtman

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
-Eric Hoffer

Successful people are able to do things failures don't like to do because they have a strong sense of purpose. Their purpose is strong enough to make them form the habit of doing things they don't like to do in order to achieve the goals they want to accomplish.
--Merrill E. Douglas

Habit is everything.
--Charles Sumner

Habit is stronger than reason.
--George Santayana

Laws are never as effective as habits.
--Adlai Stevenson

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
--John Dryden

Superior achievement, or making the most of one's capabilities, is to a very considerable degree a matter of habit. This was the reason why Joe used to say to the children, "We don't want any losers around here. In this family we want winners." They were encouraged to be winners, leaders, and victors in whatever they set their hand to . . . to develop the habit.
--Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.
--Aristotle

When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
--John Tillotson

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts, we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
--Aristotle

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
--Horace Mann

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
--Nathaniel Emmons

The worst boss anyone can have is a bad habit.
--Unknown

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 305

And out of the delusion that life is a battle that may be lost by a false move grows, I have noticed, a great love for regularity. Men fall into the half-alive habit.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Work

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
--Mark Twain

Give me the grace to break the chain of evil custom.
--Samuel Johnson

Habits are important. People form habits, but habits form futures.
--Merrill E. Douglas

A child acquires habits while still in diapers.
--Adapted from African proverb

Why not have all your habits work for you and your goals?
--Merrll E. Douglas

Get comfortable with training your mind and body at new tasks and there will be little you cannot do. You will have become your own best servant and a slave to positive habits.
--China Sinclair

Bad habits are easy to form but hard to live with. Good habits are hard to form but easy to live with.
--Anonymous

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
--Chinese Proverb

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1st Inaugural Address

The essence of joy lies in the doing rather than in the result of the doing. There is a lifelong and solid satisfaction in any productive labor, manual or mental, which is not pushed beyond the limit of strength.
--Charles W. Eliot

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to him who does his work well, followed by a relaxing and refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.
--Lin Yutang

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
--Epictetus

Who loves not women, wine and song,
Remains a fool his whole life long.
--Attributed to Martin Luther

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
--Charleton Ogburn, Jr.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
--William Hazlitt

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
--Samuel Johnson

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Take responsibility for your own happiness, no one else will.
--China Sinclair

One in 37 people are happy at their job. A mind employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity.
--Thomas Jefferson

The ability to enjoy life is the greatest quality that a human being can have. . . If you are not enjoying life you are a burden to others.
--Wayne Dyer

Choose to live happy.
--Wayne Dyer

The way to stay happy is to stay interested--interested in your surroundings and the small details of every day.
--China Sinclair

Some folks look exclusively to others for entertainment not realizing that they could be the show everywhere they go.
--China Sinclair

You need to look for silliness in books and laugh a lot.
--Judy Freeman

All my tomorrows will be spent enjoying the fruits of harvest if all my todays are spent in planting seeds.
--China Sinclair

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
--Albert Einstein

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
--Joseph Addison

Oh, young man, hear me; live as you go along. Do not wait until you have reached my years before you begin to enjoy anything of this life.
--Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds

Look around and you'll agree that the really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the joy at hand. They're full or eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
--Norman Vincent Peale

Sometimes we are so busy adding up our troubles that we forget to count our blessings.
--Unknown

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.
--Unknown

Oh, young man, hear me; live as you go along. Do not wait until you have reached my years before you begin to enjoy anything of this life.
--Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes and, like people in the dark, fall foul of the very thing we search for without finding it. Tranquility is a certain quality of mind which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress.
There must be a sound mind to make a happy man; there must be constancy in all conditions, a care of the things of this world but without anxiety; and such an indifference to the bounties of fortune that either with them or without them we may live content. True joy is serene . . . The seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolution of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet. It is an invincible greatness of mind not to be elevated or dejected with good or ill fortune. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it be--without wishing for what he has not.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence--this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True contentment is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.
--G.K. Chesterton

By concentrating on common, everyday, little things that happen, life can stay interesting.
--China Sinclair

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
--Albert Einstein

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln

The man who deals in sunshine is the man who wins the crowds. He does a lot more business than the man who peddles clouds.
--Unknown

The way to be happy is to make others so.
--Robert G. Ingersoll

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
--J. Robert Oppenheimer

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
--Helen Keller

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.
--Frank Tyger

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.
--George Anonymous Child Adams

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
--Burton Hills

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
--Anonymous

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
--William Lyon Phelps

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
--Orison Swett Marden

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
--John Stuart Mill

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
--George Moore

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
--Henri Matisse

The essence of happy living is never to find life dull, never to feel the ugly weariness which comes of overstrain; to be fresh, cheerful, leisurely, sociable, unhurried, well-balanced. It seems to me impossible to be these things unless we have time to consider life a little, to deliberate, to select, to abstain.
--Arthur C. Benson

What am I doing today to increase the happiness of others around me?
--China Sinclair

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
--Orison Swett Marden

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. iv. 31.

One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
--Martha Washington

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
--Paul the Apostle, Philippians 4:11, The Bible

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
--Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter, Pt. III, ch. 1, sec. i

Hatred and war come largely of fixed ideas or dogmatic faith.
--Bertrand Russell

Only the wounded are able to bring good healing.
--Wayne Austin

There is a relationship between what you eat and your health.
--Charile Rose Television Program

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
--Alexander Pope

Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
--Thomas Fuller

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
--Jimmy Carter

There are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart.
--Unknown

Overeating shortens lifespan and increases incidence of disease.
--Roy Walford, June 1996, Life Extension Magazine

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
--Martin Tupper

And Thou hast taught me concerning eating and drinking, that I should set myself to take food as medicine.
--Saint Augustine, Confessions

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make your foods your medicines and your medicines your foods.
--Hippocrates

The first wealth is health.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Reform Cookery Book, by Mrs. Mill

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

A dog can hear things four times further away than a human can.
--www.chungcg.com/janum oon/ex1212.htm

Listening to your heart and going with it is a winning principle.
--Joe Paterno

"By the Book" The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
--Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Number 277

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
--Mencius, 371-288 B.C.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
--Joe Louis

Heaven will be full of music and bells, there will be perfume everywhere.
--Barbara Nasca (para.)

Get a revelation of heaven. Heaven is more real than earth. Heaven is a full society. . . It's a mirrored image to this earth, without the pain. It's got houses, trees, animals, nations, cities.
--Pastor Walter Hallam, "Manna-Fest" TV Program, #288, April 16, 2006

The child is father to the man.
--William Wordsworth

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
--John W. Gardner

History is a vast early warning system.
--Norman Cousins

The dogmas of the quite past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."
--Abraham Lincoln

Acts themselves alone are history . . . Tell me the acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish! All that is not action is not worth reading.
--William Blake

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
--Napoleon

The bumps in the road of history.
--Unknown

Men make history, otherwise there would be no history. History did not make the man.
--Harry S. Truman, U.S. President

Reading history to me was far more than a romantic adventure. It was solid instruction and wise teaching which I somehow felt that I wanted and needed.
--Harry S. Truman, U.S. President

Study men, not historians.
--Harry S. Truman

History is a great teacher. If a man becomes familiar with what others have experienced, then it will be easier for him to deal with his own similar experiences.
--China Sinclair

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
--Robert Penn Warren

It is a wonderful day when it occurs to our senses that we can learn what former gereations learned simply by asking them.
--China Sinclair

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
--Moliere

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
--Shakespeare

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
--George Washington

Each time you tell the truth you are becoming more of a person; each time you lie you become less than who you could have been.
--China Sinclair

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
--Thomas Jefferson

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
--Sigmund Freud

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
--Leo Buscaglia

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth.
--Shaftesbury

I am positive that your words have helped lift many souls out of their swamps of misery and despair.
--Og Mandino

Hope is when you through an anchor into the future and then tug on the rope to pull you through. The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
--William Shakespeare

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
--Eric Hoffer

Hope--that star of life's tremulous ocean.
--Paul Moon James, The Beacon

Hope, the patent medicine
For disease, disaster, sin.
--Wallace Rice

Hope is the poor man's bread.
--George Herbert

To dream is to be filled with hope. I know this because I see the faces of hope daily.
--Chauncey Veatch, Coachella Valley High School, Thermal CA, Teacher of the Year

Hope that is seen is not hope.
--The Bible, Romans 8:24

When I am writing or speaking, I am trying to plant hope, and when I am gardening, I am planting food, and both are absolutely necessary for survival.
--Og Mandino

Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
--Lyndon B. Johnson

We must not hope to be mowers, and to gather the ripe gold ears, unless we have first been sowers and watered the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, this mystical world of ours, life's field will yield as we make it a harvest of thorns or of flowers.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be of good cheer. Do not think of to-day's failures, but of success that my come to-morrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will have a joy in overcoming obstacles--a delight in climbing rugged paths which you would perhaps never know if you did not sometimes slip backward, if the road were always smooth and pleasant. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
--Helen Keller

If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day. My unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of what I have in God. He is "my strong habitation whereunto I can continually resort."
--Charles Hadon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, February 27th entry

Horoscopes are essentially prophecies which carry power because people accept them as true and act on their predictions. You can literally write your own prophecies for your own life that will fulfill themselves. If you allow the prophecy to sink deep into your heart it will produce fruit through watering and nourishment. You can write your own horoscope.
--China Sinclair

Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood.
--Russian proverb

Freud--The human animal as a wishing animal.

The three greatest powers in humans are: 1. Perception, the ability to sense input. 2. Thought, the ability to combine and shape ideas. 3. Communication, the ability to transmit ideas to other minds.
--China Sinclair

The body is only a piece of machinery.
--Edison

Every day your:
Heart beats 103,689 X,s
Blood travels 168,000,000 miles
Breath 23,040 X's
Inhale 438 cubic feet of air
Eat 3 1/4 pounds of food
Drink 2.9 quarts of liquid
Speak 25,800-30,000 words
Move specific muscles 750 X's
Nails grow .000046 of inch
Hair grows .01714 of inch
Excercize 7,000,000 brain cells
--THE YES FACTOR, Ivan G. Burnell

Human body made up of 30 trillion cells, each cell has thousands of enzymes and other components. Each of those tiny components is made up of electrons, protons, neutrons, invisible force fields. Did this all bounce together out of nothing?
--Paul Meir, The Third Millenium

Your bodies entire structure from head to foot is a miracle of precision engineering.
--Ivan G. Burnell

Your human body is the most complex and advanced machine you will ever own.
--China Sinclair

Our lungs suck oxygen out of the atmosphere and infuse it directly into our blood stream.
--China Sinclair

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lies in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law, or the Australian ballot.
--John F. Kennedy

5,000,000 touch receptors in human body.
2,000,000 in hands alone.
--Unknown

High resolution of the human eye. The average adult vocabulary includes 12,000 words. Unique precision of human design.
--Unknown

The retina is a transparent, paper-thin layer of nerve tissue at the back of the eyeball on which the eye's lens projects an image of the world. It is connected by the optic nerve, a million-fiber cable, to regions deep in the brain . . . A human retina is less than a centimeter square and a half-millimeter think. It has about 100 million neurons . . . Overall, the retina seems to process about ten one-million-point images per second.
--Hans Moravec, Robotics Institue, Carnegie Mellon University

Each is a customized, limited edition human being.
--China Sinclair

A million years ago I was a thought in God's mind. The blueprints for my life were always there with God.
--China Sinclair

One of the strangest phenomenon I have observed in humans is their worship of what they do not have. A man idolizes a woman, he marries her, after a while he thinks of her no more that he does any other woman. A child wants a toy, he gets the toy. By the next day he wants a different toy. A couple buys a house, they live in the house for a year. It is no longer big enough. It seems that people cannot be happy where they are and so they spend their whole life chasing what they don't have.
--China Sinclair

"I am human: I consider nothing human to be alien from me."
--Terence

"They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen."
--Ovid

What we obtain to cheap we esteem to lightly.
--Thomas Paine

"He who hates vices, hates men."
--Pliny the Younger

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
--Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Humans are secretive beings. They delight in knowing some secret tip or piece of gossip that will give them some advantage over another person.
--China Sinclair

We live, after all, in a flawed world of flawed beings.
--Julia Alvarez

We have a wild savage in us.
--Thoreau

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people.
--Publilius Syrus

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
--Friedrich von Schiller

Man is a make-believe animal--he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
--William Hazlitt

In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
--Andre Maurois

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
--Virginia Woolf

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
--Comtesse Diane (Marie de Beausacq)

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.
--Marcel Proust

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
--Oscar Wilde

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
--Joseph Addison

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
--Mark Twain

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
--John Steinbeck

We like to be deceived.
--Blaise Pascal

Humans remain in constant states of searching, of dreaming, or desiring. They are, in the truest sense, searching machines, rarely satisfied, always wanting more of something, anything.
--China Sinclair

Condition of man: inconstancy, weariness, unrest.
--Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Number 127

Humans are searching machines. As soon as they have found the thing they were looking for, they turn and start a new search.
--China Sinclair

We never seek things for themselves, but for the search.
--Blaise Paschal, Thoughts, Number 135

He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life, and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation.
--Samuel Johnson about Joseph Addison from "Life of Addison"

Man (in good earnest) is a marvelous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.
--Michel de Montaigne

A good man says good things. These come from the good that is put away in
his heart. An evil man says evil things. These come from the evil that is put away
in his heart. Their mouths say everything that is in their hearts.
--Jesus of Nazareth, Luke 6:45, New International Reader's Version

One of the most unquestionable characteristics of the human mind
is the love of novelty. Omne ignotum pro magnifico est. We are
satiated with those objects which make a part of our business in
every day, and are desirous of trying something that is a
stranger to us. Whatever we see through a mist, or in the
twilight, is apt to be apprehended by us as something admirable,
for the single reason that it is seen imperfectly. What we are
sure that we can easily and adequately effect, we despise. He
that goes into battle with an adversary of more powerful muscle
or of greater practice than himself, feels a tingling sensation,
not unallied to delight, very different from that which would
occur to him, when his victory was easy and secure.
--William Godwin, On Intellectual Abortion

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
--Francis Bacon

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
--Ken Keyes, Jr.

If the Bible is right, the world, as we know it, will no longer exist. If the scientist are right, the same is true. In light of this, it seems to me that the problem humans should be working on now, is how to make Earth a serviceable spaceship for as long as possible.
--China Sinclair

The higher we are placed, the more humbly should we walk.
--Cicero

Humble because of knowledge, mighty because of sacrifice.
--Rudyard Kipling

Know yourself. Humility is an important feature of being successful. The bigger your ego, the less willing you are to admit mistakes. If you don't admit mistakes, you don't learn anything. Ego containment is crucial.
--Larry Bossidy

Life is a long lesson in humility.
--James Anonymous Child Barrie

The best way to get the last word is to apologize.
--Saying

I think nonsense and a sense of humor are the best gifts you can give to a kid.
--Judy Freeman, EBR Video

Humor writing is a spontaneous act. It comes from deep within, from your own wacky way of looking at the world.
--Julie Anne Peters

When you think nutty, goofy, silly, funny, off-the-wall thoughts, fear and anger vaporize.
--James E. Loehr, Ed.D.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
--Oscar Levant

Barnum had found that people did not mind being tricked as long as they were entertained in the bargain.
--Ann Tompert

"The highly improbable, perfectly futile, altogether unnecessary and totally impossible statesman from Olster." (Murderous pecking adjectives--Author Edmund Morris)
--Theodore Roosevelt

. . . if you deliver anything witty or pleasant, abstain from laughing therat yourself.
--110 Rules of Civility

According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
--Unknown

7/5ths of all people do not understand fractions.
--Unknown

The answer to the great question of the meaning of life, the universe and everything is forty-two.
--Douglas Adams, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Universe, 1979

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
--Saying

As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
--Saying

A mother was enjoying her vacation by playing a card game with her family. It was her turn to play her strong hand. She laid it down and announced, "I'm going to kill two stones with one bird."
--China Sinclair

A ten year old Anonymous Child said excitedly to his dad after work. Dad I know a word in Porkageese (Portugese).
--China Sinclair, May 7, 2003

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
--Carl Reiner

The secret to humor is surprise.
--Aristotle

Brilliant flashes--of silence!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.
--Joseph Addison, The Tatler, Number 240

Every Resemblance of Ideas is not that which we call Wit, unless it be such an one that gives Delight and Surprize to the Reader.
--Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Number 62

Ideas have consequences and consequences matter.
--Unknown

Ideas need constant renewal to be passed from person to person as the generations change.
--Martin Anderson, Reagan--The Inside Story

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
--Remy de Gourmont

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
--Robert Frost

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
--Mortimer J. Adler, American Philosopher, Educator, b. 1902

I'm not going to get my sense of identity from anything but the presence of God.
--Steve Robinson

Idle folks have the least leisure.
--John Ray

Friends . . . the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
--Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance is bliss, and we're in seventh heaven.
--Unknown

Ignorance is blister.
--American proverb

It is scarcely possible to reduce an enlightened people to civil or ecclesiastical tyranny. Deprive them of knowledge and they sink almost insensibly in vassalage. Ignorance cramps the powers of the mind at the same time that it blinds men to their natural rights. Knowledge enlarges the understanding and at the same time it gives a spring to all intellectual faculties which direct the deliberations of the cabinet and the enterprises of the field.
--Noah Webster

If you think education is expensive -- try ignorance.
--Derek Bok

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
--Issac Asimov

For an ignorant man, besides being agitated by many ways by external causes. Never enjoys one true satisfaction of the mind, he lives moreover almost unconscious of himself, God and things. . .
--Spinoza

Ignorance cannot recognize opportunity even when it trips on it. Opportunity does not mentally register were there is no concept of a thing. Knowledge, in turn, creates opportunities and attracts new adventures. Dumb people don't get anywhere.
--Robyn Landry

Ignorance is not bliss, it is unconsciousness and slavery.
--John Dewey

Unpolished life.
--Aesop's fables

Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
--Schiller (German poet)

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
--Michael de Montaigne

Ignorance kills goldfish.
--China Sinclair

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
--Will Rogers

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
--Thomas Edison

K Mart employee saw no need to turn on light on isle to show customers that her aisle was open. She said, "I'll only be here a few minutes."

Ignorance catches a cold because it does not check the weather forecast for the day. Knowledge checks the forecast and dresses appropriately.
--China Sinclair

Tis' the business of small minds to shrink.
--Thomas Paine

I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty. I will not conduct my own fire drills.
--Bart Simpson, writing punishment sentences on chalkboard

Darkness brooded over the face of Europe for 1000 years.
--Will Durant

Africa's way of doing business
1. Pay deposit for tank of gas, never see deposit again.
2. Take measurements for a woman's dress. Make dress without using measurements.
--Steve Gaddis

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
--Norman Douglas

I have observed that:
1. A three year old child does not know how to use spoon to eat a taco.
2. A three year old child does not know how gravity works to pull the insides of a taco-- like a magnet--to the ground. Ignorance of a fact of life does not erase that fact nor its effects and consequences.
--China Sinclair

"Things always work out. People think they won't but they always do."
--Unknown

I believe I found the cause of my ignorance.
--Bruce Lee

The heart of wisdom is in the understanding of links between causes and effects. Foolishness has no respect for cause or effect.
--China Sinclair

The biggest drawback of being ignorant is that you become nuisance to everyone and you don't know it.
--China Sinclair

Our science is indeed a drop, our ignorance remains an ocean.
--Mark Kamoelman, Nov. 14, 1995

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
--Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President, Jan. 6, 1816

Tim was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages, so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
--Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance is the root of many of our everyday problems.
--Cara Brown

Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
--Plato

In the natural world ignorance is visited as sharply as willful disobedience; incapacity meets the same punishment as crime. Nature's punishment is not even a word and a blow and the blow first, but the blow without the word. It is left for the sufferer to find out why the blow was given.
--Aldous Huxley

The ignorant are so named because they ignore. The observant are so named because they observe.
--China Sinclair

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
--Albert Einstein

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Strive to not be ignorant. Escape its curse or it will slay you as surely as the sun will set today.
--China Sinclair

Argumentum ad ignorantiam.
Arguing from ignorance.
--Latin Quotation

Therefore, having turned over in my mind for a long time this uncertainty of the traditional mathematical methods of calculating the motions of the celestial bodies, I began to grow disgusted that no more consistent scheme of the movements of the mechanism of the universe, set up for our benefit by that best and most law abiding Architect of all things, was agreed upon by philosophers who otherwise investigate so carefully the most minute details of this world.
--Nicolaus Copernicus, The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies

Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding,
who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
--Psalm 32:9

I have one client who wrote a lyric about feeling love that was so special, she wanted to freeze the moment and pop it in the microwave.
How to Make a Good Song a Hit Song
by Molly-ann Leikin

Hebrew letters look like barbed-wire, sharp knives.
--Karl Shapiro

The vast islands of stars beyond. Like the deadly bullet of a gun, his meaning struck her 'er his words begun.
--Shakespeare

Came a great calm in which the ships for weeks lay quietly on the boundless ocean like specks upon a mirror.
--Francis Bacon

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.
--Charles H. Spurgeon

Spring locked away in ice.
--Janette Oak

The evening clouds looked like pink cotton candy floating high against the ceiling of the teal sky.
China Sinclair, 11.98

You can't lie to the camera.
--Ronald Reagan

All of the buildings, all of those cars, were once just a dream in somebody's head.
--Peter Gabriel

Imagination is vision beyond eye vision. Like a muscle, the imagination strengthens with use . . ."
--Milton Lomask, The Biographer's Craft

Mark Twain claimed he could "shut my eyes and trace it (the Mississippi River) from St. Louis to New Orleans.

The mind is its own amphitheater.
--China Sinclair

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein

Fictitious=Free inventions of the human mind.

We don't dream in dull grey shades, we dream in full, splashy colors.
--Rick Pitino

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
--Henry Miller (1891-1980) U.S. author

There is nowhere the mind can't go.
--Samsung Commercial

Imagination=Picture internally.

"Your brain is the greatest audio/video production facility on the planet. It's capable of producing far more films, epics and short subjects than have been created in the history of Hollywood."
--Michael J. Geld, Creative Genius

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
--Leonardo Da Vinci

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it that set Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but mediately to the understanding of reasoning?
--William Blake

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
--John Ruskin

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
--Unknown

A great writer's imagination is a billion dollar, state-of-the-art visual/audio production studio where actors act, plots unfold, and action explodes.
--China Sinclair

Take time to focus your imagination. Imagination allows you see future events now, before they happen. When the future arrives you will not be caught off guard.
--China Sinclair

Perhaps the most useful feature of imagination is its power of simulating an event before it happens. When the mind plays out a future scenario, adjustments can be made in the present so as to make the future unfold in modified form.
--China Sinclair

Autumn cast it's spell along the Patomic lavishly painting the woods around Mt. Vernon in orange and gold.
--Richard Norton Smith

Imagination is the means whereby you can internally experience both historical and future events synthetically .
--China Sinclair

I want you to imagine you're running on hot bricks-- if you leave your feet to long on the ground they'll get burned, right? Up, up, up, up. Light, light, light, light as a feather.
--Movie, Chariots of Fire

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
--Albert Einsten

Every day, in imagination, I would take a trip round the world.
--Helen Keller

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!
--Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living . . .
--Dr. Seuss

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
--Jules de Gaultier

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
--Stephen R. Covey

One of the cool things about imagination and harnessing it to use your creativity with, is that you can become anyone, you can do anything.
--Janis Ian, Songwriter

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
--James Anonymous Child Barrie, 1860-1937, Author of Peter Pan

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
--Albert Einstein

What is now proved was once only imagined.
--William Blake

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
--Unknown

I don't want realistic! I want magic!
--Tennessee Williams, " A Street Car Named Desire"

The human race is governed by its imagination.
--Napoleon

The world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
--Henry Thoreau

In America, the copyright laws have us so worried that we are afraid to think any new thoughts. We are afraid we might infringe on someone else's copyright. We forget that in America we have the right to think any thoughts that enter our mind. There are laws against copying others products but there are no laws preventing us from recording something and filing it in our brain. Creative people use the thoughts of others to stimulate new thoughts of their own. Others thoughts are merely water to feed the seeds in our own imagination. If we are afraid to think new thoughts, then we are still in the dark ages. Nothing new will come of dull thinking.
--China Sinclair

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
--Albert Einstein

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
--Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing that you imagine can be restrained from you. That's how powerful vision is.
--Darren Myles, Founder Set Free Indeed, 4/22/2005

Be careful what you imagine. Imagination has a strong tendency toward becoming reality.
--China Sinclair

Anything you imagine in your heart is not impossible to accomplish.
--Darren Myles, "Set Free Indeed" Founder, Address on 4/22/2005

Imagination decides everything.
--Blaise Pascal

The soul never thinks without a picture.
--Aristotle

Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain. Another turn of the imagination would make us discover this without difficulty.
--Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Number 85

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
--John Ruskin

We are all, in a way, immigrants from the past.
--Jack Miles

Some things are interesting and enticing, while other things are important.
--William R. Bradford

All limits are self imposed.
--Icarus

Blood from a stone impossible.
--Latin Quotation

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. You're always on.
--Rick Frishman, Pres. Planned TV Arts

Everybody is impressionable.
--China Sinclair

Don't let them give you any wooden nickels.
--Sanford Padgett

This became a credo of mind--attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
--Bette Davis

What greater invention can there be than one's own persona?
--Niel Baldwin

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 319

Inconsistency is, though not the desirable, the inescapable lot of man.
--Freud

If you walk down the middle of the road you will get run over.
--Saying

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.
--Charles Swindoll

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
--Peter Marshall

Induction has been practiced from morning till night by every human being since the world began.
--Will Durant

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind.
--Jean Paul Richter

"Companies are reluctant to invest in something radically new because they're so heavily invested in the old, he explains: 'It's like fighting the ineria of the human race.'"
Gadget master, inventor Jaco Rabinow, Popular Science, Shinda, Gunjan, 08-01-1998

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Did the world have a beginning in time? We cannot conceive eternity but then we cannot conceive any point in the past without feeling at once that before that something was.
--Kant

The Austrian crono which had been 5 to 1 dollar before WWI became 19,000 to 1 by Dec. 1922

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

No one ever convinced anybody by logic . . . to convince a man you must appeal to his self interests, his desires, his will.
--Schopenhauer

I am a creature that has been fashioned in large part by my society.

"In these days of phony-baloney Astro-turf lobbying (artificial grass-roots campaigns), real letters from real people count," says Clinton campaign consultant James Carville. A thoughtful, brief letter that ends with a specific question will get a response. Carville's further advice: "Write a sincere letter asking for some time on the calendar and include a check. Tell them: 'Keep the money even if you can't meet with me.' There's not a candidate in the world who would deny that meeting."

I believe we all influence others. But, we must determine what impact we want to have, how we will go about exerting that influence, and why we want to do so.
--Unknown

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, History

Use what language you will, you can never say anything to others but what you are.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What do you EXPOSE your life and thoughts to? What do you NOT EXPOSE your life and thoughts to? That will tell me a lot about who you are and what you are capable of.
--China Sinclair

From one person many can learn.
--China Sinclair

She was bringing you the news you need to make decisions in a democracy.
--USA Today, 5.3.2000, said of Dickey Chapelle, photographer in South Vietnam, stepped on mine and died.

In the year 1995 there was more information produced than in the entire history of mankind before that year.
--Unknown

There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than a 16th century man had to process in his entire life.
--Bell Labs report

Information matters. A decision based on good information pushes one down the road of success. A decision built on bad information will lead one off a cliff. I will preach this for the rest of may life to children and adults alike: Check your sources, test your information, question the accuracy of what you are told. Don't let false information get into your head and stay there. It will mess you up. If not today, ten years from today. For the rest of your life--never, never forget to verify input!
--China Sinclair

Communicating at the speed of light. You must remember that first impressions can be very powerful. You must remember that we are all in the business of trying to create the best impression possible and we never know who is watching us, assessing us.
--Rick Pitino

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
--Niccolo Machiavelli

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
--Mother Teresa

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
--Lao-Tse

There are those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
--Unknown

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
--Niccolo Machiavelli

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
--John Atkinson

The source of ideas is the customer.
--Tom Peters, The Excellence Challenge

But I believe the times demand invention, innovation, imagination, decision.
--John F. Kennedy, DNC Acceptance Address, July 15, 1960

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.
--Henry Ford

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
--Francis Bacon

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
--Unknown

Moreover, I think and therefore it is true . . .
--Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
--Oliver Wendell Homes

An unfortunate aspect of beaurocracies is that they tend to become worlds of their own, detached from the realities of the marketplace.
--James Goldsmith

Minds are conquered not by arms but by greatness of soul.
--Spinoza

We are supposed to be reasonable but we are much more instinctive than reasonable.
--Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

An insult unpunished is the parent of many others.
--Thomas Jefferson

What is learned today may be useful in a tomorrow.
--China Sinclair

Public words but private deeds.
--Henry Waxman

Always act as if your action could become a universal principle to be used by all men.
--Immanuel Kant

If I had a graph with one line measuring my actions and another measuring my words, would the lines match each other?

Think ethically and act morally.
--Jacob Freud's Motto (Sigmund Freud's Father)

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
--Thomas Jefferson

We are saying that a real man measure his words and then lives out what he says.
--Bill McCartney, USA Today, Oct. 1, 1997

. . . people should never do anything in their lives that they would have to apologize for doing to those they love.
--Og Mandino, Secrets for Success & Happiness, pg. 156

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 785

We must be who we say we are; we must be able to do what we say we can do.
--Charles K. Bergman, Lieutenant Colonel USAF, Challenge of 21st Century Leadership

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
--Albert Einstein

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
--Spinoza

There can be no intelligence unless there is intelligence gathering, that is why looking and listening are so important--this is how humans gather new data.
--China Sinclair

Intelligence is traditionally defined in dictionaries and by many experimental biologists as "problem-solving ability".
--Joe Z. Tsien

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
--Alfred N. Whitehead

I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
--Gerald Ford

To be bright usually means simply to train better.
--Unknown

Intelligence implies the capacity for solving problems, learning from experience, and reasoning abstractly.
--The Original Roget's Thesaurus

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
--Albert Einstein

The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
--Blaise Pascal

"The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and contrariwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
--Benedict Spinoza

The internet is a global library.
--John M. Cummuta

Trust is important to a good interview.
--Unknown

Interview with Kristy Longmire

3.77 GPA 4th in class
Syllabus is usually 99% accurate
"90% of grade is listening in class."
"I never skip for stupid reasons."
Take notes in thought-phrases, outline
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1
2
3

Never late, on time or early.
"I ask WHY a lot."
Took note taking class-How to outline.

Make associations a lot-think first letter, make sentences.

New words stick.

"I listen and TRY to understand it.

Usually sit in front.
Smaller classes-know teachers.
All of my teachers know my name.
With hard to follow teachers-studied book.

Organized with time. Used study halls. Late at night study.

Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far.
--West African proverb, one of Theodore Roosevelt's favorite proverbs

Gerd Binner & Heinrich Rohrer designed the scanning tunneling microscope which allows scientists to see individual atoms.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
--Thomas Edison

Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress.
--Thomas Edison

At the age of 12 Chester Carlson told his cousin Roy, "Someday, I'm going to make a great invention." Throughout his life, Carlson would walk from place to place with a notebook in his hand and jot down ideas for changing the world. He was always looking for ways to make life easier for people.
--Chester Carlson and the Invention of the Photocopier, InventHelp.com, July 2004 Newsletter

The biggest mistake that beginning investors make is not to "get in the game."
--George C. Fisher, "All About DRIPs and DSPs"

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thomas Jefferson at night jotted down calculations of the earth's motion on its axis. Thomas Jefferson’s trinity of heroes--Bacon, Newton and Locke. Thomas Jefferson wrote approx. 20000 letters during his lifetime.

Christ in the heart is better than corn in the barn, or wine in the vat.
--Charles Spurgeon

Christ furnished the pattern of the perfect man.
--Strong’s Concordance

We have not yet seen God in a telescope.
--Kant

Rebeka Gaddis in Africa starts laughing with Philip. Doris asks them, "What are you laughing about?" Rebeka, "Oh, nothing, we were just thinking about one of Uncle Kevin's stories."
9.1.98

If you want to be good, wise and strong, read books that are written by the good, wise and strong.
--China Sinclair

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
--Sir Humphry Davy

The best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
--William Wordsworth, 1798

To achieve perfection in yourself and happiness in others, so act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or that of another, in every case as an end, never only as a means.
--Kant

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
John Wesley

One kind word can warm three winter months.
--Japanese saying

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
--H. L. Mencken

Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.
--Mother Teresa

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
--Albert Schweitzer

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
--Albert Schweitzer

Oh God, open our eyes, and let us see how simple a man's life can be. Where we cannot convince, let us be willing to persuade, for small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
--Peter Marshall, Last Final Prayer

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
--Unknown

Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seeds all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.
--Unknown

If I can make at least one person feel special and important each day of my life, then my life will have been a success. Everybody gets down, everybody needs encouragement. I can fill that need for everybody I come in contact with today.
--Kevin

Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.
--St. Francis de Sales

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
--Walter S. Landor

The smallest effort is not lost,
Each Wavlet on the ocean tosst
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.
--Charles Mackay, 1814-1889

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
--Mother Teresa

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong, because someday in life you will have been all of these.
--George Washington Carver

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house . . . let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
--Mother Teresa

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
--Mother Teresa

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
--Publilius Syrus

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
--Jean Paul Richter

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
--Blaise Pascal

What you know can help you down the road.

Knowledge itself is power.
--Francis Bacon, 1610

Knowledge helps you make better decisions.

Action must be founded on knowledge.
--Unknown

Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
--American proverb

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
--American proverb

I have taken all knowledge to be my providence.
--Francis Bacon, 1592

Knowledge is power, not mere argument or ornament.
--Francis Bacon

A man is but what he knoweth. Are not the pleasures of the affections greater than the pleasures of the senses and are not the pleasures of the intellect greater than the pleasures of the affections?
--Francis Bacon

The pursuit of knowledge becomes scholasticism when divorced from the actual needs of men and life.
--Francis Bacon

Your book knowledge is nothing until it is tested and proven.
--John Sibling

Knowledge and understanding that have a practical application for improving our every day lives is, of course, the highest goal of scientific inquiry.
--Jah D. Glass, Ph.D.

What you know has side effects. As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
--Winston Churchill

The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good.
--Da Vinci

The more your read,
the more you know.
The more you know,
the smarter you grow.
The smarter you grow,
the stronger your voice,
when speaking your mind
or making your choice.
--Unknown

When you know less, the people who know more will gain power over you. This will make you become increasingly dependent on them. Unless you have knowledge, you will be unaware of when you are being mislead and taken advantage of.
--China Sinclair

"There is a long course of evolution from the marked trees that indicated Indian trails to metropolitan daily newspapers, but they have this in common: they pass on what one individual has known to other individuals, for their convenience or, in the broadest sense, instruction."
--S.I. Hayakawea, Language in Thought & Action, pg. 10

Knowledge has its seat in the head. It is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
--Plato

Knowledge is know-how, know-how is advantage and advantage is what propels a person forward. Without knowledge nothing gets fixed, nothing gets invented, nothing gets easier, nothing advances. Everything becomes a problem, everyone becomes stupid, everyone starves and everything perishes.

Knowledge heals; Ignorance makes sick. Knowledge rescues; Ignorance kills.
--China Sinclair

If you lack knowledge you are flying blind through life. You will also have a substantial risk of homelessness, poverty and a number of other serious social problems.
--China Sinclair

Good knowledge can fix nasty problems.
--China Sinclair

The greater the knowledge, the greater the humility.
--Henry Thomas & Dana Lee

Man is not weak--knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
--Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is know-how; Ignorance is guess-how.
--China Sinclair

Knowledge prevents mistakes.
--China Sinclair

Effective people think before they do. Action based on knowledge hits the target more often than action based on ignorance.
--China Sinclair

Knowledge is the best defense against being exploited.
--China Sinclair

Knowledge tells you how things work. Psychology tells you how people work so you can make many friends. History tells you the effects of past decisions so you can make better decisions today. Math tells you how numbers work so you can build a bridge over a river.
--China Sinclair

Every piece of knowledge you know creates an opportunity of its own.
--China Sinclair

The less you know the more confused you become.
The less you know the less confidence you have.
The less you know the more others can trick you.
The less you know the less you understand reasons.
The less you know the more you are apt to believe in lies.
The less you know the fewer opportunities you have. Collect as much knowledge as you can for the only knowledge you can use is the knowledge you have in your pocket.
--China Sinclair

Knowledge conquers fear.
--Roger Dawson

The best defense against believing a lie is to be armed with accurate information.
--China Sinclair

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
--William Blake

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heaven, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
--Thomas Traherne, 1636-74

A person without knowledge in this world is like a ship without a chart lost at sea.
--China Sinclair

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.
--Henry Ford

"If, however, he (a child) grows up with a false map in his head--that is, with a head crammed with error and superstition--he will constantly be running into trouble, wasting his efforts, and acting like a fool. He will not be adjusted to the world as it is; he may, if the lack of adjustment is serious, end up in a mental hospital."
--S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought & Action, pg. 27

Raw knowledge teaches a person how to do or how to understand. That person can then use that new piece of insight to accomplish a task. Others will then notice that this person is capable of getting things done. Others will then respect said person. That person just went from being unnoticed and unknown to being respected and honored. Overall, not a bad situation for someone who started on the ground floor.
--China Sinclair

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about business.
--J. Paul Getty, Billionaire

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.
--Tony Alesandra

Don't hesitate to learn any new piece of information. Every piece of knowledge you know builds up your long-term confidence. Knowledge is the secret to confidence.
--China Sinclair

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
--Socrates, (c. 470-399 B.C.)

One piece of knowledge can give a thousand advantages.
--China Sinclair

Every act of every day is carried out on the basis of what you believe is true. When you make a bad decision in your day it is usually based on incorrect evidence or incomplete knowledge. This is why it is important to know as much as you can about everything so that you might act with less error and less stress every day.
--China Sinclair

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge?
--Will Henry

A little child struggles to open a heavy bathroom door by pushing her all her weight in the middle of it. It does not open. Another child pushes the door opposite the hinged side, the door opens as if by magic. When knowledge is correctly applied, it makes even going to the bathroom easier.
--China Sinclair

The best way to banish anxiety and fear is through knowledge and confrontation.
--China Sinclair

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
--Alexander Smith

There is no knowledge that is not power.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.
--Ronal Reagan

See these two hairs on my head? That's how much we know compared to my full head of hair.
--Deanna Carbo

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
--Charles F. Kettering

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
--Plato

If you want to have some power and control of your life then buy knowledge. If you want to get weaker and lose control then practice foolishness.
--China Sinclair

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
--Leonardo Da Vinci

Many maps of Africa in the 1800's were marked by blank spaces marking where the unknown and undiscovered territories were.
--China Sinclair

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge. . .
--Proverbs 15:14, The World English Bible

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best.
--Blaise Paschal, Thoughts, Number 37

For knowledge is conscious power.
--William Hazlitt, On Poetry in General

I feel it's lack of information that makes people hate one another.
--Pakistani in U.S.

Laughter is like internal jogging.
--Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness

Laughter is America's most important export.
--Walt Disney

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
--Norman Cousins

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine.
--Lord Byron

O what a Difficulty it is to keep one's Countenance, when a violent Laugh desires to burst forth.
--Henry Fielding

I don't have a pushy-down thing (sustain pedal).
--Lauren Appel in piano lesson, 5.3.2000

I like to play school by myself. I make up pretend people. Me and my friend like to have a fight with my neighbor. He is a boy.
--Lauren Appel
9.3.98

Beethoven's that guy that wrote weird songs.
--Lauren Joyce, 9.28.01

You are remembered for the rules you break.
--Douglas MacArthur

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
--William Lyon Mackenzie King

The good of the people is the chief law.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
--Samuel Johnson

All people are good except those who are idle.
--Voltaire

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
--Albert Einstein

There are lazy Minds as well as lazy Bodies.
--Benjamin Franklin, 1740 Almanac

It is vain to ask of the Gods what a man is capable of supplying for himself.
--Epicurus

A leader should divide his enemies and unite his friends.
--Francis Bacon

The best times have happened under wise and learned princes.
--Francis Bacon

The ability to see around corners is the ability to imagine the unimaginable.
--Jack Welch, Winning

Leaders take us to places we have never been before.
--James M. Kouzes

Nobody will follow a turnip. To lead you need passion. . . ardor, zeal, enthusiasm--this personal involvement is absolutely necessary in a good leader.
--Robert B. Horton

Alexander encouraged his soldiers to speak of how their wounds were inflicted after a battle. He talked to every soldier hurt. Listened to every story. Created sense of comradery.
--The Nature of Alexander

Management by objective works--if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
--Peter F. Drucker

A leader is a dealer in hope.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention . . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
--Adolf Hitler

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
--Thomas Carlyle

I need you with me.
--China Sinclair

We can change things here,
We can achieve awesome goals,
We can be the best.
--Colin Powell Leadership Book

LEADERSHIP REQUIREMENTS--Tom Landry
1. Knowledge--Master of Field (Facts), Preparation
2. Innovation--If you're not one step ahead of the crowd, you'll soon be a step behind everyone else.
--Methodology
--Execution
--Clear-cut objective
--Recognize every resistance
--Plan of action to overcome resistances
Resistance=minor objectives.
3. Motivation Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.
--Unknown

Leaders must not forget to share expectations up front. When a leader communicates high standards to his followers, he not only sets the tone for the whole group but also creates a future for them to look forward to.
--China Sinclair

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets.
--Charles R. Swindoll

Find the dream that is inside of people.
God made (each person) with a purpose inside of (them).
--Chris Hodges

An effective leader must be able to communicate not just information but imagination.
--China Sinclair

I always told our business leaders their personal intensity determined their organization's intensity.
--Jack Welch

Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match.
--Unknown

Time creates depth (in the development of a leader.)
--Dino Rizzo

Is it so bad then 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

Ronald Regan talked about principles, not details to the American public.
--Unknown

Encourage strengths, challenge weaknesses.
--Kenneth L. Spivey

Keep people informed, involved and inspired.
--Unknown

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility--that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.
--John Adair

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
--Bertrand Russell

Put others before yourself and you can become a leader among men.
--Unknown

The boss drives his men; the leader coaches them. The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; the leader "we". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says "go"; the leader says, "let's go!"
--H. Gordon Selfridge, Merchant

When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters.
--Milton S. Gould

I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
--Thomas Jefferson

Preparation makes for leadership, and leadership is service to man.
--Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
--James Crook

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.
--Vince Lombardi

The very essence of leadership is (that) you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
--Theodore Hesburgh

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
--Warren G. Bennis

The leader of the past knew how to tell, while the leader of the future knows how to ask.
--Peter Drucker

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
--Niccolo Machiavelli

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 358

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
--Peter F. Drucker

We need a leader to tell us: Who, precisely, do we serve? What is our core strength? Of the many things we can measure in our business, which one measure of success should we focus on? And, what specific actions can we take right now to improve our business?
--Marcus Buckingham

The hard-headed optimist asks discriminating questions.
--Alan Loy McGinnis

The best way to find your way out of the clouds of ignorance is to be a sponge for every kind of knowledge you come across, every second of every day. You must soak it up or your mind will stay empty . A useful mind is soaked full of information, a useless mind is either vacant or crammed with mixed-up ideas.
--China Sinclair

I hear--I forget, I see--I remember, I do and I understand.
--Unknown
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
--Marina Horner

You lose nothing by asking, and there is a chance to gain something lasting.
--Unknown

It was his "driving passion to understand that set him apart from his friends."
--Stephen Oates on Abraham Lincoln's Childhood

Part of the education should be to learn to teach yourself.
--Vladimir Horowitz

Learn from other's mistakes rather than making them all yourself.
--Unknown

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
--John W. Gardner

What I need is a new brain.
--Michael Breaux, Five year old piano student

Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them and wise men use them.
--Francis Bacon

. . . that is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
--Doris Lessing, English novelist

Learning conquers or mitigates the fear of death and adverse fortune.
--Francis Bacon

The founder of Federal Express reads four hours every day.
--Forbes, Great Minds of Business

The books and your capacity for understanding them are just the same in all places.
--Abraham Lincoln

Education theory states that to learn something new we need to hear it 200 times.
--John Gray

One must seek to learn something from everything.
--Freud

Refuse to loose and learn continuously.
--Donald T. Phillips

All learning has an emotional base.
--Plato

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein

If you can read, you have the ability to stockpile your mind with a mountain of creative ideas. You never know when one tiny insight could be triggered in your memory to change the course of the world.
--China Sinclair

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
--Unknown

Niels Bohr approached every new question from a starting point of total ignorance.
--Unknown

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination.
--Sidney Sheldon

The endeavor to understand is the first and only essence of virtue.
--Spinoza

Do you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him and in that I am his pupil.
--Emerson

The world is a book of instruction and he who will not profit by the lessons before him must be unfaithful to himself and his fellow citizens.
--Noah Webster

Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
--Neils Bohr

To me life is made continually fun by learning and always reaching for new horizons. The purpose of reading for a super learner will always be is the seeking out of ideas.
--China Sinclair

Poor learners tune out their senses and continually miss the answers to their problems. The fun thing about learning to me is knowing that every thing is related to every other thing somehow. To figure out how is the intriguing part.

How would God make this work?
--Question Einstein always asked

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
--Charles Steinmetz

Learning is remembering, remembering is learning.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
--Robert E. Lee

Knowledge is the best insurance. It protects its owner against disaster.
China Sinclair

The more input you have, the more intelligent your output can be.
--Pat & Pete Luboff, Songwriters

By learning you make yourself a better person and you create opportunities for yourself in the future.
--K.W.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
--Walter Pater, 1873

Mistakes are perfect tutors.
--China Sinclair

There is not such thing as a stupid question.
--Dr. Sean Gresh

Always ask questions. Albert Einstein once said that children ask challenging probing questions about why things are the way they are, but when they become adults, they stop asking questions. "I never stopped asking the questions I asked as a child," he said, "and that has made all the difference. So ask questions and always, always ask questions you don't know the answers to."
--Dr. Sean Gresh, Advertising is Storytelling, Vital Speeches

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
--Edgar Watson Howe

How Abraham Lincoln stored facts and information for future use as a child:
Sally Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's step-mother:
"Silent and attentive observer" of adult conversations. After guests were gone, "He must understand everything even to the smallest thing minutely and exactly. He would then repeat it over to himself again and again, sometimes in one form or another and when it was fixed in his mind to suit him he became easy and he never lost that fact or his understanding of it."

As always when he was learning something new he visibly swelled with pleasure and satisfaction.
--Edmund Morris on Theodore Roosevelt

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
--Antisthenes

They know enough who know how to learn.
--Henry Adams

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
--Henry Ford

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
--Sebastien Chamfort

How to become wise:
Glean--gather information or knowledge bit by bit.

Don't be a junk collector, be an wisdom collector. Kids can write with mustard in something bumpy to appeal to their sense of touch. Michael Faraday dropped out of school at 13 to become an errand boy for a bookbinder. On the job, Faraday made his way volume by volume through the Encycopeadia Britannica and began keeping a "common place" book containing quotations and questions arising from his reading. Software consists of thousands of instructions that tell your hardware how to behave in response to your commands.
--Simon Collin, The Way Computers & MS-DOS Work

Stay curious about everything and boredom will vanish. Your life will always be full of adventure.
--China Sinclair

The reason we learn is to grow and become everything we can possibly be. If we choose not to learn we miss the opportunity of discovering the incredible and inventing the unimaginable.
--China Sinclair

You can learn something from everyone you come in contact with.
--China Sinclair

When students tackle and wrestle intellectual problems for hours at a time, they grow in understanding, responsibility and independence.
--China Sinclair

Mimic and copy what you want to become. Soon with practice and perseverance you will be it.
--China Sinclair

The more questions you ask, the better off you are.
--Exxon Worker Training new employee

(Edison was a) voracious, even omnivorous lifelong reader.
--Niel Baldwin

Reading and talking to others will open many doors for you. Don't be afraid to ask questions and ask until your questions are answered.
--Helen, Cancer patient

Why smash your head against the same wall someone else has already encountered and successfully averted?
--Ralph R. Roberts (Top Real Estate Salesman in America), Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like A Madman

Every perplexity creates a learning experience.
--China Sinclair

Try to stock your mental pantry as richly as you can. When it comes to decision time there will be some options to choose from.
--China Sinclair

Living the adventurous life is living the life of learning. As long as one is learning, one can never be bored.
--China Sinclair

Every time a thought jumps into your mind, it gives your brain a chance to trace and compare it to previously stored data. If two thoughts happen to shed light on each other then a new connection is made--learning just happened!
--China Sinclair

Be knowledgeable. Pick up hints. Educate yourself. Gather information. Absorb. Observe. See how things work. Share ideas. Listen. Learn
--China Sinclair

Human beings are curious. We love to learn. We seek novelty. If a teacher is not grabbing attention, peeking interest and presenting new ideas, then a student will go elsewhere for that stimuli.
--China Sinclair

Facts are empty without being linked to context and concepts.
--Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D

I alone am responsible for my own information gathering.
--China Sinclair

How to Learn--Interview with Doctor Alan Handly

Over and over to learn
Pathology=disease
Intrinsic process
Precept upon precept
Foundational nugget upon foundational nugget.
Concentration is everything
Emotional Junk
Whole mind and whole heart, eliminate distration
The reason I did well, I went to school to do well.

Set ground rules--be firm.
The rest of your life you can use this.
Stir other people to want to learn.
Dynamic to want to learn more.
Purpose--what are you doing here.

Left side of brain
Stockstill--characteristics of a champion. David's fighting men were ambedextrose. Don't just use strengths, develope weaknesses. Focus on weaknesses.

Personal plan for growth in your life. Another realm, not just exist.
Entertainment is a distration.
Schinler's list is good movie.

John Maxwell--Leadership club.
Leadership principles.
Developing the Leader Within You
Developing the Leaders Around You

You reproduce what you are.
The secret desires in your heart are what your children are going to go after.

Learn new material:
1. Realize importance.
2. Focus intellectual energy, over & over & over & over.
a. Quick overview (structure) how to place mentally
b. Sub-Review (Memorize five major points)
Review over next three months.

What we become depends on what we read after all manners of professors have done their best for us. The true university of today is a collection of books.
--Thomas Carlyle

When we are young we learn much because we are universally ignorant. We observe everything because everything is new.
--Samuel Johnson

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not good for all your wishes to be fulfilled: through sickness you recognize the value of health, through evil the value of good, through hunger satisfaction, through exertion, the value of rest.
--Heraclitus

You are only as smart as the stuff you keep putting into your mind. You are only as smart as the people you keep hanging around.
--China Sinclair

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking . . . He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is a good as dead; his eyes are closed.
--Albert Einstein

I would walk twenty miles to listen to my worst enemy if I could learn something.
--Leibnitz

The feeling of "Aha, that's it," which accompanies the clothing of a situation with meaning, is emotionally very satisfying and is the major charm of scientific research, of artistic creation, and of the solution of crossword puzzles. It is why the intellectual life is fun.
--Huson Hoagland

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning.
--The Bible, Proverbs 1:5

Learning is a name superior to beauty; learning is better than hidden treasure. Learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country; learning is strength inexhaustible. A man in this world without learning is as a beast in the field.
--The Hitopadesa, intro, c. 500

A man of learning is never bored.
--Jean Paul Richter, hesperus, viii, 1795

You learn to play the flute by playing the flute.
--Artistotle

The best way to "cheat" in school is to listen and watch everything your teacher does. More often than not, they will share with you the answers to the upcoming test!
--China Sinclair

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.
--Lord Chesterfield.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
--Albert Einstein

A variety of interests in life will help you grow mentally.
--Boost Your Brainpower

Be eager for learning, even if it comes from the snout of a hog.
--Arab proverb

Learn to unlearn.
--Benjamin Disraeli, 1832

I pray you, school yourself.
--William Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra, Act 2, sc 3

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
--Old English Rhyme

He who is learned but does not fear God is like a woman without manners.
--Hebrew proverb

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
--Roger Asham, The Scolemaster, c. 1560

I am still learning.
--Favorite saying of Michelangelo, 1474-1563

When a great learned man, who is long in making, dieth, much learning dieth with him.
--Edward Coke, Institutes, I, 1628

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow droughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
--Alexander Pope, 1711

Celebrate learning! Keep a monthly log of what you learn each day.
--Kevin Eikenberry

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
--Joseph Addison, 1711

I learned to think that everything has a lesson and a suggestion.
--Helen Keller (as a deaf and blind child learning)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable.
--Harvey Ullman

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
--Benjamin Franklin

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
--Plato

Wear you learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
--Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his son, Feb. 22, 1748

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
--Thomas Fuller, 1732

Learning by study must be won, 'twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
--John Gay

Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand.
--George W. Bush, Feb. 1, 2003, Following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
--Chinese Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
--Chinese Proverb

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.
--Louis L'Amour

Those things that hurt, instruct.
--Benjamin Franklin

Be not afraid of learning slowly, be afraid of standing still.
--Unknown

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, if you study to understand, you will remember.
--Unknown

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.--Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and Becks

It is of little advantage to ask a lot of questions. You must learn to ask the RIGHT questions if you are to advance in understanding.
--China Sinclair

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. iii. 11.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support. --James Madison

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
--John Stuart Mill

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
--Thomas Jefferson

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
--Patrick Henry, March 28, 1775

When liberty is gone,
Life grows insipid and has lost its relish.
--Addison, Cato, Act 2, Scene 3

Take good care of liberty and she will live. Abuse her and she will die.
--China Sinclair

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
--Georges Bernanos

The great mass of people . . .will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
--Adolf Hitler

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
--Da Vinci

I haint been caught lying yet and I don't mean to be.
--Lincoln

Anytime truth that is fragmented is preached as the whole, it is a false doctrine.
--Mark Hanby

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
--Abraham Lincoln

Lying to ourselves in more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
--C. E. Montague

A lie may keep you out of hot water, but a dive into the hot water by telling a flat-out truth can be a refreshing swim after all.
--China Sinclair

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
--Arabian Proverb

If you are a good liar, don't you wonder when you are being told the truth and being told a lie?
--China Sinclair

Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
--Francis Bacon, The Essays, Of Truth

But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before.
--Francis Bacon, The Essays, Of Truth

Sometimes it is hard to keep going when you know that the sand is running out of the hourglass, yet you still have a moral obligation to try to make tomorrow better than today.
--William J. Clinton, First in His Class

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again.
--Pablo Casals, Chicken Soup, Vol. 1

Aim high, time flies.
--Canadian proverb

I appreciate the value of every breath.
--Dino Rizzo

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.
--Shakespeare, 'As You Like It'

Friction of life
--Plato

All of life is a foreign country.
--Jack Kerouac

Fragility of 18th century existence.
--Washington book

Life spans are incalculable.
--Freud

Our bodies are centered and balance in gravity with equal weights (limbs) on each side. The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
--Da Vinci

Man in his external form appears to be marvelously constructed.
--Da Vinci

An ant's life was, to it, as sweet as ours to us.
--Abraham Lincoln

This world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.
--Francis Bacon, 1561-1626

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life if well spent, is long.
--Da Vinci

Treasure every second as if it were a drop of your own blood. Seconds are the cells of time.
--KW

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we've learnt something from yesterday.
--John Wayne

Live every day like it's a new beginning, a new chance at life.
--Dino Rizzo, 1.7.1997

Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes.
--Anne of Green Gables, Movie

Life is fiction in disguise.
--James Merrill, poet

I see life as so shapely, so orderly. I look at our left hand and our right, I see us as works of art.
--Sharon Olds

One day my life will be deleted.
--China Sinclair

To get the most out of life, we must learn to treasure mundane events, too.
If you are sweeping the floor, for example, bring full attention to the act. Notice the play of your muscles, the floor's appearance, the sound the broom bristles make, etc."
--Stephen Rechtschaffen, M.D.

Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
--Thoreau

Within every atom, every sub-division of nature, there could be found a certain amount of primitive intelligence. Look at the thousand ways in which atoms of hydrogen combine with those of other elements forming the most diverse substances. Do you mean to say that they do this without intelligence? When they get together in certain forms they make animals of the lower orders. Finally, they combine total intelligence of all the atoms.
--Thomas Edison

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible to tomorrow.
--Horace

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
--Walter Bagehot

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
--George Bernard Shaw

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.
--John Keatss

Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
--Max Ehrmann

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
--Stephen Leacock

I am a human "offspring, a vigorous variant, a new admixture of two ancestrial lines."
--Aristotle

All life is an experiment.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Just as it is impossible to rate the beauty of various flowers, it would be equally impossible to rate the uniqueness of each individual life.
--China Sinclair

Men wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of rivers, the course of the stars--and forget to wonder at themselves.
--St. Augustine

"I live more in one day then most people do in a decade."
--Lady dying with cancer

"I am proud in my passing speck of time. . ."
--Abraham Lincoln, 1858

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
--William James

At one time my whole life and being and existence was the size of a germ.
--China Sinclair

Every minute counts.
--Dino Rizzo

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
--Friedrich Nietzsche

You must decide who you want to become and then act it. Everyone will believe you are that thing because you won't let them know any different. Your every though, act, and movement will proclaim who you are. The world will read you and believe.
--China Sinclair

Life remains an unexplained miracle.
--China Sinclair

You ask for a miracle? Look no father than yourself. You are the supreme miraculous creation of God.
--China Sinclair

There are no small parts, just small actors.
--Unknown

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
--Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Every day is a new life to a wise man.
--Unknown

Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe, will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.
--Lord Herbert of Cherbury

The greatest possession you have is the 24 hours directly in front of you.
--Unknown

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humankind as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
--Helen Keller

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

But a man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to forsee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
--Emerson

The loss of so many lives left us to examine our own. Each of us was reminded that we are here only for a time.
--George W. Bush, President USA, Sept. 11, 2002, Rememberance Ceremony at Ellis Island

You will never get a second chance to live this day again.
--China Sinclair

When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I feel and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather that there; for there is no reason why here rather that there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me?
--Blaise Pascal, Pensees, Number 205

May you live all the days of your life.
--Jonathan Swift

A lifetime consists of years, months, weeks and days. The basic unit of a lifetime is a single day.
--Earl Nightingale

Life is to be spent, not to be saved.
--D. H. Lawrence

The more science learns what life is, the more reluctant scientist are to define it.
--Leila M. Coyne

Now, go out and be the best you you can be. I hope you won't always choose to take the easy road. Work hard at being a total person. Give life your best shot. Whatever you do, wherever you find yourself, no matter the circumstance, know that you have everything you need to be a special citizen of this world.
--Ty Boid (a letter to his six children)

You cannot reach your hand back into yesterday. You cannot feel around in tomorrow. Today is the only day that is tangible. Mold what is in front of you and each day can become a work of art to be hanged in the halls of memory forever.
--China Sinclair

Let each man think himself an act of God, his mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
--P. J. Bailey

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
--Soren Kierkegaard

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
--Marquis De Condorcet

Man himself is the crowning wonder of creation; the study of his nature the noblest study the world affords.
--William E. Gladstone, 1809-98

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
--Van Dyke

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.
--Abraham Lincoln

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
--Italian Proverb

The hours of your life can be liked to a pond of water. At birth the pond is full. Every day a little is evaporated by the heat of the sun. After many days the pond will be empty and it will cease to be a pond. Spend your days wisely.
--China Sinclair

Football, Lombardi preached to his boys, was a lesson in life. They were going to get knocked down, but they had to drag themselves up and take another hit and do it right.
--David Maraniss

It has come to be my belief that as a man grows older the pictures he looks upon with the most pleasure by his fireside are those which bring before him again his college days. Make your whole life full of pictures which are bright and clear and clean.
--Lord Kelvin

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
--Publius Syrus

You're the captain of your own ship, but you can't control the weather.
--Michael J. Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

All life is action and passion . . .
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.
--Robert Anthony

Prepare to live by all means, but for heaven's sake do not forget to live. You will never have a better chance than you have at present. You may think you will have, but you are mistaken.
--Arnold Bennett

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. ii. 2.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Work

Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Times

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Has not God given every man a capital to start with? Are we not born rich? He is rich who has good health, a sound body, good muscles; he is rich who has a good head, a good disposition, a good heart; he is rich who has two good hands, with five chances on each. Equipped? Every man is equipped as only God could equip him. What a fortune he possesses in the marvellous mechanism of his body and mind. It is individual effort that has achieved everything worth achieving.
--Orison Swett Marden

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
--Aristotle

One life; a little gleam of time between two eternities; no second chance for us forever more.
--Thomas Carlyle

It's a great life if you don't weaken.
--John Buchan, 1919

I think it’s important to point out – before I give up the podium here – that in a certain way, all energy is solar energy. We should never forget that in our solar system, over 98 per cent of the mass is still up there in the sun, and all the rest of us – all the people wandering around and all the planets that share the solar system with us – are oneand-a-half per cent of the mass. That we are all kept alive every day by about a billionth of that mass that escapes and comes down to Earth. A lot of which is refracted from the clouds and back into space. We are living here in literally a biological miracle.
--William J. Clinton, Speech, "Global Climate Change", December 8, 2005

Be careful what you proclaim to the world to be true about yourself. Whether it be through your words, your actions or your tattoo. Even the little things can have a big impact. Go for the amazing life. Take care of the little stuff. Do the stuff most will never do. Know that every little thing you think, say and do has a major impact on the outcome of your life.
--Larry Winget, Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life

You will have highs and you will have lows. You will have automobile accidents, experience illness, your roof will leak and people you know will get sick and die. That is life.
--Larry Winget, Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life

While we are in life the one essential thing is to play our part bravely and well.
--Ralph Waldo Trine, Character Building Thought Power, 1899.

About Clouds: "They are made of lightning, air and water.
--Michael Breaux, 5 years old

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
--T.S. Eliot

The universe is God's object lesson reminding us to imagine, think and live without limits.
--China Sinclair

Successful people MAKE their own standards, limits and expectations.
--China Sinclair

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
--Jamie Paolinetti

Limits of the mind are no more than figments of the imagination.
--China Sinclair

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
--Bruce Lee

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing.
--Bruce Lee

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
--Alexander the Great

That is the way with wise people--they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Work

At first the "horseless carriage" was considered merely a freak notion and many wise people explained with particularity why it could never be more than a toy. No man of money even thought of it as a commercial possibility.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Work

Accepting someone else's rules is self limiting.
--Mark Stevens, Your Marketing Sucks

I shall have my hands full. He's the strongman of the party, full of wit, facts, dates and the best stump speaker with his drull ways and dry jokes in the west. He's as honest as he is shrewd.
--Douglas on Abraham Lincoln

It seemed as if he had a kind word, a smile and a bow for everybody on the road, even to the horses and cattle and the swine.
--J.H. Buckingham on Abraham Lincoln

On the circuit with Judge in Sangamon county (Lincoln had) a rarely sympathetic imagination that enabled him to put himself in every other man's place.
--Brand Whitlock

Lincoln argued 240 cases as lawyer before state supreme court.

Made $1500 per year at that time, 1864.

"Not a strong aggressive individual so much as a passive one with the durability of an iron cable, swaying back and forth in the tempest of politics, yet tenacious in carrying his great end . . . He has listened to all, weighed the words of all, waited, observed, yielded now here, now there, but in the main kept one inflexible honest purpose and drawn the national ship through."
--Harriet Beecher Stowe on Abraham Lincoln

All his life long he (Lincoln) strove to make things clear.
He mastered the art of stating a question so that it answered itself.
--Abraham Lincoln: A Biography

As President, Lincoln liked to greet people with "What can I do for you?"

That's what I said in my mind. I can hear my mind.
--Courtney Fischer, age 4

When you are talking, you become instantly deaf to all sound.
--China Sinclair

What's the highest form of courtesy? Listening.
--China Sinclair

If you're talking, you aren't learning.
--Lyndon Johnson

Patience is a most necessary quality in business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
--Lord Chesterfield

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
--American Indian Proverb

Don't listen to noise. Cut out the noise. The noise is not useful. Look at facts.
--Peter Lynch

(Freud learned to) take communications, whether from his patients or from himself, more seriously than before, but far less literally. He came to read them as coded messages, distorted, sensored, meaningfully disguised. He listened, in short, with greater attention and finer discrimination than ever.
--Peter Gay, Freud biographer

Of all the skills involved in empathy, listening requires the most concentration. It also rewards you with more productive conversations and greater knowledge. Think how much more open and cooperative you feel when you are truly heard rather than cut off or thoughtlessly categorized. . . Letting your mind wander, rehearsing your own words or mentally arguing deafens you to what is being said.
--Arthur Ciaramicoli, EdD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Let others know their thoughts have value by listening to them speak. By listening we gain trust and make other people feel more comfortable with us.
--Rick Pitino

John explains to Bill how to change his Mustang's brake pads. John warns of things that could go wrong. Bill listens carefully and quickly learns how to do it. He completes the job, saves two hours and thoroughly enjoys changing out the pads because he recognized the value of listening to a friend who had been there before. Listening pays in dozens of ways.
-China Sinclair

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.
--John D. Rockefeller III

It is vitally important to listen the first time to a new lesson, a teacher or a friend because there may be no second time.
--China Sinclair

The #1 lesson to learn in this life is:
Keep your big mouth shut and listen do what you are told.
--China Sinclair

When we fail to listen, we miss things that we might have been able to use for the rest of our life.
--China Sinclair

To listen well is to learn well.
--China Sinclair

Real listening is an active process of learning.
--China Sinclair

It is the boorishness of inattention that makes pleasant discussion turn into stupid repetitive argument, and that doubles the errors and mishaps of daily life.
--Jacques Barzun,

Teacher in America The greatest benefit of attentive listening that it saves you precious time; you do not have to listen a second or third time.
--China Sinclair

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
--Jack Woodford

The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening.
--Unknown

Listen, learn, change.
--David Gergen

Listen, learn, do.
--Jewish News of Greater Phoenix

The best way to insult a person is to ignore them; the best way to make them feel valued is to listen carefully.
--China Sinclair

Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.
--Feargal Quinn, executive chairman of Superquinn Supermarkets in Ireland

The first duty of love is to listen.
--Paul Tillich

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
--Chinese Proverb

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
--German Proverb

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
--Wilson Mizner

Have your ears up like a rabbit.
--Unknown

Empathetic listening is the universal key that unlocks the door to men's hearts.
--China Sinclair

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
--Ernest Hemingway

A person hears only what they understand.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.
--Jimmy Hendricks

So be careful how you listen.
--Jesus Christ, The Bible, Luke 8:18, New International Reader's Version

Listening sharpens the mind like salt sharpens taste.
--Kevin Anonymous Child

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
--Ernest Hemingway

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
--Elizabeth Drew

Aristotle created a new science, logic (test and correction of thought). Logic=discipline of thought

Logic formulates the experiences and methods of the wise.

What does any discipline do but try by rules to turn the art of a few into a science teachable to all.
--Will Durant

Logic teaches us to remember to do one thing at a time instead of everything at once which, by the way, is the cause of most human error.
--China Sinclair

To do two things at once is to do neither.
--Publilius Syrus

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
--Mother Teresa

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
--Norman Cousins

Life is to short to hide affection.
--Victor B. Miller

Love your friend as if he were to become your enemy and your enemy as if he were to become your friend.
--Bias, Wise man of Ancient Greece

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
--John Wesley, 1703-1791

The power of love, of understanding, of being able to feel the feelings of the other vests us with a much greater power than the more common ability to attack. Love is power, understanding is power, feeling is power.
--Gerry Spence

The love of God dominating your heart.
--Billy Graham

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--Unknown

You can always get someone to love you--even if you have to do it yourself.
--Tom Masson

Are ants more human than humans?
--China Sinclair

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
--Victor Hugo

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
--Louis Ginsberg

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
--H.L. Mencken

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
--G. Stanley Hall

Love, all love of other sights controls.
And makes one little room an everywhere.
--John Donne

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again--this is the brave and happy life.
--J. E. Buckrose

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If God had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. When you want to talk, He'll listen. He could live anywhere in the universe and He chose your heart. And the Christmas gift He sent you in Bethlehem? Face it friend, He's crazy about you!
--Max Lucado

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.
--Anon.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
--Mother Teresa

The most important medicine is tender love and care.
--Mother Teresa

Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you."
--Mother Teresa

Eros=Sensual (body)
Phileo=Emotional (soul)
Agape=Unconditional (spirit)

How you think and act toward others is your lesson to them as to how you want them to think and act toward you.
--China Sinclair

To a loving father his children's cries are music, and they have a magic influence which his heart cannot resist.
--Charles H. Spurgeon

Only that which is invisible is essential.
--The Little Prince

There is no better way to deal with our own life than to touch the life of another with love and a smile.
--Og Mandino

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
--Sydney Smith

If you wish to be loved, love.
--Seneca

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
--Mother Teresa

Smile at each other, smile a your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
--Mother Teresa

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
--Mother Teresa

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
--Vi Putnam

If each person on earth spent just 5% of each day thinking of others and their needs, this world would be a truly sweet place to live in.
--China Sinclair

Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
--Albert Schweitzer

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
--G. K. Chesterton

To be loved, be lovable.
--Ovid

God is in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
--Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
--Mother Teresa

In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is love and when we love we are like God.
--Mother Teresa

Not he the threatening texts who deals
Is highest 'mong the preachers,
But he who feels the woes and weals
Of all God's wandering creatures.
--James Russell Lowell

Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage--resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.
--Elbert Hubbard

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people murder facts and insist that they are innocent.
--Ida Ehrlich, Instant Vocabulary

There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. It is not possible to learn from books how everything is made--and a real mechanic ought to know how nearly everything is made. Machines are to a mechanic what books are to a writer. He gets ideas from them, and if he has any brains he will apply those ideas.
--Henry Ford, My Life and Work

Management by walking around.
--David Packard

Managing by wandering around needs to be frequent, friendly, unfocused, and unscheduled. Principle aim is to seek-out people's thoughts and opinions, it requires good listening.
--The HP Way, David Packard

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
--Priscilla Elfrey

The greatest management principle:
The things that get rewarded get done.

Let your counteance be pleasent, but in serious matters somewhat grave.
--110 Rules of Civility

Words are free. It doesn't cost anything to be polite.
--Earl Nightingale

We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.
--Voltaire

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
--Jean Giradoux

Behave towards every one as if receiving a great guest.
--Confucius

Be direct. If you don't have time to talk, say so. If you cannot stay, say so. If you cannot attend a function, say so. Being polite but direct will get you further than evasive and rude.
--Lewena Bayer & Karen Mallett

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
--Emily Post

How not to serve a customer in your store: say, "You ready?" or "What chu want?"
--China Sinclair

Prepare yourselves for the great world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do, as young people are too apt to think.
Deference means, "Put yourself to inconvenience." This is apparently silly, but is quite right. For it is to say, "I would indeed put myself to inconvenience if you required it, since indeed I do so when it is of no service to you." Deference further serves to distinguish the great. Now if deference was displayed by sitting in an arm-chair, we should show deference to everybody, and so no distinction would be made; but, being put to inconvenience, we distinguish very well.
--Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Number 317

In marriage the little things count, the clothes, dishes, toilet paper and making the bed.
--Earl Blanchard

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting.
--George Elliott

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
--Leo Tolstoy

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
--Grouch Marx

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
--Langdon Mitchell


--
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
--Kahlil Gibran

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant, of a teacher and a learner.
--John Updike

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.
--Abraham Lincoln

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
--Anton Chekhov

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last--more than passion or even sex.
--Simon Signoret

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

What every wife would like to say to their husbands:
1. Please listen to me. Women have a need to communicate. Levels men communicate: grunt, cliche, just the facts men in headlines, women in fine print. Its draining for men to talk. Its work. It takes emotional energy. Develop an interest in her favorite subject.
2. Romance me. Surprize me. All women are romantic. A night out. A note. Bring flowers. Buy a gift. The weekend away. There is just something that happens to a wife when you romance her.
3. Please be compassionate toward me. Don't command her around. Pleasant words are like honeycombs. Talk sweetly to.
4. Please show me affection without any motive.
Sex Begins in the Kitchen--book. Clean the dishes.Call your wife. Be sponanious with your affection. Kiss her in front of people.
5. Please be commited to the family. A wife is security driven.
--Steve Robinson

Marriage does not change people, it merely unmasks them.
--Unknown

What every husband would like to say to his wife:
1. Please respect me, even when I am acting stupid.
2. Please admire me, be proud of me, brag on me.
3. Please sexually surprize me. A man wants to be desired.
4. Please take care of yourself physically, intellectually, spiritually, emotionally. Its not fair to think you've "got them".
5. Have fun with me. Conversation is to the woman what adventure is to the man. Get into his world.
--Steve Robinson, Pastor

Don't speak negative things into your mate.
--Steve Robinson, pastor

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
--Joyce Brothers

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions, you wife asks for nothing.
--Joey Adams

Spoil your spouse, not your children.
--Unknown

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents.
--Harold Nicolson

God always geometrizes.
--Plato

We study mathematics in order to reckon quantities and build bridges. We study psycology in order to find our way in the jungle of society.
--Francis Bacon

Anonymous Child is learning his colors. He came out to the car after Saturday night church, looked up at the sky, all around and said: "It's black outside."

When I get older I can do the fire.
--Anonymous Child 6.12.2000

Daddy and the kids were at Wal-Mart during easter vacation 2000. Daddy was looking at the rack of computer software. Anonymous Child started repeating over and over, "Daddy, turn around, Daddy, turn around, Daddy, turn around". I turned around and found a Winnie the Pooh Video staring at me. Daddy was amazed that Matt didn't just blurt out what it was but actually let Daddy discover it for himself. What a great way to teach by discovery and demonstration.
--Anonymous Child just turned four last month.

No, brother, that's my daddy!
--Anonymous Child 10.20.1999

Anonymous Child sitting on Granpa Padgett's tractor, "Wee-haw!"
11.21.1999

Anonymous Child, Ash and I were getting hot in the sun playing at the baseball diamond at Highland Park. We went and sat in the dugout in the shade. After sitting down Anonymous Child pointed at the shade and said, "Right here it's cold, over there," pointing at the baseball field, "it's hot."
January 2000

Kevin: "You all are so funny."(the kids)
Matt: "Yeah, we is."

Watching his brother play computer Star Wars, Phantom Menace, "Oh, that's how to do it."
--Anonymous Child , 4.14.2000, four years old

Anonymous Child at night in bed: "I have to get more money for my pocket."
4.11.2000

How do you do that?
--Anonymous Child (4 yrs.) asked his mommy after she put together a little cut-out airplane at Burger King.

I believe kid's have a huge hunger at his age to understand how things work. This is the best kind of learning, hungry learning. Ash & Anonymous Child both want to prove to their parents that they can do things by themselves like putting on clothes or throwing away garbage. Matt just got back from a trip to visit Granpa & Grandma Padgett in Arkansas. He saw a seven year old video where there was a picture hanging over Mommy & Daddy's bed. Matt was talking to himself in the bathroom when Daddy came in and asked , "Who are you talking to? O Matt quickly answered, "No one" with a smile.
7.29.2000

Daddy: Pray for Daddy.
Matt: I don't know how.
Matt a minute later practicing his prayers: God bless Auntie Doris. That was a good one.
--Anonymous Child 7.30.2000

Matt sees his dad jog a lot. Matt is four years old. Matt reasons and says, "I need to go jogging" to his dad. Matt got a buzz haircut by Daddy today. Later, laying on the floor kissing on Matt, Daddy asked him, "What happened to your hair?" Matt answered, "It's in the garbage can. What happened to your hair?"
--Matt, 4 yrs old, 7.14.2000

Jesus teach me to fly up there (in heaven).
Anonymous Child , 9.27.00

He (Anonymous Child) broke my feelings.
--Anonymous Child 10.13.00

Anonymous Child sang the whole alphabet by himself today for the first time.--11.17.2000

Anonymous Child had his first drum lesson with Daddy today on Thursday morning, Jan. 20, 2000, the same day of a lunar eclipse.

Going to the doctor:
Daddy: Ready guys?
Anonymous Child: No.
12.3.98

Want me to do this one tons of times?
--Anonymous Child, 6 yrs old, asking his Dad about practicing a new piano song.
4.16.2002

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
--Hindustani proverb

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
--Harry A . Overstreet

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
--Hindustani proverb

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
--Abraham Flexner

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
--Christian Barnard

Ultrasonography, a variety of isotopic scans, computed
tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission
tomography have benefited patients by opening new diagnostic
vistas and by largely supplanting older, more invasive approaches.
--Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th Edition

The practice of medicine is dependent on the sum total of medical knowledge, which in turn is based on an unending chain of scientific discovery, clinical observation, analysis, and interpretation.
--Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th Edition

Meditate--to murmer over and over again.
--Michael Hilliard

I prosper when I meditate.
--Mike Hilliard You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
--Franz Kafka

As the meditation is, such is the man.
--Thomas Watson

Meditation is a mental discipline of focusing the mind upon one thing or activity, the purpose of which is to develop a transcendent sense of peace and mindful clarity of thought.
--Dawn Groves

The mind must be made to stop running like a wristwatch. It must be persuaded to relax and sit still. Its hidden fountain of strength must be persuaded to flow. This is the secret of the Hindu ascetics who sit still for years. It is not penance, but a continuous trickle of deep delight. What is more, this is an automatic process. Our subconscious robot will adjust to any conditions if it is given long enough. It adjusts to stillness, so that the stillness ceases to cause boredom. For you have boredom when nothing is happening inside you. And nothing is happening inside you when the outside world keeps the mind distracted. If the outside world is distracted for long enough, the inner power-house begins to work.
--Colin Wilson, The occult, 1971. New York: Vintage Books. pp 374-375

Meditations in the night:
I was outside laying on my lawn, face to the sky at 2:25 am this morning. Looking carefully at the bright glowing stars I asked God this question, " How did you do that?" The stars set like sparkling diamonds in the dark velvet sky. Suddenly something approximately the same size as the tiny star began to buz about my ears and began to eat my flesh. What a shame that so small an insect as a mosquito whould interupt my deeply philisophical musings? It is to easy to let a small pest distract us from the billions of glowing blessings of wonder surrounding us.
6.4.1998

The more associations we make to the things we learn, the easier it is to recall them.
--Stephen Simpson

I'm trying to get it stuck in my head what it is.
--Christina Tingle, piano student learning new music piece

The mind recalls the images of the mind--images placed there by words and emotions, images created by language and love and hope and fear and impressions both specific and vague.
--Roy H. Williams

Only 25% of what is heard registers at the moment.
--William J. Tobin

If information is given to 100 people, 25 will forget it in 24 hours. After 16 days have passed, 98 of 100 will have forgotten it.

63% of all ideas are accepted only after they have been presented for the sixth time.
--Ralph G. Nicoles of University of Minnisota

. . . mechanisms for storing and erasing learned information in the brain.
--Joe Z. Tsien, Scientific American, 4/2000

Human organism . . . activated memories in order to recall earlier pleasures, perhaps to relive their repetition.
--Freud

Your mind can't remember what you never put in it. Good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.
--Da Vinci

The strongest memory is weaker than the palest ink.
--Chinese Proverb

I kind of memorized the keys by their sound (c position).
--Jose May, piano student in class on May 29, 2001

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
--The Writer, 9/98, pg. 27

Rummage about in your mental attic.
--Reverse Dictionary

Memory is a muscle, it has to be trained.
--Daniel Barinborn

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing, whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own." Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
--Tennessee Williams

Oh longing for places that were not
Cherished enough in that fleeting hour
How I long to make good from afar
The forgotten gesture, the additional act.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

To want to forget something is to think of it.
--French Proverb

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
--Rachel Carson

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
--Samuel Johnson

As researchers point out, almost anything you do to improve your memory works because a major reason for memory failure is not paying attention in the first place.
--Unknown

Our memories are card-indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities who we do not control.
--Cyril Connolly

Memory is the ability to remember past knowledge and past experience for present use and present decision-making.
--China Sinclair

How the Mind Works:
The mind thinks in pictures.
VIVID picture= see color, detail, texture, CRYSTAL CLEAR in mind. Smell smells, hear sounds, feel feelings. It's alive in your mind.
Words create pictures which stimulate neuro-transmitters in our brains.
Open-up memory receptors.
Associate illogically with mental glue--ACTION!
Need:
1. File place
2. Picture
3. Action
Hints:
1. Exaggerate, larger than reality
2. Animate
3. Hard action, active (lots of movement)
4. Emotion (pain, humor)
5. Could not happen in real life--outrageous, nonsensical, ludicrous, ridiculous.
Release your own imagination.
See the pictures vividly, hear the sounds, feel the feelings, smell the smells.
--Mega-memory, Kevin Trudeau

Memories are the brain's storehouses of information. In order to create memories, nerve cells are thought to form new protein molecules and new interconnections.
--The Human Body--Illustrated Guide, pg. 79

Sensory memory, such as the brief recognition of a sound, is stored only for milliseconds. If retained and interpreted, this sensory input may become short-term memory for a few minutes. The transfer of short-term to long term memory is known as consolidation, and requires attention, repetition, and associative ideas. How easily information is recalled depends upon how it was consolidated.
--Three Degrees of Memory, The Human Body--Illustrated Guide

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--George Santayana

Who among us has not at one time or another been impressed with a mysterious feeling of having at some time in the past gone through the identical experience which he is living now?
--Warren Hilton, The Trained Memory, 1920

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
--Paul De Man

Mind and body are linked in a profoundly intricate way.
--Michael J. Geld

The mind hath no horizon.
--Montgomery, The Pelican Island

Your mind doesn't stay renewed anymore than your hair stays combed.
--Kenneth Hagin

Mindless mind of corporations.
--Gerry Spence

Sweep the chimney of your mind. The mind increasingly appeared as a little machine fueled by electrical and chemical forces (to Freud).
--Peter Gay

Your mind can do incredible things at fast automatic speeds, but you have to train it first. The great successes of today, the modern conquering chiefs, are those with great mind power.
--The Greatest Mystery in the World

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberation are acts of the human mind.
--Da Vinci

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.
--Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
--Plato

Your mind is like an attic. You can fill it with good junk or bad junk.
--Mrs. Halperin

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei

It is good to rub and polish your mind against the mind of others.
--Michel de Montaigne, 1580

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
--Winston Churchill

All things are ready, if our minds be so.
--Shakespeare, Henry V, Act iv, Scene 3

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately.
--Plato

When you give to missions you are becoming a part of other people's lives. You are a part of something miraculous.
--China Sinclair

No one can be caught in places he doesn't visit.
--Danish Proverb

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
--Carl Jung

All mistakes are stupid.
--Car Talk., NPR Radio Show

If you aren't making any new mistakes that means you aren't trying anything new. Not experimenting with the new means being stuck with the old no matter how out-dated it might be.
--China Sinclair

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
--James Joyce

Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
--Abraham Lincoln

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
--Unknown

Money has indeed become the fetish of our culture.
--Gerry Spence

The chances of you signing a multi-million dollar contract as a rock star or sports hero are less than 1 in 4000. Yet 3.5 per 100 in America are worth 1 million plus because they know how to save and not worry about high social status.

Money is the wise man's religion.
--Euripides

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Gol, people know how to rip other people of these days.
--Alex Earles

We had to keep expenses to a minimum. That is where it started. Our money was made by controlling expenses.
--Sam Walton

Use your money wisely.
--Unknown

Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
--Benjamin Franklin

Money is not required to buy any necessary of the soul.
--Henry David Thoreau

It's alright to have money as long as money does not have you.
--Zig Zeaglar

When the time had come for a young Benjamin Franklin to launch out into the world on his own, his father gave him this advise: " . . . behave respectfully to the people there, endeavor to obtain the general esteem, and avoid lampooning and libelling . . . by steady industry and prudent parsimony you may save enough by the time you are one and twenty to set yourself up (in business)."
--China Sinclair

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to the market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
--Benjamin Franklin

It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check-up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
--George Horace Lorimer

Anonymous Child went in to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but the jelly was gone. So he went to his mom moaning and groaning that there was no jelly. His mom answered, "You need to tell daddy that mommy needs a second car, then she can go shopping when she needs to." Anonymous Child responded, "No, because if we spend all the money on the car, then we won't have enough money for jelly." So he went on and made a peanut butter sandwich with no jelly on it.
10/1/2003

More money seldom solves someone's money problems. Intelligence solves problems.
--Robert T. Kiyosaki & Sharon L. Lechter, CPA, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Money alone sets all the world in motion.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 656

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow.
--Proverbs 13:11

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
--Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
--Henry David Thoreau

Money flows to value.
--Jack Canfield, Success Principles

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
--Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
--Daniel O'Connell

The moral law in our hearts is unconditional and absolute.
--Kant

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
--Jewish proverb

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
--Amos Bronson Alcott

Nothing is more motivating than challenge.
--James M. Kouzes

We can no longer afford to be second best.
--John F. Kennedy, U.S. President

Love and hunger move the world.
--Schiller

George Washington told the president of congress. The three things that moved soldiers to discharge their duty: Natural bravery, hope of reward and fear of punishment.

You have the power to shape your life and future.

What the Doctor said that made Eula stop smoking.
"All the pills you take, you kill the benefit of them if you smoke."

You can make yourself belief something if you feed yourself "supporting evidence" continuously.

The big needs for a human are food, water, sleep, safety, belonging, self-esteem, self-worth, and recognition.
--Unknown

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.
--Peter F. Drucker

Make your Courage Statement as vivid and emotional as possible, and take a moment to FEEL IT INTENSELY before every practice session or competitive event.
--James E. Loehr, Ed.D.

Strenuous labor and the contemplation of God's nature are the angles which reconciling, fortifying and yet mercilessly severe will guide me through the tumult of life.
--Albert Einstein

Out yonder there was this huge world which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great eternal riddle at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation and I soon noticed that many a man whom I have learned to esteem and to admire had found inner freedom and security in devoted occupation with it. The mental grasp of this extrapersonal world within the frame of the given possibilities swam as highest aim, half consciously and half unconsciously, before my minds eye. Similarly motivated men of the present and of the past as well as the insights which they had achieved were the friends which could not be lost.
--Einstein

"You've got the power"
"Looking full of power"
--Jack Frost Movie, Michael Keaton

Associate pain with those things you do not want to do. Associate pleasure with those things you do want to do.
--Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within

A child must be worthy of the praise we give them.
--Rick Pitino

Everyone wants to succeed. We all want to be recognized for what we do. We all want to feel we have value.
--Rick Pitino

Very early on I learned that I was simply unleashing the potential in the people I was coaching. I was motivating them not by intimidation but by showing them that it was THEIR CHOICE to win or loose.
--Rick Pitino

According to workers these are the greatest motivators:
1. Appreciation
2. Interesting work
3. Sympathy for personal problems
4. Money

Workers need the feeling of being a part of something.

Superstar behavior--Constantly holding up role-models.

Inconsistent rewards are far more motivating than consistent rewards. 77% of people are externally motivated.
--Wayne Dyer, How to be a No Limit Person Cherish the moment

Put a positive spin on things

Play like you wanted this game to last forever.

Motivate=to provide with a motive

Motive=a need or desire which moves to action.

Contrast doing your best with doing your worst.
--Rick Pitino

By creating hope you are creating desire.
--Rick Pitino

People perform under pressure. When more is expected and demanded of them. Put positive pressure on yourself. Compete against yourself.
--Rick Pitino

Everyone wants to be valued, loved unconditionally, loved eternally. Everyone fears the loss of love and knows the pain of losing it.
--Pat & Pete Luboff

Let's see how we can beat ourselves.
--Louis Miller, Edison Contemporary

Jerry Rice is MOTIVATED by watching his failed catches over and over on film.
--China Sinclair

There are two levers for moving men--interest and fear.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 1961

Let's get to where we are going.
Let's put the heat on them.
--SF Head Coach in practice

People tend to do more to avoid pain than gain pleasure.
--Unknown

There are three classes of men--lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.
--Plato

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
--Winston Churchill

Windows of opportunity motivate people.
--China Sinclair

Hope and fear motivate conduct.
--China Sinclair

Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
--Niccolo Machiavelli

Humans are need-driven. They have a need for love, food, clothes, and purpose in life.
--China Sinclair

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
--Roy E. Moody

Never underestimate the power of appealing to a persons ego.
--David J. Lieberman, Ph. D.

Modern research has shown that the brain responds to a clear set of goals and mental visualization.
--Geurilla Selling

Play like a bunch of dogs.
--Jim Haslett, NFL Head Coach

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
--Samuel Butler

The best-kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than enjoy a pampered idleness.
--John W. Gardner

I'd rather see a sermon than to hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with me than merely show the way;
The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but examples are always clear.
And, best of all, the preachers are the men who live their creeds;
For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
I soon can learn to do it, if you'll let me see it done;
I can see your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very fine and true,
But I'd rather get my lesson by observing what you do;
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give;
But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live!
--Unknown

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true--action precedes motivation. You have to "prime the pump" and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.
--Peter Marshall

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.
--William James

I know perfectly well that one is never able to analyze with entire accuracy all of one's motives, but I have always intended to act up to my preachings if occasion arose.
--Theodore Roosevelt

We love Sinners.
--Church Motto

Revolutionize your perspective Long-term consumer solutions Fought reumatic fever when child.
"Consign us all to oblivion."
So many different Mozarts, enjoyed life, witty, wild side, liked to have fun
Concert Meister
First song written six yrs. old, firts symphony written 8 yrs. old
Mozart wrote for himself.
Mozart of mom:"Her life flickered out like a candle."
1778--22 yrs. old
Skinflint Archbiship
1782--Married
Lost first son
Wrote one symphony in four day.
Every piece was a jewel.
Freedom to be original.
Expressions of the most profound feelings.
Plain happy to tragic.
Never afraid to express his greatest inspirations.
Take the risk--Never a conformistis.
Shakespeare of musical drama.
Wrote over 600 compositions in lifetime.
Worked diligently from early morning till late at night.
Very passionate human being.
Intoxicated with own superiority.
Free-lance composer.

Music is valuable not only because it brings refinement of feeling and character, but also because it preserves and restores health. There are some diseases which can be treated only through the mind.
--Plato

We do not want a nation of prize fighters and weight-lifters. Perhaps music will solve our problem. Through music the soul learns harmony and rhythm and even a disposition to justice, for can he who is harmoniously constituted ever be unjust? Is not this, Gloncond, why musical training is so powerful? Because rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul, bearing grace in their movements and making the soul graceful. Music molds character and therefore shares in determining social and political issues. Damon tells me, and I can quite believe it, that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state change with them.
--Plato

Music is fun. Making music is fun.
--Georgio, Music student

Do it. Guitar is fun.
--Georgio

Music fills a human need--the need to be inspired, the need to be uplifted, the need to be encouraged.

2 minor is more creepy than a 2 major.
--Cyd Webb

Music is telling a story with sound, rhythm, and pitch.

The purpose of my teaching on music today (in Peru) is to help each of us realize what an incredible opportunity we have with music to influence and teach young lives for now and for their future.

Music can have an enormous impact on the intellect and memory as well as the heart and emotions.
--Unknown

Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.
--Unknown

For Einstein, music was a profound necessity in his life. Music is a "vehicle of emotion and thought".
--Theodore Mungers

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
--Geoffrey Latham

True music must repeat the thoughts and inspirations of the people and the time.
--George Gershwin

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
--Red Auerbach

Make the music float. Sounds need body. Music needs space.
--China Sinclair

It's easy to fill up a song, what's hard is to empty it.
--China Sinclair

Mimic the dog out of the music you want to sound like. It's called referencing.
I learned, get out of your mindset.
--Jamie Fountain

The measure of effective articulation lies in the quality of its perception. If words cannot be heard, or if their clear comprehension is difficult for an audience, much of the emotional and intellectual impact of the song is lost.
--Jan Schmidt, Basics of Singing, pg. 29

Benefits of Instruction:
1. Develops memory skills.
2. Builds creative, constructive imagination.
3. To teach discrimination, analysis and problem-solving methods.

Song is a powerful, emotional method of communication.
--Pat & Pete Luboff

Less is best.
--David Foster

What holds peoples attention is change--appropriate fluxuations in loudness, speed and melody.
--Dr. Carol Fleming

Knowing how to play the piano is a perfect way to make friends; I have hundreds.
--China Sinclair

If you are good at math or music you can teach others and help them. It is a great way to meet new friends.
--Anonymous Child and Daddy

Not is music to be merely music. It must be used to provide attractive forms for the sometimes unappetizing contents of mathematics, history and science. There is no reason why for the young these difficult studies should not be smoothed into verse and beautified with song.
--Plato

Music is a language that all people understand. It reaches into the soul and speaks a special message to each person.
--Clinton Shirley Clark

You can write songs to people to tell them how special they are.

One of the great powers of music is its ability to share an experience with others.
--China Sinclair

Kevin: How did you teach your students bass guitar?
Brent Mulligan: I used Stevie Wonder, Sting, and Paul McCartney, the Beatles.
Brent: Get in the pocket.
The Paul McCartney thing. I just want to thank you.

You demagnetized my hands. You helped me be able to move them freely (in drum lessons.)
--Kenny

Syncopation=Something to mess me up.
Amanda Lim, 7.28.98

Relieves stress.
A special way to communicate a message to one you love.
Playing in a band teaches cooperation and team work (working toward a common goal).
Performance builds confidence and courage.

Pokeys=black keys on the piano.
--Christina Tingle, Piano Student

Blues=Universal Communication

Create=Make, cause to happen, construct

Composing:
1. Decide what
2. Decide physical form
3. Do it without interuptions
--Chick Corea Video

Exuberance is beauty.
--William Blake

You see that piano over in the corner? That instrument is capable of sounds which are loud and soft; but in between there are many, many degrees of sounds which may be played. To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do. . . I think each pianist must ultimately carve his own way, technically and stylistically.
--Vladimir Horowitz

Daddy, you can play colors on the piano!
--Lauren Appel, Young piano student

Music practice will make one's mind strong. Listening to certain kinds of music can relax the nerves and comfort the soul.
--China Sinclair

Many children fail because they are not given an environment in which to succeed in. Give your child the opportunity to succeed, give them the music advantage.
--China Sinclair

Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents.
--Vladimir Nabokov

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
--Thomas Carlyle

The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form, combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size drama with the terseness of a short story.
--Donald Francis Tovey

The devil does not stay where music is.
--Martin Luther

Music touches places beyond our touching.
--Keith Bosley

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!
--Artur Schnabel

Music is only sound expressing certain patterns, so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?
--Arthur Brown

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
--Charlie Parker

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
--Leo Tolstoy

When we read a piece of music we are decoding a message from the past.
--China Sinclair

Remember that music is about the different parts interacting with each other, not fighting for prominence.
--Computermusic.co.uk

Why do you like the piano?
Because it is fun. Because it is a neat instrument. I have always been wanting a piano. It can sound pretty.
--Sara Glenn

By learning to read, understand and perform music you make yourself more interesting to other people.
--China Sinclair

I'm coming to believe in the importance of silence in music. The power of silence after a phrase of music for example; the dramatic silence after the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, or the space between the notes of a Miles Davis solo. There is something very specific about a rest in music. You take your foot off the pedal and pay attention. I'm wondering whether, as musicians, the most important thing we do is merely to provide a frame for silence. I'm wondering if silence itself is perhaps the mystery at the heart of music? And is silence the most perfect music of all?
Songwriting is the only form of meditation that I know. And it is only in silence that the gifts of melody and metaphor are offered. To people in the modern world, true silence is something we rarely experience. It is almost as if we conspire to avoid it. Three minutes of silence seems like a very long time. It forces us to pay attention to ideas and emotions that we rarely make any time for. There are some people who find this awkward, or even frightening.
Silence is disturbing. It is disturbing because it is the wavelength of the soul.
--Sting

. . . As musicians, whether we're successful, playing to thousands of people every night, or not so successful, playing in bars or small clubs, or not successful at all, just playing alone in your apartment to the cat, we are doing something that can heal souls, that can mend us when our spirits are broken. Whether you make a million dollars or not one cent, music and silence are priceless gifts. . .
--Sting

Words are superfluous to the abstract power of music.
--Sting

If we leave no space in our music--and I'm as guilty as anyone else in this regard--then we rob the sound we make of a defining context. It is often music born from anxiety to create more anxiety. It's as if we're afraid of leaving space. Great music's as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.
--Sting, Commencement Address at Kerklee, May 15, 1994

You could fill libraries with what I don't know about music. There's always something more to learn.
--Sting

Music is an addiction, a religion, and a disease. There is not cure. No antidote.
--Sting

Love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play by your heart.
--Unknown

All music is the expression of feelings, and feelings do not change over the centuries.
--Vladimir Horowitz

Music is to the ear what color is to the eye.
--China Sinclair, 5/2/1996

Some of the greatest songs are yet to be written.
--Jack O'Niell, Music Store Owner

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
--Johann Sebastian Bach

Music is higher revelation than philosophy.
--Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music, the greatest good that morals know,
And all of heaven we have below.
--Joseph Addison, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1694

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
--Johann Sebastian Bach

Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
--Duke Ellington, Music Is My Mistress, Doubleday

Make tape of 3 to 4 songs.
Send professional to professionals.
Demographics.
Major label can give you the muscle.
MEGA-MENTAL MUSCLES
Shop the deal.
Make a contact first and always submit your best.
Bright and original.
Dream and quest.
The path to success.
The commitment has to be so intense that nothing will stop that person. --Bud Prager
Dedication, will and want.
Communicate a thought for music.
Out of the 2 million bands for record deals, there are only 100 A&R people at record companies and out of that hundred maybe 20 have signing power. It very difficult.

It's a business of rejection.

Picking up hints, create the knowledge you can use down the road.

Be persistant as hell.

Send them a tape of one of your practices.

Mix originals with covers.

College coffee houses.

High Schools with dances, parties and events.

Create a buzz. Develope a following.

Zoom in on what you would like to do.

Build an audience.

A buzz is excitement and awareness. Make a story for yourself.

You are marketing a product, yourself.

Act like you are not a new group, you are an established act..

Press and pictures, way you carry yourself needs to be good. Professionalism.

Intellectual creativity is your product.

Press kit is a good thing. It is your resume. No extras. Way to get in front of people. Who, what, where, when, why. Press is important.

Guerilla warefare. Endless promoting.

College radio important.

There are no rules. Find unique ways to market yourself.

Get discovered.

Basics to know to protect yourself so you don't make mistakes that can set you back.

Be knowledgeable, gather as much research data as you can.

Breaking Into The Music Business--Book

It's your career, take care of yourself.

Educate yourself.

Polite and persistant manager or booking agent.

Absorb, observe, see how it works, gather information.

Mingle with the people who make things happen.

Follow up and follow through.

HIGH-POWER THINKING

ASCAP, BMI, songwriter workshops, collaborators. ASCAP is a resource that needs to be used by young writers.

Sharing and exchanging of ideas. Get inside their heads. Learn people's languages.

ASCAP 212 621-6000

National Academy of Songwriters 800-826-7287

Sell tapes, sell T-shirts.

Go to Mom and Pop shops. Merchandizing.

Pay attention.

INVALUABLE, ESSENTIAL TOOLS

Know up here. Bust your butts.

Teacher plays note on piano, student has to mentally record the note and them match it on the keys.

Although children receive varying amounts of music instruction in school, private study of a musical instrument produces a proficiency in and understanding of music beyond what can be provided in a classroom setting. Private music lessons also encourage confidence, self-discipline, an ability to use time efficiently, and the development of both intellectual and motor skills. Private instruction also protects a child from the bad habits that can develop when people attempt to play instruments on their own without the benefit of close individual supervision. Bad playing habits, especially those developed over extended periods of time, can significantly delay progress on an instrument once private lessons are started. Depending on the instrument and teaching method, young people begin private music lessons at any point from the age of three through high school. Research has shown that the method of instruction is less important than the student's attitude and level of commitment, the relationship between the teacher and the student, and the degree of parental commitment and support.
--Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence

Look for ways to EMPOWER students. Have them write music. Have them record music. Have a tangible final product.
--China Sinclair
I think we need to sell that a bit more.
It's the variation of the . . .
It needs to get real small.
Sounds a little on the darker side.
I still think we could have more impact on the chorus.
--Lincoln Brewster

Music Game: The Guinea-pig and The Scientist:
Play note on piano, guitar, or drums. Have student put a circle on correct line or space of music staff. Student must mentally video two to four measure of music, then play back with eyes closed, mentally seeing written music. Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
--R.I. Fitzhenry

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
--Dorothy L. Sayers

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
--Albert Einstein, Oct. 1930

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
--African saying

Light may be shed on man and his origins.
--Charles Darwin

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments--there are consequences.
--Robert G. Ingersoll

Nature is the face of God. He appears to us through it, and we can read his thoughts in it.
--Victor Hugo

The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds; the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men

If we go to Nature for our morals, we shall learn the necessity of perfection in the smallest act. Infinite skill is not exhausted nor concentrated in the structure of a firmament, in drawing the orbit of a planet, in laying the strata of the earth, in rearing the mountain cone. The care for the bursting flower is as wise as the forces displayed in the rolling star; the smallest leaf that falls and dies unnoticed in the forest is wrought with a beauty as exquisite as the skill displayed in the sturdy oak. All the wisdom of Nature is compressed and revealed in the sting of the bee; and the pride of human art is mocked by the subtile mechanism and cunning structure of a fly's foot and wing. However minute the task, it reveals the polish of perfection. Omnipotent skill is stamped on the infinitely small, as on the infinitely great. It is a moral stenography like this which we need in daily life . . . The lesson of Christianity, then, urged and enforced by Nature, is the inestimable worth of common duties, as manifesting the greatest principles; it bids us attain perfection, not by striving to do dazzling deeds, but by making our experience divine; it tells us that the Christian hero will ennoble the humblest field of labor; that nothing is mean which can be performed as duty; but that religious virtue, like the touch of Midas, converts the humblest call of conscience into spiritual gold.
--Selections from the Chief American Writers, #174

These stones that make the meadow brooklet murmur
Are the keys on which it plays.
O'er every shelving rock its touch grows firmer,
Resounding notes to raise.
--W. E. Winks

The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
--Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Number 465

Kenner, LA. I met Clint Cantrell.
Retired, 81 yrs old
$1300/mo to live on
no insurance
$700/mo on medical and medicine
Collects cans for extra money.

With the Principia, Newton not only unified the disparate theories of Gallileo and Kepler into a single coherent mathematically and experimentally supported whole, he also opened the door to the industrial revolution. . . The principia laid the cornerstone for the understanding of dynamics and mechanics which would within a space of a century generate a real and lasting change to human civilization. Without being understood the forces of nature cannot be harnessed. But this, in essence, is what the industrial evolution achieved. It dragged humanity from the darkness, from the whim of nature, to the beginnings of technology and the yoking of universal forces.
--Michael White

about as interesting a cardboard

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
--Bette Davis

Now is a unique moment with unique opportunities that you might never have again. Live in the moment and learn the lessons that this moment has to teach. The child that obeys his parents, him will they trust and listen to.
--China Sinclair

You are going to reap rewards when you implement truth in your life.
--China Sinclair

No one should be judge in his own cause.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 545

To look or see is easy; To observe accurately is a skill that can be acquired. . . The effectiveness of most actions, in business and social life, depends to a large extent on your capacity for sharp, thorough, and accurate observation, along with a quick and retentive memory."
--Harry Lorayne, Page a Minute Memory Book, pg. 30

All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
--Peter M. Leschak

Observation and comparison being in his (Louis Agassiz)opinion the intellectual tools most indispensable to the naturalist, his first lesson was one in looking.
--Lane Cooper, Louis Agassiz

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains, the most universal quality is diversity.
-Michael de Montaigne

The single design to strip one's self of all past beliefs is one that ought not to be taken by every one.
--Rene Descartes, Discourse

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.
--Benjamin Disreali

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
--General Douglas MacArthur

It is one of the paradoxes of civilization that the more opportunities are utilized, the more new ones are thereby created.
--Orison Sweet Marden

But to succeed you must be prepared to seize and improve the opportunity when it comes.
--Orison Sweet Marden

One person goes through life without seeing chances for doing anything great while another, standing nearby, snatches from the same circumstances and privileges opportunities for supreme achievement.
--Orison Sweet Marden

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luck is being ready for chance.
--J. Frank Dobie

Treat every moment as if it is the last opportunity you will have to experience it. The games weren't won just because they were talented, those players won because they used their talent to known limits and beyond. They didn't have luck, they made luck and they used luck. The games were not played, they were seized."
--Joe Paterno, "By the Book"

Why, then the world's mine oyster
Which I with sword will open.
--Shakespeare, 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'

Lost time is lost opportunity.
--Unknown

We cannot, all of us, make great discoveries like Newton, Faraday, and Edison or paint immortal pictures like Michelangelo or Raphael, but we can make our lives sublime, by seizing common occasions and making them great.
--Unknown

Consideration of petty circumstances is the tool of great things.
--Voltaire

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
--Francis Bacon

Seize the present moment.
--Noah Webster

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
--Thomas Jefferson

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave as it was when you came in.
--James Baldwin

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
--Hugh Prather

Every unsolved problem, every dilemma, every human difficulty is an opportunity to fix, change, and impact this planet. It may be a change the size of a dent in the darkness or as big as the moon in the sky.
--China Sinclair

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
--Thomas Carlyle

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
--Ovid

We have two hands and two legs now. The important thing is how can we use them to the maximum. In terms of path, well, straight line, curved line, up, round line.
--Bruce Lee

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
--John Donne

Dr. King was right. You are far from flotsam and jetsam in the river of life. You have the power to influence the unfolding events that surround you.
--Franklin D. Raines, Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae

Take chances, get messy, make mistakes.
--The Magic School Bus, Kid's Cartoon Show

For the world is my theatre at this time . . .
--John King, 1594

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
--Thomas Edison

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
--Helen Keller

Problems are only opportunites in work clothes.
--Henry J. Kaiser

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
--W. Clement Stone

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
--Francis Bacon

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
--John Burroughs

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
--George Bernard Shaw

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds.
--Louis Pasteur

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
--Ovid

Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time and they need not doubt the harvest.
--Unknown

Some people get the breaks; some people make their own.
--Unknown

I think we all realize that we are living in the richest country the world has ever known. As a matter of fact, we are right in the middle of the golden age man has dreamed of since the days of Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle.
--Earl Nightingale

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
--Samuel Johnson

Circumstances? I make circumstances.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

The champion makes his own luck.
--Red Blaik

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
--Victor Kiam, CEO Remington

Chance favors the prepared mind.
--Louis Pasteur

When you say, "I don't want to learn how to speak Spanish" you are slamming the door on millions of human beings. You are forfeiting adventures and opportunities. You are ignoring mountains of wealth and oceans of insight.
--China Sinclair

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
--Thomas Edison

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
--Sun Tzu

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.
--John F. Kennedy

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
--Orison Swett Marden

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
--Orison Swett Marden

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
--Albert Einstein

The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
--Disraeli

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
--John B. Gough

Who makes quick use of the moment, is a genius of prudence.
--Lavater

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. In the same manner present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges, and intent upon future advantages. Life, however short, is made shorter by waste of time.
--Johnson

Every hour of time lost, creates a chance of evil for the future.
--Napoleon

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend your self on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

One prospect lost, another still we gain.
 --Alexander Pope, Behold the Child

Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.
--Catherine Denevue

A redwood tree named Eternal God is 12,000 years old. 238 ft. tall 19.6 feet in diameter.

Epiphytic Orchids are the smallest seeds. 28 billion per ounce (grass pollens 6 billion grains per ounce).

Your ability to see the world as rich with opportunity wil attract and collect powerful teams of people around you: valuable friends, ambitious colleagues. It's only by insisting on the possibility of greatness that you make it possible--and lead the effort to achieve it.
--Peter Chernin, CEO, FOX in Los Angeles

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
--Norman Cousins

Organization is power.
--Unknown

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
--William Blake

A first rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
--Arnold Bennet

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
--James Stephens

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
--Voltaire

For those who are capable of originality are few.
--Blaise Paschal, Thoughts, from Number 302

Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. I got where I am by coming off the wall.
--Clint Eastwood, The Millionaire Code:16 Paths to Wealth Building, by Paul B. Farrell.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
--William Osler

Conclusion from reading the book of Job: Life is not always fair. Nowhere are we promised that it is.

"Pain does not last forever nor is it neccessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that."

1. Belong to people.
2. Accept pain as a part of life.
3. Know that you have made a difference.
--Rabbi Kushner

The mind hoards pleasure and evades pain.
--Freud

Hurt people hurt people.
--Steve Robinson

We cannot learn without pain.
--Aristotle

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
--Robert Fulghum

Make no Comparisons and if any of the Company be Commended for any brave act of Vertue, commend not another for the Same.
--110 Rules of Civility, No. 78

It is prudent to build a storehouse of synthetic experience in your child's life. Synthetic experience is deposited when you the parent share a story of your childhood in which you learned a valuable life lesson. Your child will recall this data when it comes time for him to make a decision in the real world.
--China Sinclair

The person with the most influence in a home is the leader of that home.
--Dino Rizzo

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
--Betty Friedan

Fathers give: 1. Identity, 2. Security, 3. Provision.
--Robert Barriger

Don't kill a boys zeal, direct it.
--China Sinclair

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
--John Holt

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
--Proverbs 12:4

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
--George Bernard Shaw

If you want to mess up your kids, try to live your life through them.
--Steve Robinson

We have to be intentional when raising our kids.
--Steve Robinson, pastor

Good parents provide guidance to their children. Perhaps the best way they do this is by drawing attention the consequences of decisions that their children make.
--China Sinclair

Never tell your son, "I'll talk to you about it tomorrow."
--Earl Blanchard

Moms, don't worry about having a spotless house. Spend time with your kids because tomorrow they will be grown up, then you can have the most spotless house on the block.
--Unknown

There are three things necessary in order for a child to learn; experience, discrimination and association.
--Unknown

No man ever really finds out what he believes in until he begins to instruct his children.
--Unknown

Punishment should be short-term and specific in response to repeatedly breaking a specific rule. If a child breaks curfew without a good reason, tell him he has to come home earlier the next time.
--Lawrence Bauman, PhD

It's easier to build boys and girls than to mend men and women.
--S. Truett Cathy, founder & CEO of Chick-fil-A restaurants

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
--J. C. Penney

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
--The Talmud

If we raise our children to value the "fun way" in all things, as adults, who of them will have the necessary experience to accomplish the difficult things of the future?
--China Sinclair

Parents hold the value systems of their children in their arms as surely as they hold their babies physical beings.
--Nickie Mcwhirter, KNT News Service

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
--Albert Einstein

Do not seek to follow in the master's footsteps; seek what he sought."
--Chinese proverb, a favorite of Vladimir Horowitz

As passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead.
--Spinoza

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
--Struthers Burt

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
--Emerson

Washington knew that patience in battle exhausts the enemy and can defeat him just as steady as actual battle would.

Patience exhausts the competition.
--Unknown

Time can wear mountain ranges down to dust.
--Discovery channel, Special on Pyramids

He that can have patience can have what he will.
--Benjamin Franklin

My very dear friend, Tidemann Giese . . . has often urged me, at times even spurring me on with reproaches, to publish and at last bring to the light the book which had lain in my study not nine years merely, but already going on four times nine.
--Nicolaus Copernicus on his book "The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies"

One sword keeps another in the sheath.
--George Herbert

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
--Victor Hugo

The mere absence of war is not peace. The mere absence of recession is not growth.
--John F. Kennedy

We make war that we may live in peace.
--Aristotle

Use power to curb power.
--Chinese Proverb

I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus (college) leadership was the simplest thing of all--speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you.
--Sam Walton

We like people because of how they make us feel, not because of who they are.
James M. Kouzes

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile.
--Jewish Proverb

Actions and words are the windows through which the heart is seen.
--American proverb

The reason that he knew so much about everything, I found, was that wherever he went he got right in with the people. Theodore enjoyed them immensely.
--Sewal

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
--Jack Herert

Few things will pay you bigger dividends than the time and trouble you take to understand people.
--George Kienzle and Edward Dare

Supply food to feed three basic human hungers:
1. Acceptance
2. Approval
3. Appreciation (Raise in value)
You've got to believe the other person is going to like you.
--How To Have Confidence with People

People are often easy to satisfy if you show how much you value them.
John A. Goodman, President of TARP

It was one of the rules which, above all others, made Doctor Franklin the most amiable of men in society, "never to contradict anybody." If he was urged to announce an opinion, he did it rather by asking questions, as if for information, or by suggesting doubts.
--Thomas Jefferson

The ability to deal with people is the most important and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
--John D. Rockefeller Sr., Founder of the Standard Oil Co.

If you let them do the talking they'll be far more interested in you. To have someone listening to you is flattering.
--William J. Clinton

Language most shows a man: speak, that I may see thee.
--Ben Jonson

If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninety percent of the time.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

When we wish to correct with advantage and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken and that he only failed to see all sides. Now no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
--Blaise Paschal, Thoughts, Number 9

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
--Mary Kay Ash

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages--stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Perception is the gift that acquaints you with the world around you. It is a precious gift. Use it fully, constantly, and wisely. Be sure you are seeing when you look.
--William H. Armstrong & M. Willard Lampe II, Barron's Study Tips

Do more than exist--live
Do more than touch--feel
Do more than look--observe.
Do more than read--absorb.
Do more than hear--listen.
Do more than listen--understand.
Do more than think--ponder.
Do more than talk--say something.
--John Rhodes

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
--George Orwell

Perceive--to ascertain by seeing, comprehend, consider, discern, discover . . . take knowledge, make self be learned.
--Strong's Concordance

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
--Jeremy Taylor

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
--Albert Einstein

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
--John Madden

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
--William Blake

He saw the ludicrous in an assemblage of fowls, in a man spading his garden, in a clothes-line full of clothes, in a group of boys, in a lot of pigs rooting at a mill door, in a mother duck teaching her brood to swim--in everything and anything.
--H.C. Whitney, on Lincoln, fellow Illinois circuit court itinerant

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the information which we posses of the world around us comes to us through the use of the senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.
--Bertha M. Clark, "General Science", 1912

The laws of the Universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.
--Henry David Thoreau, from "Edison, His Life and Times"

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
--Voltaire

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Let us seek the happiness in others, but for ourselves, perfection, whether it brings us happiness or pain.
--Kant

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
--Michelangelo, 1475-1564

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence.
--Unknown

In performing, get lost in what you are doing. Don't expect anything out of the audience. Just put all your self into your music and leave it there.
--China Sinclair

The performers (of Opera on the go) emphasize active audience participation, inviting everyone to join together in the singing, dancing, and acting.
--Opera on the God

Dance every performance as if it were your last.
--Erik Bruhn

If you make a mistake, the earth will not stop spinning.
--China Sinclair

There is power in being slow and steady.
--Stephen Simpson

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
--George Washington, Aug. 1775

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
--Sir Winston Churchill

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
--Eddie Cantor

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
--T.F. Buxton

Word by word a book is made. (Mot a mot on fait les gros livres.)
--French Proverb

It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.
--Albert Einstein

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-ax, or of one impression of the spade with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
--Samuel Johnson

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. Perseverance spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and bids the choicest fruits and flowers spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
--Samuel Goodrich

For those who will fight bravely and not yield, there is triumphant victory over all the dark things of life.
--James Allen

Failure in people is caused more by lack of determination than lack in talent.
--Unknown

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm . . . in the real world all rests on perseverance.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Failure is the line of least persistence.
--Unknown

Ask much to get little.
--American proverb

It is the dogged pertinacity of Grant that wins.
--Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is easy and the best things are the hardest.
--Adlai Stevenson

Don't flinch, don't fold and hit the line hard.
--Theodore Roosevelt, July 3, 1913

Mito of Croton is supposed to have lifted a calf every day until finally he was lifting a full-grown bull.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
--Abraham Lincoln

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
--Thomas Edison

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
--Louis Pasteur

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
--Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A bird builds it's nest by fetching one straw at a time. A turtle crosses a country one step at a time. A beaver dams a river one branch at a time. A skyscraper is built one brick at a time. Little by little is still the best way to build giant dreams.
--China Sinclair

When democratic prophesies of defeat were brought to the White House by the legislative team or by Howard Baker, the president always gave the same answer, "Do what is necessary to get the program adopted. Don't back off. Find out what needs doing and do it, period."
--Ronald Reagan, Reagan-The Inside Story, by Edwin Meese

Achievement, in the end, crowns people who failed often, but kept picking themselves up. They kept trying again and again and again until their dream came true. Two of my favorite failures were Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus. They kept attempting until, finally, they won the gold.
--China Sinclair

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
--John Quincy Adams

Never, never, never give up.
--Winston S. Churchill

It took 2,000,000 drawings (frames) to make Sleeping Beauty.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
--Comte de Buffon

You see, fellow soldiers, that perseverance is more prevailing than violence, and that many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Assiduity and persistence are irresistible, and in time overthrow and destroy the greatest powers whatever, time being the favorable friend and assistant of those who use their judgment to await his occasions, and the destructive enemy of those who are unreasonably urging and pressing forward.
--Plutarch

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
--Albert Einstein

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
--J. G. Holland

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
--Elbert Hubbard

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
--Japanese proverb

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions; by comparing subsequent works to recognized masterpieces and, once more, by destroying them; by crossing out whole passages; by weeping from despair; by being more severe with oneself than even the critics will be. After ten years of such arduous activity, if one has talent, one may begin to write in an acceptable manner.
--Andre Maurois

The big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
--Christopher Morley

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
--Thomas Edison

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by.
--Desmond Morris

The great thing about him is cool persistence.
--Abraham Lincoln on Ulysses S. Grant

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's little acorn that held its ground.
--Saying

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
--Helen Keller

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
--Edward Eggleston

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
--Publilius Syrus

John Wesley preached a gospel of personal responsibility asking every man and woman to take responsibility for their own lives and cultivate the habits that would make them productive.
--David Maraniss

What kind of a personality would you have if you were starting today?
--Wayne Dyer

If you want to have friends, be interesting, be unpredictable, be fun and finally, be challenging.
--China Sinclair

The difference between history and life is perspective.
--George Gilder, Microcosm, pg. 193

Our bodies are cells in the body of the race, our race is an incident in the drama of life, our minds are the fitful flashes of an eternal light.
--Spinoza

Perspective=the hindsight into the past, insight into the present and foresight into the future.

Worry=lack of perspective.

Men of wit and understanding convert a stone lying on the ground into a stepping stone, while men devoid of common sense turn even a stepping stone into a stumbling block on their way. In life, it is the way of looking at things that matters.
--Bhagwan Shree

Rajneesh Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.
--Epictetus

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun--we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.
--Phillips Brooks

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
--Leonardo Da Vinci

Read a new magazine each month (preferably one you've never heard of.)
--Kevin Eikenberry

I had the blues because I had no shoes, until upon the street, I met a man who had not feet.
--Unknown

Different things strike different people in different ways.
--Polly Starnes

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears -- by listening to them.
--Dean Rusk

Ask for what you want--tell the truth.
--How to Argue and Win Every Time, by Gerry Spence

Speak from the heart zone. We are moved by stories.
--Gerry Spence

Feed the imagination.
-Gerry Spence

Demonstrations of love are the most powerful of all arguments.
--Gerry Spence

The trick to the delivery of the powerful argument, which, as always is a nontrick, is to feel.
--Gerry Spence

After you come one time it's easy.
--Johnny Green, inviting people to college group

Whoever wants to influence a crowd must have something resoundingly enthusiastic to say . . .
--Sigmund Freud

How Lincoln persuaded people:
"And any way Lincoln didn't agree with the tactics of the abolitionists. He thought them much too strident, too uncompromising, too obsessed with damming southerners as unregenerate sinners. 'Screaming at misguided people,' Lincoln believed, 'was not the way to correct their wrongs.' As he put it later, 'You won people to your side through persuasion--kind, unassuming persuasion. Making friends with them. Appealing to their reason. Gently telling them that they were only hurting themselves by their follies. For it was an old true maxim,' Lincoln contended, 'that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. But if you assailed, dammed, and vilified the mislead, they would shut you off and lash back." (Abolitionists were polarizing the country.)
--Unknown

Tell the stories you want people to know to communicate your ideas.
--Jack Welch (para.)

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
--Victor Hugo

Never argue; repeat your assertion.
--Robert Owen

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
--Benjamin Franklin

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
--George Washington's "Rules of Civility"

A cause well stated is half won.
--Lincoln

The man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.
--Chinese proverb

This sounds like a haunted mansion, look.
--Phiip Scardina, 5 yr old piano student

Without philosophy I care not to live.
--Francis Bacon

It is perhaps the best fruit of philosophy that through it we unlearn the lessons of endless acquisition which an industrial environment so incessantly repeats.
--Will Durant

Philosophy=coordination of all the sciences with a view to the improvement of human life. "his brain goes muddy"
--William Congreve (1670-1729)

Piece of Fun Not one inch farther than 55 miles.
--Abraham Lincoln

Burning colors Noisy words.
--Jung

"Historical nonsense" Said of Lie, "a fiction"
fictitious fable

Playing the piano gives you a chance to create your own memories.

Guessing Game--guess song teacher is playing.

The piano has one of the largest dynamic ranges of any instrument.
--Unknown

Why do you like the piano so much?

Because its butiful.
--Victoria Fischer on first lesson

I can't stretch that far.
Darrell St. Romain, During a piano lesson

The year my life changed was 1709 when the first piano was invented.
--China Sinclair, born 1969

Teaching composing, improvising, performing, and listening. Have student draw map of piano and notes.

Only 12 notes to know on the piano!

Learning keys on piano is like learning the keys on a typewriter. One person plays low notes for other to get closer to line, plays high notes to move farther away.
--Alex Tanner

Idea Ideal training state:
Confident
Relaxed and calm
Energized
Determination
Challenged
Focused and alert
Automatic and instinctive
Ready for fun and enjoyment
Motivation
Positive fight
Fun

Child learns to sing with music.
Child creates own music.
Child trains for auto-response of fingers and voice. Duet playing on piano to emphasize collaborative learning, especially for socializers.

How do you feel you did with your practice this week?

I feel tied down to the notes on paper.
--Music Student

Mr. teaches students how to play with chords and patterns which is on of the first steps in being able to play without printed music.

Meredith Glenn practiced her songs and exercises 510 times the week of July 7-13, 2000!

Piano practice can discipline, strengthen, and help organize thought in a students mind.

Training and development

with hard work and determination Influencing to Excellence

Building Stronger Minds for the Future

Lincoln regarded plain speaking as a virtue. Letter to Mary Owens: "But if you conclude to write back, speak as plainly as I do."

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get, what you've always got.
--Zig Zeaglar

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
--Publilius Syrus

I understand that six out of ten Americans still die without a will, leaving nothing but problems to those they love instead of a little joy and some happy memories. How sad.
--Og Mandino, Secrets to Success & Happiness, pg. 109

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
--Plato

In its autumn tint of gold.
--Edgar Allan Poe, 'Alone'

Stop!
Rewind mind
Replay life's journey
Contemplate the joy
Condensed joy and sadness,
Frozen smiles and tears.
Sometimes stillness breathes
Pause
Reflect
Wait
Again will joy show up
Comforts of God
Float upwards from inside
Walk side by side
Holding hands
A long time.
--China Sinclair

I wonder what a cat thinks when you say "meow"?
Does he think you're human or does he think you're a cow?
I wonder what a cat thinks when you say "meow"?
Does he think you're poking fun or that you really care somehow?
I wonder what a cat thinks when you say "meow"?

tra la la-la la dumpy do,
trala la la dumpy do,
trala la-la la dumpy do,
tra diddily dumpy do.
--China Sinclair

Rhinopotomus

"A poem is like a picture."
--Horace

1 poet for every 100,000 in America. If your poem aspires to be narrative, then keep it moving with verbs and action . . . If your poem aspires to lyric, ask where its emotional or imagistic center is . . .
--Gregory Orr, The Writer, July 98

The narrative poem is a kind of journey, and it needs to add action to action, event to event, line to line.
--Gregory Orr, The Writer, July 98

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
--Wallace Stevens

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
--Marianne Moore

Twinkle, twinkle little bat,
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
--Lewis Carrol, 1832-1898

Melody, and a love of the green earth, and a yearning for God are of the very fabric of poetry . . .
--Stephen Vincent Benet, (1898-1943)

Young Adventure--A Book of Poems

But the main quality of these poems (of Emily Dickenson) is that of extraordinary grasp and insight, uttered with an uneven vigor sometimes exasperating, seemingly wayward, but really unsought and inevitable.
--Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Like a bowl of roses, a poem should not have to be explained.
--Lawrence Ferlinghetti

For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
--William Wordsworth

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.
--Mark Strand, www.writersalmanac.org, April 11, 2006

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
--J.K. Galbraith

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
--George Bernard Shaw

The one who responds to the situation (greeting another person) first is the one who controls the mode of the exchange.
--David J. Lieberman, Ph.D.

Watch out! Be on your guard against wanting to have more and more things. Life is not made up of how much a person has.
--Jesus Christ, The Bible, Luke 12:15, New International Reader's Version

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
--Philip Adams

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon--deeper and deeper strata of exposable material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
--William James

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are dampened, our drafts are checked, we are making use of only a small part of our mental and physical resources.
--William James

No one knows what he can do till he tries.
--Publilius Syrus, 1st Century B.C.

In Ecuador a large portion of the population lives on $1 a day.
--USA Today, 10.12.2000

Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does a better work than buying pardons.
--Martin Luther, 1517, 95 Thesis, #43

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
--Samuel Johnson, Letter, 1782

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
--Aristotle

I'm very lonely now, Mary,
For the poor make no new friends,
But, O, they love the better still,
The few our Father sends!
And you were all I had, Mary,
My blessin' and my pride:
There's nothin' left to care for now,
Since my poor Mary died.
--Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin (1807-1867)

The vector is vey important, pushing down on the floor. The floor has unlimited mass.
--Steve Robishow The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underings.
--Shakespeare, 'Julius Casesar'

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
--Theodore White

A little axe can cut down a big tree.
--Saying

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
--Orison Swett Marden

Let us humour if we can
The vertical man
Though we value none
But the horizontal one.
--W.H. Auden

Although practicing (a musical instrument) should not become a steady source of conflict between parents and children, parents do need to provide a certain amount of coaxing and encouragement on a regular basis. It is helpful to set up a regular practice routine so that practicing becomes an integral part of a child's daily schedule.
--Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence

They practiced like their hair was on fire.
--Unknown

Repetition, precision, communication, competition.
--Steve Spurrier, Head Coach, Florida Gators, Formula for Winning

Why do we practice?

To encode information, functions and skills in the library of our brain for future recall and use. Hundreds of repetitions (energy expenditures) are required for a complex motor skill to hold up under the pressure of competition. Old bad habits suddenly reappear when motor skills are newly formed or insufficiently practiced.
--James E. Loehr
Little by little does the trick.
--Aesop
However much thou art read in theory, if thou hast no practice than art ignorant.
--SA'DI Gulistan, 1258

Practice is nine-tenths.
--Emerson Practice, practice, practice . . . because if you don't someone else will, and they'll be better than you.
--Pistol Pete Maravich

There is purpose in every move.
He knows that repetition creates perfection.
Leaves nothing to chance.
--CNN, 5.23.98 "In God's Corner", about Evander Holyfield

If you don't want to be insecure and wimpy then practice. Practice builds confidence like nothing else ever can.
--China Sinclair

It seems like every time I do this song it gets easier!
--Lauren Joyce, Young piano student

In learning a new skill you must become TOTALLY INVOLVED, you must jump into the pool and not just dip your toes in the shallow end. You must get hopelessly lost in what you are doing.
--China Sinclair

In acquiring a skill, two things are essential: the practice must be correct and it must be repeated.
--Denton Rossell, Ph.D.

Q: Why do we have to practice?
A: Practice gives you experience; experience is the best teacher.
--China Sinclair

Without practice you cannot remember. If you cannot remember then you cannot USE what you once knew.
--China Sinclair

Envision the notes as you would envision a dancer taking steps.
--Andre Watts

Only by going over a phrase many times . . . do I feel comfortable with it.
--Radu Lupu, The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher

We do a lot of drills.
--Trainer of Bruce Lee's system

Every movement of the hands (in piano practice) must be repeated many times. This is how hundreds of complex motor skills arrive at precision and perfectness in order to perform a single compostion.
--China Sinclair

Practice strengthens the mind and memory.
--China Sinclair

Practice is the best of all instructors.
--Publilius Syrus

Everybody is liable to make mistakes, but fools practice them.
--Unknown

Practicing is working out the things that need to be worked out.
--Daniel Abrams

It's only when each hand can be independent that they can function together successfully.
--Daniel Abrams

Practice is the best of all instructors.
--Publius Syrus, Maxim 439

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
--Anonymous Childs

...practice is the key to the secret of flying...
--Wilbur Wright

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill.
--Cicero

Pragmatism examines results "it shifts the emphasis and looks forward. It is the attitude of looking away from first things (principals, categories, supposed necessities) and of looking toward last things (fruits, consequences, facts.)"
--William James

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
--Mark Twain

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
--Charles Caleb Colton

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
--Roger Ascham

Just as gravity pulls a falling rock toward the center of the earth, a prayer falling off the surface of earth is magnetized toward the center of heaven, the place where God sits on His throne.
--China Sinclair

Lord, please give her an alert mind.
--Prayer of Father over daughter

I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go.
--Abraham Lincoln

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
--Anon.

Pray, v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
--Ambrose Bierce

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
--Unknown, "An Irish Wish"

Thank you God for the small things you have entrusted me with. For every minute of life and every dollar of blessing.
--China Sinclair

(I) frequently get down on my knees in gratitude for the greatest gift I ever received--the gift of life.
--Og Mandino, Secrets of Success & Happiness, pg. 71

Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayers—they are not blown away by the wind, they are treasured in the King's archives. This is a registry in the court of heaven wherein every prayer is recorded.
--C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening

It is better to establish a good precedent than to follow a bad one.
--Unknown

Socratic Thinking=Demand for accurate definitions, clear thinking, exact analysis. It is the theory that decides what can be observed.
--Albert Einstein

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn't reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
--Sydney Smith

America's greatness is on the line every day. A proud man is seldom a grateful man for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
--Henry Ward Beecher

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
--C.L. De Montesquieu

Yesterday I thought myself one of the happiest of men; to-day every pleasure, the least flower that strewed my path, has disappeared. Liberty, social converse, the face of my fellow-man, nay, hope itself hath fled.
--Silvio Pellico, My Ten Year's Imprisonment

I'll bet that not one in a hundred knows their rights as an American citizen. How can we appreciate and use our rights if we don't know them? Boltzmann's great insight was that when in the dark, you make your way by probability. By probability, the blind Helen Keller makes her way across a room. By probability, a scientist could glimpse into the dark of the microcosm.
--George Gilder, Microcosm, Pg. 180

Every problem is a chance to grow.
--China Sinclair

Lincoln's advice on making important decisions:
"Think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time." Some people think in terms of problems and some in terms of solutions.
--Unknown

The real world you work in every day is not multiple choice.
--Michael McCarthy

It is a characteristic of all our family to be able to see the weak points of anything, but this is not always a desirable quality as it makes us too conservative for successful businessmen and limits our friendships to a very limited circle.
--Wilber Wright

Problem-solving is simply connecting two or more previously unconnected ideas to come up with a solution.
--KAW

Herbert Spencer made a parallel list of reasons for and against a decision, giving each reason a numerical value. A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
--Charles Kettering

Most people spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them.
--Henry Ford

Solve problems by focusing on the solution, not dwelling on the problem.
--Saying

The whole of human history is problem-solving.
--Ray Bradbury

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
--Albert Einstein

But, for problem solving in general, I would turn to Einstein's methods: generate lots of ideas, use your imagination, play with the ideas and make new combinations with your ideas; and, make things as simple as possible, not simpler.
--Michael Gelb, Interview for managementconsultingnews.com

For, in the first place, they (mathematicians) are so much in doubt concerning the motion of the sun and the moon, that they cannot even demonstrate and prove by observation the constant length of a complete year; and in the second place, in determining the motions both of these and of the five other planets, they fail to employ consistently one set of first principles and hypotheses . . . Nor have they been able to discover or calculate from these the main point, which is the shape of the world and the fixed symmetry of its parts; but their procedure has been as if someone were to collect hands, feet, a head, and other members from various places, all very fine in themselves, but not proportionate to one body, and no single one corresponding in its turn to the others, so that a monster rather than a man would be formed from them.
--Nicolaus Copernicus from "The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies"

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
--Abraham Lincoln

Problems create a teaching moment. A moment when people are open to new wisdom.
--Jeff Saltzman (or Saltzmen)?

How to solve a problem:
What would be the best and right thing that someone else should do in this exact same situation?
Do it yourself as if you are that person.

The greatest need is the transformation of human nature.
--Billy Graham

Look through your customer's eyes. Are you the solution provider or part of the problem?
--Marlene Blaszczyk

(In piano practice) if it weren't for the transitions I would have it perfect.
--Regetta Hicks

Problems are stepping stones.
--China Sinclair

Things without remedy should be without regard.
--Shakespeare, Macbeth

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
--Theodore Rubin

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
--Miguel de Cervantes

We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
--Lee Iacocca

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
--Duke Ellington

He who has begun is half done.
--Horace

Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation, and the last third in repentance.
--Emile Souvestre

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
--Elbert Hubbard

Making progress is like miners' work: it doesn't advance as quickly as one should like, and also as others expect; but faced with such a task, patience and faithfulness are essential.
--Vincent Van Gogh

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant or the future predominate over the present advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
--Samuel Johnson

No discomfort--no toughening.
--James E. Loehr, Ed.D.

In Aristotle's time there was no telescope, microscope, watch, thermometer, barometer--only a ruler and a compass. Change must be measured from a known base line.
--Evan Shute

As long as you are in this earthsuit there is room for improvement.
--Steve Robinson, Pastor

But the only way to stay ahead is to move ahead.
--Richard Nixon, Vice President of the United States, April 24,1958

The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
--Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French Writer

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
--George Santayana

Very early, I perceived that the object of life is to grow.
--Margaret Fuller

Ideas from June Edwards on small treasure chest from Wal-mart
TREASURE CHEST OF WISDOM

Print on computer, trace with carbon paper
Satin finish
Water base gold paint
Black paint with toothbrush, craft pan

Your playing is great.
--Marty McCall on China Sinclair, 5.20.2000

I like piano lessons!
--Anonymous Child , 4 yrs old

Fun, Non-Threatening Environment

I didn't know I would marry a walking library.
--D. on her husband

Why do you like the piano?
David Fusilier:
'Cause its fun. 'Cause my Dad knows how to play it a little bit. You don't have to haul it around everywhere.
Getting the timing right is the hardest thing.
PERFECT Pianist could play any song and be able to write too.

At the very last minute he put together a wonderful compellation of songs for me to perform the very night I sang and I was blessed by his truly anointed gift to play piano! He loves to rock too!
--Nikki Leonti, Contemporary Christian Artist, Songs on TOP 20 Charts

What uniquely qualifies me as a teacher?
Lived in Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala for over 10 years.
Fluent in Spanish, English, and is a student of language and communication (French, Greek, Hebrew, computer BASIC).
Performed music on 1000+ TV stations, radio stations, live concerts, community events, and church outreaches.
Sought after pianist and keyboard specialist.
Over 3500 live performances since 1985.
Studio musician with 50+ albums to credit.
Instructed 700+ students privately in piano, guitar and drums.
Guest speaker and master storyteller at children's events.
Wife, father of three children Anonymous Child, Anonymous Child, and Anonymous Child

The sound was the best its ever been.
--Steve Robinson on Sound Mixing of China Sinclair at Church of the King, Mandeville, LA.

About Whispers of Peace Hymn CD:
It really ministered to me. First class.
--Mike Hamman

On Learn Praise & Worship CD
"This is really good."
--Faith

Dear Mr. ,
Thank you so much for teaching me! I learned a lot and I had fun at every lesson. I was never bored because you made it interesting. It was good to learn another way to play the piano. I'm going to miss being your pupil. You're a great teacher.

Your Pupil,
Claire Bonin

Don't run with the pack until or unless you can lead it. Be your own pitchman. Sell yourself. Attention does not come quickly to the humble. Plan or plot your promotions. Show your boss how you can do more work so that he or she can have more fun. Set your sights on your own visions and keep reaching--even for the moon.
--Al Neuharth, Founder of USA Today

That dude is the baddest white boy you ever seen.
Tyson Dennis on China Sinclair

You want a career that pays well? You want to be recognized as an expert in your field? Perfect, then study the heck out of your specialization for ten years, 24-7. At that point people may want to listen to you.
--China Sinclair

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow the small ones.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

'For example' is not proof.
--Jewish proverb

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat someone as he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be.
--Carlos E. Asay

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
--John Keats

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
--Homer

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
--Sophocles, 496 B.C.-406 B.C.

Proverbs are useful to get right to the point and shut the mouth of ignorance quickly. Proverbs are the daughters of experience.
--Sierra Leone

proverb Student Bible:
Vivid, crisp, colorful pictures of thought.
A proverb uses "shortness, sense, and salt to compress life into a handful of memorable words. If you spend enough time in proverbs, you will gain a subtle and practical understanding of life."
Down-to-earth book
Warm advice, practical guidance for successfully making your way in the world.
Education for the street and the marketplace.

Warning, cautions, tools and keys
"Get wisdom at all costs." It is a plea to strain your mind and your ears searching the wise way to live.

The rule is that the godly, moral, hardworking and wise will reap many rewards. Those who learn the practical and godly wisdom of proverbs not only sleep better, they succeed and become able to help their family and friends.

The wise path will not be chosen by many; it is easier to live carelessly and godlessly.

Often they express truth about life in an elegant, witty kernel.
Subtle detail.
More than 500 proverbs

Only proverb book I have found ever printed for children:
“Words to the Wise: A Book of Proverbs for Boys and Girls"
--by Helen Sewell

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.
--Anon.

For every quarterback on the field, there are a thousand in the stands.
--Unknown

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
--Herbert Spencer

Above all, don't worry. If you have prepared ahead of time and have the physical details in hand, worries at this point are probably self-centered. Forget yourself. Concentrate on those precious children and the truth you are to teach them. Trust the Lord to work through you to bless the children--and you.
--Joanne D De Jonge, Object Lessons from Your Home and Yard

Know your subject better than your hearers know it, and you have nothing to fear.
--Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwin, The Art of Public Speaking, 1915

As I abandoned my fears of making a mistake and focused instead on my listeners, my anxiety disappeared and I discovered I could communicate with great freedom.
--Herbert Benson, The Breakout Principle

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.
--Czechoslovakian proverb

Great causes are not won in a single generation.
--Vaughn J. Featherstone

We are in something that is bigger than our wildest imagination. We have a part in it.
--Michael Hilliard

Humanity is a common cause.
--Noah Webster

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
--Charles Kingsley

Everything you say and do counts.
--Unknown

One must give one's self all the occupation one can to make life supportable in this world. The futher I advance in age, the more I find work necessary. It becomes, in the long run, the greatest of pleasures and takes the place of the illusions of life. If you do not want to commit suicide, always have something to do.
--Voltaire

Answer the why of your campaign and everything else is secondary.
Example: "It's time for a change"
--James Carville

In Heaven's Library of Congress there is a book on the shelf in the biography section with your name on the cover.
--China Sinclair

Nothing now remains but for the actors of this mighty scene to preserve a perfect, unvarying constancy of character through the very last act. To close the drama with applause and to retire from the military theater with the same approbation of angels and men which have crowned all their former virtuous actions.
--George Washington

What are you going to leave for future generations? What if you discovered that the universe has no meaning? How would that impact you?

As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
--Da Vinci, #1173, J.P. Richter

You can select your own targets.
--Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone

Every small thing you do every day is a part of history whether man records it or not.
--China Sinclair

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

I found out, it's not what the world holds for you, but what you bring to it.
--Anne of Avonlea (movie)

Give the historians something to write about.
--Propertius

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
--Vi Putnam

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
--Abraham Lincoln

How can I use my sensory input, thought processing, creative imagination and memory capacity for the greatest good, advantage, or benefit of mankind?
--China Sinclair

Perhaps the best decision I made in my life is when I decided to stop spending all of my time trying to solve the ultimate mystery of the meaning of life. Instead, I started to concentrate on adding meaning to the place in which I have been placed.
--Kevn A.

This is your chance to pay back Uncle Sam for the freedom he gives you.
--Unknown Movie

Everything you do in the here and now effects God.
--Jamie Fountain

Let me exhort you. Examine yourselves. Let each of you discover where your true chance of greatness lies.
--Chariots of Fire

Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.
--Mort Crim, Second Thoughts

I refuse to accept the idea that an individual is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
--Martin Luther King

What doesn't change is the need for people to survive, to be loved, to win the approbation of their peers, and to reach some personal/spiritual conclusion.
--Sonia Levitin

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
--William James

Some of necessity go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.
--Thomas Mann, 1903

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
--Kenneth Hildebrand, 1906-1979

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
--David Starr Jordan

The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.
--Immanuel Kant

No road is too long for the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
--Jean de la Bruyere, 1645-96

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
--Johann Von Schiller

Maybe what we do need is a new sermon on the mount. Or, better still, someone to remind us of the first sermon on the mount. If all our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.
--Og Mandino, Secrets for Success and Happiness, p. 55

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; He is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about as it listeth.
--John Foster

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
--Eric Hoffer

Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
--Abraham Lincoln

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
--Billy Sunday

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
--Alexander Graham Bell

An enterprise, when fairly once begun, should not be left till all that ought is won.
--William Shakespeare

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
--Logan Pearsall Smith

There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose.
--T.T.Monger

We need to stop living by accident and start living on purpose.
--Robert Barriger

We are all pencils in the hand of God.--Mother Teresa

What if you lived your life every day believing that you were one idea away from changing the world? How exciting would that be?
--China Sinclair

Do you live your life merely to serve yourself and your own interests, or do you live your life in the interests of all?
--China Sinclair

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
--Orison Swett Marden

There's a little germ of something special in everybody.
--Idea from Robin Leaver

Your life is God's signature to the world.
--China Sinclair

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
--Aristotle

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
--William Jennings Bryan

A question to inspire our school children: What could I do with my life that would change the world forever and make it a more fantastic place to live in?
--China Sinclair

The busy world shoves angrily aside
The man who stands with arms akimbo set
Until occasion tells him what to do;
And he who waits to have his task marked out
Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.
--James Russell Lowell, Leaves of Life

Strong reasons make strong actions.
--William Shakespeare

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well.
--Thomas a Kempis

"Do but grasp into the thick of human life! Every one lives it—to not many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting." —Goethe

What do we want? What is the principle argument that supports us? Why should we win what we want? (facts, reasons) What is the story that best makes all of the above arguments?
--Unknown

To begin with, if you're making it with good quality, you don't have to make everything twice.
--GM Foundry Manager, Unknown

Linberg made check-lists.
--LPB

Ask lots of questions. When someone discusses something unfamiliar to you ask him or her to explain. The only dumb question is the one you didn't ask.
--Yes, You Can, pg. 45

To know what to ask is already to know half.
--Greg Armendow, 1822-1882

To ask is to humble yourself.
--Unknown

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
--Eugene Ionesco

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber

Quotations are other men's flowers.
--Montaigne

The creative gifts of others are always there for the plucking.
--Gerry Spence

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The coming of the railroads to Illinois in the 1850's had an impact on Lincoln's domestic life. Previously he was gone for weeks at a time on the court circuit riding by horse. Railroad allowed him to go home on weekends and be with his family.
--China Sinclair

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
--Charles Lamb

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting.
--Aldous Huxley

Reading a biography is like watching a life in fast-forward from beginning to end.
--China Sinclair

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
--Arthur Helps

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
--Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

That's what reading is: using symbols to suggest a picture or an idea.
--Robert C. O'Brien

In 1766, only about one out of every 200 people could read.
--Energy Information Administration, www.eia.doe.gov

Reading is the sponge that allows a mind to soak up new ideas and solutions. If a child cannot read he has a much smaller chance of finding issues that really matter. Much of his energy will likely be squandered on ideas that won't contribute to his forward progress or that of humanity. Reading guides his heart, informs his mind and allows him to notice those things that, in the long run, will make a difference.
--China Sinclair

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was asked by Tim Russert what she does all day. She responed that she reads--about 1500 pages per day.
--China Sinclair

Reading and research is how you find out things. If you have the ability to find things out, you have the sledgehammer to knock down every wall that limits your knowledge, your understanding, your ability to act.
--China Sinclair

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
--Francis Bacon, Books

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
--Edward Gibbon

Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both: read anything five hours a day, and you will soon be learned.
--Dr. Samuel Johnson

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
--Elizabeth Hardwick

A pessimist complains about the wind. An opportunist waits for it to change. A realist learns to adjust the sails.
--Unknown

Be willing to have its so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
--William James

Matter is impersonal.
--George Santayana

Investment opportunity is the difference between the reality and the perception.
--John Train

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
--Elbert Hubbard, 1923

We have to permeate every mind in this company with an attitude, with an atmosphere that allows people, in fact encourages people to see things as they are.
--Jack Welch, CEO General Electric

Don't kid yourself, it is the way it is.
--Jack Welch's Mother

Theory must not contradict reality or it is bad theory.
--China Sinclair

Being far from the scene of action robs one of a sense of reality and intensifies both panic and euphoria.
--John Train, The Craft of Investing

In life the ideal place to be is right where you are.
--China Sinclair

For my part, whatever anguish in spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth--to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that's the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
--Patrick Henry, "Liberty or Death" Speech, March 28, 1775

Broken eggs cannot be mended.
--Proverb quoted by Lincoln

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
--David Hume

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
--Lionel Trilling

Here we are and we must make the best of it.
--Winston Churchill, Nov. 16, 1934

Success is determined not by our private will, but in relation to objective realities.
--Alfred Adler

It is so. It cannot be otherwise.
--Inscription on ruins, 15th century cathedral, Amsterdam, Holland

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
--Albert Einstein

Few people have the imagination for reality.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A posse ad esse.
From possibility to actuality.
--Latin Quotation

I have met many sincere people in my life that have flushed reasoning down the toilet and undervalued its potential to improve their lives. It is these same people that I have also observed in deep financial trouble and terrible relational dilemas because of there refusal to problem-solve with intellectual tools.
--China Sinclair

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.
--Blaise Paschal, Thoughts, Number 267

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
--Oriental Proverb

Move onward serenely, cast aside regret, cleanse and purify life, only be undismayed and hopeful, as you turn page after page of the revelation of God.
--Arthur C. Benson

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
--Da Vinci

If sorrow could enter heaven, if a sigh could be heard there, or a tear roll down the cheek of a saint in light, it would be for lost opportunities, for the time spent in neglect of God which might have been spent for his glory.
--Payson

How to conquer the fear of rejection:
Call six people out of the telephone book, tell then you are from the World Book Encyclopedia asking them if they have a few minutes to talk and listen to them hang-up. You will no longer fear rejection.
--Roger Dawson

Only 1 in 100,000 people alive today has any insight into what Einstein's relativity is all about.
--Optimistic guess by Abraham Pas

When you just ease the burden of your mind you just do it (in kicking).
--Bruce Lee

Religion cannot be proved by theoretical reason.
--Kant

Religion assigns values to truth.
--Tigor

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
--Elaine Boosler

Religion can inspire such evil things.
--Lucretius

My own mind is my own church.
--Thomas Paine

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
--Elbert Hubbard

God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
--Unknown

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
--Mohandas Gandhi

Remember, the essence of religion is, a heart void of offense toward God and man; not subtle speculative opinions, but an active principle of faith.
--William Pitt

Nourish and renew your mind with the beautiful things of this world.
--China Sinclair

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
--Da Vinci

Being to advise or reprehend anyone, consider whether it ought to be in public or in private, presently or at some other time, also in what terms to do it; and in reproving show no signs of choler, but do it with sweetness and mildness.
--Rules of Civility, George Washington wrote down and studied as a 16 year old
In interviewing: "You're better to go in there not knowing anything, even if you know it, and be willing to be ignorant. Be willing to sit at these people's feet and absorb as much as you can, rather than share as much as they don't want you to share."
--Ridley Pearson Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi One may most surely earn the esteem of the people by the best words and the finest actions.
--Agesilaus Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
--Albert Einstein
There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
--Alfred Adler
And that's all I want, for people to know the story (Hotel Rwanda), to know that there are worlds outside our own to pay attention to.
--Don Cheadle, Actor, USA Today, January 4, 2004
Each of us is a center of initiative force and creative power.
--Kant Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
--George Bernard Shaw If you do not take responsibility for your own develpment, no one will.
--Ford Harding, Rain Making No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
--Stanislaw Lec
The individual's health depends upon the health of the society; the health of a society depends upon the health of it's individuals.
--M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
Trust in God but lock your car.
--Unknown
To blame others is the same as admitting that you have no power to control your own life. Accepting that others control you, you will never accomplish anything great in your life. Taking responsibility is the beginning of taking back control of your life. When you accept things as they are and control the things that are in your power, then you are given insight as to how to change your future.
--China Sinclair
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
--Henry Ford
Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine.
--Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, Line 561
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
--Plato
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
--Agnes Macphail If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
--Abigail Van Buren Have teenager own and operate their own business before they graduate.
--Unknown
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see blame as foolishness.
--Epictetus Everyone, in the final analysis, is in business for himself.
--Saying
Regardless of my excuses, it is not my neighbor, the television, newspapers, or billboards that have power over my thoughts. It is I and I alone who retain power over what thoughts I shall think today. It is when I do not assume this authority and when I do not take steps to control what enters my mind that thoughts run free and unchecked to rampage my mind with chaos, confusion, fear and worry.
--China Sinclair
As humans, sometimes we prefer not to pursue knowledge because with it comes responsibility. We think it is easier to purposefully live in ignorance and block-out truth in hope that a plea of "I didn't know" will be sufficient when it comes time to be held accountable.
--China Sinclair
You are the only one that can accomplish what you want ot accomplish in your life.
--Disney Channel, Teacher Interview on 6/30/1996
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
--Aldous Huxley
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To blame another for your difficulty is, in most cases, to misdiagnose your problem.
--China Sinclair
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The responsible person is the individual who has stop riding on the back of others and has started supporting himself through labor. It is this same person that gains the means to give to others and, in short, to begin changing the world.
--China Sinclair
I believe that souls can be mended. I believe that people can change if they want to.
--Belinda Ali (Mohammed Ali's former wife and mother of children)
Dick (Morris), however, spoke to the part of (President) Clinton that wanted to be told what to do. He offered clear prescriptions and promised measured results.
--George Stephanopoulos We want aluminum, not excuses.
--Harry Truman, rebuke to Alcoa in WW II Production There are no rules here, we are just trying to accomplish something.
--Thomas Edison
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
--Jim Rohn
When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone.
--Euripides

Learn to do what is right!
Treat people fairly.
Give hope to those who are beaten down.
Cheer them up.
Stand up in court for children whose fathers have died.
And do the same thing for widows.
--The Bible, Isaiah 1:17, NIrV

Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalms 82:3, The World English Bible

To play it safe is not to play.
--Robert Altman, filmmaker

You cannot win without risking failure. Risk is an indispensable part of daily life.
--China Sinclair

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Bertrand Russell rejected axioms and insisted on the demonstration of the obvious.
--Unknown

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
--Anonymous Child Jackson

Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.
--Ki-Jung Kin, Korean Businessman

Run not in the streets; Don't walk with your mouth open; Don't go around shaking your arms.
--100 Rules of Civility (para. by China Sinclair)

Be very careful of your comfort zone. You think you are safe when you are not.
--Unknown

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
--Aesop

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
--Henry David Thoreau

No doesn't mean never.
--Tom Hallman, Jr.

If you create something that's compelling, people are willing to . . . pay.
--Steve Banfield, vice-president, RealNetworks

Selling Advice:
Evoke feelings.
"In my opinion" is irrefutable.
"What do you think?"
"How do you feel?"
--Guerilla Selling

People buy what they want not what they need.
--Guerilla Selling

The number one feature a store, dealership, or restaurant should seek to provide their customers with is a friendly and comfortable environment. Without these qualities in a business atmosphere, the retailer is only adding more stress into the life of the customer. Stress does not sell more product. Stress causes buyers to stay away. The best question a retailer can ask is, "How am I spoiling my customer today?"
--China Sinclair

You need to recruit your people everyday even though you already have them onboard.
--Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, It's Your Ship

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
--Percy Ross

Carl Sandburg wrote about people, the earth, feelings, wishes, and thoughts. Likes to play twister, karate & teddy bears. If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it's because they take better care of it.
--Unknown

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
--William Blake

Bacon's time marked the end of scholasticism (divorce of knowledge from use and observation)--places emphasis on experience and results, distinguished English Philosophy and culminates in pragmatism.

When you are in school you learn so many things that you think you will never use. What you must remember as a student is that you are in a hunt, a quest for ideas. You must realize that one day you will find that one idea that will give your life radical purpose and potentially change the future course of mankind forever.
--China Sinclair

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
--Ralph J. Cudworth

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
--Thomas Hobbes

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
--Steven Weinberg

"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentleman can SEE--
But MICROSCOPES are prudent
In an Emergency
--Emily Dickinson

The scientific method of inquiry:
1. Hypothesis
2. Experiment
3. Deduction

Science by itself is not enough. There must be a force and discipline outside the sciences to coordinate and point them to a goal.
--Francis Bacon

The set of disciplines which made the industrial revolution possible was one based not upon faith and guesses, but upon hard mathematical facts and verifiable evidence.
--Michael White

When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.
--Lord Kelvin

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
--Eric Hoffer

In this last century of scientific discovery the average life span of man has been increased by 30 years.
--CBS, 48 Hours 12.30.99

Would you choose to be treated by a doctor who uses scientific processes or guess work to diagnose you sickness?
--China Sinclair

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
--Sir William Bragg

Be careful when before you knock true science. It is the scientific method that placed a man on the moon, daily allows us instantaneous global communication and has eradicated a number of deadly plagues.
--China Sinclair

That genetics is a big deal now.
--Retired American

Man We are electromagnetic fields.
--Dr. Horowitz

The universe is a machine.
--Democritis

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
--H. Stanley Judd

No matter how hard and fast you run, you can never get away from yourself. You always have you to deal with.
--Norman Vincent Peale

Extraordinary self-esteem produces extraordinary things.
--Rick Pitino

Self-confidence=Awareness of and faith in our own powers. Only the insecure strive for security.
--Wayne Dyer

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester.
--Sydney J. Harris

Instead of celebrating how different and unique we are as a individuals, we spend our whole day trying to be carbon copies of those around us. Has it ever hit us that we should be spending our days being the master copies that we are?
--China Sinclair

Appearing cool and in control is the key, even when you are not.
--Al Neuharth

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
--Da Vinci

Calmness is always Godlike.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

To master one's self is the greatest mastery.
--Seneca

Thrice noble is the man who of himself is king.
--Phineas Fletcher, Apollyonists, canto iii, 10

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
--Thomas Jefferson, Writings, vol. xix, p. 241.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
--The Bible, Proverbs 16:32

Rule lust, temper tongue, and bridle the belly.
--John Ray, English Proverbs, p. 20

He is strong who conquers others; he who conquers himself is mighty.
--Lao-Tsze, The Simple Way, No. 33

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
--Socrates

It is a truth, recognizable in all of us, that when we don't want to become involved, when we don't want to confront even the issue of whether or not we'll come to the aid of someone who is being unjustly treated, we block off our perception, we blind ourselves to the others suffering, we cut off our empathy with the person needing help.
--Rollo May, The Courage to Create

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
--Aristotle

There is much unhappiness and personal distress in the world because of failures to control tempers, appetites, passions, and impulses. "Oh if only I had stopped myself" is an all to familiar refrain.
--William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
--William Penn, 1669

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
--Thomas Henry Huxley

When one is able to train oneself, it gives him power and insight to train others. No person is so hard to conquer and discipline as oneself. Oneself rarely wants to obey self-given orders, thousands of perfect reasons are quickly crafted by one's mind to coddle disobedience, even to congratulate it.
--China Sinclair

Such self-training, such self-conquest, gives one great power over others. It is equal to genius itself.
--Orison Swett Marden, said of Stonewall Jackson

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires and fears is more than a king.
--John Milton

You are what you believe you are.
--Wayne Dyer

You can't get everybody to like you all of the time. Do you like you? That is the most important thing.
--Wayne Dyer to daughter seeking approval

If you don't have respect for yourself, you won't get it from others.
--Tony Cooley Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
--Abraham J. Heschel
Man is his own star.
--John Fletcher, 1647 If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
--Chinese proverb I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
--Marcus Aurelius I must have a driving passion to use every ounce of energy that God gives me to the fullest. I am not to conform to everyone else and find my value in others. I am valuable because I am a unique creation of God. He loves me. I am living a life that no other person can live. I seek to be different from all others. It is in my differentness and uniqueness of experience that I can benefit others most.
--China Sinclair
If a parent treats their child like trash, that child will grow up believing they are trash. If a parent treats their child like gold, that child view themselves as a valuable treasure. A parent has incredible power in the process of developing child's sense of self-value.
--China Sinclair
You are a fragment torn from God. You have a portion of him within you.
--Epictetus If we don't know who we are someone else will try to tell us.
--Steve Robinson, Pastor, Sept. 15, 2002 Accomplishment builds self-confidence.
--Elizabeth Pantley
Oh man! There is no planet, sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
--Mother Teresa
The unexamined life is not worth living.
--Plato
I am my own son. . .
--Oliver Wendell Holmes No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
--Samuel Johnson? Integrate into out being. . .
--Nelson Mandella The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
--Robertson Davies Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
--Burce Lee Self-education is the only kind of education there is.
--Issac Asimov Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
--Rolf Hochhuth Understanding one's self is a neccessary condition for understanding anyone else. One should be at least able to talk clearly to one's self. Such clarity and soliliquy is indespensible to clearity and dialouge. Those who lack the insight that is required for an intelligent conversation with themselves can scarcly be expected to have the insight needed for intelligent conversation with others.
--Mortimer J. Adler, How to Talk/How to Listen
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
--Carl Jung The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
--Sophocles Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips and fingertips.
--201 Class, HPC Know then thyself, presume not God to scan:
The proper study of mankind is man.
--Alexander Pope We have always goodly stalk in us of that which we condemn.
--Unkown I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
--Montaigne
What impression does my personality leave on those I meet daily?
--China Sinclair Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
--Confucius
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it. But why not begin on yourself?
--Dale Carnegie
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By all means, use some times to be alone;
Salute thyself--see what thy soul doth wear;
Dare to look in thy chest, for 'tis thine own,
And tumble up and down what thou findest there.
--William Wordsworth
To discipline one's self, that is the highest thing.
--Neitzche Woe to the thinker who is not the gardner but the soil of his plants.
--Neitzche Art thou the victorious one, the self-subdoer, the commander of thy senses, the master of thy virtues?
--Neitzche Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
--Helen Keller
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
--Emerson
Series I, Self-Reliance "I'm the greatest in the world."
--Casious Clay, under 20 yrs. old Many people are not able to lose weight, get a good job, or feel good about themselves because they feel they don't deserve it. If a person can convence themselves that they deserve better, then their life can improve drastically.
--China Sinclair When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
--Bernard Bailey

Good Telemarketing:
"Mrs. Dur, my name is Karen Lee. I'm helping Mothers Against Drunk Driving make the roads safer for you and your children and we need your help."
The right way quickly states a benefit to listeners and then envolves them by asking for their help.
--Phone Power, by Doc Morey In qualifying customers tell them, "The more you tell me the more I can help you." Ask probing questions.
--Jamie Fountain In a telephone qualification interview:
Build rapport.
"Do you have a minute?"
"What are you trying to accomplish."
Love them into the loan.
Be empathetic.
Iceing the cake.
Tell them what kind of stuff you will be asking them on the phone.
Gather information.
Tell them the why you are asking for info.
"Is that OK?
Selling is a state of mind.
--Jamie Fountain
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.
--Flannery O'Connor
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.
--James R. Cook I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
--Mother Teresa
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
--Mother Tere