Firestar Queen Goddessmember of the fuba's blog: "wisdom"

Lì, "profit, gain, advantage": NOT a proper motive for actions affecting others. The idea that profit is the source of temptation to do wrong is the Confucian ground of the later official disparagment of commerce and industry. The Master said, "The gentleman (chün tzu or ) understands yì. The small man understands lì. Li3, "propriety, good manners, politeness, ceremony, worship." Xiào, "to honor one's parents," filial piety

Rén, "benevolence, charity, humanity, love," kindness. The fundamental virtue of Confucianism. Confucius defines it as "Aì rén," "love others."

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~ Henry Brooks Adams ~ Words of love, are works of love. ~ William R. Alger ~ When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ~ Gracie Allen ~ Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. ~ Hannah Arendt ~ By words the mind is winged. ~ Aristophanes ~ A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ~ Burt Bacharach ~ The words of the world want to make sentences. ~ Gaston Bachelard ~ All words are pegs to hang ideas on. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. ~ John Berger ~ The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold. ~ Bible ~ There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. ~ Frederika Bremer ~ A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. ~ Robert Burton ~ Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. ~ Samuel Butler ~ But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ~ Lord Byron ~ You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. ~ Dale Carnegie ~ I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. ~ Winston Churchill ~ Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. ~ Confucius ~ Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. ~ Cyril Connolly ~ A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day. ~ Emily Dickinson ~ It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. ~ Anatole France ~ Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. ~ Patrica Fripp ~ Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. ~ W. Gladden ~ Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ Stephan Grellet ~ In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ~ John B. S. Haldane ~ Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life. ~ Ed Hays ~ Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools. ~ Thomas Hobbes ~ Strong words are required for weak principles. ~ Doug Horton ~ Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. ~ Pearl Strachan Hurd ~ Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. ~ Eric Idle ~ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~ Rudyard Kipling ~ What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick! ~ Kirchenbaum ~ Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste. ~ L'Chiam ~ Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ~ Lao-Tzu ~ Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. ~ James Russell Lowell ~ If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~ Yiddish Proverb ~ Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ~ Jules Renard ~ One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other. ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ~ Earl of Roscommon ~ Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually. ~ Rose Saperstein ~ A word too much always defeats its purpose. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~ It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. ~ William Shakespeare ~ How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ~ Herbert Spencer ~ The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ~ Edward Thorndike ~ An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write "metropolis" for seven cents, because I can get the same money for "city." I never write "policeman," because I can get the same price for "cop."... I never write "valetudinarian" at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. ~ Mark Twain ~ The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ~ Mark Twain ~ Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. ~ Source Unknown ~ The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word. ~ Source Unknown ~ When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words. ~ Source Unknown ~ One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. ~ Evelyn Waugh ~ Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. ~ Noah Webster ~ A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~ If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ~ Steven Wright ~ There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God. ~ William Zinsser ~

A man can do all things if he but wills them. ~ Leon Battista Alberti ~ Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. ~ Richard Cecil ~ Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will. ~ Norman Cousins ~ 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 ~ The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ~ Robert Frost ~ Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ In oratory the will must predominate. ~ David Hare ~ People do not lack strength; they lack will. ~ Victor Hugo ~ Man was predestined to have free will. ~ Hal Luyah ~ It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. ~ Douglas Macarthur ~ Will is character in action. ~ William Mcdougall ~ Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru ~ Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. ~ George S. Patton ~ When the will is ready the feet are light. ~ Proverb ~ Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ A boy's will is the will of the wind. ~ Norse Proverb ~ Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~ No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. ~ Seneca ~

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. ~ Joseph Addison ~ I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~ Louis Agassiz ~ He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave. ~ John Arthorne ~ To choose time is to save time. ~ Francis Bacon ~ We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over. ~ Jack Bergman ~ Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~ Hector Louis Berlioz ~ Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ~ Josh Billings ~ You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ~ Charles Bixton ~ I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. ~ Louis E. Boone ~ Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ~ Jorge Luis Borges ~ I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. ~ John Mason Brown ~ Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger! ~ Lord Byron ~ Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. ~ Lord Chesterfield ~ If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. ~ Winston Churchill ~ Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system. ~ Stephen R. Covey ~ A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. ~ Charles Dickens ~ Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. ~ Laertius Diogenes ~ Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ~ Austin Dobson ~ Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else. ~ Peter F. Drucker ~ The best way to fill time is to waste it. ~ Marguerite Duras ~ Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not. ~ Henry Van Dyke ~ The surest poison is time. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. ~ Ted W. Engstrom ~ Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. ~ Euripides ~ If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman!0. ~ Robert Frost ~ The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. ~ Merrick Furst ~ Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ~ George Robert Gissing ~ All time management begins with planning. ~ Tom Greening ~ Time is the rider that breaks youth. ~ George Herbert ~ We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, "We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done." ~ Charles E. Hummel ~ If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got. ~ Lee Iacocca ~ Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson ~ The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done. ~ Karen Kakascik ~ Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. ~ Alan Lakein ~ Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones. ~ Ivy Lee ~ Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life. ~ P. W. Litchfield ~ How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us. ~ John Longden ~ In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. ~ Sir John Lubbock ~ Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. ~ Horace Mann ~ It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. ~ Wieder Marcia ~ If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over? ~ Jeffery J. Mayer ~ Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. ~ Charles De Montesquieu ~ The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. ~ Mike Murdock ~ Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. ~ Ovid ~ We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. ~ Octavio Paz ~ Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind. ~ Pitman ~ Time is the wisest of all counselors. ~ Plutarch ~ Lost time is never found again. ~ Proverb ~ It is later than you think. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one. ~ English Proverb ~ Life is half spent before one knows what it is. ~ French Proverb ~ Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day. ~ Polish Proverb ~ You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~ Bonnie Prudden ~ Time is the fairest and toughest judge. ~ Edgar Quinet ~ The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. ~ Jane Bryant Quinn ~ Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ~ John Randolph ~ Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion. ~ Boardroom Reports ~ Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week. ~ Charles Richards ~ Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! ~ Anthony Robbins ~ never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~ A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. ~ Bertrand Russell ~ Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~ Carl Sandburg ~ Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. ~ Richard Ben Sapir ~ Time is that in which all things pass away. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~ Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz ~ Time discovered truth. ~ Seneca ~ Wasted time means wasted lives. ~ R. Shannon ~ When the time is right, you just got to do it. ~ Jack Simplot ~ Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ~ Samuel Smiles ~ Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose. ~ Jim Steinman ~ If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious. ~ A. B. Zu Tavern ~ A day may sink or save a realm. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson ~ You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. ~ Brian Tracy ~ When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen. ~ Henry Twells ~ Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must ~ Source Unknown ~ Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself. ~ Source Unknown ~ Time cuts down all, both great and small. ~ Source Unknown ~ Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. ~ Source Unknown ~ What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important. ~ Source Unknown ~ To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute. ~ Robert Updegraff ~ You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues ~ Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it. ~ Christine Warren ~ Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ~ Tennessee Williams ~ Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ~ Frank Zappa ~

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. ~ Alford ~ What is conceived well is expressed clearly. ~ Nicholas Boileau ~ To simplify complications is the first essential of success. ~ George Earle Buckle ~ The most complex things are the simplest. ~ Agni Celeste ~ Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. ~ Winston Churchill ~ Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect. ~ Charles Horton Cooley ~ A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. ~ James F. Cooper ~ A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. ~ Eugène Delacroix ~ Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. ~ Rene Descartes ~ I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones. ~ Richard Deupree ~ When the solution is simple, God is answering. ~ Albert Einstein ~ A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. ~ John Gall ~ The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts. ~ Willard Gibbs ~ There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~ My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. ~ C.A.R. Hoare ~ The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~ Hans Hofmann ~ The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life. ~ John Macy ~ We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. ~ Norman Vincent Peale ~ Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ Simplicity is the peak of civilization. ~ Jessie Sampter ~ The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside. ~ Robert Stuberg ~

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ~ Francis Bacon ~ In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one. ~ James Burgh ~ When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ~ Confucius ~ Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest. ~ Paul Zane Pilzer ~ Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ~ Plutarch ~ If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it. ~ Catherine Ponder ~ If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination. ~ Ruth Ross ~ When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend. ~ Mark Twain ~

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out... ~ American Management ~ A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. ~ John Argenti ~ Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. ~ Bernard M. Baruch ~ Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. ~ Ben Bayol ~ At all times it is better to have a method. ~ Mark Caine ~ A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end? ~ Alec Cairncross ~ To be prepared is half the victory. ~ Miguel De Cervantes ~ I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. ~ Winston Churchill ~ Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in. ~ Robert Collier ~ Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. ~ Frances Cornford ~ It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning. ~ Graeme Edwards ~ In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control. ~ Hillel J. Einhorn ~ Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ~ Euripides ~ Long-range planning works best in the short term ~ Doug Evelyn ~ Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?" ~ George A. Ford ~ It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial. ~ Jib Fowles ~ If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother. ~ Steven Gilbert ~ Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan. ~ Richard E. Griggs ~ Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. ~ Napoleon Hill ~ Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there. ~ H. Stanley Judd ~ The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be. ~ Thomas ã Kempis ~ There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning. ~ E. J. Klemme ~ Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. ~ Chuck Knox ~ We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ You win not by chance, but by preparation. ~ Roger Maris ~ If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends. ~ Stan Mikita ~ Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. ~ A. A. Milne ~ The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go. ~ John Pierpont Morgan ~ Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal. ~ George L. Morrisey ~ A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. ~ George S. Patton ~ The beginning is the most important part of the work. ~ Plato ~ When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track… ~ Scott Reed ~ If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn ~ Always be planning something. ~ John A. Schindler ~ Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. ~ Ben Stein ~ It takes time to save time. ~ Joe Taylor ~ Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are ~ Source Unknown ~ The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went. ~ Source Unknown ~

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ~ Ama Ata Aidoo ~ The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ~ Francis Bacon ~ It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do. ~ Simone De Beauvoir ~ Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up. ~ Russell Bishop ~ You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. ~ Barbara Bush ~ The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ~ Frank A. Clark ~ Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet. ~ Bill Cosby ~ The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~ Clarence Darrow ~ I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support. ~ Princess of Wales Diana ~ Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong. ~ Robert Gardner ~ A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell ~ How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! ~ Samuel G. Goodrich ~ Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't. ~ L. L. Hendren ~ Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. ~ Dr. Henker ~ Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots. ~ Jeremy P. Johnson ~ Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. ~ C. Everett Koop ~ Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ~ Michael Levine ~ Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ~ Robert Macneil ~ The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. ~ Joyce Maynard ~ Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~ Lewis Mumford ~ The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored. ~ Jean Paul ~ Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion. ~ American Proverb ~ To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ~ George Santayana ~ The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: "Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?" ~ Joseph A. Schumpeter ~ Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. ~ Muriel Spark ~ Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn --the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness. ~ Freya Stark ~ Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~ Gloria Steinem ~ I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. ~ Laurence Sterne ~ Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. ~ Source Unknown ~ If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. ~ Jessamyn West ~ To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~ Edward Windsor ~ There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents. ~ Leon R. Yankwich ~

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ~ Abigail Adams ~ It is always in season for old men to learn. ~ Aeschylus ~ There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ~ F. Albrecht ~ Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. ~ Francis Bacon ~ The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ~ Newton D. Baker ~ Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. ~ James Bennis ~ Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life. ~ Bible ~ Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ~ Roy Jr. Blount ~ Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. ~ Tony Buzan ~ Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. ~ Robert Byrne ~ Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. ~ L. Carte ~ How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. ~ Johnny Cash ~ For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. ~ Miguel De Cervantes ~ Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. ~ Lord Chesterfield ~ Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill ~ Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. ~ Confucius ~ It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself. ~ Cathy Lee Crosby ~ Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo ~ Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. ~ W. Edwards Deming ~ A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~ Henry L. Doherty ~ A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ~ Bob Edwards ~ No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ The years teach us much the days never knew. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ The things which hurt, instruct. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. ~ Michael J. Gelb ~ In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~ Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard. ~ St. Gregory The Great ~ Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held. ~ Milton Hall ~ This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have "conclusions" without deductions, "abridgments of history" and "abridgments of science" without leading facts. We have "animals" for literature, "Cabinet" Encyclopaedias, "Family" Libraries, "Diffusion" Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes. ~ Benjamin Haydon ~ Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ~ Robert Heinlein ~ There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. ~ Eric Hoffer ~ Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ~ Thomas H. Huxley ~ I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something. ~ Eric Jensen ~ Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. ~ Ken Keyes Jr. ~ Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. ~ Doug King ~ Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. ~ Karl Kraus ~ Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. ~ Saul Landau ~ When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. ~ Bill Moyers ~ I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ~ George Herbert Palmer ~ Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ~ Sydney Joseph Perelman ~ Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. ~ Leslie Jeanne Sahler ~ That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. ~ Seneca ~ You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. ~ Barbara Sher ~ When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. ~ Lillian Smith ~ Oh, that one could learn to learn in time! ~ Enrique Solari ~ I grow old learning something new every day. ~ Solon ~ Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. ~ Mark Twain ~ If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow. ~ Source Unknown ~ Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life. ~ Source Unknown ~ Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable. ~ Virgil ~ I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. ~ Patrick White ~ The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ~ Eugene S. Wilson ~ Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. ~ Edward Young ~