Saturday, June 25, 2011

Quotation Saturday

WINNING

"Winning isn't everything... or even the only thing... it's the single thing that determines who gets the prize..."
-- Doug Firebaugh

"You can't be a winner if you're a whiner... wiener."
-- Jeffrey Gitomer

"The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything – is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it."
-- Billie Jean King

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious."
-- Vince Lombardi

VISION

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."
-- Jonathan Swift

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams."
-- Doug Ivester

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
-- Wayne Gretzky

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them."
-- Louisa May Alcott

EDUCATION

Just as education without humanity is the most dangerous thing in the world, so education in love, human understanding and cooperation is the greatest hope in the world.
--Joy Elmer Morgan

Education should be as gradual as the moonrise, perceptible not in progress, but in result.
--Author unknown

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. --Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. 
--Sydney J. Harris


PASSION  ie: WRITING

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
--Benjamin Franklin


It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. --Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692


Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
--John Wesley

Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
--Terri Guillemets

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