Thursday, March 31, 2005
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
- Isaac Asimov -
- Isaac Asimov -
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet -
- Anne Bradstreet -
Friday, March 25, 2005
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
- W. Somerset Maugham -
- W. Somerset Maugham -
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
- Alan Alda -
- Alan Alda -
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
- Epictetus -
- Epictetus -
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sidney J. Harris -
- Sidney J. Harris -
Friday, March 18, 2005
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
- Ben Jonson -
- Ben Jonson -
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
- Herbert Bayard Swope -
- Herbert Bayard Swope -
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
- Michael Hanson -
- Michael Hanson -
Monday, March 14, 2005
Friday, March 11, 2005
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin -
- Anais Nin -
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
-Mark Twain -
-Mark Twain -
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady -
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady -
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley -
- Aldous Huxley -
Monday, March 07, 2005
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Daniel H. Burnham -
- Daniel H. Burnham -
Friday, March 04, 2005
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker -
- Eddie Rickenbacker -
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
- Lady Bird Johnson -
- Lady Bird Johnson -
