Quotes - April 2007

Sunday, 01 April 2007

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise."
--James Russell Lowell,
poet and writer

Tuesday 03 April 2007

"Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced."
--Barbara Tuchman,
historian and writer

Wednesday, 04 April 2007

"When you step into a turnaround situation, you can safely assume four things: morale is low, fear is high, the good people are halfway out the door, and the slackers are hiding."
--Nina Disesa,
as chairwoman of McCann-Erickson Worldwide

Friday, 06 April 2007

"Look at all the positives and negatives of a situation, and then go back to one thing -- what your heart tells you."
--Chris Weinke,
Heisman Trophy winner, professional football player

Saturday, 07 April 2007

"He who angers you conquers you."
--Elizabeth Kenny,
Australian nurse

Wednesday, 11 April 2007

"My advice is find a niche and then become the best there is in that field."
--Darla Moore,
vice president of Rainwater Inc.

Thursday, 12 April 2007

"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath."
--Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart,
columnist

Monday, 16 April 2007

"My parents always told us to find out what we were good at and not worry about what others think."
--Lornah Kiplagat,
Dutch-Kenyan long-distance runner

Wednesday, 18 April 2007

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
--Michael Altshuler,
professional leadership coach

Thursday, 19 April 2007

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."
--Audrey Hepburn,
Academy Award-winning actress, humanitarian

Friday, 20 April 2007

"You don't have to win to be a winner."
--Duke Snider,
Major League baseball player

Saturday, 21 April 2007

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."
--George Lucas,
film writer-director-producer

Monday, 24 April 2007

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
--C. S. Lewis,
Irish author

Tuesday, 25 April 2007

"It's better to waste money than it is to waste time. You can always get more money."
--Hal Sparks,
actor and comedian

Thursday, 26 April 2007

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
poet

Monday, 30 April 2007

"I cannot give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody."
--Herbert B. Swope,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist