Quotes - August 2007
- Tuesday, 28 August 2007
- "Rule No. 1: Use your own good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules."
--Bruce, Jim and John Nordstrom,
co-presidents of Nordstrom department store, in the employee handbook
- Monday, 27 August 2007
- "Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."
--Leon J. Suenes,
writer
- Friday, 24 August 2007
- "Humor is just another defense against the universe."
--Mel Brooks,
comedian, film maker
- Friday, 17 August 2007
- "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
--Robert Louis Stevenson,
Scottish novelist and poet
- Tuesday, 14 August 2007
- "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
--Robert Frost,
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Monday, 13 August 2007
- "Vanity began to whisper to me that I was of some importance, and my beloved tutor warned me against its siren power."
--Rebecca Webb Lukens,
first female CEO of a U.S. industrial company
- Friday, 10 August 2007
- "A word to the wise ain't necessary; it's the stupid ones who need the advice."
--Bill Cosby,
actor and comedian
- Thursday, 09 August 2007
- "You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day."
--Ken Griffey Jr.,
professional baseball player
- Monday, 06 August 2007
- "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
--Lorraine Hansberry,
writer and playwright
- Friday, 03 August 2007
- "The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
--Herbert Agar,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Thursday, 02 August 2007
- "I've learned that failure preceded success, and the right decisions are an extension of the wrong ones."
--Alex Spanos,
founder of A.G. Spanos Cos.
