Turning Failure Into..

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

Who May Learn?

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

Distance from Anger

Don’t react when someone vents anger. Pretend you are watching from a distance.

Honest Signals

An MIT professor says he can read how much nervous energy you have by hooking you up to what he calls a “sociometer”. It’s a gadget that tracks nonverbal interactions. In one experiment, Sandy Pentland used it to predicte how well business plan pitches would be received just by looking at the tone of voice used to pitch the plan. Bottom line: It’s easy to mistake charisma for content. Pentland writes about the findings in his new book Honest Signals.

Let Today Be Today

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today!

The Source of Failure

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

Adding Things Up

Count your blessings, not your troubles.

The Pie

What interests of your adversity overlap with your own? Expand the pie before you divide it.

Developing Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Hellen Keller

Your Future

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

A Person of Character shows..

Availablity

Flexibility

Teachability

Dependability

Best Things

The best things in life aren't things.

A Barometer of Character

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren

Cruelty

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine

Qualifications

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
Frank J. Giblin