Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Turning Failure Into..

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

Monday, October 27, 2008

Who May Learn?

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

Friday, October 24, 2008

Distance from Anger

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

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Let Today Be Today

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

Monday, October 20, 2008

The Source of Failure

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

Friday, October 17, 2008

Adding Things Up

Count your blessings, not your troubles.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Pie

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

Monday, October 13, 2008

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

Friday, October 10, 2008

Your Future

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

A Person of Character shows..

Availablity

Flexibility

Teachability

Dependability

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Best Things

The best things in life aren't things.

Monday, October 6, 2008

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

Friday, October 3, 2008

Cruelty

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

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Qualifications

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