A collection of quotes, sayings, lessons, insights await you...
All of these are to be used as teachable moments...
A word spoken at the right time creates a breakthrough...
Almost 30 years of listening will be found in these pages...
"When the teacher is ready, the student appears." -Lao Tzu
The Bull Fight
"To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something."
The Crisis Shows
"Great occassions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crises shows what we have become." -Brooke Foss Westcott
The Dangerous Men
"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it reality." -T.E. Lawrence
Perfection
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Best
"When we seek to discover the best in others,
we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
-William Arthur Ward
Dream Reality
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” Douglas H. Everitt
Time, what is it?
Time is a series of events.
What is the meaning of life?
"The meaning of life is a life of meaning."
Vision
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?"
I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?" .
- George Bernard Shaw
“Arriving at one goal is a starting point to another.” -John Dewey
“Our visions begin with our desires.” –Audre Lorde
“The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.”
“Each moment is a place you’ve never been before.”
The Future
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
-Abraham Lincoln
Recognition
"If I am seen too much, people will cease to recognize me."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The Arena
While some wonderful things can happen in this game, it can also be
filled with adversity. Even though we like to think that if we work hard,
positive results will follow, obviously, that doesn’t necessarily always
happen. But if the challenges the game presents weren’t difficult, it
wouldn’t be worth playing. That’s why one of the wonderful life lessons
of athletics is that success itself shouldn’t be the ultimate reward--because
there are a lot of people who work incredibly hard and never "make
it". What is important, above all, is being in the arena. -Anson Dorrance
