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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2011 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
02/01/11"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." - Lena Horne
02/02/11"When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too." - Jake Steinfeld
02/03/11"If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example." - Ingvar Kamprad
02/04/11"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." - Neil Armstrong
02/05/11"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition." - Jose Bergamin
02/06/11"Whatever you do, you must remain nimble in your thinking. Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility." - Christopher Paolini
02/07/11"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those 'truths' we once believed." - Friedrich Nietzsche
02/08/11"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
02/09/11"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world." - Max Born
02/10/11"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - George Bernard Shaw
02/11/11"Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more." - William Scott Downey
02/12/11"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable." - Voltaire
02/13/11"Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words.Keep your words positive, because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive, because your behavior become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny." - Mahatma Gandhi
02/14/11"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!" - Thomas Hood
02/15/11"Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall." - David Myers
02/16/11"Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of the venture." - William James
02/17/11"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
02/18/11"Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be." - Wolfgang Hildesheimer
02/19/11"The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes." - Henry David Thoreau
02/20/11"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allen Poe
02/21/11"We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better." - J. K. Rowling
02/22/11"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight." - Jane Austen
02/23/11"You're born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason
02/24/11"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde from Dumby, in Lady Windermere’s Fan, act 3 (1893)
02/25/11"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." - Sam Walton
02/26/11"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well." - Dwight Eisenhower
02/27/11"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone." - Henrik Ibsen
02/28/11"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein [Attribution Challenged]


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