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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 10/01/00 | "Time ripens all things. No man's born wise." - Cervantes |
| 10/02/00 | "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them." - Marcel Proust |
| 10/03/00 | "To live is so startling it leaves time for little else." - Emily Dickinson |
| 10/04/00 | "Longevity conquers scandal every time." - Shelby Foote |
| 10/05/00 | "One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." - Michael Cibenko |
| 10/06/00 | "If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton |
| 10/07/00 | "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim |
| 10/08/00 | "Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far." - Euripides |
| 10/09/00 | "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Josh Billings |
| 10/10/00 | "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
| 10/11/00 | "Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question." - Niels Bohr |
| 10/12/00 | "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it." - Confucius |
| 10/13/00 | "Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them" - Jules Verne |
| 10/14/00 | "To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so." - Alexander Pope |
| 10/15/00 | "Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, because they are true." - Luigi Pirandello |
| 10/16/00 | "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers |
| 10/17/00 | "No man is quite sane. Each has a vein of folly in his composition--a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which he has taken to heart." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 10/18/00 | "They are able because they think they are able." - Virgil |
| 10/19/00 | "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." - Wilson Mizner |
| 10/20/00 | "Not because of an extraordinary talent did he succeed, but because he had a capacity of a level for business and not above it." - Tacitus |
| 10/21/00 | "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." - Baruch Spinoza |
| 10/22/00 | "To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence." - Samuel Smiles |
| 10/23/00 | "A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated." - Seneca |
| 10/24/00 | "It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well." - George Santayana |
| 10/25/00 | "Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work." - John G. Pollard |
| 10/26/00 | "Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement." - Donald A. Laird |
| 10/27/00 | "A man with ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything." - Donald Kircher |
| 10/28/00 | "Skill and confidence are an unconquered army." - George Herbert |
| 10/29/00 | "If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 10/30/00 | "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. " - English Proverb |
| 10/31/00 | "What I need is someone who will make me do what I can." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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