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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2012 Archive

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09/01/12"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." - Henry Ward Beecher
09/02/12"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
09/03/12"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
09/04/12"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience." - Henry Miller
09/05/12"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster." - Theodore Roosevelt
09/06/12"It is better to live rich than to die rich." - Samuel Johnson
09/07/12"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves." - Rollo May
09/08/12"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing." - Cicero
09/09/12"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - E.E. Cummings
09/10/12"Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept. " - Ken Blanchard
09/11/12"Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo. No day shall erase you from the memory of time." - Quote by Virgil at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
09/12/12"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
09/13/12"One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." - Woodrow Wilson
09/14/12"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people." - Paulo Freire
09/15/12"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails." - John Maxwell
09/16/12"If you really want people to respond to your leadership, you have to have a personal relationship with them. They need to know you're dependable and that you'll be there if they have a problem. That's personal power to me." - Noreen Haffner
09/17/12"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." - Joseph Addision
09/18/12"If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - W. Somerset Maugham
09/19/12"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." - Bible, 1st Timothy 6:10
09/20/12"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekhov
09/21/12"We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems." - John Rollwagen
09/22/12"The only test of leadership is that somebody follows." - Robert K. Greenleaf
09/23/12"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
09/24/12"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." - Marian Wright Edelman
09/25/12"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Henry Haskins
09/26/12"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." - Daniel Burnham
09/27/12"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." - Thomas Jefferson
09/28/12"Believe in those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide
09/29/12"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
09/30/12"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein


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