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Daily Quotes 3/31

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“I practice every day. I’ve been doing it since I was eight.”

Herb Alpert (1935- ), American musician, trumpet player.

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Daily Quotes 3/30

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“How can I then be useful, of what service can I be!
There is something inside me, what can it be?”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Dutch artist.
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, 125.

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Daily Quotes 3/29

Posted in Daily Quote, tagged , , on March 29, 2009 | Comments Off

“Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.”

Attributed to: Sam Walton (1918-1992), American businessman,
entrepreneur, founder of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club.

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Daily Quotes 3/28

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“Remember that you have only one soul;
that you have only one death to die;
that you have only one life. . . .If you do this,
there will be many things about which you care nothing.”

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) Spanish mystic,
Carmelite nun, writer of the Counter Reformation.

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The Bridges and Barricades Story

Posted in Business, leadership, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 27, 2009 | Comments Off

A Lesson in Leadership
by Gary Lear — Global Managing Director, Development Beyond Learning
The team leader of a group of engineers looked across the desk at the people in the team he managed. “If only I could treat these people as I do my designs and work out a logical way of solving their problems, [...]

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Daily Quotes 3/27

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“if you’re 40 years old and you’ve never had a failure,
you’ve been deprived.”

Gloria Swanson (1899-1983), American actress.
Swanson on Swanson: An Autobiography, 1981.

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Professional Attitude

Posted in Clancy's Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Series: The ABC’s of Professionalism
“Professionalism” is one of those words that’s rather hard to define. Consequently, people have different viewpoints on what characteristics constitute professionalism. Let’s explore.
“Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will [...]

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Daily Quotes 3/26

Posted in Daily Quote, tagged , , on March 26, 2009 | Comments Off

“…everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude
in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one’s own way.”

Viktor Emil Frankl (1905-1997), Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist,
Holocaust survivor. Man’s Search for Meaning, 1959.

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Daily Quotes 3/25

Posted in Daily Quote, tagged , , on March 25, 2009 | Comments Off

“There are people who make things happen,
there are people who watch things happen, and
there are people who wonder what happened.
To be successful,
you need to be a person who makes things happen.”

Attributed to: James A. Lovell (1928- ),
former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain.

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Daily Quotes 3/24

Posted in Daily Quote, tagged , , on March 24, 2009 | Comments Off

“People do not believe lies because they have to,
but because they want to.”

Attributed to: Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990), British journalist,
author, media personality, Christian convert.

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