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#1 by ptcscrutiny » Thu Mar 27, 2014 06:51

I'll try and post a quote daily on this topic, starting today.

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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do.
If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

- Michael Korda

#2 by oberder » Thu Mar 27, 2014 08:06

Guess I can contribute, but I'll just go overboard this time around :mrgreen:

Choose one you'd like, dear reader:

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"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." ( Arthur Ashe )

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." ( Confucius )

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now." ( Bill Cosby )

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." ( Bruce Lee )

#3 by ptcscrutiny » Fri Mar 28, 2014 00:58

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

- Louis L' Amour

#4 by oberder » Fri Mar 28, 2014 11:40

“What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

-- Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s

#5 by ptcscrutiny » Sat Mar 29, 2014 01:20

True philosophy invents nothing, it merely establishes and describes what is.

- Victor Cousin

#6 by oberder » Sat Mar 29, 2014 22:08

Quote on Perseverance:

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

-- Winston Churchill

#7 by papamike51 » Sun Mar 30, 2014 00:48

"Two simple rules to leading a happy life:

1> Don't sweat the small stuff
2> It's all small stuff"

#8 by ptcscrutiny » Sun Mar 30, 2014 03:30

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

#9 by papamike51 » Sun Mar 30, 2014 05:01

"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do never does anything" - J. Stuart Mill

#10 by mridula2011 » Sun Mar 30, 2014 20:12

Study as if you were to live forever,

Live as if you were to die tomorrow

Mahatma Gandhi

#11 by papamike51 » Sun Mar 30, 2014 21:09

"If the dinosaurs had had a space program, they would not be extinct!" Carl Sagan

#12 by ptcscrutiny » Sun Mar 30, 2014 23:51

One does not make friends. One recognises them.

- Garth Henricks

#13 by oberder » Mon Mar 31, 2014 03:39

"If we ask, we should also be prepared to give."

-- Stephen Richards

#14 by dukuntekno » Mon Mar 31, 2014 23:50

"Each time a new technology comes along, new designers make the same horrible mistakes as their predecessors. Technologists are not noted for learning from the errors of the past. They look forward, not behind, so they repeat the same problems over and over again."
- idk -

#15 by ptcscrutiny » Tue Apr 01, 2014 02:31

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

- Steve Jobs 

#16 by papamike51 » Tue Apr 01, 2014 02:42

It's easy to become a millionaire-start out as a billionaire, and then buy an airline"

Richard Branson

#17 by oberder » Tue Apr 01, 2014 06:01

"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."

-- Bob Riley

#18 by mridula2011 » Tue Apr 01, 2014 20:35

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm---

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19 by ptcscrutiny » Wed Apr 02, 2014 00:26

Each problem I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

- René Descartes

#20 by EvangelFromSky » Wed Apr 02, 2014 00:53

All people sin, but the best of committing sin, are those who repent.

Prophet Muhammed.

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