January 2009
14 posts
You Are Not Using Your Talents
“Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.” -Maxwell Maltz
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have; that which we hoard is not for ourselves.” -Dorothee DeLuzy
You have to believe in yourself
“You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world.” -Charlie Chaplin
Anyone know a good affiliate program for a good self-improvement product? Looking for one to offer to my list.
“Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.” -Bob Richards
“Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.” -Charles Parkhurst
Which You Is True?
“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” -Charles F. Kettering
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” -Langston Huges
Work Can Be Lively
“You may know for a certainty that if your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you; for work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as big as you are.” -George Hubbs
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“I like work, it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” -Jerome K. Jerome
Resiliency Is A Significant Trait
“Resiliency is a significant trait of those who navigate well from birth to old age. Resilient people are like a twig with a fresh, green, living core…they bend but do not break; they spring back and continue growing.” -George Vaillant
Here’s one for your 2009 resolutions: “Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.” -John Burroughs