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The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

We came here to serve not be served.

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

When rejecting the ideas of another, make sure you reject only the idea and not the person.

When one door closes another one opens with great possibilities ahead

When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

Don't gag people with welfare, they'll never make an effort.

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

Don't worry about the intensity and direction of the putt -- until you get on the green!

Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

Watch your thoughts, they become your words Watch your words, they become your actions Watch your actions, they become your habits Watch your habits, they become your character Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Every chance taken is another chance to win.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

As the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friend's are the ones walking in.

Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?

The three most important factors in buying a home are, location, location, location!

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

We must be prepared to be part of the cure and not remain part of the problem.

We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.

The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

you have to beat the best to be the best

You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are cleaver people.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

Some people develop eye strain looking for trouble

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.

SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE/REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively and is greatly influenced by the self-talk (I knew I wasn't good at -X vs. next time I'll practice and do better at -X).

Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.