From The Masters

*PROBLEM SOLVING

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

-- Denis Waitley

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

-- Theodore Rubin

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds..."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

"To solve any problem, there are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, whom could I ask?"

-- Jim Rohn

 

 

 

 

 

*PRIORITIES

"Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it."

-- Stephen Covey

"Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things."

-- Jim Rohn

"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right."

-- Confucius

"What are the most important things you do, measured by their long-term consequences?"

-- Brian Tracy

 

 

 

 

*Quotations

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
~ Benjamin Franklin




 More Quotations by Franklin

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In Athens, life is lived at one speed: full-throtttle. To make the most of this thoroughly modern yet thrillingly ancient city, you must take to the streets and embrace the chaos in the Athenian way - with passion.
- Andy Harris

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 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Maya Angelou




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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

- TonyHartl

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Life is like a mirror ...what we put into it is what's reflected back to us.
- Debi Blacklidge

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We know what Japan looked like on Aug. 15, 1945. We will certainly overcome this [time]. - Unfortunately, we have a sad history. Without any chauvinism, we are the most sensitive people in the world about the negative side of [nuclear power]. But we need to live with the positive side of the coin of nuclear energy, too.
- Kaoru Ishikawa, Japan's ambassador to Canada - referring to Japan's surrender to the Allies after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.- interview at the Japanese consulate in Montreal on Wednesday

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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey

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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
- Barbara de Angelis

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I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
- Leo C. Rosten

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If there's any way they can walk to the office, they'd rather do that. They don't want to live here and shop there and work over there.
- Robert Koch, German physician, 1843-1910