Future Shock The shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. Alvin Tofler Gravitation Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love! Albert Einstein Something's Missing Hello!! Is there anybody in there? Pink Floyd Extraordinarily Patient I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. Margaret Thatcher Recalibration I can tell that I've hit the wall at work and I need to recalibrate my life, when I can no longer empathize with others. Kirby Dyess, Intel Are You Creative? To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Clinton Pearce We are ... what? We are what we repeatedly do ... repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit! Aristotle Negative or Positive We have been taught that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic Susan Jeffries We know what happens ... We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Aneurin Bevan What I fear more ... What I fear more about stress is not that it kills, but that it prevents one from savoring life! Jean-Louis Sevan-Schreiber We're drowning ... We're drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. John Naisbitt When I Was Young When I was young, I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw When you come to ... When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra When was the last time ... When was the last time you saw a tombstone with SAT scores inscribed on it? Edward B. Fiske Whenever I have to ... Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before. Mae West Whether You Believe Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're right! Henry Ford Work Expands Work expands to fill the available for its completion C. Northcote Parkinson Work is no longer ... Work is no longer a place. Jarma Allila, Chairman and CEO of Nokia You Can Observe You can observe a lot by watching. Yogi Berra You take people ... You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Jeanette Rankin According to Experts According to experts, the average American, in his or her lifetime, spends three years in meetings, eight months opening junk mail, two years on the telephone and one year looking for misplaced items. According to ... According to Information Week (September 6, 1993), the annual productivity loss by U S businesses due to employees playing computer games was an estimated 100 billion dollars ... which worked out to be 2% of the domestic product at the time. And that was 1993, folks! A man always has ... A man always has two reasons for what he does - a good one, and the real one. J P Morgan A plan is a list of ... A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. John Argetti To Be What a man can be, he must be. Abraham Harold Maslow When? And if not now, when? Talmud At the age of six ... At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Salvadore Dali Balance isn't ... Balance isn't either/or; it's and. Stephen R. Covey Discovery consists ... Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi Do Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda I always wanted ... I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin Don't compromise ... Don't compromise yourself, honey. You're all you've got. Janis Joplin Even if ... Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers Follow Your Heart Follow your heart. Any other path leads to someone else's dream. Lyn Christian Fast Acting Relief For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. Lily Tomlin Time Waster I don't waste time thinking, Am I doing it right? I ask, Am I doing it? Georgette Mosbacher The Same Goal I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world. Madonna Louise Ciccone I refuse ... I refuse to accept the idea that the is-ness of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the ought-ness that forever confronts him. Martin Luther King, Jr. I've Learned I've learned that the great challenge of life is to decide what's important and to disregard everything else. Anonymous To Die For If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr Git What You Got If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. Anonymous Taking Control If you don't take control of your life, don't complain when others do. Beth Mende Conny Mistake It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Sir Winston Churchill Where did you come from? It isn't where you came from, it's where you're going that counts. Ella Fitzgerald It's not a question ... It's not a question of your talent or brilliance. The question is what are you doing in every moment to support or destroy it? Diana Castle Not a matter of ... It's not so much how busy you are, but why are you busy? The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. Mary O'Connor Your Life It's your life. Why should other people decide how you live? Air Force Advertisement Killing Time Killing time takes practice. Karen Elizabeth Gordon How Life is Lived Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard Life and Adventure Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. Helen Keller Love and the World Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. Sean Connery What is Luck? Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey Can Do Anything! My parents always told me I could do anything but never told me how long it would take. Rita Rudner New Ideas Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size. Oliver Wendall Holmes Paralysis Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. Douglas Coupland Outside, Inside Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx Panic and Other Things Rushing, frantic, panic ... it took me a long time to realize that these are not necessarily the way life is. Anonymous Berra Sense Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting. Yogi Berra How about Success? Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. Malcolm Forbes The Best Way The best way to increase your authority is to delegate it. Paul Meyer The Main Thing The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Stephen R. Covey Ghost of a Past The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. Bill Cosby JFK said ... The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. John F. Kennedy Heart's Desire There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your hearts desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw Wisdom from Broadway There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today. Rent Mattering Most Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. Goethe Those who are blessed ... Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. Mary Kay Ash