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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

– Unknown

Attitude

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the

most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most

patient of teachers.”– Charles W. Eliot

Books

“Creativity is inventing,experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making

mistakes, having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook

Creativity

Confidence

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from

not fearing to be wrong.”

– Peter T. McIntyre

“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.”

Democracy

– David Ben-Gurion

Decision

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Events will take their course, it is no good

of being angry at them.”

Events

– Euripides

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

Excellence

– Booker T. Washington

Future

– Charles F. Kettering

“My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the

rest of my life there.”

“Give to every human being every right that you claim

for yourself.”

Give

– Robert Ingersoil

“History is gossip but, scandal is gossip made tedious

by morality.”

– Oscar Wilde

History

“Hold a true friend with both hands.”

– Nigerian Proverb

Hold

“I think, therefore I am.”

– Descartes

I

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you

desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

– George Bernard Shaw

Imagination

“Intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do, when we have to grope rather

than using a standard response.”– Jean Piaget

Intelligence

Journalism“Journalism largely consists in saying ‘Lord Jones is dead’ to

people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”

– G. K. Chesterton

“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing oneself is

enlightenment.”

– Lao Tzu

Knowing

“Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.”

– Alvin Toffler

Knowledge

“Learning is weightless, a treasure you can

always carry easily.”

– Chinese Proverb

Learning

Library

“A library is a hospital for the mind.”

– Unknown

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Luck

“Man ruins things much more with his words than

with his silence.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

Man

“Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it.

Women sell their bodies for it.”

– Joseph Pulitzer

Money

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”

Nature

– Mark Twain

“I don't so much mind thatnewspapers are dying - its

watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”

– Molly Ivins

Newspaper

“Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a

teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.”

Optimism

– Unknown

"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”

– Voltaire

Originality

“People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge.”

– Belasco & Stayer

People

“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as

a contest of principles.”– Ambrose Bierce

Politics

“None is poor save him that lacks knowledge.”

– The Talmud

Poverty

“Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality

will not bring quality.”

– W. Edwards Deming

Quality

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the

wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

– Seneca

Religion

“Silence never won rights. They are not handed down

from above; they are forced by pressures from below.”

Silence

– Roger Baldwin

“Success is the prize for those who stand true

to their ideas.”– Josh S. Hinds

Success

“If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you’ll eventually be accused

of treason.”– Mort Sahl

Treason

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

– Stephen R. Covey

Understanding

– Ross Perot

Vision

“Seeing is auditing life. Vision is interpreting life so

that others may see it.”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to

public office.”– Aesop

We

“Words are the voice of the heart.”

– Confucius

Words

“Worry is the interest paid on trouble, before it falls due.”

– W.R. Inge

Worry

“You are what you think about all day long.”

– Dr. Robert Schuller

You

“Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind.”

– Douglas Mac Arthur

Youth

“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is

but human, the latter is divine”

– Hosea Ballou

Zeal

Hilary Richard Sam

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