Enlightening Experience

"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."

---Michael Einsner, Executive

Workmanship

"Make the workmanship surpass the materials."
--Ovid, Poet

The ability to think

"During my 87 year, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done awaywith the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
Bernard Baruch , financier

Whoever gave his best

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

----George Halas

What is right for you

"When everybody tells you that you are being idealistic or impractical, consider the possibility that everybody could be wrong about what is right about you."

---Gilbert Kaplan

"Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better."

--- Edgar Howe

One reason why I can

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

-- Willis R. Whitney

Things you learn best in calm

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
---Willa Cather, Author

Life attractions

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions"

Albert Einstein. Physicist

Full value of joy

"To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with "
Mark Twain. Author

Set higher standards for your own performance

"Set higher standards for your own performace than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard. because you'll be competing with yourself."
By Rick Pitino.

Walk with a vision

Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand, Novelist

The will to create great things

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed
Vincent van Gogh, Artist

A stepping stone to the optimist

"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist."
Eleonor Roosevelt, Former First Lady

How to make impossible possible

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are now doing the impossible."
Francis of Assisi, clergyman