"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

Lois, George | Creativity | 4 bookmarks

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

Ford, Henry | Problems | 4 bookmarks

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."

Peale, Norman Vincent | Happiness | 2 bookmarks

"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Covey, Stephen R. | Time and Time Management | 7 bookmarks

"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

Drucker, Peter F. | Leaders and Leadership | 2 bookmarks

"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

Lasorda, Tommy | Management | 2 bookmarks

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston | Opportunity | 12 bookmarks

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."

Washington, Booker T. | Success | 1 bookmarks

"Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do."

Peale, Norman Vincent | Enthusiasm | 4 bookmarks

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

Rockefeller, John D. | Perseverance | 2 bookmarks