"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on desire
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

Franklin, Benjamin on economy and economics
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"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

Fuller, Thomas on anger
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"The words of tongue should have three gate keepers."

Proverb, Arabian on speakers and speaking   

"A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned."

Proverb, Arabian on ignorance
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"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]"

Bible on thoughts and thinking
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"When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh."

Proverb, Chinese on the future
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

Chaplin, Charlie on the future
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"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard."

Dressler, Fritz R. S. on the future
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"We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization"

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius on opportunity
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"No agency is better than its account executives."

Hite, Morris on advertising   

"INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form."

Humprey, Watts on innovation   

"No man can serve two masters. [Matthew 6:24]"

Bible on loyalty
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"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."

Burnett, Leo on dream
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"Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment."

Cezanne, Paul on present   

"No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

Beecher, Henry Ward on present
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"Today is a king in disguise."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on present   

"A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."

Ovid on time
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"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these."

Francis, Clarence on character
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"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

Carnegie, Dale on present
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"The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME."

Field, Franklin on time
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time
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"One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource."

Drucker, Peter F. on time
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"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

Eliot, T. S. on success
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

Augustine, St. on leadership
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"Talent is only the starting point."

Berlin, Irving on talent
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"I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on persuasion   

"One may go a long way after one is tired."

Proverb, French on effort   

"The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly."

Bernbach, William on persuasion
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."

Berra, Yogi on practice
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"Believe that each day that shines on you is your last."

Horace on present
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"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler."

Horace on biography
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."

Aristotle on goals
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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