Quotes

Below is the collection of quotes that have appeared in issues of the newsletter.

'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.'
Thomas Edison

'Don't be too timid about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.'
R.W. Emerson

'Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.'
William Arthur Ward

'All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given us.'
Tolkien

'This time, like all times, is a very good time, if we but know what to do with it.'
R.W. Emerson

'One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.'
A. Gide

'To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.'
Leonard Bernstein

'Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life is based on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.'
Albert Einstein

'There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.'
William Somerset Maugham

'We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.'
Marcel Proust

'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.'
Albert Einstein

'The only things in life you regret are the risks that you didn't take.'
Anonymous

'Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.'
William S. Burroughs

'Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion.'
Anonymous

'All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.'
Walt Disney

'A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.'
Hugh Downs

'To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.'
Chinese proverb

'It is the long history of mankind (and animal kind too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively prevail.'
Charles Darwin

'I can live for two months on a good compliment.'
Mark Twain

'Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.'
John F. Kennedy

'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'
Samuel Beckett

'The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those who show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.'
Seth Godin

'Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.'
R. W. Emerson