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“Failing to plan is planning to fail”
― Alan Lakein

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
― Leon C. Megginson

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
― Henry Ford

“An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.”
― Joel Spolsky

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
― Paul Hawken

“When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.”
― Michael Patrick King

“Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.”
― Kathleen Norris

“The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.”
― Kirby Larson

“We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.”
― Doc Searls

“Well done is better than well said.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
― Charles Du Bos

“I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”
― Joanna Field

“It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.”
― Philip Adams

“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal.”
― Walt Disney

“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.”
― Edna Ferber

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
― Benjamin Brewster

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”
― George Eliot

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.”
― Evelyn Rodriguez

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Drive thy business or it will drive thee.”
― Benjamin Franklin