Friday, 24 June 2011

Ask - Quotes

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. - Jacob Bronowski

Better ask than go astray. - Unknown

Better ask twice than lose your way once. - Unknown

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. - Seneca

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive. - Harold Whitman

I ask because I always want to be informed when I am ignorant. I always like to be put right when I am wrong. - Unknown

If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who'll advise you to do what you were going to do anyway. - Weston Smith 

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. - Bernard Mannes Baruch
 
Learn to ask for what you want... The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for — which is precisely where you were before you asked. - Peter Mcwilliams

Youve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the worlds most powerful – and neglected – secret to success and happiness. - Percy Ross

Assets - Quotes

If you count all your assets you always show a profit. - Robert Quillen

No one has a greater asset for his business than a mans pride in his work. - Hosea Ballou

Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. - Brian Tracy

Time and health are two precious assets that we dont recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. - Denis Waitley

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Attitude - Quotes

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t go anywhere until you change it. - Unknown

A bad attitude is the worst thing that can happen to a group of people. It's infectious. - Roger Allan Raby

A healthy attitude is contagious but dont wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. - Tom Stoppard

A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life. - Mandy Hale

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. - Earl Nightingale

A kick butt attitude is like a breath of fresh air that will attract opportunities. A sour attitude is like bad breath that can clear a room in a heartbeat, repelling opportunities. - Sam Glenn

A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons. - Shiv Khera

A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problems a more pleasant experience. - Grant Fairley

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst sand it sparks extraordinary results. - Wade Boggs

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

An attitude is almost like a muscle. You can chose to have a good one. Find ways to exercise it, and make it grow. - Jerry S. Beall

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. - Brian Tracy

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! - Neal Maxwell

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized. - Paul Myer

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Winston Churchill

Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. - Unknown

Attitude ... is the prophet of your future. - John C. Maxwell

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self. - John C. Maxwell

Attitude is like chalk dust – it gets on everything you touch. - Sam Glenn

Attitudes are more important than facts. - Karl Augustus Menninger

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude. - Katherine Mansfield

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. - Viktor E. Frankl

Having a positive attitude isn’t wishy washy, it’s a concrete and intelligent way to view problems, challenges and obstacles. - Jeff Moore

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you can't change your fate change your attitude. - Amy Tan 

It is often difficult to change circumstances, but a positive attitude can help lift discouragement. - Val R. Christensen

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. - William James

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it. - Epictetus

Maintain a forgiving attitude! - Tae Yun Kim

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake. - John Dewey

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jeffeson

One's attitude to any issue is determined by his/her belief about that issue. If one's belief towards an issue is unhealthy, then one's attitude toward that issue will be unhealthy. What this means is that the starting point in dealing with the problem of attitude is to deal with the belief system. - Sumbye Kapena

Our attitude towards life determines lifes attitude towards us. - John N. Mitchell 

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. - Irving Berlin

Our own attitudes always seem OK because we use an attitude to judge itself. No matter how much misery our attitudes cause, we will always defend them. - Thomas R. Blakeslee

People with a positive attitude are influenced by what goes on within them. People with a negative attitude are influenced by what goes on around them. - Keith Harrell

Possessing a great attitude is like having a secret weapon. All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude still sometimes wins. - John C. Maxwell

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. - Thomas S. Monson

Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by opportunities. - Unknown

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. - Og Mandino 

The best time to develop a lasting, positive attitude is during the good times. Consciously build on the five attitudinal pillars and use them as a catalyst to heighten your success. Don't find yourself reacting to bad times, struggling to combat low self-esteem or low self-worth. Consider this Chinese proverb: "Dig the well before you get thirsty." - Tim Breithaupt

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists. - John C. Maxwell

The first step to developing a positive attitude is to become aware of the true nature of your current attitude. This isn't always as easy as it sounds. - Roger Fritz

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. - John C. Maxwell

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. - Arthur Ashe

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Scott Hamilton

The more I experience, the more I see that so many things in our future are planned for us, I think that what isn't planned for us is our attitude, and it's our attitude that can change our lives. - Rosemary Altea

The most important attitude that can be found is the desire to go on learning. - John Dewey

The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. - Dennis Brown 

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behaviour, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours. - Beatrice Vincent -

The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes." - Zig Ziglar

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. - William J. Bennett

When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. - Epictetus

Whether your attitude is good or bad, it is what people are going to remember about you. - Unknown

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. - Charles R. Swindoll 

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude. - M. Russell Ballard

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution. - Albert Einstein

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. - William James

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail. - Robert Heller

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you. - Lee J. Colan 

You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations. - Zig Ziglar

You may be dead broke and that’s a reality, but in spirit may be brimming over with optimism, joy, and energy; the reality of your life may result from many outside factors, none of which you can control. Your attitudes, however, reflect the ways in which you evaluate what is happening. - H. Stanley Judd

Your attitude colours every aspect of your life. It is like the mind's paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colours – creating a masterpiece. Or it can make everything dark and dreary. - John C. Maxwell

Your attitude determines how you experience the world. - Sanaya Roman

Your attitude is either in the way, on the way, or creating a way. - Sam Glenn

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that colour your world. Constantly colour your picture grey, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colours to the picture by including humour, and your picture begins to lighten up. - Allen Klein

Your attitude is like a mirror. The attitude you give out is the same attitude you will get back. - Justin Herald

Your attitude is like the engine that runs the car. The more finely tuned that engine is, the better the car will run. - Keith Harrell

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent. - Stephanie Dowrick

Your attitude toward life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent. - Rev. Dr. Stephanie Dowrick

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. - Zig Ziglar

Quote Worthy


There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them. - Matthew Henry

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education. - John Locke 

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves. - Stephen R. Covey

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. - Robert Baden-Powell

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Kahlil Gibran

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian Tracy

Man has come to control all other forms of life because he has taken more time in which to grow up; when he takes still more time, and spends this time more wisely, he may learn to control and remake himself. - Will Durant

The man who is worthy of being “a leader of men” will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. - William J. H. Boetcker

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Happiness, Joy and Equanimity


I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquillity without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself. - Sir Hugh Walpole 

Joy is an attitude; it is the presence of love – for self and others. It comes from a feeling of inner peace, the ability to give and receive, and appreciation of the self and others. It is a state of gratitude and compassion, a feeling of connection to your higher self. - Anonymous

Equanimity is the best antidote for both pessimism and optimism. Equanimity is even-ness of mind and not sullen indifference. It is the result of a calm, concentrated mind. It is hard, indeed, to be undisturbed when touched by the vicissitudes of life, but the man who cultivates equanimity is not upset. - K. Sri Dhammananda 

Autumn / Seasons - Quotes

A moral is attached to autumnal scenes: leaves falling like our years, flowers fading like our hours, clouds fleeting like our illusions, light diminishing like our intelligence, and the sun growing colder like our affections. - Chateaubriand

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be. - Henry Parry Liddon

Autumn ... painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. - Sharon Kay Penman

Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile. - William Cullen Bryant

Autumn is a bittersweet time, a reminder that in life there is death and in death life. - Marcia Bonta

Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

Autumn is the final trick in nature's year-long magic show: It masks death with a spectacular display of beauty. - Keith Hansen

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler

Fall has always been my favourite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. - Lauren Destefano

I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs. - Jerome L. K. Jerome

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. - D. H. Lawrence

It’s autumn … and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then. - D. H. Lawrence

No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace, as I have seen in one Autumnal face. - John Donne

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider. - Jane Hirshfield

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination. - Joe L. Wheeler

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Food For Thought


I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. - Margaret Mitchell

The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world’s great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity. - Alfred Montapert

While it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfilment in being ordinary – for the joys that last have little relationship to achievement. The sun rises and sets in glorious colour over every square inch of the earth, in full view of every living creature. You do not have to jump higher than anyone else to see it. - Unknown

Monday, 20 June 2011

Seeing Without Eyes


Ben Underwood's amazing ability. And I thought this is only possible with Marvel comic heroes.

http://www.wimp.com/seeingwithout/

Sunday, 19 June 2011

Life


Life is a festival only to the wise. Unknown

Where a man can live, he can also live well. - Marcus Aurelius 

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. - Jean Toomer 

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all. - Samuel Gilmore

Everyone’s life is an object lesson to others. - Karl G. Maeser

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by. - Lou Holtz

The quality of life is determined by its activities. - Aristotle

Your life is what your thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. - Zeno 

To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. - Robert Heinlein

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain. - Joseph Addison

The life so short, the craft so long to learn. - Hippocrates 

We live but a fraction of our lives. - Henry David Thoreau 

There is more to life than increasing is speed. - Gandhi

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. - Seneca

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - William Cowper

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Seneca

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. - Cicero

The less routine the more life. - Amos Bronson Alcott

While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca

The difficulty in life is the choice. - George Moore

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

Saturday, 18 June 2011

Love


Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow. - Sir James Matthew Barrie

I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. - M. Scott Peck 

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. - Diane Ackerman

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. - Barbara De Angelis

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. - Og Mandino

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. - Henry Drummond

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. - Thornton Wilder 

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. - Leanna L. Bartram

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. - Robert Burton

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. - Morrie Schwartz

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves. - Ralph W. Sockman

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive. - Orlando A. Battista

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all. - Michael Masser And Linda Creed

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Amy Carmichael

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. - Alexandre Dumas