Friday, March 17, 2006
Bits and Pieces
PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
"If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy." -- Jim Rohn
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -- Oprah Winfrey
"Take your job seriously, BUT don't take their complaints personally. If you take it personally you'll get upset and lose your edge. If you take it too personally, you'll lose your edge and your job. If you take it seriously -- it's you with them. If you take it personally, it's you against them. What steps can you take to ensure keeping your cool?" -- Jeffrey Gitomer
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
Progress is our ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
Explorer and anthropologist
Any solution to a problem changes the problem.
R. W. Johnson
Journalist and newspaper executive
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
Customer Service and Love:
"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy."
-- Jim Rohn
"How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this…start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'."
-- Jeffrey Gitomer
"Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door."
-- Denis Waitley
"Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times."
--Brian Tracy
and this one’s on LOVE
Where you love somebody a whole lot, and you know that person loves you, that's the most beautiful place in the world.
Ann Cameron
The Most Beautiful Place In The World
You will find as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond (1851-1897)
Clergyman and writer
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005
MESSAGE FROM THE MASTERS:
"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."
-- Emily Dickinson
"Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all."
-- Harvey Mackay
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder."
-- William Joseph Slim
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Friday, April 29, 2005
MIRACLES & KINDNESS
"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable." -- Margaret Storm Jameson
"The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall... The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world." -- Malcolm Margolin
"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness." -- Percival
"Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles."
-- Bob Richards
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
-- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
Poet and essayist
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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
-- Robert Brault
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Learning & Character
"I do not think
much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"All who have meditated on the art of governing
mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education
of youth."
-- Aristotle
"It is possible to store the mind with
a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
-- Alec Bourne
"The one real object of education is to
have a man in the condition of continually asking questions."
-- Bishop Mandell Creighton
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The actions of men
are like the index of a book--they point out what is most remarkable in
them. Author unknown
Will Rogers (1879-1935) |