STREET LIFE - quotes_from_the_masters

Bits and Pieces

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:11:51 +0800

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

Customer Service and Love:

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:27:11 +0800

"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

MESSAGE FROM THE MASTERS:

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:03:48 +0800

RISK-TAKING

"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

MIRACLES & KINDNESS

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:55:14 +0800

"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

Learning & Character

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:35:00 +0800

"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

The actions of men are like the index of a book--they point out what is most remarkable in them.

Author unknown

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Humorist

EXCELLENCE

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:30:00 +0800

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." -- Eddie Robinson

"Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing you best." -- Sir Laurence Olivier

"The next time a customer in your store needs to know where something is -- pick your ass up and show them. Walk them there -- WOW them, sell them what they want, then sell them something extra. Rule -- Show, don't tell." -- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." -- Pat Riley

and here's about GROWTH:

We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't.
Frank A. Clark

Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984)
Journalist

EMOTIONS

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:05:00 +0800

"Anger is one letter short of danger!"
-- Denis Waitley

"Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves."
-- Brian Tracy

"Many of us try to sell our products through logic and only through logic. Remember this: Seldom do people buy logically. They buy emotionally, then defend their decisions with logic. Find ways to get them emotionally involved with your product or service."
-- Tom Hopkins

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

DREAM BIG DREAMS

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:05:00 +0800

"Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on."
-- Denis Waitley

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." -- Orison Swett Marden

"All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."
-- Dr. Jonas Salk