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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock. ~Graham Greene & Orson Wells, The Third Man, movie
Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. ~Author Unknown
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~Harry S. Truman
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. ~George Lucas
The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. ~Will Smith
Out of the strain of the doing,
Into the peace of the done.
~Julia Woodruff, Gone
The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. ~Jennifer Yane
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926
Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~Jon Bon Jovi, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," September 2002
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. ~Henry Ford, Sr.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ~Peter Drucker
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. ~Author Unknown
In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. ~B. Zander, The Art of Possibility
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ~Elbert Hubbard
We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were. ~Natash Jasefowitz
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. ~John Dewey
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ~George Bernard Shaw
If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ~Author Unknown
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
When the horse is dead, get off. ~Author Unknown
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller
When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" 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
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson
