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The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
Topic: Women
Author: Congreve
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.
Topic: Success
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Topic: Affection
Author: Aristotle
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Topic: Ability
Nothing recedes like success.
Expect people to do better than they are..it helps them to become better; but, don't be disappointed when they are not- it helps them to keep trying.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
Topic: Advice
Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.
Topic: Islands
Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 If one thing is clear as soon as the Church becomes serious about its missionary and ministerial calling for the world, it is that two difficult roads in particular have to be trodden: first, the road towards overcoming the scantiness of its knowledge of the world of today, and its ignoring of what really goes on in the world under its surface; secondly, the road towards reforming its spirit, atmosphere, and inherited structure, in so far as they give no room for new vitality... What can and must be said and resaid, with all gratitude for what in many places is already happening, is that a fearless scrutiny and revision of structure is one of the most urgent aspects of a renewal of the Church.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Topic: Age
Author: Doug Larson
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
Topic: Teaching
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field.
Topic: Rain
Author: Edwin Arnold
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
Author: Ouida
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Topic: Feelings
Author: Audre Lorde
Rob me the exchequer. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves.