Inspiration Quotes - Page 185

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

The future never just happened. It was created.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.