Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

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Most of you know by now that my daughter is recovering from Cancer, three years cancer free, and decided during chemotherapy that she was going to do what she planned to do if she survived her bout with cancer. Well so far so good after three years cancer free.

Her passion has always been writing. She published poetry in several magazines during her stay at University. So since her bout with cancer she started writing with a purpose. Her first effort was a short series of poems call “Songs from the Road”. Then came the “Cancer Free Gourmet’ a self help book for cancer patients dealing with the loss of taste. Then she hit the fiction with a book called “Blessings”. Now comes the sequel called “Damnation.”

To any of you who have a kindle or access to “ebooks” these are all wonderful to read even if I am Caroline’s father.

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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

Impatience never commanded success.

Edwin H. Chapin

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

American Proverb

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Madame Curie

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world..

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Well begun is half done

Aristotle

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Herbert Otto

God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

Swedish Proverb

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The energy of the mind is the true essence of life.

Aristotle

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Al Bernstein

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

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The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Mark Caine

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

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I thought this Friday I would share with you some “Sleeism’s” or “when in doubt thoughts…”

Always assume the other person is twice as smart as you are and work twice as hard to prove they aren’t.

Be happy in your work or work and be happy. You have no choice you have to work.

Never forget:-

  • People want to do a good job
  • People can do more than they think they can
  • People are fundamentally lazy

What you do when you are alone or when no one is looking….. That is your character, morality and ethics.

We must all feel some sense of value, we are here for a reason

  • We must leave a mark
  • That requires us to be able to measure our own progress on a daily basis
  • We must feel relevant, no matter in what manner.

Remember Kipling. “If you can keep your head while all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. You will be a man my son.”

It is never too early to start winning. It is always too early to start losing.

It is hard to soar with the eagles if you are up late at night with the turkeys.

Man is like the turtle, you have to stick your neck out to get ahead.

Schedules are difficult but… mankind cannot deliver a baby in one month by having nine men impregnate the same woman.

Give more stress than you receive

You can slide further on BS than you can on sand.

Life is quite simple. It is people that screw it up.

Depression is nothing more than anger turned inward.

Before you can be of any value to anyone else you must be of value to yourself.

 

Which all concludes with

  • Ignorance is not knowing what to do.
  • Stupidity is know what to do but not doing it
  • Insanity is continuing to do what you have always done expecting different results.

 

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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Dean Acheson

We can do no great things – only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

 

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Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

 

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