Tireless Minorities

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. - Samuel Adams


The vocal minority will always be a factor, no matter which side you are on.

Knowledge ≠ Wisdom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Sandra Carey


Why you should always be wary of an experts opinion outside their realm of expertise.

Size Doesn't Matter

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening. - Randy Pausch


All things considered.

Brush It Off

Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it. - Randy K. Milholland


Like he says, remember it doesn't have anything to do with you - brush it off.

Risky Roads

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. - Lewis Carroll


All roads don't lead to fine places.

Flattery

Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it. - Kin Hubbard


Just bask in its glow.

Quality of Life

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi


From each according to their ability; to each that which they earn.

Long Day

Even the longest day has its end. - Irish Proverb


Have patience and you will see the dawn of a new day.

Bigots, Fools and Slaves

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. - Sir William Drummond


Reason is what separates us from the critters.

Something New

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic. - Unknown


The only difference between you and the one who did it first is he did it.

Weak Cause

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. - Victor Hugo


And don't you forget it....ever!

Measure of Health

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Krishnamurti


It is no measure of health to be maladjusted to a healthy society.

Time For Happiness

The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun. - Unknown


There are those who would make you miserable - do you think it makes them happy?

Win!

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert


If you haven't won this war yet, prepare for battle!

Doing Interference

I am one, but only one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do. - Edward E. Hale


Some things are too important to allow interference.

Your Net Worth

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. - Benjamin Franklin


Note your net worth to the world is calculated differently than your net worth to the bank.

Creating vs. Possessing

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing that life is revealed. - Vida D. Scudder


It's what you do, not what you have.

Happy With or Without

If you're not happy without it, you'll never be happy with it. - John Candy


Simply put.

Here, Tommy

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. - Alfred Mercier


That is pleasure of the mind, not of the senses. This is often confused - hence treats for performance. It works on dogs, not kids.

Time Passing

Time didn't pass; it tailgated. - Spider Robinson


Time doesn't get ahead of you.

Gifts

To give anything less than the best is to sacrifice the gift. - Steve Prefontaine


And the gift is to yourself.

Always Win

Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break the record. - Steve Knight


No one deserves an easy win.

Getting Behind

I don't want people to kiss my ass, I just want to get to the point where they can't kick it. - Michael J. Fox


All of us are better off left alone.

Illustrative

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. - Howard Crosby


Not a bulleted PowerPoint list.

Writing Reasons

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. - Robert Cecil Day Lewis


And by teaching you will be taught.

A Simple Pleasure

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Don't just take time; make time.

Experiments

There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. - Enrico Fermi


If you do nothing you haven't learned a danged thing.

Speaking Of Me

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure. - Aaron McGruder


Speak of my virtues as well, but in either case don't make things up!

Unbridled Growth

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey


Many times it is preferable to get better, not bigger.

Truth In; Truth Out

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. - Samuel Johnson


Otherwise it's just GIGO.

Great Attempts

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. - Vince Lombardi


Give it your all and be proud of it.