From the Quote of the Week Files, July 30, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week!!  Are you a traveler or a tourist?  Today's quote may help you answer that question.  Enjoy!
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"Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in."

Andrew Zimmern
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, July 23, 2012

Remembering Steven Covey

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey has been one of my favorite management/personal development books and I refer to it often. Unfortunately, Mr. Covey passed away July 16th and here are a few of his timeless insights.  May he rest in Peace.
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"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."

"Until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,’ that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise.’"

"To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know."

"Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

And, of course, the meat of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People:

Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Steven Covey
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, July 16, 2012

How to start (and end) a Virtuous day is the theme for this week's Quotes!  Enjoy!
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"What good shall I do this day?"

Benjamin Franklin
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The story behind Franklin's thinking...

In his autobiography Benjamin Franklin outlined a "Precept of Order, requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one page in my little book contain'd the following scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day." The first order of business in his precept was to ask himself simply, "What good shall I do this day?"  And of course he ended the day by asking, "What good have I done this day?" (see below ~ the page from his autobiography)
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...

"Finish every day and be done with it.  You have done what you could; some blunders
and absurditites crept in;  forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day;
You should begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, July 9, 2012

Two quotes by the 4th Century B.C, Chinese thinker and social philosopher Confucius  are this week's quotes.  I have to remind myself of the 1st one when I go jogging or enter a 5K race. It is also a pretty good life lesson as well.  Enjoy! 

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"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."

Confucius
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...


"Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but wanting what you have."

Confucius
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Wishing you a most beautiful day wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, July 1, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the week! For what it's worth is the theme for this week's quote and song.  Enjoy (for what it's worth)!
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"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."


From the movie, Benjamin Button (a letter to his daughter)
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For what it's Worth: A great song by Buffalo Springfield...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...


“Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.”


Ashleigh Brilliant
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!!!!!!