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!!!!!!

From the Quote of the Week Files, June 25, 2012

Welcome to the Quote of the Week!  I was looking at the Zappos website and stumbled upon their 10 Core Values.  I thought it was interesting (I have some more work to do based on this list) and I hope you do as well. 
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Zappos Core Family Values


1. Deliver WOW Through Service
2. Embrace and Drive Change
3. Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4. Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5. Pursue Growth and Learning
6. Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7. Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8. Do More With Less
9. Be Passionate and Determined
10. Be Humble


http://about.zappos.com/our-unique-culture/zappos-core-values/deliver-wow-through-service
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...


My Autobiography in Five Short Chapters


Chapter One....


"I walk down the street.  There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.  I fall in.  I am lost.  I am helpless. It isn't my fault!  It takes me forever to find a way out."


Chapter Two....


"I walk down the same street.  There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.  I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I'm in the same place, but it isn't my fault!!  It still takes me a long time to get out."


Chapter Three....


"I walk down the same street.  There is a deep hole in the middle of the sidewalk.  I see it there. I still fall in....it is a habit. I know where I am.  It is my fault.  I get out immediately."


Chapter Four....


"I walk down the same street.  There is a deep hole in the middle of the sidewalk. I walk around it."


Chapter Five....


"I walk down another street!"


Portia Nelson
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, June 19, 2012

Welcome to the delayed Quote of the Week.  SUCCESS is the theme for this week's quotes!  Enjoy!
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“Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.”

Erik Weihenmayer
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So who is Erik Weihenmayer?  I had the pleasure of sitting next to him and his wife on my home from Colorado last night.  Check out this link to find out more about Erik and his accomplishments.

http://www.touchthetop.com/
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, June 11, 2012

Kindness continues to be the theme of this week's quotes!  Enjoy!
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“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.”

William Penn
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic....

"The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

William Wordsworth
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And speaking of kindness, there is an old song that says "Be kind to your web footed friends...."  With that in mind, I decided to have one (a web footed friend that is) for dinner on my stoop! I think he enjoyed himself!!  ;-)

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

From the Quote of the Week Files, June 4, 2012

“Be Kind for Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Great Battle.”


Plato
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The above Quote of the Week has been bouncing around in my head for the past couple of week since reading it Tom Peter's book, The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence.  I was reminded of the quote the other day as I met 4 people going through tremendous personal battles and they were all dealing with their challenges with grace and dignity. 


By the way, it not certain that Plato was the author of this quote.  Some people think it might have been John Watson.  Either way, it is a great quote!
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...


"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."


George Washington Carver
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 29, 2012

"It's a beautiful day!"


Father Joe Nolan
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A simple quote with great meaning!  


We celebrated my Uncle Joe's 90th Birthday and 65th anniversary of his ordination to the Priesthood on Sunday.  It was quite a party as we celebrated at Belmont Park Race Track and had a race named in his named in his honor (The Joralemon Street Gallup ~ he was born on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn). The quote is the way he began all his homilies. 
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic... 


“Success is not a matter of spontaneous combustion.  It is you that must set yourself on fire."


Reggie Leach
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 21, 2012

It was raining pretty hard this morning and this quote came to mind!  Enjoy! 
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“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
it’s about learning how to dance in the rain!”

Vivian Greene
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A Recycle Quote of the Week Classic...

Live Everything

"I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. 

Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. 

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." 

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!

From the Quote of the Week Files; May 14, 2012

It is graduation month in the US and it marks a big step in a student's life. This week's quote is an excerpt from a Commencement Speech given by Dr. Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told in Aug 2007 that he only had 3-6 months to live. When he gave this speech at Carnegie Mellon, it was the 9th month (May 2008). He later passed away 2 months after that. 
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“We don’t beat the reaper by living longer. We beat the reaper by living well and living fully. For the reaper is always going to come for all of us. The question is: What do we do between the time we are born, and the time he shows up? Because when he shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always gona, kinda get around to.”

Randy Pausch
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic (2 really)...

"Be thankful for brick walls.  Brick walls are there for a reason.  They let us prove how badly we want things."

 Randy Pausch
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"Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you." Sometimes, it might even take years, but people will show you their good side.  Just keep waiting."

Randy Pausch
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYv5x6gZTA

From the Quote of the Week Files, May 7, 2012

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?  Or, do you ever feel, feel so paper thin like a house of cards, one blow from caving in? If so, then this week's quote is for you!!!! 


It is part of the lyrics of one of my favorite jogging songs and it helps me from feeling like a waste of space and reminds me that I am an original, that cannot be replaced!!   
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"You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July'
Cause baby you're a firework


Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh
As you shoot across the sky


Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, oh
You're gonna leave 'em falling down


Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through"


Katy Perry; "Firework" 
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...


You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart
Then people gonna treat you better
You're gonna find, yes you will
That you're beautiful as you feel.


Carole King; "Beautiful"
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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