Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
- Rod Kanehl -
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Thought For The Day
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
- Warren Bennis -
- Warren Bennis -
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Thought For The Day
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs -
- Steve Jobs -
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Thought For The Day
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
- Walt Whitman -
- Walt Whitman -
More J.K. Rowling
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Thought For The Day
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
- Seneca -
- Seneca -
J.K. Rowling at Harvard
The following are excerpts from the Harvard commencement address of "Harry Potter" author, J.K. Rowling, in June, 2008.
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to invision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to invision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."