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"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job." --George Crane
"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working on the engines."
"Always take a job that is too big for you."
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."
Caring
Caution
Certainty
Challenge
"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard."
Chance
"Chance is perhaps God's pseudonym when He does not want to sign."
Change
"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."
"There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age."
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: first, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change -- to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change: doing something."
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
--C. G. Jung from 'Psychological Reflections'
"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."
"What we need is a flexible plan for an everchanging world."
"What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed."
"Action will change your attitude. Motion will change your emotions. Movement will change your moods."
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
" Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy."
Chaos
Character
"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."
"It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. Great necessities call out great virtues."
"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power"
"Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking."
"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving."
"I am a big man. See all these shells? They are very valuable in one culture. I could have trunks of them...but then I wouldn't be a big man. A big man gives away what he has and shares with others."
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."
"I hope I shall follow firmness of virtue enough to maintain that I consider the most enviable of all titles--the character of an honest man."
"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."
"Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity."
"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
"Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and the angels know of us."
"No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child."
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be."
"The best way to be perceived as having character is to actually possess it."
"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
"Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day."
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think is laughable."
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it."
Charity
Children
"Children stand more in need of example than criticism."
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp."
"Children naturally want to be like their parents, and do what they do."
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
"Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do."
"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children one of the greatest of all blessings."
"An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth -- scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books -- might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?"
"The word 'no' carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say 'yes'."
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
"No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child."
"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots. The other is wings."
"Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!"
Choice
"Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it."
"The history of free men is never written by chance, but by choice - their choice."
“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein."
"The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be -- today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come."
Citizenship
Color
"He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals."
"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."
Commitment
"Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts."
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."
"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea."
"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."
"If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals."
Committees
"You'll find in no park or city/A monument to a committee."
Common Sense
Communication
"The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission."
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
Compassion
"Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it."
Complaining
Computers
"The computer is a moron."
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
"A day without any computer problems is the best day of your life."
HARDWARE: Collective term for any computer-related object that can be kicked or battered when inclined to do so.
ERROR MESSAGE: Terse, baffling remark used by programmers to place blame on users for their program's shortcomings.
COMPUTER: Instrument of torture. The first computer was invented by Roger 'Duffy' Billingsly, a British scientist. In a plot to overthrow Hitler, Duffy disguised himself as a German ally and offered his invention as a gift to the dictator. The plot worked. On April 8, 1945, Hitler became so enraged at the 'Incompatible File Format' error message that he shot himself. The war ended soon after Hitler's death, and Duffy began working for IBM.
PRINTER: A joke in poor taste. A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray, and the blinking red light."
"Bug, n.: An aspect of a computer program which exists because the programmer was thinking about Jumbo Jacks or stock options when s/he wrote the program. Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed."
"That's not a bug! That's a FEATURE!"
"A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation."
"A Bugless Program is an Abstract Theoretical Concept."
"There are no bugs in any Microsoft software that the majority of users want fixed."
"Hidden DOS secret: add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS."
Concentration
"When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."
"The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two."
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
Confidence
"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't."
"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
"Confidence is: Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, and taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword."
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
"You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do."
"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions."
"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
"You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . .. Confidence makes the difference."
Conflict
Connecting
"At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds."
"When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with one another -- and ourselves."
"The mind may undoubtedly affect the body; but the body also affects the mind. There is a reaction between them; and by lessening it on either side, you diminish the pain on both."
Consciousness
Consistency
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
"The only completely consistent people are the dead."
Contentment
"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
Contract
Contributing
Cost
Courage/Bravery
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."
"The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things -- but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad -- to be willing to risk everything to really express it all."
"We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance."
"Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway."
"Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important
than fear."
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
"Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers."
"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of virtues, for upon it, all others depend."
"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder."
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."
"One man with courage makes a majority."
"If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out."
"Whistling to keep up courage is good practice for whistling."
Conviction
Courage
"Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions."
Creativity
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without."
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."
"There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly."
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
"The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age."
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most do."
"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone."
Crisis
"Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full."
"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."
"We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis."
"Crisis creates opportunity."
Criticism
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes; that way, when you do criticize them, you will be a mile away and have their shoes."
"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others."
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
"If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue."
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
"Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding."
"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."
"They have the right to criticize who have the heart to help."
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't."
"Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself."
Curiosity
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."
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