JULY 2008

 

“ Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do”
John Wooden, former basketball coach, UCLA

“ If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right”
Mary Kay Ash, Founder Mary Kay Cosmetics

“ The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy”
Malcolm Forbes, former publisher Forbes Magazine

“ Some people just don’t have time. We have to understand that not everyone has 24 hours!”
Uncle Wilbur

“Success is 99% failure”
Saichiro Honda, founder , Honda Motor Company

“If work is not fun, why work?”
Uncle Wilbur

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least”
Goethe

“When we listen carefully, we always know the right thing to do”
Uncle Wilbur

“In Ojibwe language there is no word for “work”. The closest concept is anokii, which means that whether you are fishing or weaving a basket, what you are doing is living”
Winona Laduke, Ojibwe and executive director of Honor the Earth and White Earth Land Recovery Project

“The passionate are the only advocates who always persuade”
Rene Descartes

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example”
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“What was yesterday’s best of the day?”
Uncle Wilbur

“Every man hast only enough strength to complete those assignments that he is fully convinced are important”
Johann Goethe

“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away”
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“It takes courage to follow  visions that are not in the mainstream. But what would change, otherwise?”
Uncle Wilbur

“The biggest mistake you can make is to believe you work for someone else”
Unknown

 

 

AUGUST 2008

 

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”
Abraham Lincoln

“ We are all addicted to our emotions”
JZ Knight

“Thinking and acting are two separate things. That must have been Dr Joseph Guillotine’s inspirational thought”
Uncle Wilbur

“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
Stephen Covey

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
James Baldwin

“Old habits can’t be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time”
Mark Twain

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”
Anonymous

“The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity”
Dorothy Parker

“ We tend to be down on those things we are not up on”
Chris Dennis

“The most difficult conversations are the ones in our minds”
Uncle Wilbur

“ If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself”
Stephen Covey

“ Umuntu umuntu Ngabantu – A person is a person through other people”
Zulu saying

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life”
Arthur Ashe

“I am sure I would be able to fulfill my dream, if I knew what it is”
Uncle Wilbur

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong”
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“A high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent factor in bringing about change and learning”
Carl Rogers

“If you cannot find the answer to the difficult question ‘ Who am I?, try with ‘What’s my job?’ Or’ What do I have?’ It won’t give you the answer, but it will keep you entertained”
Uncle Wilbur

“Before I walk in another person’s shoes I must first remove my own”
Unknown

“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it”
Francois de la Rochefoucauld (Oups! shouldn’t it have been Anonymous?)

“If you don’t go for the best, what makes you think you will get it?
Uncle Wilbur

“What decisions made your destiny?”
Uncle Wilbur

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2008

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves”
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on”
Robert Lee Frost

“Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply”
Stephen Covey

“When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere »
Uncle Wilbur

“We live our life linearly, yet it’s not linearly that we make sense of it”
Roger Saillant.

“Everything I know, I learned it from someone else”
Chris Dennis

“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Socrates

“ It takes life to love Life”
Edgar Lee Masters

“Time flies. Don’t try to catch it. Fly wit it”
Uncle Wilbur

“When faced with an uncomfortable situation, consider if you can change it,  or if you can live with it as it is. The third option is to leave”
Eckhart Tolle

“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire”
François de la Rochefoucauld

“Are you doing all you can?”
Uncle Wilbur

“You are not required to complete the work, but you are not allowed to desist from it either”
Ethics of Our Fathers 2:16

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
Gandhi

“To be strong is to conquer our weaknesses”
Martha Driemer

“ History may wonder why so few cared so little about so many for so long”
Paul Hawken

“There is more to life than increasing its speed”
Mahatma Gandhi

“If you will spend 40% of your life at work, you’d better find something you enjoy doing”
Uncle Wilbur

“Of 170 countries surveyed, four lacked a paid family leave for new mothers. Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Lesotho and the United States” Nanette Fondas, www.MomsRising.org

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm”
Sir Winston Churchill

“There are no inconsequential acts, only consequential inaction:
Paul Hawken

“The ability to think differently today from yesterday distinguishes the wise man from the stubborn”
John Steinbeck

 

 

OCTOBER 2008

 

“ What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered”
Ralph W. Emerson

“Good people and bad people That only happens in the bad movies”
Uncle Wilbur

“There are those who would quickly love each other if once they were to speak to each other, for when they spoke they would discover that their souls were only separated by phantoms and delusions”
Ernest Hello

 

“Our fate will depend on how we understand and treat what is left of the planet’s surpluses – its lands, oceans, species diversity, and people”
Paul Hawken

“We haven’t the money so we have got to think”
Sir Ernest Rutherford

“ I focus on the present. Tomorrow has been trying to catch up with me, but hasn’t succeeded so far”
Elder Joseph Barlow in August Wilson’s play Radio Golf

“As with the fragment, so with the universe”
Traditional Hindu proverb

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“Great things tend to be undoable things. While small things, lovingly done, are always within our reach”
Paul Hawken

“We have shown you the dust but concealed the wind”
Quran

“Conflict has a two-step solution: First you take responsibility for your own actions, then you see the other’s point of view”
Uncle Wilbur

“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose” Kris Kristofferson

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are”
Anais Nin

“It seems rather incongruous that in a society of super-sophisticated communication we often suffer from a shortage of listeners”
Erma Bombeck

“In the global village there is only one boat, and a hole sinks us all”
From The Necessary Revolution,  Senge et al.

“Nonviolence is a way to restore the capacity to humanize your enemy and let your “enemy” humanize you”
Michael Nagler

“Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right- doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there”
Rumi

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”
Sir Isaac Newton

“ Earth, cry “courage!”
To we who ride back
Of the Universe bus”
Dianne Shiner

“Some people spend quite a bit of time searching for their missed opportunities”
Uncle Wilbur

“Some are guilty, all are responsible”
Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The ability to think differently today from yesterday distinguishes the wise man from the stubborn”
John Steinbeck

“There is no such a thing as lost time. It’s just placed on the wrong place”
Uncle Wilbur