i wish i had said this stuff first (Roger Fields)
Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan. (Gina Graves)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker)
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less. (Gen. Eric Shinseki)
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. (Tom Peters)
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story, there is a story-teller. (G.K. Chesterton)
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. (G.K. Chesterton)
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. (G.K. Chesterton)
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. (G.K. Chesterton)
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. (G.K. Chesterton)
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. (G.K. Chesterton)
The true object of all human life is play. (G.K. Chesterton)
Jesus promised his disciples three things – that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble. (G.K. Chesterton)
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. (C.S. Lewis)
You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile. (C.S. Lewis)
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain (C.S. Lewis)
If I find in myself a desire that no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable conclusion is that I was made for another world. (C.S. Lewis)
All that is not eternal is eternally irrelevant. (C.S. Lewis)
Pain is part of the happiness. That’s the deal. (C.S. Lewis)
We should do something when people say it is “crazy.” If people say something is “good” it means that someone else is already doing it. (Hajime Mitarai, CEO of Canon)
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. (Warren G. Bennis)
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. (Howard Aiken)
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. (Mary Kay Ash)
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter)
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. (William Osler)
Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to execute the ideas. (unknown)
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. (unknown)
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo)
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. (Dietrich Boenhoffer)
One kid leading another kid to the foot of the cross for a life-changing encounter with Jesus is one of the most prolific and effective means of evangelism in the nation. (George Barna)
Once the worldview of children has been shaped and embraced, they unconsciously strive to make choices that are consistent with their perspective. (George Barna)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Helen Keller)
If takes no guts to be skeptical; it takes guts to believe. (Tony Robbins)
Put a dent in the universe. (Steve Jobs)
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down (Abraham Lincoln)
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?”/ Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” (Charles Shultz)
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. (Henry Ford)
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. (Henry Ford)
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. (Henry Ford)
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. (Peter Drucker)
Leaders have a kid alive in them. (Tom Peters)
There’s a war between people who are trying to do something and the people who are trying to keep them from doing something wrong. (Tom Peters)
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. (Tom Peters)
No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference. (Tommy Lasorda)
Make yourself necessary to somebody. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Never let your memories be bigger than your dreams (Doug Ivestor)
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming — WOW– What a Ride!
