Things to Think About

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” Muhammad Ali

“When I haven’t any blue, I use red.” Pablo Picasso

“I’m beginning to notice some improvement.” Cellist and conductor, Pablo Casals, at age 93, in response to an interviewer’s question about why he continued a routine of practicing daily.

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela

“See everything, overlook a great deal, improve a little.” Pope John Paul XXIII

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

“Once you establish a culture of courage, put your money where your mouth is by rewarding employees who are courageous and who take smart risks.

"American culture is obsessed with the idea that we need to find our ‘passion’ in order to be happy and successful. But there’s a problem: “It’s an astonishingly bad piece of advice,” Cal Newport

“Tis nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Shakespeare. Hamlet Act II, Scene II.