Things to Think About

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln

"I don't want to be a super model. I want to be a role model." Queen Latifah

Using Prejudice as a Tool for Growth

"Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason." Dictionary.com

Alexander Pope: "There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."

"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nunci" 

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Not surprisingly, this decade has been marked by the intense hostility of the young toward truisms that once governed our thinking. As they saw it, the liberal international order didn’t uphold the peace — it bled us dry. Capitalism didn’t make the country rich — it made the rich richer.

"The stone age did not end because we ran out of stones; it ended because we invented new tools." former Saudi oil minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani

"If you are bent on revenge, plan on digging two graves." Lao Tzu (with special thanks to Richard Belloff for introducing me to this wonderful quote.)