Excerpt from Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Address “When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked inContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #208 Steve Jobs on acknowledging your own mortality”
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The Monday Morning Quote #207
“The road that stretches before the feet of a man is a challenge to his heart long before it tests the strength of his legs. Our destiny is to run to the edge of the world and beyond, off into the darkness: certain despite all our blindness, secure despite all our helplessness, strong despite allContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #207”
The Monday Morning Quote # 206
“The illiterate of 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Alvin Toffler Thanks to Sital Ruperella http://www.sitalruparelia.com
The Monday Morning Quote #205
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real,” Jules Verne
The Monday Morning Quote #204
“Never take a mean advantage of anyone in any transaction, and never be hard upon people who are in your power. Try to do to others, as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes.” Charles Dickens in a letter to his son – 25th December 1868
The Monday Morning Quote #203
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
The Monday Morning Quote #202
“Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavour and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world are challenged.” J Harlen Bretz 1928 From The Cockroach Catcher blog retelling of the story of Heliobacter well worth a read on how Marshall & Warren eventually gained acknowledgement for their research and ultimately wereContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #202”
The Monday Morning Quote #201
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.” Dale Carnegie
The Monday Morning Quote #200
“If there is something you want in life, then you’ve got one of two things. You’ve either got it or you’ve got a story about why you haven’t got it. Drop the story.” Tony Robbins
The Monday Morning Quote #199
A little longer this week – I read “Winning Matters” by Sean Fitzpatrick over the New Year break and this paragraph from the chapter “Leading From The Front” leapt out at me. “AN IDEA TO TRY; NOW VERSUS NEXT WEEK…. Leading from the front means doing it now. Do it better today and tomorrow, notContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #199”
The Incisal Edge 