Previous Home Page Quick Thinks
These are my old quick thinks, which are featured on my home page each month. If you have one to share, please send it to me. Oh, and as a reward for visiting these archives, I've posted a particularly personal quote from Eleanor Roosevelt below. Enjoy!
"Where, after all, do human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood...the school or college...the factory, farm or office. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
2004's Quick Thinks:
May 2004
""Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
April 2004
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it, and then move on."
~ Bob Newhart
March 2004
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
February 2004
"If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully."
~ Confucius
January 2004
"Every school of thought is like a man who has talked to himself for a hundred years and is delighted with his own mind, however stupid it may be."
~ J.W. Goethe
2003's Quick Thinks:
December 2003
"Worry is the stomach's worst poison"
~ Alfred E. Nobel
November 2003
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people
who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight
back."
~
Abigail Van Buren
October
2003
"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest
part will be left when you're most tired. Get the big one done - it's down hill
from there."
~ Norman Vincent Peale
September
2003
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and
the rest of us would have to settle for something else."
~ Lee Iaccoca
August
2003
"We ourselves feel that what what we are doing is just a drop in
the ocean.
But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
~ Mother Teresa
July 2003
"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people
happy."
~ Samuel Goldwyn
June 2003
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
May 2003
"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you are advancing.
If you don't, you're as good as dead. The other person will sense something
isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant
or brilliant, will win your case for you."
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
April 2003
"If you succeed through violence at the expense of others' rights
and welfare, you have not solved the problem, but only created the seeds
for another."
~ H.H. The Dali Lama
March 2003
"Whatever got you where
you are today is no longer sufficient to keep you there."
~ Stephen E. Heiman
February 2003
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor
and attended to with diligence."
~ Abigail Adams
January 2003
"New discoveries in science will continue to
create a thousand new frontiers for those who would still adventure."
~ Herbert Hoover
2002's Quick Thinks:
December 2002
"We
may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
~ Maya Angelou
November 2002
"You
can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world
... but it requires people to make the dreams reality."
~ Walt Disney
October 2002
"In
this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or
else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between
a mask and a fig leaf."
~ George Santayana
September 2002
"An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea
at all."
~ Oscar Wilde
August 2002
"Business is a matter of human service."
~ Milton S. Hershey
