Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 02/29/08

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
      - Alice Mackenzie, Swaim, 1897-1938, Writer and poet

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Avenues to Success for 01/01/08

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
     - Mitch Albom, born 1958, American columnist, author and talk show host

Source: Flickr.com

Mitch Albom - Official Website

Mitch Albom - Blog

Mitch Albom - Biograpyh - Bookras.com

Avenues to Success for 01/02/08

Champions don't become champions on the field - they are merely recognized there.
     - Bob Costas, born 1952, American Sportscaster

Source:  Flickr.com

 
Bob Costas - Wikipedia

Bob Costas - tv.com

Avenues to Success for 02/28/08

The fragrance always remains in the hands that gives the rose.
     - Heda Bejar

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Avenues to Success for 02/27/08

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
     - John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American novelist, Nobel laureate

Source: Flickr.com

National Steinbeck Center

John Steinbeck Biography - Nobelprize.org

John Steinbeck Collection - SULAIR AmLit Studies

John Steinbeck's View on Personal Ethics - John Tufley 

Avenues to Success for 02/26/08

If you hear a voice within you saying "You are not a painter," then by all means paint...and the voice will be silenced.
     - Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter

Flower Beds in Holland

Source: WebMuseum, Paris

The Vincent van Goth Gallery

Vincent van Goth - Artchive.com

Fondation Vincent van Gogh d'Arles 

Vincent van Gogh - Flicker Clusters

Avenues to Success for 01/03/08

Fear cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.
     - Diane Keaton, born 1946, American Actress

Source: E-Online

Diane Keaton - Fan Site

Diane Keaton Biography - Internet Movie Database

Avenues to Success for 01/04/08

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
      - Pythagoras, B.C. 582-507, Greek philosopher, mathematician

                           (Dates of his birth and death vary. Wikipedia puts his birth between 580 and 572 BC  death between 500 and 490 BC)

 
Source - Sterrenkunde Encyclopedia

Pathagorean Theorem and its many proofs

The History of Pythagoras and His Theorem - Arcytech.org

Avenues to Success for 02/25/08

Live your life so that your children can tell their children that you not only stood for something wonderful - you acted on it.
     - Dan Zadra, Business CEO, authority on strategic communications

Dan Zadra - As compiled by Zoominfo

Dan Zadra, Founder and Creative Director of Compendium, Inc.

Avenues to Success for 02/24/08

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
     - Margaret Bonanno, born 1950, Science fiction writer (Star Trek)

Margaret Wander Bonanno - Official Website

Interview i- SFFWorld

Margaret Bonanno - Biography - Alpha.org