Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 01/31/09

I expect to pass through life but once, therefore there be my kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
     - William Penn, 1644-1718, English religious reformer, colonialist

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Avenues to Success for 01/30/09

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
     - Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American author

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Avenues to Success for 01/29/09

People tend to be afraid of change and of what they don't understand, but you have to take a step away from the ordinary if you expect to generate extraordinary ideas. Learn to embrace the unusual and the unexpected.
     - Floyd Hunt

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This is the Avenue to Success for 01/29/09

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Avenues to Success for 01/28/09

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?                          
     - Akhenaton (c. B.C. 1375), Pharaoh of Egypt

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Avenues to Success for 01/27/09

First the man takes a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes the man.
      - Japanese proverb (seen it attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald)

 

Come! Take a drink.

by Currier & Ives

1868

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This is the Avenue to Success for 01/27/09

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Avenues to Success for 01/26/09

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwords: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
 - Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, Anglo-Irish novelist

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Avenues to Success for 01/25/09

Those who hug illusions seldom embrace opportunity.

     - Unknown

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This is the Avenue to Success for 01/25/09

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Avenues to Success for 01/24/09

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
    - Donald Riggs

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This is the Avenue to Success for 01/2409

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Avenues to Success for 01/23/09

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

     - Leo Buscaglia, 1924-1998, American author, speaker and professor

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Avenues to Success for 01/22/09

It takes all kinds to make this world, but it's the good that sustain in the end.
     - Cyril Alexander Furtado, Teacher at Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, India

This is the Avenue to Success for 01/22/09

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