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Success sees to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad N. Hilton, 1887-1979, American businessman
Image Source: Me and Conrad Hilton
- Mel Brooks, Born 1926, American director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer
Image source: Wikipedia
Biography of Mel Brooks, AKA Melvin Kaminsky, NNDB.com
Mel Brooks Makes ‘Frankenstein’ Sing by Max Gross
The Jewish Daily Forward, Published December 19, 2007, issue of December 21, 2007
Fans of the 1974 movie might not believe this, but Mel Brooks was forced to include the song “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in “Young Frankenstein.” The monster forcing him was Gene Wilder.
The soft-shoe dance by Wilder and a tuxedoed creature (Peter Boyle) to the old Irving Berlin song is a masterpiece — one of the funniest scenes ever put on film.
Q&A with Mel Brooks - Los Angeles Times
This is the Avenue to Success for 03/29/09
Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.
Good humour is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
- Grenville Kleiser, 1868-1953, American author about success and positive thinking
Image source: Notablekleisers.blogspot.com (Has a short bio)
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel, 1821-1881, Swiss philosopher and writer
Portrait of Amiel by Joseph Hornung, 1852
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
A short biography found in Wikipedia
This is the Avenue to Success for 03/27/09
Avenues to Success offers an opportunity for parents of college students to enroll them in an unique subscription service and, at the same time, support student programs at a college or university of their choice! They receive a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep them focused on achieving their goals in life.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
- Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., 1924-2006, American clergyman and peace activist
The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. after his release from jail in Montgomery, Ala., in May 1961. The soldiers were there to protect him.
Image source: New York Times
Rev. William Sloane Coffin Dies at 81; Fought for Civil Rights and Against a War
Article by MARC D. CHARNEY Published: April 13, 2006
You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- Robert Lewis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish novelist, essayist and poet
Image source: Brandeis University
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
- Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1900-1980, American actress and politician
Image courtesy of Library of Congress
Image Source: Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
-Thiruvalluvar, c. 1st century BCE, Tamil poet, between the second century BC and the eighth century AD.
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