Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 02/12/2012

Boredom: the desire for desires.
     - Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Russian novelist and philosopher

 

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Avenues to Success for 01/29/2012

All of us could take a lesson from the weather: it pays no attention to criticism.
     - Unknown

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Avenues to Success for 01/25/2012

 

 

 

 

A closed mouth gathers no foot. 

     - Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Avenues to Success for 01/08/12

The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits.
     - Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish poet, playwright, novelist

 

 

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Avenues to Success for 12/17/11

Life, we learn too late, is in the tissue of every day and hour.
     - Stephen Leacock, 1869-1944, English-born Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist

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Avenues to Success for 11/26/11

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.
     - Sanskrit Proverb

 

 

 

Avenues to Success for 11/13/11

Blessed is the match consumed by kindling flame.
     - Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944, Hungarian Jew who was trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during the Second World War in order to help save the Jews of Hungary, who were about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz

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Avenues to Success for 11/06/11

Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the nosey confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
     - Max Ehrmann, 1872-1945, American writer, poet, and attorney

 
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Avenues to Success for 10/23/11

A budget tells us what we can afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
     - William Feather, 1889 -1981, American publisher and author

 
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Avenues to Success for 08/28/11

 

The funny thing about regret is that
it's better to regret something you have done
than to regret something you haven't.

- Attibuted to Gibby Hayes (I havbe no information on him. Can you help?)