Two quotes today both of them short – and both fun and thoughtful –
The first fun – this is a Belgian Proverb – it says “Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald.”
Now – thoughtful – Joseph Collins said, “A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from [...]
Value is Within
Learn From Your Experiences
George Matthew Adams once said:
“Any one who has had a long life of experiences is worth listening to, worth emulating, and worth trying to as a friend. No one can have too much experience in any line of endeavor. We readily welcome to our group of friends that one who talks with the voice of [...]
The Beauty of Experience
A writer of renown gives us today’s quote on experience – Harriet Beecher Stowe – this is from a letter she wrote her two daughters in the 1800s – “I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber [...]
Tuesday Sales Tip
Today’s quote is from Ilka Chase who died in the early 50s however gives us good perspective now: Ilka said, “Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person’s left. The person is the residue.”
I would add then that it is the lessons that we [...]
The Party Called Life
This weeks theme is Experience – and each of us has our own experience and experiences to bring to the party – the party I call life – and here’s something interesting to kick us off – Education is what you get from reading the small print in a contract. Experience is what you get [...]
What is the Secret?
Today’s quote comes from Pearl S. Buck who was an author – she said, “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
A story to end your week!
A demanding wife continually nagged her husband to conform to her high standards: [...]
Sometimes, It’s Not What We Add That Matters
George Bernard Shaw said this, “I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.”
That’s what makes us excellent – the striving to bring things into existence or – hear this [...]
“Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
We’ve going to the ancients for today’s quote – Aristotle once said:
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a [...]
People Skills: Do What it Takes!
In a society where we are confronted with new laws on road rage, kids taking weapons to school, and fast food cashiers unable to count change, you’d think it’d be a piece of cake to be successful. You’re right it is… if you do what it takes! Don’t you just hate it when it’s [...]
Tuesday Sales Tip
Today’s quote comes from Charles M. Sheldon – who gives a call to action: “First, always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it. Second, I ask you to look upon the whole of life as [...]
