Nonsense;     Observation; Obstacles/Crises; Opportunity; Organizing Parenting; Passion; Patience; People; Perseverance/Persistence; Perspective; Photography; Planning/Preparation; Potential; Power; Problem Solving; Progress   NONSENSE Nonsense is that which does not fit into the pre-arranged patterns we have superimposed on reality... nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet formed the point of view from which it makes sense. ~The Dancing Wu Li Masters OBSERVATION The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. ~Ronald Laing OBSTACLES/CRISES The word “crisis” is from the Greek, meaning “a moment to decide.” The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next. ~Jill Purce When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. ~Malcolm Muggeridge Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us. ~Unknown Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. ~James Russel Lowell Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~Dale Carnegie In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ~Janos Arany When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell The course of true anything does not run smooth. ~Samuel Butler The trouble with the straight and narrow path is that it runs through such desolate territory. ~unknown Life has its meaning only in the struggles. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggles. ~Swahili warrior song top of page OPPORTUNITY We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities ~Pogo When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell Some people see difficulties in very opportunity; others, an opportunity in every difficulty. ~Unknown There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity. ~Gen. Douglas MacArthur ORGANIZING Every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.” ~Gaius Petronius - AD 63 Self-organization is the capacity of life to invent itself. This process of invention always takes shape around an identity. ~Margaret Wheatley We need to trust that we are self-organizing, and we need to create the conditions in which self-organization can flourish. ~Margaret Wheatley IDENTITY is the source of organization. Every organization is an identity moving through the world, trying to make a difference. ~Margaret Wheatley top of page PARENTING When God Made Moms By the time the Lord made mothers, he was into his sixth day of working overtime. An Angel appeared and said "Why are you spending so much time on this one"? And the Lord answered and said, "Have you seen the spec sheet on her? She has to be completely washable, but not plastic, have 200 movable parts, all replaceable, run on black coffee and leftovers, have a lap that can hold three children at one time and that disappears when she stands up, have a kiss that can cure anything from a scraped knee to a broken heart, and have six pairs of hands." The Angel was astounded at the requirements for this one. "Six pairs of hands! No Way!" said the Angel. The Lord replied, "Oh, it's not the hands that are the problem. It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers must have!" "And that's just on the standard model?" the Angel asked. The Lord nodded in agreement, "Yep, one pair of eyes are to see through the closed door as she asks her children what they are doing even though she already knows. Another pair in the back of her head, are to see what she needs to know even though no one thinks she can. And the third pair are here in the front of her head. They are for looking at an errant child and saying that she understands and loves him or her without even a single word." The Angel tried to stop the Lord. "This is too much work for one day. Wait until tomorrow to finish." " But I can't!" The Lord protested, "I am so close to finishing this creation that is so close to my own heart. She already heals herself when she is sick AND can feed a family of six on a pound of hamburger and can get a nine year old to stand in the shower." The Angel moved closer and touched the woman, "But you have made her so soft, Lord." "She is soft," the Lord agreed "but I have also made her tough. You have no idea what she can endure or accomplish." "Will she be able to think?" asked the Angel. The Lord replied, "Not only will she be able to think, she will be able to reason, and negotiate." The Angel then noticed something and reached out and touched the woman's cheek. "Oops, it looks like you have a leak with this model. I told you that you were trying to put too much into this one." "That's not a leak," the Lord objected. "That's a tear! " "What's the tear for?" the Angel asked. The Lord said, "The tear is her way of expressing her joy, her sorrow, her disappointment, her pain, her loneliness, her grief, and her pride." The Angel was impressed. "You are a genius, Lord. You thought of everything, for WOMEN are truly amazing." ~Pass this along to all amazing women that you know If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams. ~Jim Rohn A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be. ~Unknown Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ~Nancy Friday top of page PASSION Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce. ~Nietzsche The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman. ~Willa Cather All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. ~C.H. Oakhurst PATIENCE The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ~John Berry PEOPLE The artist is not a special kind of person, rather each person is a special kind of artist. ~Ananda Coomaraswamy Don't have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent. ~Unknown Every person is a story. We carry with us every story we have ever heard and every story we have ever lived, filed away at some deep place in our memory. We carry most of those stories unread, as it were, until we have grown the capacity or the readiness to read them. When that happens they may come back to us filled with a previously unsuspected meaning. It is almost as if we have been collecting pieces of a greater wisdom, sometimes over many years without knowing. ~Gregg Levoy We are all more than we seem. ~Unknown There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. ~Maya Angelou top of page PERSEVERANCE/PERSISTANCE Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. ~Henry Ford Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~Dale Carnegie It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. ~Eddie Cantor Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. ~Benjamin Disraeli Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination. ~Calvin Coolidge Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination. ~Carol Lloyd I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. ~Coleman Cox Every calling is great when greatly pursued. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life! ~Garth Brooks People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. ~George Allen Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race. ~Calvin Coolidge Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~Confucius It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ~Winston Churchill The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~Walter Bagehot Effort only releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ~Napoleon Hill top of page PERSPECTIVE (see also Attitude) The Touch of the Master’s Hand ‘Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while, to waste much time on the old violin, but held it up with a smile. “What am I bidden, good folks,” he cried, “Who’ll start the bidding for me?” “A dollar, a dollar,” then, two! Only two?” “Two dollars, and who’ll make it three?” “Three dollars, once; three dollars twice; Going for three....” But no, From the room, far back, a grey haired man came forward and pickup up the bow; Then, wiping the dust from the old violin, and tightening the loose strings, He played a melody pure and sweet as a carolling angel sings. The music ceased, and the auctioneer, with a voice that was quiet and low, Said: “What am I bid for the old violin?” And he held it up with the bow. “A thousand dollars, and who’ll make it two? Two thousand! And who’ll make it three? Three thousand, once; three thousand, twice; and going and gone,” said he. The people cheered, but some of them cried, “We do not quite understand What changed its worth?” Swift came the reply: “The touch of a master’s hand.” And many a man with life out of tune, And battered and scarred with sin, Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd, Much like the old violin. A “mess of potage,” a glass of wine; A game —and he travels on. He is “going” once, and “going” twice, he’s “going” and almost “gone.” But the Master comes and the foolish crowd never can quite understand The worth of a soul and the change that’s wrought. (Myra B. Welch: By the touch of the Master’s hand) The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~Henri Bergson “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” ~Henry David Thoreau If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day. ~Matthew 6:34 The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. ~Kahlil Gilbran We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. ~Maria Mitchell One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. ~G. K. Chesterton Instead of pouring knowledge into peoples’ heads, we need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so that we can see the world in a new way. ~J.S.Brown Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ~Demosthenes Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? ~Unknown We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. ~Unknown Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are. ~Gerald G Jampolsky Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. ~Epictetus Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius “Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.” ~Obi-Wan Kenobi The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart. ~Helen Keller All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkein Some men see things as they are and ask, why? Others dream things that never were and ask, why not? ~George Bernard Shaw I shut my eyes in order to see. ~Paul Gauguin Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. ~Rabindranath Tagore The appearance of things changes according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. ~Kahlil Gilbran If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. ~Rachel Carson Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. ~Willa Cather It is not the facts which guide (our) conduct, but (our) opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. ~Sir Norman Angell The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~Rainer Maria Rilke top of page Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ~Hans Margolius In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ~Robert Green Ingersoll If we can see clearly, it is because we stand on the shoulders of giants. ~Sir Isaac Newton “A problem can not be solved with the same consciousness that created it.” ~Albert Einstein Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~Merry Browne If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. ~Unknown What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. ~C. S. Lewis Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ~George Santayana “People only see what they are prepared to see.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Miller You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ~Ziggy The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein “People who embrace challenge view life as a growth process and they see pressures and disruptions as experiences to learn.” ~Unknown If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ~Ursula K. LeGuin We don’t see things as they are; we see things as WE are. ~Anais Nin Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. ~Henry Moore Every exit is an entry somewhere. ~Tom Stoppard Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein Do not mistake a child for his symptom. ~Erik Erikson Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet. ~Marianne Williamson The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. ~Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. ~Lao-tzu There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some way becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude, ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the scheme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me.  ~Unknown Go some distance away, because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is rapidly seen. ~Leonardo Da Vinci When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails. ~Abraham Maslow Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see farther. ~Unknown What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces. ~Luis Villalobos The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. ~Robert Fulghum A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement. ~Deepak Chopra top of page PHOTOGRAPHY The camera always points both ways. In expressing your subject, you also express yourself. ~Freeman Patterson There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture. ~Ruth Bernhard Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. ~Sam Abell Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand. ~Margaret Bourke White When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. ~Ansel Adams Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. ~Ansel Adams Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ~Ansel Adams, Photographers are recorder keepers for God. ~Daisy Cheng PLANNING/PREPARATION A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. ~Confucius If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. ~Abraham Lincoln The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn’t know what it will be until it notices what it has just become. ~Margaret Wheatley Acceptance of an emergent world means that we can no longer stand at the end of something we visualize in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead, we must stand at the beginning, clear in our intent, with a willingness to be involved in discovery. We must participate more than plan. ~Margaret Wheatley Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Arthur D. Little top of page POSSIBILITY A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. ~Henri Frederic Amiel Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. ~Orison Swett Marden Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace. ~Ronald Regan I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. ~Max Lerner I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. ~Henry Ford Impossible is a word humans use far too often. ~Jeri Ryan Impossible situations can become possible miracles. ~Robert H. Schuller In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ~Janos Arany In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ~Shunryu Suzuki It's kind of fun to do the impossible! ~Walt Disney Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. ~Robert H. Schuller Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. ~Les Brown Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. ~Jamie Paolinetti Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ~Jean de La Fontaine Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged. ~Thomas A Edison Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ~Dag Hammarskjold Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. ~John Keywood One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. ~Cherie Carter-Scott Our aspirations are our possibilities. ~Samuel Johnson Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities. ~Deepak Chopra Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done; but distrust of one's ability to gain the goodness desired and to bring out better and higher results, often hampers the trial of one's wings and ensures failure at the outset. ~Mary Baker Eddy So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, What if? ~Senator John Kerry top of page Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ~St. Francis of Assisi Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities ~Terry Josephson The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility. ~Leland Kaiser The impossible is often the untried. ~Jim Goodwin The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~Ursula K. LeGu The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. ~George Bernard Shaw The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. ~Sydney Smith The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. ~Charles F. Kettering We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. ~Martha Grimes We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. ~Thich Nhat Hanh What great thing would you attempt if you knew you couldn't fail? ~Dr. Robert Schuller What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. ~Anthony Robbins When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ~Arthur C. Clarke You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. ~Deepak Chopra You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. ~Darwin P. Kingsley POTENTIAL We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~William Shakespeare Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. No one can count the apples in a seed. ~Unknown There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~Buckminster Fuller What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here. ~Alfred A. Montapert There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. ~Henry Ford Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. ~Richard E. Byrd Love not what you are, but what you may become. ~Miguel de Cervantes Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ~Francis Bacon What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson top of page POWER/AUTHORITY When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there will be true peace. ~Sri chin Moi Gosh I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. ~Thomas Jefferson 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 F. Buscaglia Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ~Paulo Freire Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ~Lord Acton Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ~Freda Adler You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. ~Amy Tan To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. ~Charles Caleb Colton It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. ~David Brin Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. ~Elie Wiesel The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ~Lord Macaulay The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. ~Robert F. Kennedy Knowledge is power. ~Sir Francis Bacon We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart L. Udall An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. ~Thomas Jefferson Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. ~Woodrow Wilson He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ~Lao Tzu Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. ~Albert Einstein I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Having power is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you have it - you don't. ~Margaret Thatcher We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. ~Stephen Vincent Benét The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. ~Herbert Spencer Why is it that the world is generally suspicious of those who reject power and control. ~Unknown He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose. ~Stephen R. Covey Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln top of page PROBLEM SOLVING The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ~Albert Einstein All the easy problems have already been solved. ~Unknown A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~Duke Ellington There are no absolute truths when dealing with data, only truthful insights into the process. ~Bill Ballew Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. ~Lao-tzu It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. ~G.K. Chesterton Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive... and wrong. ~Arthur C. Clarke PROGRESS Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. ~Alfred A. Montapert Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. Kahlil Gibran Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence. ~William Golding The world knows how to create itself. ~Margaret Wheatley top of page

 

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