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May 11 - May 17, 2008 I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
Mark Twain
May 4 - May 10, 2008 If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
April 27 - May 3, 2008 People often say that they have not yet found themself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
April 20 - April 26, 2008 Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
April 13 - April 19, 2008 Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'
Lao Tzu
April 6 - April 12, 2008 We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
March 30 - April 5, 2008 Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
March 23 - March 29, 2008 In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith
March 16 - March 22, 2008 Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
Peter Drucker
March 9 - March 15, 2008 Don't be too timid and squeamish about your action. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 2 - March 8, 2008 He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Joseph Joubert
February 24 - March 1, 2008 Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Albert Einstein
February 17 - February 23, 2008 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
February 10 - February 16, 2008 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Landor
February 3 - February 9, 2008 Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
January 27 - February 2, 2008 Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Sir Winston Churchill
January 20 - January 26, 2008 Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
January 13 - January 19, 2008 When they own the information, they can bend it all they want.
John Mayer
January 6 - January 12, 2008 Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
December 30 - January 5, 2008 Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
December 23 - December 29, 2007 When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 16 - December 22, 2007 There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
December 9 - December 15, 2007 There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Newbold Wharton
December 2 - December 8, 2007 Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
November 25 - December 1, 2007 Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
November 18 - November 24, 2007 Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
November 11 - November 17, 2007 Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
November 4 - November 10, 2007 Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.
Herman Melville
October 28 - November 3, 2007 Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
October 21 - October 27, 2007 Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
October 14 - October 20, 2007 Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
Nadia Boulanger
October 7 - October 13, 2007 There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Kingman Brewster
September 30 - October 6, 2007 It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May
September 23 - September 29, 2007 The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
September 16 - September 22, 2007 We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
Newton Minow
September 9 - September 15, 2007 Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
Lao Tzu
September 2 - September 8, 2007 Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Edgar Watson Howe
August 26 - September 1, 2007 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend
Walter Savage Landor
August 19 - August 25, 2007 I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
Lionel Abel
August 12 - August 18, 2007 Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Abraham Lincoln
August 5 - August 11, 2007 The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein
July 29 - August 4, 2007 There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F. Drucker
July 22 - July 28, 2007 Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw
July 15 - July 21, 2007 Security isn't anything more than superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
July 8 - July 14, 2007 The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
July 1 - July 7, 2007 Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert
June 24 - June 30, 2007 Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
June 17 - June 23, 2007 Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
June 10 - June 16, 2007 There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Franz Kafka
June 3 - June 9, 2007 In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
May 27 - June 2, 2007 To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
May 20 - May 26, 2007 Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell
May 13 - May 19, 2007 Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Cicero
May 6 - May 12, 2007 If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.
Robert Anthony
April 29 - May 5, 2007 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
April 22 - April 28, 2007 Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.
Ashleigh Brilliant
April 15 - April 21, 2007 Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
April 8 - April 14, 2007 We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
April 1 - April 7, 2007 When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Lucius Cary
March 25- March 31, 2007 You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
March 18- March 24, 2007 The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein
March 11- March 17, 2007 The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg
March 4 - March 10, 2007 Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson
February 25 - March 3, 2007 We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
Newton Minow
February 18 - Feb 24, 2007 Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
February 11 - Feb 17, 2007 Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung
February 4 - February 10, 2007 History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however,  if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
January 28 - February 3, 2007 He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
January 21 - January 27, 2007 I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Cicero
January 14 - January 20, 2007 A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner
January 7 - January 13, 2007 Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
January 1 - January 6, 2007 Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
Dec 24 - Dec 31, 2006 The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Dec 17 - Dec 23, 2006 Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
Dec 3 - Dec 16, 2006 Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Louis D. Brandeis
Nov 26 - December 2, 2006 O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott
Nov 19 - Nov 25, 2006 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2006 If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with,
you will not do much.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Nov 5 - Nov 11, 2006 Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
October 29 - November 4, 2006 Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
October 22 - October 28, 2006 Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly ... is having to accept it.
William Faulkner
October 15 - October 21, 2006 Good judgment comes from experience,
... and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.
A.A. Milne
October 8 - October 14, 2006 If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller
October 1 - October 7, 2006 Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sept 24 - Sept 30, 2006 Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
Sept 17 - Sept 23, 2006 I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sept 10 - Sept 16, 2006 Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism;
The way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sept 3 - Sept 9, 2006 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
August 27-September 2, 2006 Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
August 20-August 26, 2006 Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Theodor Adorno
August 12-August 19, 2006 First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
July 30-August 5, 2006 I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
Lionel Abe
July 23-July 29, 2006 Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
July 16-July 22, 2006 We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
July 9-July 15, 2006 The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful,
but certainly the most dangerous human attribute
John P. Grier
July 1-July 8, 2006 Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
June 18-June 24, 2006 Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
June 11-June 17, 2006 Being defeated is often a  temporary condition.  Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn Vos Savant
June 4-June 10, 2006 There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
May 28-June 3, 2006 To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel
May 21-May 27, 2006 People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
May 14-May 20, 2006 The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
May 7-May 13, 2006 All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
April 30-May 6, 2006 A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
April 23-April 29, 2006 One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
April 16-April 22, 2006 Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
April 9-April 15, 2006 Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
April 2-April 8, 2006 Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlit
March 26-April 1, 2006 To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Sir Winston Churchill
March 19-25, 2006 There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
March 12-18, 2006 The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 5-11, 2006 Anxiety is the space between the 'now' and the 'then.'
Richard Abell
February 26-March 4, 2006 Faithless is he that says farewellwhen the road darkens.
J. R. Tolkien
February 19-25, 2006 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
February 12-18, 2006 In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
Louis Pasteur
February 5-11, 2006 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
January 29-February 4, 2006 The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 22-28, 2006 You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
January 15-21, 2006 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
January 8-14, 2006 Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S. Eliot
January 1-7, 2006 One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings
December 25-31, 2005 I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
December 18-24, 2005 Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
December 11-17, 2005 Every exit is an entry somewhere.
Tom Stoppard
December 4-10, 2005 To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
November 27-December 3, 2005 Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
November 20-26, 2005 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
November 13-19, 2005 Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness, and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
November 6-12, 2005 Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
October 30-November 5, 2005 To study and not think is a waste.  To think and not study is dangerous.
Confucius
October 23-29, 2005 To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau
October 16-22, 2005 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
October 9-15, 2005 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman R. Augustine
October 2-8, 2005 Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
September 18-24, 2005 There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
September 11-17, 2005 Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
September 4-10, 2005 The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
Thomas Szasz
August 28-September 3, 2005 Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
August 21-27, 2005 Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
August 14-20, 2005 Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
W. Earl Hall
August 6-13, 2005 Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
July 31-August 6, 2005 See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely.
William Shakespeare
July 24-30, 2005 Four Rules For Life; Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
Angeles Arrien
July 17-23, 2005 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
July 10-16, 2005 Being defeated is often a temporary condition.  Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn Vos Savant
July 3-9, 2005 Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
June 26-July 2, 2005 The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
June 19-25, 2005 I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
George Burns
June 12-18, 2005 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
June 5-11, 2005 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
May 29-June 4, 2005 A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
John Stuart Mill
May 22-28, 2005 Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Lloyd Alexander
May 15-21, 2005 Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
May 8-14, 2005 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
May 1-7, 2005 Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Mark Twain
April 24-30, 2005 Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
April 17-23, 2005 I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
April 10-16, 2005 The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
The less you know the hotter you get.
Bertrand Russell
March 27-April 9, 2005 The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking
that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin
March 20-26, 2005 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
March 13-19, 2005 Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Gene Brown
March 6-12, 2005 It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
February 27-March 5, 2005 Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barry LePatner
February 20-26, 2005 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo Da Vinci
February 13-19, 2005 I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
February 6-12, 2005 Go ahead and do it, it is easier to apologize than to get permission.
Admiral Grace Hopper
January 30-February 5, 2005 Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin
January 23-29, 2005 Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
January 16-22, 2005 A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Arthur C. Clarke
January 9-15, 2005 The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with,
but whether or not it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
January 1-8, 2005 When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
December 26-31, 2004 The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert
December 19-25, 2004 There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Newbold Wharton
December 12-18, 2004 Education is what you get when you read the fine print;
Experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger
December 5-11, 2004 The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
Nov 28-December 4, 2004 There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
November 21-27, 2004 Everything that needs to be said has already been said.
But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
Andre Gide
November 14-20, 2004 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick
November 7-13, 2004 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw
October 31-November 6, 2004 It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.'
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Sir Winston Churchill
October 24-30, 2004 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
October 17-23, 2004 Success is never final, failure is never fatal, it's courage that counts.
Sir Winston Churchill
October 10-16, 2004 Success is getting what you want.  Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
October 3-9, 2004 It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono
September 26-October 2, 2004 Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
September 19-25, 2004 If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
Christopher Spranger
September 12-18, 2004 In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance.  In victory: magnanimity.  In peace: goodwill.
Winston Churchill
September 5-11, 2004 There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Carl Gustav Jung
August 29-September 4, 2004 Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks ever in the most unlikely swim.
Ovid
August 22-28, 2004 The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
August 15-21, 2004 Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
August 8-14, 2004 Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
August 1-7, 2004 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
July 24-31, 2004 When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wordsworth
July 18-24, 2004 The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
July 11-17, 2004 After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
Unknown
July 4-10, 2004 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Sir James Barrie
June 27-July 3, 2004 Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
June 20-26, 2004 We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald Reagan
June 13-19, 2004 The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier
to give up than bad ones.
Somerset Maugham
June 6-12, 2004 Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
May 30-June 5, 2004 When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Mark Twain
May 23-29, 2004 It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
Moliere
May 16-22, 2004 Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
May 9-15, 2004 He who has a "why" to live can bear with almost any "how".
Viktor Frankl
May 2-8, 2004 There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
April 25-May 1, 2004 What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 18-24, 2004 Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
William Feather
April 11-17, 2004 Perfectionism spells paralysis.
Winston Churchill
April 4-10, 2004 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
March 29-April 3, 2004 We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
Newton Minow
March 21-28, 2004 Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats
March 14-20, 2004 A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
John Wooden
March 7-13, 2004 A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
February 29-March 6, 2004 Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
February 22-28, 2004 The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Nancy Astor
February 15-21, 2004 The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
February 8-14, 2004 Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
February 1-7, 2004 Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci
January 25-31, 2004 Things may come to those who wait ... but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
January 18-24, 2004 A people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.
James Madison
January 11-17, 2004 Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
January 4-10, 2004 We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
Bernard Malamud
Dec 28, 2003 -Jan 3, 2004 Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Author Unknown
December 21-27, 2003 Make the best of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
December 14-20, 2003 In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
December 7-13, 2003 Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson
November 30-December 6, 2003 Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
November 23-29, 2003 If you hide your ignorance no one will hit you and you will never learn.
Ray Bradbury
November 16-22, 2003 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
November 9-15, 2003 We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
Edward R. Murrow
November 2-8, 2003 The world we have created is a product of our thinking. 
It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
October 26-November 1, 2003 Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks ever in the most unlikely swim.
Ovid
October 19-25, 2003 Force without mind falls by its own weight.
Horace
October 12-18, 2003 Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
October 5-11, 2003 What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 28-October 4, 2003 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah More
September 21-27, 2003 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
September 14-20, 2003 We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
September 7-13, 2003 You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
September 1-6, 2003 The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese proverb
August 24-31, 2003 Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
August 17-23, 2003 Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
August 10-16, 2003 The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
August 3-9, 2003 All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
July 27-August 2, 2003 I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
July 20-26, 2003 Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
July 13-19, 2003 What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
July 6-12, 2003 The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
Walt West
June 29-July 5, 2003 Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame)
June 22-28, 2003 The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
June 15-21, 2003 Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods
Albert Einstein
June 8-14, 2003 One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
John W. Foster
June 1-7, 2003 You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss
May 25-31, 2003 Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Jim Horning
May 18-24, 2003 You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
May 11-17, 2003 Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution.
Willa A. Foster
May 4-10, 2003 Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 27-May 3, 2003 If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb
April 20-26, 2003 Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare
April 13-19, 2003 Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers.
James Thurber
April 6-12, 2003 A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities;
An optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman
March 30-April 5, 2003 Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Samuel Johnson
March 23-29, 2003 There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
March 16-22, 2003 We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
March 9-15, 2003 If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
March 2-8, 2003 It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
Joyce Cary
February 23-March 1, 2003 Nothing else in the world ... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
February 16-22, 2003 Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
February 9-15, 2003 The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
John Holt
February 2-8, 2003 It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
January 26-February 1, 2003 It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire
January 19-25, 2003 He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
January 12-18, 2003 It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
January 5-11, 2003 Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
December 29-January 4, 2003 We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can
take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
December 22-28, 2002 Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
December 15-21, 2002 Knowledge alone effects emancipation. As fire is indispensable to cooking, so knowledge is essential to deliverance.
Shankara
December 8-14, 2002 Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
December 1-7, 2002 You can make mistakes, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming others for those mistakes.
John Wooden
November 24-30, 2002 Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
November 17-23, 2002 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
November 10-16, 2002 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner
November 3-9, 2002 I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
October 27-November 2, 2002 A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
October 20-26, 2002 Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
October 13-19, 2002 Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
October 6-12, 2002 Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
Kelly Fordyce
September 29-October 5, 2002 A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Montaigne
September 22-28, 2002 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
September 15-21, 2002 It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
September 8-14, 2002 Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
September 1-7, 2002 Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
J. Krishnamurti
August 25-31, 2002 Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Ben Franklin
August 18-24, 2002 If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
August 11-17, 2002 Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alex Hamilton
August 4-10, 2002 Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
July 28-August 3, 2002 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
July 21-27, 2002 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar
July 14-20, 2002 Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
July 7-13, 2002 Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
June 30-July 6, 2002 The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheimer
June 23-29, 2002 There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
June 16-22, 2002 Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
David Fasold
June 9-15, 2002 Science is organized knowledge.  Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
June 2-8, 2002 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
May 26-June 1, 2002 An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
John Junor
May 19-25, 2002 In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
van de Snepscheut
May 12-18, 2002 Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Edward R. Murrow
April 28-May 4, 2002 The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
April 21-27, 2002 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman
April 14-20, 2002 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
April 7-13, 2002 Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 
Albert Einstein
March 31-April 6, 2002 Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
March 24-30, 2002 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
March 17-23, 2002 Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
March 10-16, 2002 A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill 
March 3-9, 2002 Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher Von Braun
February 24-March 2, 2002 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
Gen. MacArthur
February 17-23, 2002 Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
February 10-16, 2002 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
February 3-9, 2002 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
January 27-Feb 2, 2002Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
January 20-26, 2002> One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe
January 13-19, 2002 If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.
Jayne Howard
January 6-12, 2002 A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
January 1-5, 2002 The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
December 23-31, 2001 Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
December 16-22, 2001 Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
John Luther
December 9-15, 2001 Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
John Kenneth Galbraith
December 2-8, 2001 If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
November 25-Dec 1, 2001 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
November 18-24, 2001 Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say “this we know.”
T.S. Eliot
November 11-17, 2001 Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
General George S. Patton
November 4-10, 2001 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
October 28-Nov 3, 2001 The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
October 21-27, 2001 Great spirits have always faced violent protest from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
October 14-20, 2001 For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken
October 7-13, 2001 A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
General George Patton
September 30-Oct 6, 2001 You must not lose faith in humanity.  Humanity is an ocean;
If a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi 
September 23-30, 2001 Nothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin Luther
September 16-22, 2001 I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
September 9-15, 2001 It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
September 2-8, 2001 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
August 26-Sept 1, 2001 If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde 
August 19-25, 2001 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
August 12-18, 2001 There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald McLeish
August 5-11, 2001 Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
July 29-August 4, 2001 Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other.
Donald G. Smith 
July 22-28, 2001 Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley 
July 15-21, 2001 Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Levenstein
July 8-14, 2001 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
July 1-7, 2001 You can either take action or you can hang back and hope for a miracle.
Peter Drucker
June 24-30, 2001 Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. 
John Wooden
June 17-23, 2001 Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything with it.  
Jimmy Connors
June 10-16, 2001Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
June 3-9, 2001 To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Sir Benjamin Disraeli
May 27-June 2, 2001 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers
May 20-26, 2001 Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt 
May 13-19, 2001 Science is organized knowledge.  Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
May 6-12, 2001 Plan for the future because that's where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
Mark Twain 
April 29-May 5, 2001 Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
April 22-28, 2001 I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
April 15-21, 2001 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
April 8-14, 2001 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
April 1-7, 2001 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.  
Robert Frost  
March 25-31, 2001 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.  
John Tudor
March 18-24, 2001 Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.  
Abigail Adams
March 11-17, 2001 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.  
Colin Powell
March 4-10, 2001 A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
February 25-March 3, 2001 The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
February 18-24, 2001 The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln