Quotes

There are two things which nature discourages and severely penalizes:
(a) a vacuum (emptiness) and (b) idleness (lack of action).
-N. Hill

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
- N. Hill

Spending a few weeks overseas with someone will help you determine who they really are.

Every business, every organization, every ‘thing’ that’s been created…

All involved people.

Actively taking notes in the margins of any book is just as important as reading it in the first place.

“There is a story behind every person. There is a reason why they are as they are. Think about that and respect them for who they are.”

Volunteer. Especially with men who have spent 40 years behind bars.

“Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence — at least partially — of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you’re not expecting it — and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly — if you don’t jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish.”

- http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part1.html

Hunger.

Just do it.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”