Mohammed Ali quote on imagination…

8 08 2007

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Mohammed Ali — US Boxer and former World Heavy

Weight Champion…





Sophia Loren Quote on abilities.

28 08 2006

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

Sophia Loren
US (Italian-born)





Martin Luther King quote on doing your job well.

24 08 2006

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
– Martin Luther King





Cicero Quote on ability.

5 08 2006

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

Cicero Roman Author, Orator and Politician (106 BC - 43 BC)





Elbert Hubbard Quote of Men and Machines.

3 08 2006

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

Elbert Hubbard US Author





Emile Coue Quote

31 07 2006

“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”

Emile Coue





Henry David Thoreau Quote

31 07 2006

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

Henry David Thoreau

And on that note I will see you people later! Happy blogging!





Abraham Heschel Quote

30 07 2006

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”

Rabbi Abraham Heschel





Douglas Adams Quote

29 07 2006

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Douglas AdamsĀ  English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)