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By Barb Stutesman
If you want something to change, you personally have to do something different. Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. ~ Cathy Guisewite
A substantial fraction of many people’s days is spent worrying about what others think of them. If nobody ever worried about what was in other people’s heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and on our jobs. ~ Randy Pausch
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world . . . as in being able to remake ourselves. ~ Mahatmas Gandhi
What I look for is not how to gain a firm hold on myself and on life, but primarily how to live a life that would deserve and evoke an eternal “Amen”. ~ Abraham Heschel
In life a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing. ~ Hank Aaron
It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true. ~ Sara E. Anderson
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~ Bill Dodds
A good beginning makes a good end. ~ English proverb
Being able to work in a group is a vital and necessary skill in both the work world and in families. ~ Randy Pausch
Dream a little before you think and solve. ~ Toni Morrison
Before they were murdered that morning, most people’s last words were “I love you”, not “I hate you.” My prayer is that we always will remember that the power of love is exponentially greater than the power of hate. ~ BC Ochman, survivor of WTC 09/11/01
The only real elegance is in the mind. If you’ve got that, the rest follows from it. ~ Diana Vreeland
You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. Florida Scott-Maxwell
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. ~ Willa Cather
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. ~ Sir Edmund Hillary
Tips for working well in a group: Meet people properly. Find things you have in common. Try for optimal meeting conditions. Meet over a meal if you can; food softens a meeting. Let everyone talk. Check egos at the door. Praise each other. Phrase alternatives as questions. ~ Randy Pausch
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell
I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. ~ Walter Cronkite
You hold all our futures in your hands. So you better make it good. ~ Jodie Foster
I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure what kind of future it is going to be. ~ Charles Kettering
If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ~ Marian Wright Edelman
There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you wait long enough, people will surprise and impress you. ~ Randy Pausch
To live is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often. ~ John Henry Newman
Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. ~ John F. Kennedy
I don’t know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it’s the only time you have. ~ Art Buchwald
The aim of life is to live, and to live is to be aware. ~ Henry Miller
What’s courage but having faith instead of fear? ~ Michael J. Fox
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. ~ Samuel Butler
In the end, people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good dies, Just keep waiting. It will come out. ~ Randy Pausch
