CHAPTER ONE

Quotes 1

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

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

- Earl Nightingale, Motivational author

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

- Earl Nightingale

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

- Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) American semanticist

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

- Ronald Reagan

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

- Galileo Galilei

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

- e e cummings (1894-1962)