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| Name: | barefoot MBA | |
| Bio: |  Except for a few public service announcements, my journal will be friends only. "In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline." Martin Luther King, Jr. "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Gandhi "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. Henry David Thoreau "Do one thing every day that scares you." Eleanor Roosevelt "Let only the eager, thoughtful, and reverent enter here." Inscription on Pomona College's gate. "Education is the lighting of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." Socrates “I don’t get inspired, then invent. I invent, then I get inspired.” Thomas Edison “The riches are in the niches” Arvee Robinson "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." Elbert Hubbard "Success has to be handled gingerly. You want to shadowbox with it; you don't want to really engage with success until you find a way to engineer it so that you don't wind up being its slave." Robert Redford “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” F. Scott Fitzgerald “The longer and the more sincerely that you can consider the possibility that you may be mistaken in an intellectual or moral or political judgment, the better grounded and informed and defended your judgments will be.” Timothy Peltason “To speak of growth is to suggest that what will happen to you here will be somehow effortless and organic, and to suggest furthermore that you already contain within your seedling selves the condensed form and substance of all that you will become… Surely there’s something more energized and effortful that is required of us, an activity more human and less plantlike, a process of gathering and building and making. And this process can go forward only when you’ve made the crucial recognition that the raw materials are not all within you, that you have to seek them out – and seek them without – in the process of learning.” Timothy Peltason "If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal... The master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve." Lao-tzu “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Seneca "Chance favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur "What if today’s underemployment trend (low-paying mindless jobs even for the well- educated) showed the next generation to undervalue their work, squirm out of the trap of meaningless employment, work less, consume less and actually figure out how to enjoy life?" To Work is Human, To Slack Divine by Hal Niedzviecki "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." George Patton “Two roads diverged in a wood And I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference” Robert Frost "You can’t be neutral on a moving train." Howard Zinn "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Helen Keller "A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American." Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire: A Season to Wilderness "The journey is part of the gift." African Proverb "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead "If there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution. And if there's any hope for a revolution, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara." Phil Ochs "Life is not always a matter of being dealt a winning hand, but sometimes, of playing a poor hand well." Jack London “Son, I’ve made a life out of readin’ people’s faces And knowin’ what their cards were by the way they held their eyes So if you don’t mind me sayin’, I can see you’re out of aces For a taste of your whiskey, I’ll give you some advice… If you’re gonna play the game boy, you got to learn to play it right You got to when to hold ‘em Know when to fold ‘em Know when to walk away And know when to run You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done Every gambler knows that the secret to survivin’ Is knowin’ what to throw away and knowin’ what to keep ‘Cause every hand’s a winner and every hand’s a loser And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep” The Gambler – Kenny Rogers “So this is how liberty dies — with thunderous applause.” Padmé - Star Wars III "It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task." Sydney J. Harris "The more you know, the less you need." Australian aboriginal saying "Great minds discuss ideas.. Average minds discuss events.. Small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt "People don't quit playing because they get old; they get old because they quit playing." Satchell Paige "All my life I've only had one dream, to achieve my many goals." Homer Simpson - The Simpsons "To soar like an eagle, learn to waddle like a duck." Fortune cookie "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." Buddha. Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C. "First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." Pastor Martin Niemöller "No good deed goes unpunished." Clare Boothe Luce "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed." William Gibson “I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.” Toys-R-Us commercial “Well behaved women rarely make history.” L.T.Ulrich "The freeway experience... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over." Joan Didion "The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." Alvin Toffler “May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view… where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you.” Edward Abbey “The key to overcoming fear is not the absence of fear, it’s just the awareness of having something more important than fear. If you have this sense of calling, the fear will subside eventually.” Stephen Covey “The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.” W.E.B. Du Bois "'Why would I go to a reunion?'... It's not mostly to revisit memories. It's to share trip notes with your fellow travelers through time. It's to allow your fully alive but often hidden younger self back out on parade. That self can never be fully seen by people who know your past only through your stories." -- Mary Schmich '75, Chicago Tribune columnist "Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage." Charles Luckman “Living with a dream can sometimes be madness. But living without a dream is insanity.” "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength." A.J. Cronin "Watch your thoughts; they lead to attitudes. Watch your attitudes; they lead to words. Watch your words; they lead to actions. Watch your actions; they lead to habits. Watch your habits; they form your character. Watch your character; it determines your destiny." Anonymous “The secondhandedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.” Alfred North Whitehead “Goodness is its own reward – in heaven. On earth, you have to lobby.” State legislator from PA “Can you hold the door of your tent Wide to the firmament? Can you, with the simple stature Of a child, breathing nature, Become, notwithstanding, A man? Can you continue befriending With no prejudice, no ban? Can you, mating with heaven, Serve as the female part? Can your learned head take leave From the wisdom of your heart? If you can bear issue and nourish its growing, If you can guide without claim or strife, If you can stay in the lead of men without their knowing, Your are at the core of life.” Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching. “According to Joseph Campbell, there is only one story in the world, retold in many guises. Whether it is cloaked in Finnish or Polynesian language or imagery, the plot of the monomyth is always and everywhere the same: A hero is drawn away from the path of normal life (sometimes by a friendly gnome or mysterious stranger), falls into a quest, travels to the other world, suffers and ordeal, gains a prize, and returns with the prize to the world of his origins.” Howard Rheingold. “The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations to the generally valid, normal human forms. Such a one’s visions, ideas, and inspirations come pristine from the primary springs of human life and thought. Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn…His second solemn task and deed therefore (… as all mythologies of mankind indicate) is to return then to us, transfigured, and teach the lesson he has learned of life renewed.” Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” George Levinger “Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.” Spanish proverb. “Safe harbor may be a comfortable place, but it’s not what the ship was built for.” “Only a fool argues with skunks, mules, or cooks.” Cowboy wisdom "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen "There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place." Washington Irving "There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at 18 and 48." Ezra Pound "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller "The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is wage and ultimately won or lost." M. Scott Peck  What rating is your journal? brought to you by Quizilla | |
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