positivechange

• Ask for what you want. If you ask for something, you are more likely to get it. If you don't ask for it, you are less likely to get it.
• Bright people who are bored tend to underperform and get into mischief.
• Everyone's different. ... There's no accounting for tastes.
• Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching and no one else will ever know.
• "If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." -- former Senator Alan Simpson
• If you want things to be different, you need to do things differently. Trying harder can be helpful for addressing a short-term problem. To really fix anything else almost always requires doing things in a different way. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." (Attributed to various people, including Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein)
• Mistakes are part of learning. If you never make a mistake you aren't taking enough risks. When you make a mistake: (1) take responsibility for it, clean it up (apolgize and/or make amends as necessary), and go on; and (2) learn as much as you can from it.
• You don't have to be perfect to be great.
• The way to manage (limit/reduce) the costs of a big mistake: tell it early; tell it all; tell it yourself; take responsibility, and apologize and make amends!!
• "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." -- Will Rogers
• "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov
• "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." Les Brown
• Begin with the end in mind.
• "If it isn't fun, why do it?" -- Ben and Jerry (and others :-) (also "Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.")
• "Enough is as good as a feast." -- George Chapman
• "If I had more time, I would have written less." -- Mark Twain
• English is a slippery language.
• "This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we REALLY believe, and those we never think to question." -- Orson Scott Card
• No matter how thin the pancake, it always has at least two sides.
• Sometimes you just have to choose between being right and making things work.
• "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
• "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." att. Edmund Burke, 1770 ... but maybe common
• "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

• Harrison Owen's guiding principles and one law: Whoever is present are the right people.

  Whenever it starts is the right time.

  Wherever it happens is the right place.

  Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.

  When it's over, it's over.

  Law of two feet: If at any time during our time together you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, use your two feet and go someplace else.

Submitted October 03, 2018 at 08:32PM by ZomboFc https://ift.tt/2NkdzXN