T. Dufek
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
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You sing-a high.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
No wire hangers, ever !
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Love is the only gold.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The world belongs to the energetic.
My life is my message.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Don't dream it be it.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Do or do not, there is no try.
You only get out what you put in.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.