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Cooperation is less stressful than competition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge
the truth and falsehood in an open market
is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
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