"So many things I would have done,
but clouds got in my way."
--Judy Collins
"We don't like their sound,
and guitar music is on the way out."
--Decca Recording Company
{Rejecting The Beatles in 1962!}
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs
is ridiculous fiction."
--Pierre Pachet
{Professor of Physiology at Toulose in 1872!}
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
--Charles H. Spurgeon
"The concept is interesting and well-formed,
but in order to earn better than a C
the idea must be feasible."
--A Yale University management professor
in response to Fred Smith's paper
proposing a reliable overnight delivery service.
{Smith went on to found Federal Express Corporation!}
"Can't act. Can't sing. Balding.
Can dance a little."
{MGM summary of a screen test
by some guy named Fred Astaire!}
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
--Gen. George Patton
"I think there is a world market
for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson
{Chairman of IBM, 1943!)
"There is no reason anyone would want
a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson
{president, chairman and founder
of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977!}
"I choose a block of marble
and chop off whatever I don't need."
--Francois-Aguste Rodin
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
--Wayne Gretzky
"The tragedy in life
is not so much what people suffer,
but rather what they miss."
--Thomas Carlyle
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
--Pablo Picasso
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible!"
--Walt Disney
"You've got to be careful
if you don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there."
--Yogi Berra
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
--Seneca
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy."
--Leo Buscaglia
"Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment."
--Jim Horning
"There are those that look at things the way they are,
and ask, "Why?".
I dream of things that never were,
and ask, "Why not?"
--Robert F. Kennedy
"Consider the postage stamp.
Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing
until it gets there."
--Josh Billings
"I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
--Bill Cosby
"Do not go where the path may lead;
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest problem you have
is your greatest opportunity."
--Michael Wickett
"Success requires both urgency and patience.
Be urgent about making the effort,
and patient about seeing the results."
--Ralph Marston
"The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest
and most effective strategies
for making something happen for you."
--Dr. Wayne Dyer
"If you can imagine it, You can achieve it.
If you can dream it, You can become it."
--William Arthur Ward
"It's a funny thing,
the more I practice the luckier I get."
--Arnold Palmer
"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit."
--Aristotle
"Trust in dreams for in them
is hidden the gate to eternity."
--Kahlil Gibran
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
--Bobby Unser
"Nothing is a waste of time
if you use the experience wisely."
--Francois-Aguste Rodin
"The opportunities of people are limited
only by their imagination.
But so few have imagination
that there are ten thousand fiddlers
to one composer."
--Charles F. Kettering
"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."
--Dale Carnegie
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great,
make you feel that you too can become great."
--Mark Twain
"You are successful the moment you start moving
toward a worthwhile goal."
--Charles Carlson
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