What excuse do you use ?
" Striving for perfection is the greater stopper there is ... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence,doing your best."
Sir Laurence Olivier
British Oscar winner actor.
" Striving for perfection is the greater stopper there is ... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence,doing your best."
Sir Laurence Olivier
British Oscar winner actor.
"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen was the pen name of Karen Blixen, the Danish author famously portrayed by Meryl Streep in the film of her best-selling memoir, Out of Africa.
"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
Benjamin Mays
African-American minister Benjamin Mays laid the foundation for the civil rights movement with his books and speeches and as a mentor to Martin Luther King
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
Lao-Tzu
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham
Because it is important to build momentum and because I sense that from the amazing feedback I have received through email yesterday (do not hesitate in the future to share your feedback in the comments part of the blog) that the energy is being communicated as intended, before I leave for the training I am giving today on communication and negotiation style, allow me to inspire you on this beautiful April day with a quote:
"There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, 'We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.'"
This quote was written by Jim Collins, an American business guru author of several books, including the instant classic Built to Last (six years on the Business Week best-seller list, and Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don't, which became a New York Times best seller) and teacher at Stanford University's business school.
Have a beautiful day !