Advancement of Science

“The advancement of science can be summarized by recognizing what was thought impossible becoming a reality.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Impediment to Action

“Our actions may be impeded but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
--Marcus Aurelius

No Evidence

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
--Christopher Hitchens

Same as Everybody

“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else.”
--Arnold Schwarzenegger

Anyone Can Invent

“Anyone can become an inventor as long as they keep an open and inquiring mind and never overlook the possible significance of an accident or apparent failure.”
--Patsy O'Connell Sherman

Always Doing

“It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.”
--Thomas Jefferson

Dangerous Timidity

“Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.”
--Poul Anderson

No Happiness

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
--Freya Stark

Invasion of Ideas

“An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot.”
--Victor Hugo

Good Coaching

“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.”
--Ara Parseghian

Not Perfect

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
--John Steinbeck

A Large Heart

“A large heart can be filled with very little.”
--Antonio Porchia

Inbred Character

“Skills can be trained, character is inbred.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Whine Over

“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

Face Change

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
--James Arthur Baldwin

Human Freedoms

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
--Viktor E. Frankl

Recall Truth

“The truth can only be recalled, never invented.”
--Marilyn Monroe

Lead and Inspire

“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.”
--Ross Perot

More Than You Are

“You cannot be anything you want to be, but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.”
--Tom Rath

All The Way

“You never know how good something can be if you do not do it all the way.”
--Lisa Gunkle