December 2004

     "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."

                                                                                                                      Jane Wagner (and Lily Tomlin)

November

Those who would give up essential Liberty , to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Benjamin Franklin

October

"You can observe a lot by watching"       

Yogi Berra

September

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."          Mark Twain

"Every man has the right to utter what he thinks truth,

and every other man has the right to knock him down for it."                                             

Samuel Johnson

August

"I'm not returning until you fix it," bandleader Count Bassie told a club owner whose piano was always out of tune.

A month later, Bassie got a call that everything was fine.  When he returned the piano was still out of tune.

"You said you fixed it!" an irate Bassie exclaimed.

"I did," came the reply.  "I had it painted."

Are you solving the right problem?

- Roger Von Oech  from Good Stuff

July

Vision without action is a daydream.  Action without vision is a nightmare."    

                                                                                                                                                                         Japanese Proverb

June

"Education is when you read the fine print.  Experience is what you get if you don't"

                                                                                                                                     Pete Seeger Singer/Songwriter

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                      Chinese Proverb

May

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. 

Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.”

“We’re not raising grass,”  Dad would reply, “We’re raising boys."

                                                                                                             Harmon Killebrew  (Baseball Hall of Fame)

April

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

John Wooden  (UCLA Hall of Fame Basketball Coach)

March

"Leadership must be based on goodwill.  Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob.  It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.  We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and most tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them.  What we need for leaders are men of heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs.  But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers.  Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away."

Admiral James B. Stockdale Ret.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act." 

Dr. Maxwell Maltz  Psycho-Cybernetics