Living In The Past And Reminiscing

“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))
 
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it.” -Shannon L. Alder
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“It’s no use to go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” -Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898)): “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865)
 
“When you’re too caught up in what happened in the past, you miss what’s right in front of you.” -Author Unknown
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“If you’re yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.” -Griff Niblack
 
“I am not really a reminiscing person. I am not nostalgic at all.” -Petula Clark
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“Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.” -Candace Bushnell
 
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
 
“Examine the past, but don’t live in it.” -Author Unknown
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“Too much looking backward . . . is bad for progress.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
 
“The Ogle Fish swims everywhere backwards, because it is only interested in seeing where it has already been.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Remember, you can’t reach for what’s in front of you, until you let go of what’s behind you.” -Author Unknown
 
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” -Jan Glidewell (James Janis ‘Jan’ Glidewell (1944 - 2013))
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“If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward.” -Jodi Picoult (Jodi Lynn Picoult (born 1966)) at https://jodipicoult.com/
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“‘Living in the past’ is a way of saying that a person is not giving enough attention to his or her present life.” -Author Unknown
 
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” -Roy T. Bennett
 
“I live in the past because it’s cheaper there.” -Author Unknown
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“Move forward, don’t look back, just forget the past.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you let go of the past, it no longer has a hold on you.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crop.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “Adam Bede” (1859)
 
“Do not look back; if Cinderella had gone back to pick up her shoe, she would never have become a princess.” -Author Unknown
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“The mill cannot grind with water that’s past.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 153
 
Bernard: How many past-dwellers does it take to change a light bulb?
Glennard: Four. One to change the bulb and three to reminisce about how good the old burned-out, broken light bulb was.
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“Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.” -Author Unknown
 
“That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “Essays” (1597)
 
“How many people long for that ‘past, simpler, and better world,’ I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?” -R. A. Salvatore
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“There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
“Life goes on whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could’ve been. I don’t want to live in the past anymore. I’m so lonely here, there’s nothing for me here anymore.” -Stephanie Smith: “Wherever You Will Go” (7 August 2014)
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“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.” -Lyndon B. Johnson (Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908 - 1973))
 
“The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.” -Author Unknown
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“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.” -Author Unknown

The Good Old Days
 
“In my day, we couldn’t afford shoes, so we went barefoot. In the Winter we had to wrap our feet with barbed wire for traction.” -Bill Flavin
 
“In my day, we didn’t have virtual reality. If a one-eyed razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun him.” -Sarah M. Wolford
 
“In my day, we didn’t have days. There was only ‘time for work,’ ‘time for prayer,’ and ‘time for sleep.’ The sheriff would go around and tell everyone when to change.” -Elden Carnahan
 
“In my day, we didn’t have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.” -Diana Hugue
 
By Author Unknown: as published in the “Washington Post” (about 1997) newspaper, in a contest on the subject of the difficulties of the good old days
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“Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” -Robin Sharma (Robin S. Sharma (born 1965))
 
“The past is a great place, and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.” -Mick Jagger (Michael Philip ‘Mick’ Jagger (born 1943))
 
Clarence: They don’t make them like they used to.
Lawrence: And for good reason!
 
“Stop living backwards while the world continues to move forward.” -Roger Lee
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“The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.” -Horace Greeley (1811 - 1872)
 
“We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.” -Simone de Beauvoir: “Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté” (English: “The Ethics of Ambiguity”) (1947), Chapter 1: ‘The Aesthetic Attitude’
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“When setting priorities, going forward is likely to be more important than looking back.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.” -Walter Benjamin: “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1940), II
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“If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.” -Jules Renard (Pierre-Jules Renard (1864 - 1910))
 
“For those who live in the past, there is no future.” -Author Unknown
 
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” -attributed to Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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“Draw from your past, but do not let your past draw from you.” -Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie: “Stargate Atlantis,” Season 4, Episode 3, ‘Reunion’ (12 October 2007), words of character Teal’c (portrayed by actor Christopher Judge)

“A Retrosaurus is a backward-looking dinosaur, which is why we do not find its kind anymore in our world.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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What Day To Live In?
 
Yesterday is now far away,
     Tomorrow is another day -
Not yet here, though on its way.
     My advice? Enjoy today!
 
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“The more we look backwards, the less we will be able to see forward.” -Author Unknown
 
“The past is to learn from and not to live in.” -Richard L. Evans (Richard Louis Evans (1906 - 1971))
 
“It has taken me a while, but I’m learning that letting go of the past is a good thing. It doesn’t mean forgetting, it just means moving on. Because the fact is, we can’t enjoy the present and embrace the future when we are still stuck in the past.” -Don Dewberry
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“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” -Charles F. Kettering (Charles Franklin Kettering (1876 - 1958))
 
“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.” -Byrd Baggett
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“If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven’t done much today.” -Author Unknown
 
“Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.” -Edna Ferber (1885 - 1968)
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“I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880))
 
“It’s okay to look back at the past. Just don’t stare.” -Benjamin Dover
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“When we cling to the past, we become unavailable in the present.” -Author Unknown
 
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” -Author Unknown
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“The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.” -Irving Ball
 
“Once you make the decision to move on, don’t look back. Your destiny will never be found in the rear-view mirror.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
 
“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.” -Aulus Persius Flaccus (also known simply as Persius (C.E. 34 - C.E. 62))
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“The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” -L. Thomas Holdcroft (Leslie Thomas ‘Les’ Holdcroft (1922 - 2018))
 
“It is not possible to go forward while looking back.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969)
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“Don’t look back - that’s not where your future is.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Back when I was a boy, it was 40 miles to everywhere and it was always snowing.” -Author Unknown
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“I delight in the past.” -Henri Matisse
 
“When you focus on what might have been, it gets in the way of what can be.” -Patricia Fripp
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Living In The Past And Reminiscing Quiz
- What does it mean when a person is said to be dwelling in or on the past?
- What is the difference between dwelling in or on the past and reminiscing?
- What harm can it do to dwell in or on the past?
- How can a person stop dwelling in or on the past, start living in the present, and start planning and working for the future?
 
“Don’t look back - something might be gaining on you.” -Author Unknown
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“That’s like, so five minutes ago . . .” -Author Unknown
 
“Never live in the past, but always learn from it.” -Author Unknown
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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” -Lyndon B. Johnson (Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908 - 1973))
 
“Looking back gives you regrets. Looking ahead gives you opportunities.” -Author Unknown
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“When you finally let go of the past, something better comes along.” -Author Unknown
 
“One of the reasons people hold onto the past is because they don’t like their life in the now. You can keep the memories close to your heart, but you must let go of longings in order to plan a better life ahead of you.” -Brigitte Nicole
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“To be able to look back on one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.” -Marcus Valerius Martialis (also known simply as Martial (between C.E. 38 and C.E. 41 - between C.E. 102 and C.E. 104))
 
“‘Old times’ never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.” -George E. Woodberry (George Edward Woodberry (1855 - 1930))
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Clowns And Clowning

​“Life is better with clowns.” -Author Unknown
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“I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.” -Diane Cilento
 
What is a clown? A clown is an entertainer who wears colorful makeup and clothes, plays practical jokes, sometimes has props such as a unicycle, a noisemaker, or a trained animal, and uses physical acting, such as dancing or falling down, for comedic effect to entertain audiences and get laughs.
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“A clown’s makeup and character, that’s all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.” -Emmet Kelly (Emmett Leo Kelly (1898 - 1979)): quoted in “The Greeley Daily Tribune” (21 June 1975) newspaper of Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, United States of America
 
“I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.” -Ernest Borgnine
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“I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.” -Tim Duncan
 
“I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, ‘Wow, this is exciting, I’m a little bit nervous.’” -Nathan Fillion (born 1971)
 
Chuckles the Clown: Why did Jolly the Clown cross the road?
Giggles the Clown: To be funny on the other side!
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“The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616)): “Don Quixote” (1605)

​Happy clowns bring happiness wherever they are seen, and not the horrors of the creepy clowns that make people fearful or the depression of the sad clowns that make people feel bad. True clowns perform for the benefit of others; they spread joy. Send in the happy clowns!
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“I only come to life when there are people watching.” -Red Skelton (Richard Bernard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913 - 1997))
 
“A clown’s only goal is to make the audience forget their troubles, if only for a moment.” -Author Unknown
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“I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown.” -Charlie Chaplin (Charles Spencer ‘Charlie’ Chaplin (1889 - 1977)): as quoted in “The Observer” (17 June 1960) newspaper of London, England
 
Baggy Trousers
 
Baggy trousers
     Nose, bright red,
A silly hat
     Upon his head.
Squirting flower
     Spinning tie,
A teardrop falling
     From his eye.
Elastic braces
     Going twang,
His car exploding
     With a bang!
A patchwork coat
     Those flapping shoes,
A painted smile
     To chase the blues.
Making us laugh
     And banish that frown,
The simple duties
     Of a clown.
 
By Pip The Clown (Written For Bluey The Clown)
 
“Things happen for a reason. Except for clowns. There’s no reason for clowns.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you’re a man, and you’ve ever wondered, should I wear makeup and unique fashions . . . the answer is yes, you definitely should become a clown.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
A man went to a doctor, and said, “Doc, sometimes I feel like a clown - what should I do?” The doctor replied, “Don’t worry, it’s nothing serious!”
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Peachy the Clown: How does Jokey the Clown like her eggs?
Pinky the Clown: Funny side up!
 
“A clown sees life simply, without complications.” -George Bishop
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“If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you’ll just be the thirteenth clown.” -Adam Walinsky
 
Sarah: What are clown suits made from?
Matilda: Polyjester.
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The word ‘clown’ is possibly derived from the Icelandic word ‘klunni’ meaning ‘clumsy person.’

​If you’ve ever wondered what’s inside the really big clown shoes . . . well, now you know . . . really big clown feet!
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Do clowns wear really big socks?
 
“Yesterday, a clown held a door open for me. I thought it was a nice jester.” -Author Unknown
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There are believed to be more than 20,000 clowns in the world today. The most famous ones have their faces painted onto chicken eggs or goose eggs, which are then displayed in collections in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The tradition was started in the United Kingdom in about 1946.
 
“I just want to be known as a clown, because to me, that’s the height of my profession. It means you can do everything - sing, dance, and above all, make people laugh.” -Red Skelton (Richard Bernard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913 - 1997))
 
“I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids’ parties for about three years.” -Hugh Jackman (Hugh Michael Jackman (born 1968)): as quoted in “‪The Advocate,” No. 898 (16 ‪‪September 2003), page 46
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“If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.” -Red Skelton (Richard Bernard ‘Red’ Skelton (1913 - 1997))
 
“For several years now, the clown has taken on great importance, as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express.” -Jacques Lequoc (1973)
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“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?” -Angela Carter

​Signs That You Might Be A Clown
- You attract crowds wherever you go.
- People compliment you on your big shoes, bright-red nose, and painted-on smile.
- You share your ‘home on wheels’ with a trained seal, a fortune teller, a trapeze artist, and a magician.
- You spend every free minute practicing your routine - in fact, you do not have a moment to spare in your life.
- You have been to more birthday parties than the “Happy Birthday” song has.
- You put sprinkles on everything: ice cream, chicken soup, oatmeal - and you have even thought about putting sprinkles on sprinkles.
- Even your name draws smiles and laughs.
- You will cry yourself to sleep tonight because you think you did not make enough people happy today.
- When someone says he would like to be a clown, you are tempted to tell the person, “You might think that being a clown is just fun all day, but many hours of hard work go with the job.” But you don’t, and instead, you do something silly.
- You cannot imagine any other kind of life.
 
Laughy the Clown: Why does Snoozy the Clown wear loud socks?
Smiley the Clown: So his feet won’t fall asleep!
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“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” -Carl Sagan (Carl Edward Sagan (1934 - 1996)): “Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science” (1979)
 
Clowns spelled backwards is snwolc.
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Clowns We Have Yet To See
- The clown duo of Fraidy The Clown, who is afraid of everything, and his friend Fearless the Clown, who is afraid of nothing.
- Excitable, the clown who gets excited about everything - and sometimes about nothing!
- Jumpy, the clown who is always jumping up and down.
- Reader, the clown who is always reading.
- Choco Chipper the Clown, the clown who doesn’t have any chocolate right now, because he ate it all, and now he’s not feeling well . . . because he ate it all!
What clown can you imagine and then add to this list?

​A Prayer For Clowns

God bless all clowns
Who star in the world with laughter
Who ring the rafters with flying jest,
Who make the world spin merry on its way
And somehow add more beauty to each day.

God bless all clowns
So poor the world would be
Lacking their piquant, hilarity,
The belly laughs, the ringing lovely mirth
That makes a friendly place of Earth.

God bless all clowns -
Give them a long good life.
Make bright their way - they’re a breed apart!
Alchemists most, who turn their hearts’ pain
Into a dazzling jest to lift the heart.
God bless all clowns.
 
By Author Unknown

“People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really.” -Gary Oldman (Gary Leonard Oldman (born 1958))
 
The nickname for a clown is a Joey, after the English actor, comedian, dancer, and pantomime performer Joseph Grimaldi (1778 - 1837).
 
“This place is just a few clowns short of a circus.” -Author Unknown
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Gladys: I’m starting a clown shoe business.
Candice: That will be no small feet.
 
National Clown Week was signed into law on 2 August 1971 by American President Richard Milhous Nixon. It has since become International Clown Week, and is observed from 1 August to 7 August of every year.
 
Jess: I’d like to take over the clown’s job!
Jeff: Those are some mighty big shoes to fill!
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A Few Of The Many Types Of Clowns
- Visiting clowns
- Street performer clowns
- Spokesperson clowns
- Rodeo clowns
- Random clowns
- Grand opening clowns
- Event clowns
- Circus clowns
- Carnival clowns
- Birthday party clowns
What kind of clown would you like to be?
 
Founded by Herb Metz in 1983, the World Clown Association is an organization for clowns, jugglers, magicians, and face painters. They hold annual conventions, mainly in the United States. They have scholarships for people interested in attending clowning schools, personal liability insurance, and a newsletter. For the location and date of the next clown convention and more visit https://worldclown.com/.
 
Overheard: I’ve often wondered what shoe stores clowns go to.
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A big part of the rodeo clowns’ job is to distract agitated beasts so that thrown horse riders and thrown bull riders can make it to safety without being trampled, chomped, butted, or gored by the animals. Rodeo clowns also do comedy routines to keep crowds entertained between competitions. If you feel comfortable around large animals and you know something about animal nature, and if you want to live a life of danger and have people laugh at you, become a rodeo clown!
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In the early 1970’s, an American doctor named Hunter Doherty ‘Patch’ Adams started the practice of clowning for patients in hospitals, which helps patients recover faster and lightens the gloominess often associated with hospital stays.
 
Margaret: What protects clowns from the sun?
Maggie: The Bozone layer!
 
Holy Trinity Church in London, England is dedicated to clowns. The church has a stained-glass window depicting Joseph Grimaldi, who was a major influence on modern clowning. It also has an altar rail where clowns can kneel and pray, and a clowns gallery with items from famous clowns. Once a year, clowns from all over the world attend Holy Trinity Church in makeup and costume for a special service, asking God’s blessing on all clowns everywhere. Holy Trinity Church is in a section of London often described as economically depressed, and the citizens are pleased that clowns have their church in an area where laughter is needed the most.
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A Clown’s Blessing

May your nose be red and shiny,
     And your smile always bright.
May your cheeks be nice and rosy,
     Your eyes sparkle in the light.
May your shoes be always too big,
     Your costume be perma-pressed,
Your heart overflow with laughter,
     Each time you’re clownishly dressed.
May face paint be at the ready,
     And your balloons be ‘easy-blow.’
May children run to greet you,
     Wherever you may go.
 
By Author Unknown
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Gladys: I’m starting a clown shoe business.
Candice: That will be no small feat.
 
“Every human being is a clown but only few have the courage to show it.” -Charlie Rivel
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“A clown knows that not everything in life is a comedy, but still understands there is comedy in life.” -Author Unknown
 
The All-Around On Clowns And Clowning: Questions With Answers
Where can clowns be found? Clowns can be found at charity events, grand openings, birthday parties, carnivals, and in public spaces such as sidewalks and parks.
What do clowns do? Clowns make people laugh by acting goofy, dancing, making balloon animals, showing people how to laugh and have a good time when everything goes wrong, or doing face painting of audience members.
How can someone be a clown? Go to clown college or clown school, then work long hours at practicing and rehearsing, whenever possible in front of other people, or simply repeat these words: “I am a clown.”
Can I be a clown? If you think you might be a clown, maybe you already are one.
What do clowns need? Clowns needs fun names, like Jumping Josaphat or Skippy Lou.
If you have further questions, just ask your nearest clown.
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Sunny the Clown: Where was Jelly the Clown when the lights went out?
Sparkles the Clown: In the dark!

The Clown’s Prayer
 
As I stumble through this life,
     help me to create more laughter than tears,
dispense more happiness than gloom,
     spread more cheer than despair.

Never let me become so indifferent
     that I will fail to see
the wonders in the eyes of a child,
     or the twinkle in the eyes of the aged.

Never let me forget that my total effort
     is to cheer people, make them happy,
and forget momentarily,
     all the unpleasantness in their lives.

And in my final moment,
     may I hear You whisper:
“When you made My people smile,
     you made Me smile.”
 
By Author Unknown
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​“If you’ve ever said, ‘Somewhere a circus is missing its clown,’ it might be time to put on your costume and grab your clown gear and head out to the big top!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Send in the clowns.” -Stephen Sondheim: ‘Send in the Clowns’ song in “A Little Night Music”
 
“All the world loves a clown.” -Cole Porter: ‘Be a Clown’ in “The Pirate” (1948) movie
 
“A clown is what the world needs right now . . . or for that matter, at any time, because any time is the right time for a clown . . . at least, that’s what the clowns say!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
Anna: Which clown wears the biggest shoes?
Hannah: The one with the biggest feet, of course!
 
“See the world through a clown’s eyes, and find the magic in everything.” -Author Unknown
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“As a clown, a person can be the cause of the laughter that lights up a thousand faces.” -Author Unknown
 
“Dare to be different, for a clown stands out in the world.” -Author Unknown
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“You don’t always need a clown costume to be a clown and bring happiness to the world . . . sometimes you can just wear your everyday clothes and smile and wave at random strangers.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
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Chewing Gum And Bubble Gum

We are about to enter the mysterious world of gum . . . keep your wits about you . . . and watch out for strange flavors!
 
Chewing gum and bubble gum are soft, elastic materials that are meant to be chewed but not swallowed.
 
Hugh: Where is the best place to have a bubble gum bubble-blowing contest?
Bert: On a chew-chew train.
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People have enjoyed chewing gum-like substances in many lands and from very early times. Some of the materials were thickened resins and latexes from certain kinds of trees. Others were various sweet grasses, leaves, grains, and waxes. Modern chewing gum was originally made from the natural gum chicle, found in the sapodilla tree. Chicle is expensive, so other natural gums and chewy synthetic materials are also in use presently.
 
Eunice: How did the chewing gum get across the road?
Josie: By sticking to the chicken’s foot.
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For centuries the ancient Greeks chewed mastic gum (or mastiche pronounced ‘mas-tee-ka’). This is the resin obtained from the bark of the mastic tree, a shrub-like tree found on the island of Chios, Greece. Grecian women especially favored chewing mastic gum to clean their teeth and sweeten their breath.
 
Dottie: What do bees chew?
Babs: Bumble gum.
 
Chewing gum burns about 11 calories per hour.
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Modern chewing gum emerged from a series of failures. American inventor Thomas Adams had tried for an entire year to use chicle as a substitute for rubber in waterproof boots, rainwear, and toys. Mr. Adams was frustrated when the experiments did not work as he had hoped, and he was ready to throw away all of the remaining chicle. Then a visit to a drug store gave him an idea. There, he overheard a girl ask for a penny’s worth of paraffin wax candy, and he recalled that chicle had been chewed by people for many centuries. By 1870, he had developed a chewing gum manufacturing process, for which he obtained United States Patent #111,798 issued on 14 February 1871. He sold his product as ‘Adams’ New York Gum No. 1.’ In 1871, he made a licorice-flavored gum called Black Jack, the first flavored chewing gum.
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Eugene: What did the shoe say to the chewing gum?
Wallace: “Stick with me, and we’ll go places.”
 
On 28 December 1869, a patent for an ‘improved’ type of chewing gum was obtained by dentist William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio. He combined rubber with chalk, powdered licorice root, and other substances to make his gum. The resulting gum purportedly cleaned the teeth and strengthened the jaw. Other types of chewing gum did exist prior to Mr. Semple’s product, including a ‘State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum’ made by John B. Curtis starting in 1848, and an earlier patent for chewing gum obtained by Toledo, Ohio resident Amos Tyler on 27 July 1869. Mr. Tyler’s gum was made of white rosin and olive oil, which he heated and mixed together. Once it cooled, he cut it into strips, or sticks, and packaged each piece individually. Of course, prior to all of this, chewing gum had been around for thousands of years of human history, but in a more basic form and it was not widely sold commercially.
 
Lizzy has been saving all her bubblegum, today she will give it a go,
     She’s decided that whatever happens, a bubble she will blow.
-Kim Green: “Dizzy Lizzy and the Gigantic Bubblegum Balloon” (11 February 2014) at https://www.amazon.com/Dizzy-Lizzy-Gigantic-Bubblegum-Balloon/dp/1493133233
 
William Wrigley, Junior originally got his start in the baking powder business in Chicago, Illinois. With each can of his baking powder, he included a free pack of chewing gum. However, when he learned people were buying the baking powder only because they wanted the gum, he stopped selling the baking powder altogether and focused solely on the gum. In 1893, he began selling two of the most popular chewing gums ever: Juicy Fruit and Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum. The rest is history . . .
 
While chewing gum has been in existence for thousands of years, the variety of chewing gum called bubble gum is a development of relatively recent times: the year 1928. It was an accidental invention of Walter Diemer, a cost accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company. He experimented with gum recipes in his spare time, and eventually created a gum with better properties for bubble blowing. However, the dull gray color of the gum seemed unappealing to him, so he put into it the only food coloring then available to him at the factory, a red dye, making a pink gum, and to this day, pink is still the most common color of bubble gum.
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Walter Diemer spent his retirement riding around on a tricycle, giving out free bubble gum to children.
 
“I’ve done something with my life; I’ve made kids happy around the world.” -Walter E. Diemer (1904 or 1905 - 1998)
 
Cinnamon, spearmint, and peppermint are among the most popular flavors of chewing gum today. Some people like to take two or more different flavors of gum and chew them together.

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How to Blow a Bubble
1. Take a piece of gum and chew it until the flavor is gone.
2. Stretch the gum around your tongue.
3. Blow air into the gum, and close your mouth to seal the bubble.
4. Peel the gum off your face and start all over again.
 
Nigel: Why do elephants paint their toenails different colors?
Logan: So they can hide in gumball machines.
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Chewing gum while cutting onions can help keep people from producing tears.

Mary Had Some Bubble Gum
 
Mary had some bubble gum,
     She chewed it long and slow,
And everywhere that Mary went,
     Her gum was sure to go.
 
She chewed the gum in school one day,
     Which was against the rule,
The teacher took her pack away,
     And chewed it after school.
 
By Author Unknown: parody poem
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You probably will not want to go out and nibble on any tires after reading this, but the fact is that chewing gum is made from rubber, just like the tires on bicycles and automobiles. No wonder rodents like to chew the insulation off wires - it’s like chewing gum for them!
 
Monique: Here, try this new flavor of gum I just invented.
Dominique: Hmmm, tastes and smells just like old truck tires.
Monique: Fantastic, because I made it by recycling some of them. We’ll sell boatloads of my new gum - and be richer than the Emperor of Spain!
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Studies have shown that chewing sugarless gum sweetened with xylitol has an antibacterial action. It fights bacteria that cause tooth decay. Gum also increases the flow of saliva, which dilutes acid produced by bacteria. Saliva also contains calcium and phosphorous minerals that can help to repair soft spots in tooth enamel, actually healing early tooth decay.
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“Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight?” is the title of a 1924 song with lyrics written by Billy Rose and set to music by Ernest Breuer. The song was revived in 1959 by Lonnie Donegan, newly titled as, “Does Your Chewing-Gum Lose Its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight?”
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Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?
     If your mother says don’t chew it, do you swallow it in spite?
Can you catch it on your tonsils, can you heave it left and right?
     Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?
-Lonnie Donegan: excerpt from the song, “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It Flavour” on the album “Just About as Good as It Gets! More Original Skiffle Recordings” (1952 - 1959)
 
Humans are the only animals on Earth that chew gum. If given a piece of gum, a monkey will chew it for a couple of minutes, and then the monkey will take the gum out of his mouth and stick the gum in its hair.
 
Do you have gum stuck in your hair, and you don’t want to cut your hair to get rid of the gum? It’s a sticky situation, but you can apply ice to the gum to make it cold and harden it, and then try to break it off in pieces. Or, you can use peanut butter or vegetable oil to soften the gum and then try to remove it. Afterward, wash your hair thoroughly.
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“For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.” -Brie Larson
 
Studies have shown that chewing gum helps people concentrate. It’s true - in fact, right now we’re concentrating on the cinnamon-peach flavor of the chewing gum in our mouths! Seriously, though, chewing gum can help in studying for exams, tests, quizzes, and other brain-taxing endeavors.
 
Cheryl: Would you like some ABC gum?
Daryl: What’s ABC gum?
Cheryl: It’s ‘Already Been Chewed’ gum.
Daryl: No, thanks!
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Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Oswald.
Oswald, who?
Oswald my chewing gum!

During World War 2, American military personnel increased the popularity of chewing gum by trading it and giving it away free to people in Europe, Africa, Asia, and other parts of the world.
 
In 1919 in Lockport, New York, United States of America, a Baptist minister named W. H. Mason invented the first modern gumball machine, which he patented and turned over to his son, Ford Mason, who began manufacturing the machines in the basement of his father’s church. Ford Gum & Machine Company soon began producing gumballs, too, and the younger Mason spent a decade perfecting ways to protect the candy from moisture condensation inside the see-through glass globes. A single drop of water would ruin the colors of a barrel of gumballs. Once he had invented a water-resistant glaze, a person could take a handful of glazed gumballs and hold them under a running faucet without the color coming off.

Alike Yet Different Somehow
 
The gum-chewing student,
     The cud-chewing cow,
Somewhat alike,
     Yet different somehow.
 
Just what is the difference -
     I think I know now -
It’s the thoughtful look
     On the face of the cow.
 
By Author Unknown
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Chewing gum is not made with chocolate flavoring because the cocoa butter in chocolate acts as an emulsifier on the chewing gum base, making it too soft, and ruining the chewability of the product. You can test this yourself by putting a piece of chocolate and a piece of gum in your mouth at the same time and chewing them together.
 
According to Guinness World Records, the largest bubble ever blown was about 58 centimeters (23 inches) in diameter. The record was set on Tuesday 19 July 1994 by Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, California, United States of America. She used her hands to keep the bubble from sagging and popping. Hmmm, seems like that bubble might have been large enough to hold a small dog, a cat, a hamster, a parakeet, and a goldfish inside it.
 
Also according to the Guinness World Records, the largest ‘hands-free’ bubble ever blown was 51 centimeters (20 inches) in diameter. The record was set on 24 April 2004 by Chad Fell, who chewed three pieces of bubble gum.
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Japanese chemists have invented ‘Mood Gum.’ Like the Mood Rings once popular in America, Mood Gum changes color when people are happy, sad, angry, and so forth.
 
Chewing gum is a very stable product. It has a non-reactive nature and low moisture content. Because of this, chewing gum retains its quality for a longer time than most other food products - so long, in fact, that in most countries, chewing gum is not required by law to be labeled with an expiration date. Chewing gum can, however, become brittle and lose some flavor as it ages, but will still remain safe to chew.
 
Chewing gum on an airplane will prevent a person’s ears from popping. Chewing gum makes the salivary glands produce 250 percent more saliva than is normally produced, so people swallow more. This helps balance the pressure in the head.
 
At one time, a manufacturer ordered workers to stop chewing gum on the job - but the workers went to the National Labor Relations Board and won the right to do so.
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National Chewing Gum Day is 30 September of each year.
 
Chewing-gum was illegal in all of Eastern Europe until Czechoslovakia began manufacturing it in 1957. Poland and East Germany quickly followed suit, but it was not until 1976 that the Soviet Union lifted its ban on gum. Tourists who visit Singapore are allowed to bring gum with them, but only a maximum of two packs per person. Any more than that and they can be charged with ‘gum smuggling’ which carries the penalty of one year in jail and a $5,500 fine. A doctor’s prescription may be required for chewing gum. Anyone caught leaving chewing gum in a public area can be charged with a monetary fine, community work, or, as has been proposed theoretically under the laws, a public beating with a bamboo stick.
 
Better than cough drops? Cough drops are just candy, but the act of chewing gum may provide some real relief from a dry or sore throat that frequently accompany a cold, influenza (flu), seasonal allergies, prolonged speaking or singing, and some other conditions by stimulating the flow of saliva.
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Any guesses as to what percentage of people are incapable of blowing bubbles with gum? Get a clipboard, a pen, a piece of paper, and decide how you are going to word your question or questions. Now go out and begin asking people, writing down the number of people who say they can blow bubbles and the number of people who say they cannot blow bubbles. But wait, there are probably a statistically significant number of people who have never tried and therefore do not know if they can or cannot blow bubbles, and you will want to count those people also. As an inducement to get people to participate in your study, you might offer them each a piece of gum. When you have your results, please let us know.
 
Chewing gum first went into orbit when astronauts Edward Higgins White II and James Alton McDivitt smuggled it onboard their space capsule during the Gemini IV mission that launched on 3 June 1965 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States of America.
 
According to a leading columnist on the subject of etiquette, chewing gum in public is perfectly all right as long as it is not done with too much gusto.
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Beginning And Starting

You can begin now . . . from wherever you are in life . . .
 
“If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.” -Richelle E. Goodrich (Richelle Elaine Goodrich (born Richelle Elaine Gelinas in 1968)) at https://richellegoodrich.com/
 
“Mighty things from small beginnings grow.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
 
“This is the start of something wonderful.” -Author Unknown
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“The word ‘begin’ is full of energy. The best way to get something done is to begin. It’s truly amazing what tasks we can accomplish if only we begin.” -Clifford Warren (about 1932 - 2009)
 
“For what it’s worth . . . it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)): “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (1922)
 
“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
 
“The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.” -Robyn Davidson (born 1950)
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“Everything must have a beginning.” -Author Unknown
 
“It is time to get moving. Your spirits will lift accordingly.” -Author Unknown
 
“The hardest step of any worthwhile endeavor is always the first step. The second hardest step is the one you take after every fiber in your body says, ‘Quit!’ but you know in your spirit you must carry on.” -Al Argo
 
“You begin by always expecting good things to happen.” -Tom Hopkins (born 1944) at www.TomHopkins.com
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“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.” -Dave Weinbaum (born about 1952)
 
“What’s well begun, is half done.” [translation to English]
“Dimidium facti qui cœpit habet.” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Epistles” (about 20 B.C.E. and 14 B.C.E.), Book I, epistle ii, line 40 (traced to Hesiod)
 
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“Sometimes it is really hard to get going. We put off things we do not want to do, or we are afraid to try. We occasionally feel overwhelmed by the size of a job to be done, like cleaning out the cellar or reading a long book for a class. But think a minute. If Beethoven had thought about how complicated it would be to write his Ninth Symphony, with all the instruments and voices and notes to blend together, do you really think he would ever have started? But he did not get overwhelmed. He sat down and wrote just one small note, and then another, and third. It took him months, but writing one note led to a second and, one note at a time, he completed it. We begin the same way with whatever tasks we have ahead of us. Each tiny bit of progress helps us go on to the next part. We begin by reading one page of that book, or taking one box of junk from the cellar. That is all we have to do. The rest will follow almost on its own. The trick is to begin.” -Author Unknown
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“If I have work to do, the sooner started, the sooner through.” -Author Unknown
 
“If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin.” -Ivan Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883))
 
“As the dimensions of the tree are not always regulated by the size of the seed, so the consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)): “Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words” (1820), CLXXXVIII
 
“We each start from a different place.” -Author Unknown
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“It doesn’t matter where you start. Only that you begin.” -Robin Sharma (born 1965)
 
“All glory comes from daring to begin.” -Eugene F. Ware (Eugene Fitch Ware (1841 - 1911)): “John Brown” poem, line 15; as published in James and Mary Ford, editors: “Every Day in the Year” (1902)
 
“It is never too late, just as it is never too early.” -Author Unknown

“Do it now, because sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never.’” -Author Unknown
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“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996))
 
“It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.” -Author Unknown: English proverb
 
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)): “The Old Man and the Sea” (1952)
 
No matter our age or where we’ve been
     or what we’ve said and done,
Each sunrise is a reminder
     that we’ve only just begun.
-Author Unknown
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“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” -Author Unknown: Dutch proverb
 
“If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.” -Giordano Bruno (born Filippo Bruno (1548 - 1600)): as attributed in John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton: “The Cambridge Modern History” (1904), page 707
 
“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” -Author Unknown: Dutch proverb
 
Start now.
Start where you are.
Start with fear.
Start with pain.
Start with doubt.
Start with hands shaking.
Just start.
-Author Unknown
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“I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
 
“Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you’ve got, and fix it along the way.” -Paul Arden (1940 - 2008)
 
“Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.” -Olga Korbut (Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 1955))
 
“A good place to start is where you are.” -Charles Wolf, Junior
 
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” -Joe Sabah: as attributed in Zig Ziglar: “Over the Top” (1994)
 
“I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.” -Takeshi Shudo (1949 - 2010): “The Art of Pokemon, the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!”; line spoken by fictional character Mewtwo
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“It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” -Ella Fitzgerald (1918 - 1996)
 
“It does not matter where you start from. You can have every advantage, or no advantages, or even seemingly every disadvantage. You can know a little or know a lot or know nothing or even know something or much that is not true. You can be a shining example of humanity or a lowly unknown nobody from nowhere. All that matters is that you make some kind of start, no matter how small, and work daily or at least as often as you are able, and not give up no matter what the world does or other people do or what the past has been or done to you or what present circumstances are or future circumstances might be. You can have times when you feel like quitting, and you may indeed pause or even quit - for a period of time, whether it is hours or days or years, and then resume when the time is right for you, not by waiting for the right time, but by making the time right, to continue on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” -Richard L. Evans (Richard Louis Evans (1906 - 1971))
 
“Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” -John Henry Newman (also known as Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890))
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“Begin with the end in mind.” -Stephen R. Covey (Stephen Richards Covey (1932 - 2012)) at StephenCovey.com
 
“You can’t get much done by starting tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
 
“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Whether we make our start on a dusty highway or a tree-lined lane, or from a place where roads don’t go . . . whether we travel for hours or days or years . . . we can get to someplace better, in distance traveled or in life-improvement, or in both.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb (born 1956) at www.karenlamb.com
 
“You can’t cross the sea merely by staring at the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore (also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, born Rabindranath Thakur (1861 - 1941))
 
“The beginning is the most important part of any work.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.): “The Republic” (about 380 B.C.E.), Book 2
 
“The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can.” -Mike Dooley (born 1961) at https://www.tut.com/
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The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. ‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?’ he asked.
‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’
-Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898)): “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865)
 
“Of a good beginning cometh a good end.” -John Heywood (about 1497 - 1580): “Proverbs” (1546), part I, chapter X
 
The above in contemporary English would be: “A good beginning makes a good ending.”
 
“The start is what stops most people.” -Don Shula (Donald Francis ‘Don’ Shula (born 1930))
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“I will make so many beginnings there will never be an end.” -Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
 
“This is just the beginning, and it’s only going to get better from here.” -Author Unknown
 
“Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
[translation to English]
“Incipe; dimidium facti est cœpisse. Supersit Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies.”
[original Latin]
-Ausonius: “Epigrams,” LXXXI, 1
 
“Starting slow is still a start.” -Author Unknown
 
“Making a start involves physics: An object at rest tends to remain at rest and an object in motion tends to remain in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force in either case. So the difficulty is only one of getting an object at rest - which is you, your circumstances, other people around you, and so forth, into a state of motion. Once in motion, or that is, having made a start, objects and courses of events have a known propensity to remain in motion.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.” [translation to English]
“Le premier pas, mon fils, que l’on fait dans le monde, est celui dont dépend le reste de nos jours.” [original French]
-Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778)): “L’Indiscret,” I, 1
 
“Be brave enough to be bad at something new.” -Jon Acuff
 
“You don’t have to get it right. You just have to get it going.” -Mike Litman: as quoted in Chineme Noke: “There Is No Time Like the Present to Create Your Future” (March 2012), page 11
 
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.” -Author Unknown
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He that well his warke beginneth
     The rather a good ende he winneth.
-John Gower: “Confessio Amantis” (about 1386 - 1393)
 
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” -William Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))
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“It’s never too late to start. Don’t wait for Mondays, a new month, or a new year to begin. Every new day is an opportunity to change your life. You don’t have to have all the equipment and whatnot to start. You just have to go for it. Do what you can with what you have while you work for what you want. Stay true to your vision. Be persistent, dedicated, and consistent. Hard work always pays off.” -Author Unknown
 
“Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you’re going to finish.” -Herman Edwards
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“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” -Alan Cohen (born 1946)
 
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” [variant translation to English]
“A journey of a thousand li* begins with a single step.” [translation to English]
Qiān lǐ zhī xíng shǐ yú zú xià. [original Chinese in English characters]
千里之行始於足下。[original Chinese in Chinese characters]
-Lao-tzu (about 604 B.C.E. - about 531 B.C.E.): ”Tao-te Ching” (English: “The Way of Power”), section 64, line 12
*li: a unit of distance that has historically varied from 323 to 645 meters

“You can’t get anywhere unless you start.” -Author Unknown
 
“The beginning is always today.” -Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851))
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“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” -Eckhart von Hochheim (also known as Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1327))
 
“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” -Maurice Chevalier (Maurice Auguste Chevalier (1888 - 1972))
 
“It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.” -J. R. R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973))
 
“It will get easier once you make the initial push.” -Author Unknown
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“This is the beginning of anything you want.” -Author Unknown
 
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” -attributed to Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
 
“Well begun is half done.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Eudemian Ethics,” Book VII, 1238a.20, ‘Politics,’ Book V, 1303b.19-30
 
“So many fail because they don’t get started - they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
 
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King (born 1947))
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“The beginnings of all things are small.” [translation to English]
“Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply as Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)): “De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum,” Book V, Chapter 58
 
“Begin and you’re halfway there.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
 
“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/
 
“You don’t get to the finish line unless you start.” -Author Unknown
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“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up for you.” -Barbara Sher (born 1935): “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It” (1995)
 
“First things first, but not necessarily in that order.” -Author Unknown: “Doctor Who” science fiction series
 
“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” -Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757 - 1804)
 
“Take the first step, no more, no less, and the next will be revealed.” -Ken Roberts (born 1946): “A Rich Man’s Secret” (1995)
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“Two little words that can make the difference: Start now.” -Mary C. Crowley
 
“Begin anywhere.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992))
 
“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry James, Junior (1843 - 1916)
 
“The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.” -Mike Dooley (born 1961) at https://www.tut.com/
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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” -Shunryu Suzuki (1904 - 1971)
 
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” -Arthur Ashe (Arthur Robert Ashe, Junior (1943 - 1993))
 
“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.” -Author Unknown
 
“You already have all you need.” -James Cardinal Gibbons: “The Light of the Cross” (1905; 2 volumes)
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“No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.” -Channing Pollock (1880 - 1946)
 
“Dare to be wise; begin!” [translation to English]
“Sapere aude; incipe!” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Epistles” (about 20 B.C.E. and 14 B.C.E.), Book I, epistle ii, line 41
 
“Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Signs of the Times” (1829)
 
“Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
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“Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun.” -Christina Rossetti (Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894))
 
“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” -Abraham Maslow (Abraham Harold Maslow (1908 - 1970))
 
“Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest height.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
 
“As it turns out, now is the moment you’ve been waiting for.” -Lucinda Williams (born 1953)
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“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step.” -Naeem Callaway (Naeem D. Callaway (born 1979))
 
“Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far-off success, may be crowded with grand possibilities.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
 
“And suddenly you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” -Eckhart von Hochheim (also known as Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1327))
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Mistakes And Errors

Charles: How can one person makes so many mistakes in a single day?
Chuck: I get up early.
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You are doing things you have never done before, and more importantly, you are doing something. So that is my wish for you, and all of us. And my wish for myself. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody has ever made before. Do not freeze, do not stop, do not worry that it is not good enough, or it is not perfect, whatever it is. Art, or love, or work, or family, or life. Whatever it is you are scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes. Next year and forever and ever.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
 
“Mistakes are great, the more I make, the smarter I get.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller, also known as R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983))
 
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” -Marc Chernoff: “1000+ Little Things Happy Successful People Do Differently” (2013), pages 123, 176, and 408
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“People seldom make the same mistake twice - usually it is ten or more times that they do so!” -Author Unknown
 
“No one is perfect, we all make mistakes. Despite our failings, we still deserve respect. Don’t let anyone put you down.” -Author Unknown
 
We are human.
We are not perfect.
We are alive.
We try things.
We make mistakes.
We stumble. We fall.
We get hurt. We rise again.
We try again.
We keep learning.
We keep growing.
And we are thankful
For this priceless
Opportunity called life.
-Author Unknown
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“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” -Author Unknown
 
“Those who do not blunder achieve nothing.” -Chaim Weizmann: as quoted by Project Herzl
 
“To err is human.” [translation to English]
“Errare humanus est.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“It is normal to make mistakes. If people cannot accept that, they do not deserve to be around you.” -Author Unknown
 
“Mistakes are the inevitable lot of mankind.” -George Jessel (1824 - 1883)
 
“Making mistakes does not make you unworthy of love - it makes you human.” -Author Unknown
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“When you are not afraid to do it wrong the first time, you will eventually get it right.” -Author Unknown
 
A Mistake
 
A mistake that I made said, “My Dear,
I’m dreadfully sorry I’m here,
     But my feet are so big,
     And my nails cut and dig,
So I’ll be here for a while, I fear.”
 
By Author Unknown
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“Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.” -William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842): “Address on the Present Age,” as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922)
 
“A mistake shows that someone tried to do something.” -Author Unknown
 
“Even monkeys fall from trees.” [translation to English]
“Saru mo ki kara ochiru.” [original Japanese in English characters]
猿も木から落ちる [original Japanese in Japanese characters]
-Author Unknown: Japanese proverb
 
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
 
“I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I don’t regret any of them. Sometimes that’s the only way you learn.” -Nick Nolte (Nicholas King ‘Nick’ Nolte (born 1941))
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“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” -Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
 
“We all make mistakes. We say wrong things, we do wrong things, we fall, we get up, we learn, we grow, we move on, we live, and we thank God for always giving us another chance.” -Author Unknown
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“We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes.” -Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
 
“Other kings let their ministers make their mistakes for them, but Louis insisted on making the important mistakes personally.” -Will Cuppy (William Jacob ‘Will’ Cuppy (1884 - 1949)): “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody” (1950), Part IV: ‘A Few Greats, Louis XIV’
 
“I’ve learned so much from my mistakes that I am thinking about making a few more.” -Author Unknown
 
“Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.” -Clinton D. McKinnon (Clinton Dotson McKinnon (1906 - 2001))
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“My friend Danny Breslin from Florida tells the story of two men who were sitting on a bench in London’s Hyde Park. They wanted to go shopping in Oxford Street. One of them got up and started walking in the wrong direction, but he asked the way and a passerby put him right. He finally arrived at the shops, but the other man just stayed on the bench. That guy who was walking in the wrong direction was on his way. Even his mistakes were part of getting there. The guy on the bench got nowhere. So if it feels right, give it a whirl, says Danny.” -Celia Haddon (born 1945)
 
“Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you.” -Author Unknown
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“Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.” -John Gay (1685 - 1732): “Beggar’s Opera,” Act II, scene 2
 
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone (William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898))
 
“If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
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“A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950): “The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors” (1909)

“Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.” -Georges Carpentier (1894 - 1975)
 
“We learn to walk by stumbling.” -Author Unknown: Bulgarian proverb
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“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand-in-hand.” -Emily Kimbrough (1899 - 1989)
 
“Even if you stumble, you’re still moving forward.” -Author Unknown
 
“Mistakes don’t matter; what matters is how you recover from mistakes.” -Author Unknown
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“One thing I am very good at is making mistakes.” -Author Unknown
 
“The wisest of the wise may err.” -Aeschylus (about 525 B.C.E. - about 456 B.C.E.)
 
“Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones.” -Author Unknown
 
“My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.” -Beatrice Wood (1893 - 1998)
 
“The smallest errors are always the best.” [translation to English]
“Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.” [original French]
-Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673)): “L’Etourdi,” IV, 4
 
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki (Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born 1947))
 
“When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” -Hugh L. White (Hugh Lawson White (1773 - 1840)): as quoted in Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894), editor: “The New Dictionary of Thoughts” (1927)
 
“A mistake is a lesson on its way to being learned.” -Robert Orben (1927 - 2023)
 
“One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others.” -Author Unknown
 
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“Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
 
“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975)
 
“It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” -Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski (1857 - 1924)): “An Outcast of the Islands” (1896), Part 3, Chapter 2
 
“If you’re not making mistakes then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” -John Wooden (John Robert Wooden (1910 - 2010))
 
“Only some of us learn by other people’s mistakes; the rest of us have to be the other people.” -Author Unknown
 
“Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.” -Anthony de Mello: “One Minute Nonsense” (1992), page 20
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“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
 
“Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
 
“One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison): “Any Minute” (30 June 2009) at JoyceMeyer.org
 
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” -Edward John Phelps: speech (24 January 1889) at Mansion House, London; quoting Bishop W. C. Magee of Peterborough (1868)
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II, compiler: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings, and Preachments” (1927)
 
“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.” -Phyllis Theroux (Phyllis Grissim-Theroux (born 1939))
 
“Just because you made a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.” -Georgette Mosbacher (born 1947)
 
“I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow our mistakes to become our identity.” -Asa Don Brown
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“Mistakes are the inevitable accompaniment of the greatest gift given to man, individual freedom of action. Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a glowing illumination along the pathway of our future. Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. Without them there would be no individual growth, no progress, no conquest.” -William George Jordan (1864 - 1928)
 
“We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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DM: Do you feel you’ve learnt by your mistakes here?
PC: I think I have, yes, and I think I can probably repeat them almost perfectly. I know my mistakes inside out.
-Peter Cook (Peter Edward Cook (1937 - 1995)) and Dudley Moore (Dudley Stuart John Moore (1935 - 2002)): “Not Only . . . But Also” (1966) television show, ‘The Frog and Peach’ comedy sketch
 
“I would rather surround myself with people who make a lot of mistakes and have no problem admitting them, than to surround myself with people who think they make none.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
 
“You are making progress if each mistake you make is a new one.” -Author Unknown
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“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” -Sophia Loren (pseudonym of Sophia Sciccoloni (born 1934))
 
“The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.” -Akio Morita (1921 - 1999): “Made in Japan” (1987), page 149
 
“Mistakes are just steps, sometimes necessary, in the learning process.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass.” -Herman Lincoln Wayland (1830 - 1898)
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“Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.” -Bob Ross (Robert Norman ‘Bob’ Ross (1942 - 1995))
 
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.” -Frank Wilczek
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“Most of us do far better, learn faster, progress faster, and get more done when we aren’t surrounded by people who are constantly pointing out our present mistakes and reminding us of our past mistakes.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“We don’t make mistakes. We just have learnings.” -Anne Wilson Schaef (born 1934)
 
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.” -Author Unknown: Turkish proverb
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“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” -Henry C. Link (Henry Charles Link (1889 - 1952))

“I’ve failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan (born 1963)
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“If you’re afraid you’ll make a mistake, you won’t make anything.” -Bil Keane (William Aloysius ‘Bil’ Keane (1922 - 2011))
 
“The main thing we learn from our mistakes . . . is that we make a lot of them.” -Author Unknown
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“There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.” -Richard Chenevix Trench (1807 - 1886): “Proverbs and Their Lessons” (1905)
 
Karen: What kind of mistakes do ghosts make?
Sharon: Boo-oo-oo-boo-oo-oos!
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“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
 
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.” -James Joyce (1882 - 1941): “Ulysses” (1922), Chapter 9: ‘Scylla and Charybdis’; often paraphrased as, “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
 
Overheard: I am human and I make mistakes.
 
“The secret of success is not avoiding mistakes, but learning from them.” -Michael Josephson (born 1942)
 
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” -John Powell: “The Secret of Staying in Love” (1990), page 85
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“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” -Paulo Coelho (born 1947)
 
“It would be a mistake to not try something for fear of making a mistake.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
 
“Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.” -Ingvar Kamprad: “The Testament of a Furniture Dealer” (1976)
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“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone (William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898))
 
Overheard: Have you ever noticed that no one notices you until you make a mistake?
 
“Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.” -Weston H. Agor (Weston Harris Agor (1939 - 2007))
 
Overheard: We all make mistakes. Don’t let that be a reason to give up.
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“You can learn from your mistakes, so be sure to make some.” -Bil Keane (William Aloysius ‘Bil’ Keane (1922 - 2011))
 
“By seeking and blundering, we learn.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
“Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes, but that in itself would be a mistake.” -Author Unknown
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“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren’t good or bad, they’re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.” -Kaye Gibbons (born 1960)
 
“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” -Author Unknown
 
“Every irregularity is not erroneous.” -Lloyd Kenyon (1732 - 1802): ’Jackson v. Hunter’ (1794), 6 T. R. 74; as quoted in James William Norton-Kyshe: “Dictionary of Legal Quotations” (1904), page 107
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“Mistakes show us what we need to learn.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
 
“The cautious seldom err.” [translation to English in English characters]
“Rarely does one go astray by exercising restraint.” [variant translation to English]
“Yǐ yuē shī zhī zhě, xiān yǐ.” [original Traditional (a written form of) Chinese in English characters]
「以約失之者，鮮矣。」 [original Traditional Chinese in Chinese characters]
-Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.): “The Analects” (about 500 B.C.E.), Book IV, Chapter XXIII
 
“Whenever you fall, pick up something.” -Oswald Avery (Oswald Theodore Avery, Junior (1877 - 1955))
 
“By ignorance we make mistakes, and by making mistakes we learn.” -Edmund Fuller
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“He who thinks little, errs much.” -Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452 - 1519)): “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci” (1888), Book XIX: ‘Philosophical Maxims · Morals · Polemics and Speculations
 
“All great discoveries are made by mistake.” -Author Unknown
 
“Without mistakes, there would be no accidental discoveries, and without accidental discoveries, there would be far fewer better methods found, far fewer inventions made, and much less beneficial progress. The great untold secret of everything in which humans engage is that much of it would never result in useful outcomes were it not for the vast number of mistakes within it, mistakes that go by the name ‘accidental discoveries.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.” [translation to English]
“Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.” [original German]
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy” (1808), ‘The Lord,’ line 317
 
“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” -Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia ’Nikki’ Giovanni, Junior (born 1943))

“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.” -Henry St John: “Reflections Upon Exile” (1716): as quoted in in “Letters on the Study and Use of History” (1752), page 461
 
“Life is not life unless you make mistakes.” -Joan Collins (born 1933)
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“Errors often serve as starting points for finding truths, and mistakes can be useful in searches for what works and what does not work.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Mistakes are common, not because people or firms are incompetent but because they are constantly dancing on the edge of knowledge.” -Gary Pisano: “Can Science Be a Business?: Lessons from Biotech,” published in “Harvard Business Review” (October 2006)
 
“Do not fear mistakes, there are none.” -Miles Davis (1926 - 1991)
 
“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.” -Katharine Graham (Katharine Meyer Graham (1917 - 2001))
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“There are no mistakes, only experiments.” -Author Unknown
 
“He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
 
“A mistake is only a mistake if you don’t learn from it.” -Author Unknown
 
“Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.” -Chérie Carter-Scott (born 1949) at www.drcherie.com
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“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981))
 
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
     He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
-John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “All for Love” (1678), Prologue
 
“Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960))
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Well, that about wraps things up for now . . . we are eager to get back to making a whole lot more mistakes . . . because that is how we are certain to learn . . . and to succeed . . . let’s all go out there and make some mistakes . . . and continue to ‘Make Fun Of Life!’

Chance And Luck

“Forget about finding four-leaf clovers - we’re going out to look for a lucky duck!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Sometimes, I drop coins on the ground so that someone will have good luck.” -Author Unknown
 
Al: Why so glum?
Bert: I spent my lucky penny on a piece of bubblegum, and now the flavor in the gum is all gone.
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“I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
 
Lottery: 1. A tax on people who are bad at math. 2. A tax on people who don’t understand statistics.
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“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.” [translation to English]
“Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus. Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - about C.E. 17)): “Amores,” Book III, line 425
 
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.” -Bret Harte (Francis Bret ‘Bret’ Harte (1836 - 1902))
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“All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)
 
What power was this - chance, will you say?
     But chance, what else can it mean
Than the hidden Cause of things
     By human reason unseen?
-Lewis Morris: “Songs of Two Worlds: Third Series” (1875), page 23, ‘Evensong,’ lines 25 through 28
 
“Success in your life or business isn’t magic or luck, it is the result of knowledge of the right things to do.” -Stephen A. Matuszak
 
“Nothing runs on guaranteed good luck.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work, and love. The other ninety-nine percent is due to our efforts.” -Peter McWilliams (Peter Alexander McWilliams (1949 - 2000))
 
“I don’t believe in luck - I believe in preparation.” -Bobby Knight
 
Hezikiah: Is it really unlucky to have a black cat cross your path?
Ichabod: Only if you are a mouse!
 
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” -Groucho Marx (Julius Henry ‘Groucho’ Marx (1890 - 1977))
 
“Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.” -Author Unknown
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“Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don’t depend on it.” -Author Unknown
 
“But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.” [translation to English]
“Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.” [original Latin]
-Gaius Sallustius Crispus (also known simply as Sallust (about 86 B.C.E. - about 35 B.C.E.)): “Epistulae ad Caesarem senem,” I, I, 2
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“Hard work beats luck every time.” -Author Unknown
 
“Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.” -Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
 
“Luck can only get you so far.” -J. K. Rowling (pseudonym of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”; character Hermione Granger referring to a luck potion Felix Felicis
 
“Fortune is given to brave men.” [translation to English]
“Fortibus est fortuna viris data.” [original Latin]
-Ennius (Quintus Ennius (about 239 B.C.E. - about 169 B.C.E.)): “Annales,” line 257
 
“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.” -Author Unknown
 
“Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.” -Sophocles (about 496 B.C.E. - about 406 B.C.E.)
 
“There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
“‘Luck’ is a very good word if you put a ‘p’ before it.” -Author Unknown
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“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778)): “Dictionnaire philosophique portatif” (English: “A Philosophical Dictionary”) (1764)
 
“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com/
 
“If you engage in gambling, or games of chance, you will have to sell your furniture, your house, your clothes, your pets, your friends, and your family. How much are they worth, to you?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.” -Lucille Ball (Lucille Désirée Ball (1911 - 1989))
 
“Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead.” -Brian Koslow
 
“The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.” -Author Unknown: proverb
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“He’s so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969), page 2
 
“Luck is usually good planning, carefully executed.” -Joe Moore
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​Winner every time? Really? Sometimes the odds can seem a little odd . . . and can even leave people feeling cheated . . . so this might be decision time . . . and people could decide that games of chance, no matter how appealing the false promises associated with them might be, are simply not worth a part of anyone’s life, effort, and resources, all of which instead could be placed into something that is more likely to yield gains or favorable results.
 
“To persuade people not to gamble is to win for them.” -Author Unknown
 
“Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873))
 
“Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember, it didn’t work for the rabbit.” -R. E. Shay: as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
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“A lucky rabbit’s foot is not so lucky if you are a rabbit.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” -Channing Pollock (1880 - 1946)
 
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” -Harry Golden
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“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.” -Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
 
“Some people boast about their winnings in gambling, lotteries, card games, and other games of chance. What they often will not tell others is that for every couple of dollars they boast of having won, they have lost hundreds or thousands of dollars, in playing silly games.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“When the wild bird lacks food, all the Earth is before him.” -Author Unknown
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“Good luck is another name for tenacity* of purpose.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
*tenacity: persistence
 
“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.” -Anne Tyler
 
“Even bad luck is good for something, in a wise man’s hands.” -Author Unknown
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“Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.” -Douglas Jerrold (Douglas William Jerrold (1803 - 1857)): “Meeting Troubles Half-Way” (1859)
 
“I broke a mirror in my house, I’m supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
 
“When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.” -Armand Hammer (1898 - 1990)
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“With luck on our side.” [translation to English]
“Fortuna suffragante.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.” -Austin O’Malley (1858 - 1932): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)

“It’s hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you’ve earned.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
 
“Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“I understand life isn’t fair, but why couldn’t it just once be unfair in my favor?” -Christy Murphy
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Charms Said To Bring Good Luck
- An article of clothing or jewelry
- Four-leaf clovers
- Rabbits’ feet
- Horseshoes
- Pennies
Can you think of others?
 
“Most of the good luck attributed to charms goes to the sellers, who pocket the handsome profits made from selling the items.” -Author Unknown
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“Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.” -J. Christopher Herold
 
“Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.” -Author Unknown
 
“You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” -Jimmy Dean
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“People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the ‘lucky breaks’ theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck . . . The world is run by those who show up . . . not those who wait to be asked.” -Steve Blank
 
“The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.” -Bias of Priene
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“Good luck.” [translation to English]
“Go n-eiri an t-adh leat.” [original Irish Gaelic]
-Author Unknown
 
“Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.” -Larry King (pseudonym of Larry Zeigler)
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“The only ones who win every game of chance are the gambling establishments.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.” -Barbara Bush (Barbara Pierce Bush (1925 - 2018))
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“People who are down on their luck, or who wish to have better luck, will often seek things, which they believe will bring them better luck or good luck. Though people may believe luck is in certain things possessed, the real magic is in the belief in what is possible and in what we do when we believe in possibilities.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“To have time and opportunity to search for four-leave clovers is a matter of good luck in itself.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Searching for four-leaf clovers brings good luck by getting people outdoors, in the sunshine and clean, fresh air found over clover fields, where they walk around and look at green, growing plants. The much-needed change of scenery momentarily takes their minds away from worries and stressful focusses. Freedom of thought and being can happen. Searching for four-leaf clovers is good exercise for the mind and the senses.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Who is there that, shooting all day long, does not sometimes hit the mark?” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known simply as Cicero or Tully (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
 
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” -Samuel Goldwyn (also known as Samuel Goldfish, born Szmuel Gelbfisz (1879 or 1882 - 1974))
 
“One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.” -Dan Bennett (born about 1962) at http://www.danbennett.com/
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“Luck is when probability surprises you.” -Anthony R. Kesler
 
“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985))
 
“By gaming, we lose both our time and treasure: two things most precious to the life of man.” -Owen Feltham (1602 - 1668)
 
“Change of fortune is the lot of life.” -Author Unknown
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“You will not need to place hope in lucky charms, when you come to know that you are a lucky charm yourself.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“In a bet there is a fool and a thief.” -Author Unknown: proverb
 
“The only guaranteed way to win at gambling is to never gamble.” -Author Unknown
 
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” -Cormac McCarthy: “No Country for Old Men”
 
“Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.” -Susan M. Dodd
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“The best luck of all is the luck you make yourself.” -Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
 
“If people understood that all state and national lotteries, privately owned casinos with machines and table games, other games of chance, and so forth, are simply con games, or schemes by greedy, unscrupulous people to separate them from their money, we would shut down all games of chance and gambling operations and ultimately have a better world.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Shallow men believe in luck . . . Strong men believe in cause and effect.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “The Conduct of Life” (1860)
 
“The odds may be stacked against you. But I believe when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and rest of us.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
 
“If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
 
“Chance favors those in motion.” -James H. Austin

Rose: You lucky duck, you!
Roscoe: Quack, quack!
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“One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.” -Carl Zuckmayer (1896 - 1977)
 
“Fortune favors the brave.” [translation to English]
“Fortune favors the bold.” [variant translation to English]
“Audentes fortuna iuvat.” [original Latin]
-Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.)): “The Aeneid” (about 29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), book 10, line 284
 
Once upon a time, people believed that a horseshoe, hung above a doorway, would keep out mischievous spirits and bring good luck to a home. In most of Europe, the protective horseshoes were placed in a downward facing position, but in some parts of Ireland, Britain, and America, people believed that the shoes must be turned upward, because otherwise, ‘the luck would run out’ of them.
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“Of course I don’t believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.” -Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), explaining why he had a horseshoe on his wall
 
“It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.” -Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski (1857 - 1924))
 
“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.” -Samuel Goldwyn (also known as Samuel Goldfish, born Szmuel Gelbfisz (1879 or 1882 - 1974))
 
“If you think you’re lucky, you’ll get better luck.” -Yukio Funai (1933 - 2014)
 
Luck
 
What we call Luck
     Is simply Pluck,
And doing things over and over;
     Courage and will,
Perseverance and skill -
     Are the four leaves of Luck’s clover.
 
By Author Unknown
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“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
 
“Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.” -Thornton Wilder (Thornton Niven Wilder (1897 - 1975)) at https://thorntonwilder.com/
 
“I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.” -Fran Lebowitz (Frances Ann ‘Fran’ Lebowitz (born 1950))
 
“Some folk want their luck buttered.” -Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
 
“How often things occur by mere chance, which we dared not even to hope for.” [translation to English]
“Quam sæpe forte temere eveniunt, quæ non audeas optare.” [original Latin]
-Publius Terentius Afer (also known simply as Terence (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.)): “Phormio,” book V, section 1, line 31
 
“Good luck is often with the man who doesn’t include it in his plans. Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o’clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines, labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.” -Richard Cobden
 
“I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” -Coleman Cox: “Listen to This” (1922)
 
“Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do - send for reinforcements?” -Robert Brault (1938 - 2016): “Sparsely Sage, Mostly Rosemary and Thyme” at rbrault.blogspot.com
 
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.” -Tennessee Williams (pseudonym of Thomas Lanier Williams (1911 - 1983))
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“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” -Iain Duncan Smith
 
“The hard work puts you where the good luck can find you.” -Author Unknown
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“Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, ‘Lay it not too much to heart.’ Let them adopt the maxim, ‘Better luck next time’; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 -1865): speech (1859) at the Wisconsin State Agricultural Fair
 
“May the odds be ever in your favor!” -Suzanne Collins
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Encouragement And Encouraging

“Praise works with only three types of people; men, women, and children.” -Author Unknown
 
“I would like to compliment you on the fine job you are doing of complimenting me.” -Author Unknown
 
“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windshield; it said ‘Parking Fine.’ So that was nice.” -Tim Vine (Timothy Mark ‘Tim’ Vine (born 1967))
 
“People thrive on the appreciation you show them - the smiles, the thanks, and the gestures of kindness.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s always worth taking the trouble to praise people. I can’t last but a couple of days without food, but I can live for two months on a good compliment.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 -1910))
 
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” -Tom Peters (Thomas J. ‘Tom’ Peters (born 1942))
 
“A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/
 
“Everybody likes a compliment.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Arnold Bennett, the British novelist, had a publisher who boasted about the extraordinary efficiency of his secretary. One day while visiting the publisher’s office, Bennett asked her: “Your boss claims you’re extremely efficient. What’s your secret?” “It’s not my secret,” said the secretary, “it’s his.” Each time she did something for him, no matter how insignificant, she explained, he never failed to acknowledge and appreciate it. Because of this, she took infinite pains with her work.
 
Flattery
 
‘Tis an old maxim in the schools,
     That flattery’s the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
     Will condescend to take a bit.
 
By Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Cadenus and Vanessa” (1713)
 
“Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.” -Bernard Baruch (1870 - 1965): as attributed in William Safire and Leonard Safir: “Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice” (1989), page 294
 
“High praise indeed . . . comes from mountaintops!” -Author Unknown
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“Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.” -Florence Littauer
 
“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that one never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.” -George Adams (George Matthew Adams (1878 - 1962))
 
“Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.” -Tom Hopkins
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“Appreciate good people. They are hard to come by.” -Author Unknown
 
“The deepest principal in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” -William James (1842 - 1910): letter (1896) to students who had sent him a plant for Easter
 
“A compliment is verbal sunshine.” -Robert Orben (1927 - 2023)
 
“People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed.” -Bob Moawad (Robert Abraham ‘Bob’ Moawad (1941 - 2007))
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“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” -Jim Stovall (born 1958)
 
“Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.” -Booker T. Washington (Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 - 1915))
 
“Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.” -William Feather (William Arthur Feather (1889 - 1981)): “The Business of Life” (1949)
 
“The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.” -J. Allen Boone (John Allen Boone (1882 - 1965))
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“You are every lovely word I could possibly think of.” -Author Unknown

“When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy.” -Samuel Goldwyn (also known as Samuel Goldfish, born Szmuel Gelbfisz (1879 or 1882 - 1974))
 
“A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
“If you mean to profit, learn to praise.” -Charles Churchill (1731 - 1764): “Gotham” (1764), book II
 
“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): “The Rambler” (6 June 1751)
 
“The people who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize.” -Elizabeth Harrison (1849 - 1927)
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“You can’t eat compliments.” -Charles M. Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000)): “Things I’ve Had to Learn Over and Over Again (Plus a Few Minor Discoveries)” (1984)
 
“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1960): “John Bull’s Other Island” (1904), Act 4
 
“You are much too intelligent to be affected by flattery.” -Author Unknown
 
“I have always said that if I were a rich man I’d hire a professional praiser.” -Osbert Sitwell (Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell (1892 - 1969))
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“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))
 
“One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” -Author Unknown
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“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free - and worth a fortune.” -Sam Walton (Samuel Moore ‘Sam’ Walton (1918 - 1992)): “Sam Walton: Made in America - My Story” (1992)
 
“When your goal is to build people up, to make them feel better, to share in their joy, you too reap the rewards of their positive feelings. The next time you have the chance to correct someone, even if their facts are a little off, resist the temptation. Instead, ask yourself, “What do I really want out of this interaction?” Chances are, what you want is a peaceful interaction where all parties leave feeling good. Each time you resist ‘being right,’ and instead choose kindness, you’ll notice a peaceful feeling within.” -Richard Carlson (1961 - 2006): “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” (1997), page 37 at https://dontsweat.com/
 
“Fair words butter no parsnips.” -John Clarke (1596 - 1658): “Paroemiologia” (1639), page 21
 
“What men and women need is encouragement . . . Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.” -Eleanor H. Porter (Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868 - 1920)): “Pollyanna” (1913)
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“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832): as quoted in Edward Bell (1844 - 1926), editor: “Early and miscellaneous letters of J. W. Goethe, including letters to his mother. With notes and a short biography” (1884), ‘Letter to A. F. Oeser’ (9 November 1768)
 
“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))

Now that is indeed a job whale done . . .
 
“When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.” -John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890)
 
“Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.” -Jess Lair (1927 -2000)
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“Be an encourager, the world has plenty of critics already.” -Bob Goff
 
“Compliment people; magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison) at www.JoyceMeyer.org
 
Overheard: If you can’t get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
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“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.” -Xenophon (430 B.C.E. - 352 B.C.E.) (about 380 B.C.E.)
 
“Compliments are free of cost and obligation; indeed, they are ‘complimentary.’” -Author Unknown
 
“Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))
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“Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.” -Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
 
“Compliments are the gift of prosperity. I have learned to accept them graciously.” -Louise L. Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017)) at www.LouiseHay.com
 
“Never let an opportunity pass to say a kind or encouraging word to another person.” -Author Unknown
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Some encouragement consists of praise combined with expectation, as for example, “You are always mommy’s little angel,” or “You are the best thing that has ever happened to this company.” So, there is the praise or compliment, plus the expectation, all melded into one. It is as though someone is being encouraged to do and be good, while his or her previous or present worth is being acknowledged.
 
“Remember the compliments you have received and forget the rude remarks.” -Author Unknown
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“Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.” -Richard Carlson (1961 - 2006) at https://dontsweat.com/
 
“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.” -Edmund Gibson
 
“Most of us, swimming against tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we’ll make the goal. Say, ‘Thank you!’ whenever you think of it. Say, ‘Nice job!’ to that workman who put extra effort into his task. Say, ‘Atta boy!’ to the fellow who is struggling through in the face of odds. You’ll get a whale of a lot of joy out of life that way. And people will love you.” -Jerome P. Fleishman (1892 - 1953)
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“I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler’s truest and best reward.” -William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)
 
“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.” -Stephanie Lahart: “Overcoming Life’s Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower” (7 March 2013)
 
“I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.” -Charles Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939))
 
“To encourage someone is literally to instill courage in someone.” -Author Unknown
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“Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))
 
“Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.” -Roy T. Bennett: “The Light in the Heart” (25 February 2016)
 
“Praise the young and they will blossom.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
 
“I’ve always thrived on the encouragement of others.” -Pattie Smith (Patricia Lee ‘Patti’ Smith (born 1946))
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“The way to develop the best in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.” -Charles Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939)): as quoted in “The Irish Digest” (1965), Volume 84, Number 1, page 48
 
“So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort.” -Florence Littauer (born Florence Chapman (1928 - 2020))
 
“It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.” -Malcolm S. Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919 - 1990))
 
“The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow into their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.” -Sidney Madwed (1926 - 2013)
 
Give out free compliments! As you go about your day, compliment strangers on anything, for example, “Nice shoes,” or “Great eyeglasses.” You never know, you might make someone’s day brighter and even help them along on their life journey.
 
“Pointing out the good in others, helps us find the good in ourselves.” -Larry Lawrence (Larry Ray Lawrence (born 1947))
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“Find the good - and praise it.” -Alex Haley (Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (1921 - 1992))
 
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Habits And Routines

“Good habits are the foundation of a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.” -Arianna Huffington
 
“Your habits will determine your future.” -Jack Canfield (born 1944) at https://jackcanfield.com/
 
Good Habit
 
I dreamed that I found a good habit,
It scurried and skipped like a rabbit.
     It was shiny and neat,
     Polite and quite sweet,
But escaped when I reached out to grab it.
 
By Author Unknown
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“What you practice daily is what you become permanently.” -Grace Lee Boggs
 
“Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.” -Georges Gurdjieff (1866 - 1949)
 
“What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while.” -Gretchen Rubin
 
“The most powerful habit you can adopt: Using the first hour of your day to build, write, or produce something of value.” -Dan Koe
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“The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.” -Jerome Hines
 
“All bad habits start gradually and before you know you have the habit, the habit has you.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.MaxwellLeadership.com/
 
“Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“Folks with good habits also seem to have most of the good luck.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Country Parson”
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“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.” -Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976))
 
“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit: and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.” -Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894): as quoted in Tryon Edwards, editor: “A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern” (1891), page 212
 
“Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.” -Martin Seligman (Martin E. P. ‘Marty’ Seligman (born 1942)): “Learned Optimism” (1991)
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Each year one vicious habit rooted out,
In time might make the worst Man good throughout.
-Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1738)
 
“If you do something often enough, it becomes a habit.” -Solomon Short
 
“Consider carefully all things that you do, because a single choice - even if you tell yourself it will be only just this once - can begin the establishment of either a good habit or a bad habit.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Focus on the good habit you want to do, not the bad habit you don’t want to do. Overcome the bad with good.” -Joyce Meyer (born 1943 as Pauline Joyce Hutchison) at JoyceMeyer.org
 
“Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair.” -Boyd K. Packer: “How to Survive in Enemy Territory” (22 January 2012)
 
“I’m a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.” -Edie Falco
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A Builder’s Lesson
 
“How shall I a habit break?”
     As you did that habit make.
As you gathered, you must lose;
     As you yielded, now refuse.
Thread by thread the strands we twist
     Till they bind us, neck and wrist;
Thread by thread the patient hand
     Must untwine, ere free we stand.
As we builded, stone by stone,
     We must toil, unhelped, alone,
Till the wall is overthrown.
     But remember, as we try,
Lighter every test goes by;
     Wading in, the stream grows deep
Toward the center’s downward sweep;
     Backward turn, each step ashore
Shallower is than that before.
     Ah, the precious years we waste
Leveling what we raised in haste:
     Doing what must be undone
Ere content or love be won!
     First, across the gulf we cast
Kite-borne threads, till lines are passed,
     And habit builds the bridge at last!
 
By John Boyle O’Reilly (1844 - 1890)
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“Nothing is stronger than habit.” [translation to English]
“Nil consuetudine majus.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Ars Amatoria,” II, line 345
 
“Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)

Choosing between a modest portion of meat and a salad that together have protein and phytonutrients versus a high-calorie but otherwise low-nutrient pizza can begin the establishment of good eating habits.
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“Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): “Following the Equator” (1897)
 
“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
 
“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.” -Norman Vince Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
 
“Only a habit can subdue another habit.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996)): “The Greatest Salesman in the World” (1968)
 
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965))
 
“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
 
“Good habits, once established, are just as hard to break as bad habits.” -Robert Puller
 
To rise at six, to dine at ten,
To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
Makes a man live for ten times ten.
[translation to English]
Lever à six, coucher à dix,
Dîner à dix, souper à six,
Font vivre l’homme dix fois dix.
[original French]
-Author Unknown: inscription in the dining room of Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885)): as quoted in Gustave Larroumet: “La maison de Victor Hugo: Impressions de Guernesey” (1895), Chapter III
 
“Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.” -Pythagoras of Samos (about 570 B.C.E. - about 496 B.C.E.): as quoted in Tryon Edwards, editor: “A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern” (1908), page 101
 
“We are what we repeatedly do.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981)): “The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers” (1926), Chapter II: Aristotle and Green Science, part VII: Ethics and the Nature of Happiness
 
“Folks catch bad habits the same way they catch chicken pox - by being exposed to them.” -Author Unknown
 
“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.” -Author Unknown: Yiddish proverb
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“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.” -Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
 
“Make good habits and they will make you.” -Parks Cousins (Clyde Parks ‘Parks’ Cousins (1868 - 1954))
 
“A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
 
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
 
“The toughest habits to break are the ones we take with us from childhood.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
 
“The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 296
 
“Habit is overcome by habit.” [translation to English]
“Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.” [original Latin]
-Thomas à Kempis (meaning Thomas of Kempen (born Thomas Hammerken (about 1379 - 1471))): “Of the Imitation of Christ” (1418), Book I, 21
 
“Good habits result from resisting temptation.” -Author Unknown
 
“Old habits are strong and jealous.” -Dorothea Brande (1893 - 1948)
 
“The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted.” -Henry Giles (1809 - 1882)
 
Overheard: Sorry, force of habit!
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“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): “Pudd’nhead Wilson” (1894), chapter 15 epigraph: ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar’
 
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Metamorphoses” (about C.E. 2), ‘Book XV,’ ‘The Worship of Aesculapius, lines 155 and 156; translated (1700 or 1717) into English verse, under the direction of Samuel Garth, by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve, and others; the lines were incorporated by John Dryden into his poem, “Absalom and Achitophel” (November 1681), lines 116 and 117
 
“A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.” -William Paley (1743 - 1805): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 295
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Habit with him was all the test of truth;
“It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”
-George Crabbe (1754 - 1832): “The Borough” (1810), Letter 3: ‘The Vicar’

“The habits you establish today will determine the life you lead tomorrow.” -Lauren Handel Zander
 
“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.” -Hosea Ballou (1771 - 1852)
 
“Pursuits become habits.” [translation to English]
“Abeunt studia in mores.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Heroides” (English: “The Heroines”), Book XV, line 83, ‘Epistle of Sappho to Phaon’
 
“Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430)): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 296
 
“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.” -Author Unknown
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“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com/
 
Daily Routine
- Wake up early
- Brush teeth
- Drink a glass of water
What can you add to this list?
 
“It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit, and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit.” -Patrick Holford
 
“The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.” -Susan Powter (Susan Jane Powter (born 1957)) at https://susanpowter.substack.com/
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“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be what you’ve always been.” -Josh McDowell
 
“Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.” -Rob Gilbert (Robert ‘Rob’ Gilbert) at http://gilbertsuccesshotline.blogspot.com/
 
“The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.” -Don Miguel Ruiz (pseudonym of Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macias (born 1952))
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“Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.” -Charles Reade (1814 - 1884)
 
“Habits form character and character is destiny.” -Joseph Kaines: “Our Daily Faults and Failings” (21 October 1883) address
 
“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed, by the repetition of contrary acts.” -Mortimer J. Adler (Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902 - 2001))
 
“Each day, compel yourself to do something you would rather not do.” -Author Unknown
 
“Habits are your foundation - create ones that lift you higher, not hold you back.” -Lisa Nichols
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“The best way to stop a bad habit is to never begin it.” -J. C. Penney (James Cash ‘J. C.’ Penney, Junior (1875 - 1971))
 
“First we form habits, then they form us.” -Rob Gilbert (Robert ‘Rob’ Gilbert) at http://gilbertsuccesshotline.blogspot.com/
 
“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.” -Nathanael Emmons (also spelled Nathaniel Emmons (1745 - 1840))
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“We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“The habits you practice every day will make you or break you.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/
 
“The secret to permanently breaking any bad habit is to love something greater than the habit.” -Bryant McGill (Bryant Harrison McGill (born 1969)) at https://bryantmcgill.com/
 
“Habit is more important in determining our destiny than almost any other influence.” -Author Unknown
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“Habit is, as it were, a second nature.” [translation to English]
“Consuetude quasi altera natura effici.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)): “De finibus bonorum et malorum” (English: “On the ends of good and evil”) (45 B.C.E.), Book V, section 25, ’Tusculanarum Disputationum,’ Book II, section 17
 
“I cannot stress this enough - build a routine. Wake up every day with a plan. Do this long enough and eventually you’ll be at your goal without even realizing it.” -Author Unknown
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“The worst boss anyone can have is a bad habit.” -Monta Crane (Monta Mildred (Henrichs) Crane (1911 - 2009))
 
“Every day do at least one good thing.” [translation to English in English characters]
“Ichi nichi, ichi zen.” [original Japanese in English characters]
「毎日少なくとも1つ良いことをする。」[original Japanese in Japanese characters]
-Author Unknown: Japanese proverb
 
“Habits eliminate the need for self-control.” -Gretchen Rubin
 
“A bad habit is nothing more than a mistake repeated.” -Author Unknown
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“If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten.” -Jane Kirkpatrick (born 1946): “What Once We Loved” (2001)
 
“Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist, but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended to a higher atmosphere.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)
 
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
     Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
-Isaac Williams (1802 - 1865): “The Baptistery, Or the Way of Eternal Life” (1842 - 1844), ‘Image 18’
 
“Read something positive every night and listen to something helpful every morning.” -Tom Hopkins (born 1944)
 
“Habits change into character.” -Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17))
 
“A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.” -Darren Hardy
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“We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
 
“Habit formation is the art of becoming someone new.” -James Clear
 
“In a nutshell, your health, wealth, happiness, fitness, and success depend on your habits.” -Joanna Jast
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“The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Build good habits.” -Martha Beck
 
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Fears And Courage

​“The reason why fear is so powerful is because you believe it to be stronger than you.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975) at https://stevemaraboli.net/): “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 36
 
“Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.” -Author Unknown: “Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World” (11 November 2008) videogame, words of characters Aster and Richter Abend
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The Reality Of Fear
 
You’re not scared of the dark;
     You’re scared of what’s in it.
You’re not afraid of heights;
     You’re afraid of falling.
You’re not afraid of the people around you;
     You’re afraid of rejection or mistreatment.
You’re not afraid of love;
     You’re afraid of not being lovable.
 
By Author Unknown
 
“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” -George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948)): “A Game of Thrones” (1 August 1996) novel
 
“If you’re scared, just holler and you’ll find it ain’t so lonesome out there.” -Joe Sugden (Joseph ‘Joe’ Sugden (1870 - 1959))
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“The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975) at https://stevemaraboli.net/: “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 16
 
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))
 
“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
 
“Try to be fearless, because fear can inhibit you and keep you from a life.” -Miranda Weese
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon (Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (pseudonym of James Neil Hollingworth (1933 - 1996)))
 
“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” -Caroline Myss (born 1952)
 
“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” -Alice M. Swaim (Alice Mackenzie Swaim)
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A lamb appears a lion, and we fear
Each bush we see’s a bear.
-Francis Quarles: “Emblems,” Book I, Emblem XIII, line 19
 
“I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
 
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Crime and Punishment” (1866), Part I, Chapter 1 (1866)
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“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown (Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown (born 1945))
 
“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘Oh, by getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.” -David Seabury (1885 - 1960)
 
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” -Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
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“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.” -Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515 - 1582))
 
“Action cancels fear.” -Silver Rose
 
“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” -Author Unknown
 
Fear is a slinking cat I find
     Beneath the lilacs of my mind.
-Sophie Tunnell (Sophia Letitia Tunnell (1884 - 1936))

​“Fear is incomplete knowledge.” -Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976))
 
“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I’m afraid of widths.” -Steven Wright (Stephen Alexander Wright (born 1955)): “Steven Wright Special” (1985)
 
Heights Made Him Dizzy
 
There was a young fellow so frail
He could fly on a kite - as the tail.
     That gave him a view
     From Maine to Peru;
But when he looked down he turned pale!
 
By John Ciardi (John Anthony Ciardi (1916 - 1986))
 
“So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way?” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): “Power of the Plus Factor: The Little Extra That Makes You a Winner” (1987)
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“Fear always springs from ignorance.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “The American Scholar”
 
“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” -Brendan Francis (Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (1923 - 1964))
 
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” -Seth Godin (born 1960)
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Do not let fear confine your life
     Inside a shell of doubt;
A turtle never moves until
     His head is sticking out.
-Charles Ghigna
 
“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946))
 
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Sheryl Sandberg (Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born 1969)): “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” (2013)
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” -Mary Anne Radmacher (born 1957)
 
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
 
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals” (1838 - 1859), ‘September 7, 1851’
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 - 1977)): “Diary” (1969)
 
“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” -Michael Pritchard
 
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for ‘False Evidence Appearing Real.’” -Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943)
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“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” -Author Unknown: German proverb
 
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): as quoted in Joannes Stobaeus: “Florilegium”
 
“F.E.A.R. has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Risk.’ You decide.” -Author Unknown
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“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony (Robert Newton Anthony (1916 - 2006))
 
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)): inaugural address (4 March 1933), as published in “The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933” (1938), page 11
 
Overheard: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself . . . and spiders!

​“The fears we don’t face become our limits.” -Robin Sharma (Robin S. Sharma (born 1965))
 
“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.” -Ruth Gendler (Janet Ruth Gendler, also known as J. Ruth Gendler (born 1954)) at www.ruthgendler.com
 
“Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you’ve got - to just live life.” -Douglas Preston (Douglas Jerome Preston (born 1956)) and Lincoln Child (born 1957): “The Lost Island” (5 August 2014)
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“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791), ‘April 5, 1775’
 
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” -Dorothy Bernard (Nora Dorothy ‘Dorothy’ Bernard (1890 - 1955))
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
 
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“Happiness is a form of courage.” -Holbrook Jackson (George ‘Holbrook’ Jackson (1874 - 1948))
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“I laugh in the face of danger. And then I hide until it goes away.” -Author Unknown: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997 - 2003), season 1, episode 3: ‘Witch’ (17 March 1997); line spoken by character Alexander Lavelle ‘Xander’ Harris (portrayed by actor Nicholas Brandon)
 
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965)): “Great Contemporaries” (1937), ‘Alfonso XIII’
 
“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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“The thing I fear most is fear.” [translation to English]
“C’est de quoi j’ai le plus de peur que la peur.” [original French]
-Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1580), Book I, Chapter 18
 
A psychologist, interviewed on the “Steve Allen Show,” announced that the only two instinctive fears in man are a fear of loud noises and a fear of falling. “I have a great fear,” replied Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William ‘Steve’ Allen (1921 - 2000)), without missing a beat, “of making a loud noise while falling.”
 
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou: as quoted in “USA Today” (5 March 1988)
 
Overheard: Don’t let your fears win.
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“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” [translation to English]
“Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.” [original Latin]
-Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “De Augmentis Scientiarum” (1623), Book II, ‘Fortitudo’
 
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” -Katherine Paterson (Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born 1932)): “Jacob Have I Loved” (1980)
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“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Psalms,’ Psalm 27, verse 1 (King James Version)
 
“The phrase ‘do not be afraid’ is written in the Bible 365 times. That’s a daily reminder from God to live every day being fearless.” -Author Unknown
 
“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” -Stephen Richards
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
 
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): “Pudd’nhead Wilson” (1894), chapter 12: ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar’

​“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.” -Arthur Wellesley (born Arthur Wesley (1769 - 1852)): as quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope: “Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington” (1886), ‘November 3, 1831’
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“Always believe that God is with you, and fear nothing.” -Eliezer: as quoted in Isidore Singer and Cyrus Adler, editors: “The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day Volume 2” (31 December 1903), page 386
 
“Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.” -Lauren Raffo
 
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)
 
“Fear is real and there is nothing you can do about it except to keep functioning, keep your hands and legs and body moving, your mind focused on the task at hand.” -Alvah Bessie: “Men in Battle: A Story of Americans in Spain” (1939), page 241
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“Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.” -Rollo May (Rollo Reece May (1909 - 1994)): “The Courage to Create” (1975), Chapter 1: ‘The Courage to Create,’ page 21
 
“Courage grows by daring, fear by holding back.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
 
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
 
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore (1937 - 2017)
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“Courage is following your conscience instead of following the crowd.” -Eric Harvey
 
“Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” -Author Unknown
 
14 October of every year is National Face Your Fears Day, and 17 days later, you can actually see some of them, because that day is Halloween!
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“To one who is afraid, everything rustles.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
 
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
 
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair (George Washington Addair, Junior (1931 - 2012))
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“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” -Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910): as quoted in John Cooke: “The Book of Positive Quotations” (2007), page 479
 
Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates.
-Hannah More (1745 - 1833): “Belshazzar,” Part II
 
“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)
 
“Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.” -Marilyn Barrick (Marilyn Cooper Barrick (1932 - 2007))
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“Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Annus Mirabilis” (1667), stanza 76, line 304; type of work: poem
 
“Fears are nothing more than states of mind.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
 
“You do not have to be fearless, just don’t let fear stop you.” -Charles Day (Charles Peckham Day (born 1976)): speech (May 2014) to graduating class of Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America
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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” -Titus Livius (also known simply as Livy (59 B.C.E. - C.E. 17))
 
“If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
 
“Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway.” -Cheryl Strayed
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
 
“There is no courage without fear.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only known cure for fear is faith.” -Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875 - 1939)
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“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
 
“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” [translation to English]
“Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Epistolæ Ex Ponto,” II, 7, 75
 
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman (1914 - 1972)
 
“Fear makes men believe the worst.” [translation to English]
“Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.” [original Latin]
-Quintus Curtius Rufus: “De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni,” IV, 3, 22
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“If you work past a fear, if you jump over the barrier of a fear, if you act despite a fear, what will be beyond, what will be on the other side, what will you experience?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” -Bethany Hamilton (Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born 1990))
 
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” -Tim Ferriss (Timothy ‘Tim’ Ferriss (born 1977))
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“Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (1991)
 
“Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Marilyn Ferguson
 
“Stop letting fear rule your life.” -Author Unknown
 
“Courage is your greatest present need.” -Author Unknown
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“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” -Keshavan Nair (born 1932)
 
“Life begins where fears end.” -Author Unknown
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Questions And Queries

How can I get people to like me?
 
If you were a robot but did not know it, would you want people to tell you?
 
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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What do penguins wear for play clothes?
 
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” -Tony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960)) at https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
 
Where did you get that big, beautiful smile?
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Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
 
Is there something else you should be doing right now?
 
Aren’t you just the cutest thing?
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What is your favorite vegetable?
 
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” -Indira Gandhi (Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (1917 - 1984)): as quoted in in Dawn Nicole Martin: “Misbehave: Speak Truth to Power” (1 April 2011), page 51

Questions
 
If there is something you want to know,
     A question is the way to go.
Ask a question and you will see
     Information comes easily.
 
Use question words like when or where,
     To find out if the answer’s there.
What and who, how and why,
     Are other words you can try.
 
Comments are nice,
     But they won’t do the trick.
To learn something new,
     Ask a question real quick.
 
By Author Unknown
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Would you tell me a true thing?
 
If we can make semi-conductors, can you just imagine what we could do if we made complete conductors?
 
How can you know what you think until you speak so that you can hear what you have to say?
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If you were on the second floor of a three-story building, would you be upstairs and downstairs at the same time?
 
Everyone says things are just Jim Dandy . . . but who is this Jim Dandy fellow?
 
When someone erases a word with a pencil, where does it go?
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Why do British people not sound British when they sing?
 
“To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
 
Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep?
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Do you realize just how many holes there could be in the ground if people would just take the time to get a shovel and dig the dirt out of them?
 
What is the speed of dark?
 
What could possibly go wrong?
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Why do we never hear any father-in-law jokes?
 
Should Friday the 13th be made into a holiday?
 
If you were to be trapped in a television show forever, which show would you choose?
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If you could have picked your own name, what would it be?
 
Is there a butterscotch flavored soft drink?
 
Does it seem that some people specialize in turning positives into negatives?
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What did moths congregate around before campfires, torches, and light bulbs were invented?
 
Does wasting time damage eternity?
 
Why is it that when you walk up the stairs and you get to the top, you always think there is still one more step?
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Are earthquakes on Mars called marsquakes?
 
If a chameleon was placed in a mirrored box, what color would it be - clear?
 
Who wants to go outside and play?
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If the electric power went out everywhere for a week, what would you do during that time?
 
Since there is a speed of light and a speed of sound, is there a speed of smell and a speed of taste?
 
“He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.” -Tom J. Connelly
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“Ask the young. They know everything.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824): as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
 
Why do people go to the top of tall buildings and then put money in telescopes so they can see things on the ground in close-up?
 
An average four-year-old child asks 437 questions a day. Have you asked a question today?
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“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.” -Niels Bohr (Neils Henrik David Bohr)
 
Are adults just older children?
 
What would love do now?
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“You’ve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.” -Percy Ross
 
Who is the funniest person in the world?
 
What do you think is the right age or conditions for marriage and why?
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Does glue ever stick to the inside of the bottle?
 
What things do you always carry with you in your pocket, purse, backpack, or wallet?
 
What does it mean, to live happily ever after?
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What just happened?
 
Have you ever heard a bird sing out of tune?
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Why are roads built so close to the ground?
 
What do you wish you knew more about?
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Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Alex?
Alex, who?
Alex the questions around here!
 
Is a British billionaire richer than an American billionaire?
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Can you name something that is not weird, odd, or unusual?
 
Is there a mouse-flavored cat food?
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Why hasn’t someone invented a bed that makes itself yet?
 
What’s what?
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If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
 
A year from now, what will you wish you had done today?
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Whether you need the answer to a serious question or a silly question, call 1-334-844-4244 to reach the Foy Information Line at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, United States of America. The service is staffed by students, who try to answer questions on any subject, and is available during the school year, 24 hours a day Monday through Thursday and until 9:00 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Be sure to tell them you found out about them from www.MakeFunOfLife.net.
 
“The word ‘question’ originates from the Latin root ‘quaestio’ meaning ‘to seek.’ Inside the word ‘question’ is the word ‘quest,’ suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.” -Tom Wujec: “Five Star Mind” (1995)
 
“Since we have kneecaps to protect our leg joints, why do we not have elbowcaps to protect our funny bones?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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How many days are in a light year?
 
“If not you, who? If not now, when?” -Garry Herbert
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How fast do you have to go to keep up with the Sun so that you are never in darkness?
 
Are there legitimate ways to earn money online?
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What’s next?
 
“Asking silly questions now is better than correcting serious mistakes later.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Do you prefer your food served on square plates or round plates?
 
What kind of music do you like?
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How old were you when you were born?
 
What are you thankful for?
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“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?” -Harold Pinter
 
If life is so wonderful and exciting and full of interesting people, places, things, and activities, then why are we all by ourselves looking at the screens of our electronic devices?
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Should apartments be called togetherments, because they are together and not apart?
 
What are male ballerinas called?
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Why is France so far away?
 
Sales Person: Be sure to ask me if you have any questions.
Customer: Sure thing . . . so do I have any questions?
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If a birdhouse is placed in a tree, does it then become a treehouse?
 
“There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” -Charles Steinmetz (Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolf (1865 - 1923)))
 
Do you have all of your ducks in a row?
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Who is the most interesting person you ever met, and why?
 
At the end of the day, are you better off than you were at the start of the day?
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Why do we believe everything we see on the internet but question what The Bible says?
 
What is your favorite work of art?
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Are social media websites turning us into weird little creatures - maybe not all of us, but enough of us so that the rest of us should be concerned?
 
What is keeping you from doing the things you need to do?
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If you could be any kind of animal, what would you want to be and why?
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Who has been the biggest influence on your life?
 
Are we ever going to make it up this hill?
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Teacher: What if this was not a rhetorical question?
Student: What if this was not a hypothetical situation?
 
Why does this keep happening?
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Why is there one in every crowd?
 
“Why do people park in driveways and drive on parkways?” -Larry Anderson
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“Ask the experienced rather than the learned.” -Author Unknown
 
Which do you like more: scary movies, romantic movies, or comedy movies?
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When lights go out, where do they go?
 
“Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don’t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.” -Katharine Graham (Katharine Meyer Graham (1917 - 2001)): as quoted by Jane Howard: ‘The Power That Didn’t Corrupt’ published in “Ms. Magazine” (October 1974)
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Why are there schools for preschoolers?
 
What kind of place is this?
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If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
 
“A questioning man is halfway to being wise.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
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What do you like to do for fun?
 
Do some people have a condition that makes it difficult for them to remember the good things that happen and easy to remember the bad things that happen?
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Which is a sign of higher intelligence, asking questions, or not asking questions?
 
Can we spell creativity any way we want to?
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Have you noticed that since everyone has a digital camera or a cell phone with a built-in camera these days, no one talks about seeing UFO’s and monsters and ghosts like they used to?
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How many days are in a light year?
 
Is it right that you should have only a broken-down flea-bitten donkey while the local warlord has 300 camels and 1,200 horses?
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If the Universe is expanding, why are parking spaces so hard to find?
 
What is the difference between spelling words and casting spells?
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Would you rather go shopping or sightseeing, and why?
 
What is the best advice you ever received?
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“There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence.” -Author Unknown
 
Should a building be called a built when its construction is done?
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If a thousand seagulls were in an airplane while it was flying, with each bird weighing two pounds, and all of them flying around inside the airplane, would the airplane weigh 2,000 pounds more?
 
If you could go back in time and speak to your younger self, what age would you choose and what would you say?
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Do you play a musical instrument?
 
Are you from outer space?
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Would we all be better off if we refused to accept anything that was offered to us for free?
 
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
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What is your favorite song?
 
Why is the alphabet in the order that it is in?
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Why do we say an alarm is going off when it is actually turning on?
 
What is magic?
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If you woke up as a monkey, what would you do first?
 
What are you really good at?
 
Is the opposite of the opposite the same or different?
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Does your physical address plus the time equal your space-time coordinates?
 
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
 
“Why is the world so beautiful? is a question that we all ought to be embracing.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer Interview: “On Being” (2022) podcast
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“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
“If water had a flavor, what color would it sound like?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
What do you think is beyond the stars?
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
Wow, those were some challenging and difficult questions! Fortunately, the topic that follows below this one on MFOL! is much easier . . .

Umbrellas And Parasols

Shane: How could six children and two dogs be under an umbrella, and yet none of them got wet?
Shannon: It wasn’t raining.
 
The Folded Friend
 
I carry my friend on a trip,
A canopy held by a grip.
     He blocks out the showers,
     Through all of the hours,
And opens with one easy flip.
 
By Author Unknown
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The word ‘umbrella’ comes from the Latin word ‘umbros’ meaning ‘shade’ or ‘shadow.’
 
Judy: Why do people carry umbrellas?
Jude: Because umbrellas can’t walk by themselves.
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Umbrellas were originally used to shade people from the Sun, like modern parasols, and not to protect people from the rain as they are today. In ancient Greece, umbrellas became a fashion accessory used by men though not women, probably because men tended to be out under the Sun more.
 
Little Umbrella
 
I have a little umbrella.
     It helps me stay dry.
And on a very windy day,
     It even helps me fly!
Open it. Close it.
     Oh, what fun it can be.
Jumping over puddles,
     My little umbrella and me!
 
By Author Unknown
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“A rainy day is the only chance an umbrella gets to shine.” -Author Unknown

The Rain
 
Pitter-patter, raindrops,
     Falling from the sky,
Here is my umbrella,
     To keep me safe and dry!
 
When the rain is over,
     And the Sun begins to glow,
Little flowers start to bud,
     And grow and grow and grow!
 
By Author Unknown
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The average life span of cheap umbrellas is one-and-a-half years.
 
Bella Had A New Umbrella
 
Bella had a new umbrella
     Didn’t want to lose it,
So when she walked out in the rain
     She didn’t ever use it.
Her nose went sniff,
     Her shoes went squish,
Her socks grew soggy,
     Her glasses got foggy,
Her pockets filled with water,
     And a little green froggy.
All she could speak
     Was a weak ‘kachoo!’
But Bella’s umbrella
     Stayed nice and new.
 
By Eve Merriam (born Eva Moskovitz (1916 - 1992))
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Dale: What goes up when the rain comes down?
Gail: An umbrella!
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Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)) once told a story of trying to get rid of a wreck of an old umbrella. First he threw it in a trash can, but someone recognized it as his, and returned it. Then he dropped it down a deep well, but someone repairing the well saw the umbrella, and returned it. He tried several other methods, but always the umbrella came back. “Finally,” said Mr. Twain, “I lent it to a friend, and I never saw it again.”
 
Keith: Why would anyone need a chicken-proof umbrella?
Kevin: To use in case of fowl weather.
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Marla: So what kind of umbrellas do people carry on rainy days?
Marlo: Wet ones.
 
Why are many umbrellas black? When umbrellas first came into popular use in the 18th century, they were made of oil-soaked cotton cloth stretched over whalebone. Oil was applied to the cotton fabric to make it waterproof. It also gave the cloth a black coloration. While this type of umbrella was waterproof, it was not very durable. Soon, better umbrellas were made, and since the color black was associated with effective waterproofing, most of the newer models were dyed black. However, for safety purposes, brightly colored umbrellas, being more visible to motorists, may possibly decrease the likelihood of collisions with pedestrians. Clear umbrellas are also a good choice as they give their holders the ability to see through them.
 
What is a bumbershoot? ‘Bumbershoot’ is a whimsical, informal American term for ‘umbrella,’ derived from ‘umbr’ taken from ‘umbrella’ and ‘shoot’ taken from ‘parachute’ . . . because an umbrella reminds some people of a parachute. The British are known to use the informal terms ‘brolly’ for ‘umbrella’ and ‘gamp’ for an ‘oversized or very large umbrella.’
 
Stella’s umbrella flipped in a gale,
     Changing her boring rainy day into
          An eventful bumbershoot-related fail.
-Author Unknown
 
“I used the money I had been saving for a rainy day to buy an umbrella.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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It’s raining umbrellas!
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“You will need three umbrellas: one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.” -James L. Blankenship

Spin And Twirl
 
Spin, spin the parasol
     Spin it, and it flies away -
When it stops,
     It’s somehow on the ground.
 
Twirl, twirl the umbrella,
     Water droplets fly everywhere.
Twirl it, twirl it,
     And then twirl it once more!
 
Parasol or umbrella,
     Twirl or spin,
Collapse them and stow them away,
     To twirl or spin on yet another day.
 
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966): “More Boring Poetry”

National Umbrella Day is observed on 10 February of each year. If it doesn’t rain on that day, it’ll be a big disappointment to many of us!
 
“Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.” -Gail Carriger
 
“Have you noticed that some people are not good at saving money, but somehow always manage to save an umbrella for a rainy day?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

The word ‘parasol’ is a combination of ’para’ from the Latin word ‘parare’ meaning ‘to shield from’ and ’sol’ meaning ‘sun.’
 
Norman: Did you hear about the responsible umbrella manufacturer?
Norma: Yes, they say he is saving his money for a sunny day.
 
Umbrellas are among the things of which you should always have at least two, in case you lose an umbrella or need to loan one to a friend. The two best times to buy an umbrella are before you need one and when it is not raining. When it starts raining, umbrellas sell quickly, even at inflated prices, and you might not be able to find one to buy.
 
“I walked around for a few hours. Around one-thirty it started raining lightly. Almost immediately the umbrella sellers turned up on the street corners. You’d have thought they had existed previously in spore form, springing miraculously to life when a drop of water touched them.” -Lawrence Block (born 1938): “Out on the Cutting Edge” (1989)
 
Marshall: What is big and gray and protects people from the rain?
Marsha: An umbrellaphant!
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Umbrellas And Parasols Facts
- Umbrellas help keep the rain off people.
- Umbrellas are made of waterproof material.
- Parasols help keep the sunlight off people.
- Parasols are often not made of waterproof material.
 
“One thing we have never been able to save for a rainy day is an umbrella.” -Herbert V. Prochnow (Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior (1897 - 1998))
 
Della And Her Umbrella
 
A delightful young duck named Della
     Had in her possession an umbrella -
In appearance it was a bright sunny yellow;
     And thus despite any downpour of rain,
She could always reliably remain
     Quite dry, cheerful, and mellow.
 
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

Your own personal portable cloud-on-a-stick parasol is a great accessory for carrying around on sunny days, and will help keep the Sun off your head. This one is made from fluffy cotton and a broken umbrella.
 
Combination parasol and umbrella are called ’en-tout-cas’ meaning ‘in any case’ in French. An umbrella used in the event of falling snow is called a ’paraneige.’ What other kinds of weather and conditions might merit specialized umbrellas? Is there an umbrella for underwater use? Could we create a dust storm umbrella? Perhaps we need a specialized umbrella for use on the Moon, against Moon dust? Then there might be an autumn umbrella, to keep off falling leaves, a snow umbrella . . .

The Gingham Umbrella
 
Alphonso, Alphonso, Alphonso and Arabella
     They happened to meet
A man in the street,
     Who carried a gingham umbrella.
 
Alphonso possessed neither manners nor grace,
     He made at this person a hideous face;
But how different the conduct of sweet Arabella,
     Who praised with politeness the gingham umbrella.
 
The man was a nobleman, deeply disguised;
     The compliment courteous he pointedly prized;
‘Sweet creature,’ he said, ‘come away from this feller,
     And take both my heart and my gingham umbrella!’
 
The very next morning they met in the church,
     And foolish Alphonso was left in the lurch;
And they said, ‘In the future you’ll know how to tell a
     Great lord from a loon, by his gingham umbrella!’
 
By Laura Richards (Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850 - 1943))
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A successful steel-ribbed umbrella was invented by Samuel Fox in 1852, although some earlier steel-ribbed umbrellas may have existed. The first working folding umbrella was introduced by Bradford Philips in 1969.
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A friend is someone who has an umbrella when it is raining . . .
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Marissa: What goes up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
Clarissa: An umbrella!
 
The rain it raineth on the just
     And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
     The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.
-Charles Bowen (Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, also known as Baron Bowen (1835 - 1894)): as published in Walter Sichel: “Sands of Time” (1923)
 
“If you appreciate your umbrella, make it happy by walking in the rain with it.” -Author Unknown
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“Stanley wandered off into the woods, which turned out to be vaster than he had ever imagined a field of trees could be. Walking down into a densely wooded valley, he found it to be the Land of the Umbrella People. These folks had no permanent houses, but carried large umbrellas on their backs, pointing skyward. When darkness or inclement weather arrived, they opened up their umbrellas, and like tent-dwellers, they lived inside them until morning or until the skies cleared up. The lower ends of the umbrella ribs were like tent stakes that sank into the ground, and the umbrellas were sturdy enough to protect their occupants from wolves and goblins and other creatures of concern prowling about in the dark in search of somebody to eat.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966): “If You Believe In Fairy Tales”
 
Umbrella Etiquette
- Let others stand under your umbrella with you, including people and animals, if your umbrella is large enough, and if the others are not too peculiar.
- Shake the water off your umbrella before entering a building or vehicle, and then either place it inside a plastic bag, in an umbrella stand, or in another place where the water that runs off it will not create a dangerous slippery-slidey floor.
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“All men are equal - all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.” -E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster): “Howards End” (1910)

“It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.” -Robert L. Stevenson (Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894)) and J. W. Ferrier: “Philosophy of Umbrellas” (1871)
 
Otis: Why did your sister cut a hole in her new umbrella?
Doris: Because she wanted to be able to tell when it stopped raining.
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Umbrellas that are up when Days are duller,
     Instead of being Dark should glow with Color.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943): “A Poet’s Proverbs” (1924), ‘Of Cheerfulness’

Umbrellas Go Up
 
Umbrellas go up,
     When the rain falls down,
When the rain falls down on me.
     Umbrellas go up,
When the weather’s wet,
     To keep the rain off me!
 
Umbrellas go up,
     When the sun shines down
On a hot day by the sea.
     Umbrellas go up,
When the weather’s hot,
     To keep the Sun off me!
 
By Author Unknown
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“Going around under an umbrella interferes with one’s looking up at the sky.” -Jerzy Kosinski

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Attitudes And Expectations

“Set your sights high - the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen - not in the future but right now! Realize that nothing is too good.” -Eileen Caddy (1917 - 2006)
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“This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better.” -R. A. Campbell (Robert Allen Campbell (born about 1836 or 1837)): as quoted in “Journal of Education” (1915) publication of Boston University, volume 81
 
“A great attitude precedes a great performance.” -Author Unknown
 
“Winners come in all shapes and sizes but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.” -Author Unknown
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“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” -Herm Albright (1876 - 1944): as attributed in “The Reader’s Digest” (1995)
 
“You must always be positive! And always smile! A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but being positive will affect many people to make it worth the effort.” -Daniel Carver: “What’s Wrong with Management” (2005), page 10
 
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))
 
“It all depends on how we look at things and not on how they are themselves. “ -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
 
A Bad Attitude
 
A boy who was terribly rude
Found his trouble: a bad attitude.
     He pulled thorns from its side,
     Smoothed its raw, ruffled hide,
Cut its claws, and his life was renewed.
 
By Author Unknown
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“Clear your mind of ‘can’t’.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
 
“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” -Annie Gottlier
 
“As a man is, so he sees.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): letter (23 August 1799) to John Trusler (1735 - 1820)
 
“You ‘can do’ with a ‘can do’ attitude!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“It’s hard to have a good day with a bad attitude or a bad day with a good attitude.” -Joe Moore
 
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
 
“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.” -Spencer Johnson
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“When you look at the world in a narrow way how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad generous friendly spirit what wonderful people you find in it.” -Horace Rutledge
 
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
“The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 18 October 1934))
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“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.” -David Hume (1711 - 1776): “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary” (1875), volume 1, ‘The Sceptic’ (about 1750)
 
“We tend to live up to our expectations.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
“Train your mind to see something good in everything.” -Author Unknown
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“Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
 
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
“If you growl all day, you’re sure to be dog tired at night.” -Author Unknown
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“The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like. Consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as to correspond to its nature.” -Charles Haanel
 
“A bad attitude is like a flat tire; you can’t go anywhere until you change it.” -Author Unknown
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“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944))
 
“‘You become what you think about’ is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?” -Jeffrey Gitomer (born 1946)
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“Declarations are powerful. If you declare that you are going to be an optimistic, upbeat person at all times, an interesting phenomenon takes place. When people expect you to be positive, you don’t want to let them down. You live your intentions every day - every minute.” -Neil Eskelin

“It’s all in the way you look at things.” -Norton Juster (born 1929)
 
“The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
 
“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.” -Author Unknown
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“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” -Michael McGriffy
 
“Choose your attitude! There is no single universal attitude that is right for everyone at all times and in all places. If humans were machines, our attitudes would not be changeable, but thankfully, we are not machines. Choose the attitude that is good for you in this time and place and change it in other circumstances as you like, keeping in mind that your attitude will affect others and your relationships with them, as well as ultimate outcomes and end results.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” -Harry F. Banks
 
“Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): as quoted in Edward Everett Hale: “Modern Achievement” (1902), Volume 7
 
“Your attitude is an outward expression of an inward feeling.” -Author Unknown
 
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” -John Steinbeck (John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior (1902 - 1968))
 
“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.” -Richard Cecil
 
“Change your attitude and change your life.” -Ann Bench
 
“High expectations are the key to everything.” -Sam Walton (Samuel Moore ‘Sam’ Walton (1918 - 1992))
 
“Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.jimrohn.com/
 
“A Great Attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
 
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” -John Donne (1572 - 1631)
 
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” -Dennis Wholey (born 1939)
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“The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.” -André Godin
 
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Wayne Dyer (Wayne Walter Dyer (born 1940))
 
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“A healthy attitude is contagious; but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” -Tom Stoppard (born Tomás Straussler in 1937): as quoted in Jerry S. Beall: “There Will Always Be a Tree” (2010), page 54
 
“Let other people catch a healthy attitude from you.” -Jerry S. Beall: “There Will Always Be a Tree” (2010), page 54
 
“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” -Author Unknown
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“Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.” -Daisy Bates (1863 - 1951)
 
“Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.” -Author Unknown
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“The world can change in an instant. So can the way you choose to see it. Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others?” -Bob Perks
 
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” -Pat Riley
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
 
“The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.” -William J. Johnson
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“Be someone who finds something good in each day, and then share it with others.” -Author Unknown
 
“We attract what we habitually expect; we become what we deeply believe.” -William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994)
 
“A bad attitude is merely a reflection of how you feel about yourself.” -David Roppo
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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832): “Faust” (1808)

Formula For Living Successfully (It is easier than you might think!)
 
Assign each letter of the alphabet a number.
A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, and so forth all the way to Z = 26.
 
Next, we formulate equations as follows.
H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%.
K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%.
L+U+C+K = 12+21+3+11 = 47%.
 
You will notice that none of the above add up to 100%.
 
So, what does make 100%?
 
Is it BEING PERFECT? No!
Is it EDUCATION? No!
Is it FATE? No!
Is it GENETICS? No!
Is it MONEY? No!
Is it OTHER PEOPLE? No!
 
Our ‘ATTITUDE’ in life is what makes for success, as in A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%.
 
To refresh, ‘Attitude matters 100% in life.’ Now wasn’t that fun?
 
Every problem or condition has a solution, only if we are willing to change our ‘ATTITUDE.’

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your reality.” -Author Unknown
 
“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” -Maurice Setter
 
“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.” -Katherine Mansfield at http://www.katherinemansfield.com/ (pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Murry (born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1888 - 1923)))
 
“What is important to you is not so much the circumstances of your life as your attitude toward them.” -Ernest C. Wilson
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Do attitudes and expectations affect outcomes? According to proponents of the Rosenthal Effect, also known as the Pygmalion effect, higher expectations lead to an increase in performance, while conversely, low expectations lead to a decrease in performance. The idea is named after psychologist Robert Rosenthal (1933 - 2024).
 
“Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to, the door of success.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/
 
“When you focus on what’s wrong, you get more of what’s wrong. Conversely, when you focus on what’s right, you get more of what’s right.” -Gina Mollicone-Long
 
“I am responsible for my attitude. My attitude determines my actions.” -Author Unknown
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“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
 
“Attitude is everything.” -Author Unknown
 
“Negative attitudes bring negative results.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
 
“The word ‘lose’ simply stands for Lack Of Success Expectancy.” -Doug Firebaugh (born 1968)
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“Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))
 
“Everything can be taken away 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 (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997))
 
“We don’t see things as they are, but as we are ourselves.” -Henry M. Tomlinson (1873 - 1958): “Out of Soundings” (1931), chapter 10
 
“There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference! The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002)) and Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970)): “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude” (1977), Chapter 18: ‘Can You Attract Happiness?’
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
 
“Our attitude is our personal boomerang to the world - Whatever we throw out will come back.” -Lee J. Colan: “Orchestrating Attitude” (2005), page 13
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“Attitudes are contagious - is yours worth catching?” -Author Unknown
 
“You don’t have to have a bad attitude to get a better one.” -Thomas D. Willhite (Thomas Dale Willhite (1940 - 1983))
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If all the World looks drear, perhaps the meaning
     Is that your Windows need a little Cleaning.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943): “A Poet’s Proverbs” (1924), ‘Of Cheeriness’
 
“Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.” -Franco Harris
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“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.” -Paul Myer
 
“Attitude, more than aptitude, will determine your altitude in life.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a positive mental attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970))
 
“When you look for the beauty in all people and all things, you not only feel it, you become it.” -Author Unknown
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“In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In” (1897), page 2, ‘Library of Alexandria’
 
“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.” -Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660)
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“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” -Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
 
“Remember, a good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude fair results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.” -M. Russell Ballard: ‘Providing for Our Needs,’ as published in “Ensign” (May 1981), page 85
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” -William James (1842 - 1910): as quoted in Norman Vincent Peale: “The Power of Positive Thinking” (1952)
 
“The most unknown, unused and unrecognized tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice.” -Mark Horton
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“A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
“The right mindset changes everything.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Live up to the highest you know in all things.” -Mildred Mann (1904 - 1971)
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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
“You can do anything you set your mind to.” -Author Unknown
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