Favorite Quotations

life

"Dream Big." - Adam, my first coach

"Love, believe, dream. Roll up your sleeves; give everything until there's nothing let to give. That's the only way I know how to live." - Mark Erelli

"Be just an observer, and not a reactor, to your emotions." unknown

"'Do' or 'do not', there is not 'try'". Yoda in Star Wars

"Looking forward, I create the possibility of..." unknown coach

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” Walt Whitman, in preface to Leaves of Grass

"The world is full of bad news. Let's try to be as affirmative as we possibly can. I'm sure I fail more times than I succeed, but at least I'm trying." Al Granum

leadership

"Action beats inaction." unknown

"Don't just do something, sit there." unknown

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

"It is not through our words that we show who we truly are, but through our actions." (paraphrase of Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter).

career

"Find out what God intends your work to be and do that work to the best of your abilities." - Claudia L. Osborn, Over My Head

"MTBI is a condition where, on some days, you get nothing accomplished and you have to learn to be OK with that." 

death

"I want to die in my sleep, just like Grandpa; not screaming and yelling like Grandma on the back of his bike."  unknown

education

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You become what you study." - Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

"The goal of education is action." - Brian Ruhe, Freeing the Budda. (I believe that President John F. Kennedy was partially mistaken when he said "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth" because knowledge and truth are powerless without action).

home

"We can worship the ground we walk on; cherish the things we live beside...This is my home...this is the only sacred ground my feet have ever known." Dave Carter

parenting

"I have never done great things, just many little things done with great love."  unknown