Monday, December 21, 2009

Thought provokers - 2




Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great
Kenny Rogers

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If you find a good solution and become attached to it the solution may become your next problem
Dr. Robert Anthony

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Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself
Leo Tolstoy

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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
Wayne W. Dyer

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Our destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things
Henry Miller

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Once people learn something, they're reluctant to let it go
Robert Easton
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
Edward deBono

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Only in growth, reform and change . . . paradoxically enough . . . is true security to be found
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning
Claude Bernard

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Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty
John Finley

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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change
Charles Darwin

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When you're through changing, you're through
Bruce Barton

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A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows
John Powell

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself
Anna Jameson

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Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course
Edward J. Koch

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Soften the rigidities within yourself and the universe will give you strength and vigor.
Arabic proverb

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon
Edgar F. Magnin

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My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view
H. Fred Ale

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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