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Jan Steen. The Meal. c. 1650-60. Oil on panel, 40 x 49.3 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. (Image courtesy of Olga's Gallery).

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Library of Productivity Development: Quotations

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it."  ~Chinese Proverb

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~Winston Churchill

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." ~Vince Lombardi

"It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well." ~Joseph Ross

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~Henry Ford

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~Thomas Alva Edison

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has." ~Margaret Mead

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." ~Peter Drucker

"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true." ~Albert Schweitzer

"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."  ~Warren G. Bennis

"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes."  ~Wolfgang Puck (Restauranteur)

"What is once well done is done forever."  ~Henry David Thoreau

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent."  ~Calvin Coolidge

"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."  ~Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)

"There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself."  ~Andrew Carnegie

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam."  ~Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."  ~Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976)

"A little I'm hurt, but yet not slayne. I'll but lye down and bleed awhile, and then I'll rise and fight again."  ~Sir Andrew Barton

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." ~Dale Carnegie

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