Monday Quotes - Page 6

• If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Needs

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.63, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Sunday, Night

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• A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.

  John Updike

  Couple, Inspiration, Office

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• To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Moving

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• O, Begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercises... Whether you like it or no, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days... Do justice to your own soul; give it time and means to grow. Do not starve yourself any longer.

  John Wesley

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

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• Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

  David Gilmour

  Running, Lying, Rain

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• Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Successful, Opportunity

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• We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Party, Apology

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What if you are just one bend in the road away from achieving your God-ordained purpose? If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away?

  DeVon Franklin

  Giving Up, Knowing, What If

  DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Home, Men

  Stephen Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner, www.democracynow.org. May 3, 2006.

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• So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Attitude

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.90, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Careers

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• Don't hide your goosebumps.

  Pat Williams

  Morning, Monday Morning, Goosebumps

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• Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Men, Age, World

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Night

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

  Martha Beck

  Running, Passion, Emotional

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• There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Book

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• Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Order

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• For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

  John Sununu

  Friday, Weekend, Government

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• Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.

  Danny Glover

  Morning, White, Office

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

  Gary David

  Friday, Writing, Night

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• It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Reality

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• As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

  Nick Ferguson

  Football, Halloween, Kids

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• The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Team

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• The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Quitting

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