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Work Quotes

1. "Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." --Vince Lombardi
2. "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." --Michael Jordan
3. "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." --Andrew Carnegie
4. "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." --Helen Keller
5. "Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability." --Patrick Lencioni
6. "I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition." --Jean-Francois Cope
7. "None of us is as smart as all of us." --Ken Blanchard
8. "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford
9. "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." --Henry Ford
10. "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." --Phil Jackson
11. "Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence."--Mike Schmoker
12. "It takes two flints to make a fire." --Louisa May Alcott
13. "Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." --Mattie Stepanek
14. "To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless." --Mike Krzyzewski
15. "The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison." --James Cash Penney

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Die when I may; I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

When one door closes; another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)

First you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else. Anita Roddick (1942-2007)

Quotes from Movies

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

"Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out.

Boiler Room (2000)

"A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close?

Steel Magnolias (1989)

“Smile. It enhances your face value.”

American Gangster (2007)

"The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room."

Office Space (1999)

"My only real motivation is not to be hassled--that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired."

Coming to America (1988)

"I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. But now...now I'm washing lettuce. Soon I'll be on fries; then the grill. And pretty soon, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in."

Big Night (1996)

"I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time."

Up in the Air (2009)

"There's nothing cheap about loyalty."

Thank You For Smoking (2006)

Kid #3: "My Mommy says smoking kills." Naylor: "Oh, is your Mommy a doctor?" 

Kid #3: "No." Naylor: "A scientific researcher of some kind?" 

Kid #3: "No." Naylor: "Well, then she's hardly a credible expert, is she?" 

Goodfellas (1990)

"And when the cops, when they assigned a whole army to stop Jimmy, what'd he do? He made 'em partners."

Citizen Kane (1941)

“It’s no trick to make a lot of money, if what you want to do is make a lot of money.”

Rudy (1993)

"No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around."

Trading Places (1983)

 "You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?" 

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

"Only one thing counts in this world: Get them to sign on the line which is dotted."

Scarface (1983)

 "Don’t underestimate the other guy’s greed."

The Apartment (1960)

"Normally, it takes years to work your way up to the twenty-seventh floor. But it only takes 30 seconds to be out on the street again. You dig?"

Star Wars Episode IV (1977)

“No reward is worth this!" "Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money."

Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

"Do or do not, there is no try."

Cool Runnings (1993)

"The driver has to work harder than anyone. He's the first to show up, and the last to leave. When his buddies are all out drinking beer, he's up in his room studying pictures of turns."

Miracle (2004)

"You think you can win on talent alone? Gentlemen, you don't have enough talent to win on talent alone."

Pursuit Of Happyness (2006)

"You got a dream you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you can't do it." 

Finding Nemo (2003)

"Just keep swimming."

You've Got Mail (1998)

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino."

Risky Business (1983)

“In a sluggish economy, never ever f--- with another man's livelihood.”

Caddyshack (1980)

“Buy, buy, buy! Oh, everyone's buying? Then sell, sell, sell!"

Working Girl (1988)

"Never burn bridges. Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner!" 

The Godfather (1972)

“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

The Secret of My Success (1987)

"Everywhere I've been today there's always been something wrong--too young, too old, too short, too tall. Whatever the exception is, I can fix it. I can be older, I can be taller, I can be anything."

The Big Lebowski (1998)

"You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.”

Any Given Sunday (1999)

“No intensity, no victory.” 

Animal House (1978)

"You f----d up. You trusted us."

Field of Dreams (1989)

 “If you build it, he will come.”

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” 

Jerry Maguire (1996)

“The key to this business is personal relationships.”

Wall Street (1987)

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind."

Bruce Lee Quotes

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” If you want to get results and master something, you have to stop dabbling and jumping around from thing to thing. Commit to something and follow through. Most people quit before any results can appear. They give up too soon. Don’t be one of those people!

“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” Goals serve as something to aim for, so don’t get too hung up on reaching them. Focus on enjoying the journey and the process. If you’re hiking on a beautiful trail, your goal is to get to your end destination, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the walk, or even change direction. Be open, be flexible.

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." The happiest people in the world are flexible. They do not have rigid beliefs or try to control and manipulate their surroundings to make them happy. They are okay with how things are. They accept, they live in the now and they breathe. If you want to have a fulfilling and happy life, be flexible and accept things as they are.

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” There’s no time for procrastinating, making excuses and succumbing to your fears. I know it can be hard, but you will ultimately die, so why not make the best of your life? Don’t waste time; instead start boldly moving towards your dreams. You will fail and make mistakes along the way, so stay humble and stay in the now.

“Real living is living for others.” The most satisfying way to live is to help and enrich the life of others. If you can find a way to solve other people’s problems while following your passion, you will have found the ideal way to live.

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.” If we want the earth to become better, we have to let go of judgment, prejudice and rigid beliefs. There is no need to be right or wrong, or say that you are better than someone else. Everything is as it is. If you do not like it, you can do something else, but do not inject negative energy, because it never does any good.

“Using no way as way, using no limitation as limitation.” You impose your own limitations. Even if a guru tells you that something is impossible doesn’t mean it is. He or she is human just like you. Remember, most great people were told they could never accomplish something, but they went ahead and did it anyway. Listen to yourself and do what excites you.

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” Simplify your life and eliminate the unnecessary. We as a society have been taught to consume and amass material possessions. Luckily, we are starting to realize that this doesn’t work. Happiness comes from the inside, not from the outside. Simplicity gives you clarity and peace of mind.

"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own." In the beginning, learn from someone you look up to, but as you get better and more successful, take what works and discard what doesn’t. We are all unique, so we have to find our own groove and start listening to ourselves. Listen to your heart for guidance. Where is it trying to pull you?

"Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do." You can read all the information you want, but if you never take action, nothing will happen. You will almost never have crystal clear clarity, so you will have to work through confusion and uncertainty. I know you want a rock-solid guarantee that will tell you that you will be successful, but in reality, no such thing exists. You have to start moving in order to get to where you want to be.

"The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.” Everything you do involves your ego. It’s the one that is afraid. It wants you to stay where things are comfortable, convenient and safe. If you listen to your heart, you know that this isn’t the path for you. Go after your dreams and do so boldly. Accept the fear inside you and keep moving.

“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” Thinking has its place. It can help you plan a somewhat realistic route to your goal and help you avoid future pitfalls. Over-thinking is however just a habit that will help you waste a lot of time. It’s more useful to replace that habit with the habit of just doing it.

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” What you see, feel and hear in other people may be a reflection of you. The things you learn by thinking this way may not always be pleasant, but they can be enlightening. They help you to see yourself and also how you may be fooling yourself. And these powerful insights can be very valuable for your personal growth. So, in interactions with others, try asking yourself: what is reflected?

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” To find more emotional stability and to take control of how you feel you need to get your validation from to a more consistent source. Yourself. You can replace the expectations and validation of others by setting your own expectations and by validating yourself.

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” Living proactively is so much more rewarding and exciting.

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” But I believe that being the real you will work better. Because there the genuine you is shining through. Without incongruency, mixed messages or perhaps a sort of phoniness. It’s you to 100%. It’s you with not only your words but you with your voice tonality and body language which some say is over 90% of communication on the same wavelength as your words. It’s you coming through on all channels of communication.

Chanakya's Chant:How important is punishment in the administration of a kingdom?

Chanakya's Chant
How important is punishment in the administration of a kingdom?
It is the power of punishment alone, when exercised impartially in proportion to the guilt, and irrespective of whether the person punished is the crown prince or an enemy slave, that protects this world and the next. 

Change Your Thinking

It will take just 37 seconds to read this and change your thinking..

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.

His bed was next to the room's only window.

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end...

They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and colour of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.

Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every colour and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque scene..

One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man could not hear the band - he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days, weeks and months passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep.

She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside..
He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.

It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

She said, 'Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.'

Epilogue:

There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.

Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.

'Today is a gift, that is why it is called The Present .'