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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it read more
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
 Of fight or fly,
 This choice is left ye, to resist or die.  
 Of fight or fly,
 This choice is left ye, to resist or die. 
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
 Between the victim and the stone knife.
 [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]  
 Between the victim and the stone knife.
 [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.] 
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how read more
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
 If it be aught toward the general good,
 Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
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 If it be aught toward the general good,
 Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
  And I will look on both indifferently;
   For let the gods so speed me as I love
    The name of honor more than I fear death. 
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and read more
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
 Better to sink beneath the shock
 Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!  
 Better to sink beneath the shock
 Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!