Be Creative!

"Be creative! You're the artist here. You're the one who can brush away the clouds and make the sun shine. Paint your own picture, choose your own colors. And forget all that business about having to stay between the lines."

-Douglas Pagels

Whatever you can do, or dream you can...begin it; boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -Goethe

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.
-Michelangelo

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played. -Grant Bright

I'm not a great motivator. I just get rid of guys who can't motivate themselves. -Lou Holtz

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake." -Henry David Thoreau (WAKE UP!!)

Positive Learning Quote

For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. One has to know what it means to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be known only by seeking them out. These implications cannot be taught, they must be learnt. One can indicate, but learning by what is

Motivational Thoughts on Growing Old

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left.Malcolm S. ForbesIt's wonderful to be married to an archaeologistthe older you get the more interested he is in you.Agatha Christie What's a man's age? He must hurry more, That's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a yearto hold.Robert Browning Tranquility is the old man's milk.Thomas Jefferson I smoke cigars because at my

Motivational Speech by Martin Luther King Jr

"I Have a Dream" I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history asthe greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadowwe stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentousdecree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaveswho had been seared in the flames of

Positive Creativity

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of

Motivational Thoughts on Listening

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meantAnonymousOnly the mind that listens can understand anything. Listening is not passive as most of us think. It means to let a message sink in, without being judgemental. Don't criticise. Don't comment. Let not your conditioning intefere with Understanding what you are

Motivational Message on failure

I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do, what you finally did --march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had

Motivational Quote on Success

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.Andrew Carnegie

Motivational Quote on Luck

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.Thomas Jefferson

Motivational Words on Managing Anger

Anger, from an evolutionary point of view, serves a purpose. It's helped us survive. Anger is quite appropriate in response to an injustice or a wrong that needs to be righted. But, as the Dalai Lama pointed out, if you're going to be effective in responding to what makes you angry, you need to keep the focus and energy of the anger, but drop the anger itself in order to act more

Short Love Poem

You mean so much to me-and I just wantedyou to knowhow very much I care...Jamie Delere

Motivational Inner Voice

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.Quote by Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Master Painter

Motivating Monday Morning Quotes

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days. Lance Armstrong, famous cyclist You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. Richard Bach

Success Tip

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. Warren Buffett

Positive side of insight

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes