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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Quotes on Respect

“He who wants a rose must respect the thorn."   -- Persian Proverb

“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.”  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.”  -- Laurence Sterne

“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”  -- John W. Gardner

“Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned.”  -- Anonymous

“Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.”  -- Mark Clement

“Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”  -- Annie Gottlieb

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”  -- Anonymous

“Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.”  -- Albert Schweitzer


“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you”.  -- Lao Tzu

Quotes on Simplicity


“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”  -- Anonymous

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”  -- Leonardo Da Vinci

“A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.”  -- Chinese Proverb

“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life."  -- Winston Churchill

“Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.”  -- John Morley

“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”  -- Winston Churchill

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.”  -- Jon Franklin

“Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.”  -- Mahlon Hoagland

“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”  -- Sir Joshua Reynolds

“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.”  -- Richard Halloway

“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”  -- Thomas a Kempis

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Quotes on Creativity

“The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.”  -- Margaret J. Wheatley

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.”  -- Charles Mingus

“Creativity is when you pull the brighter side of Life out of darkness.”  -- Anonymous

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun.”  -- Pablo Picasso

“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”  -- William CF Plomer

“The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”  -- Robert B. Tucker

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”  -- Arthur Koestler

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”  -- George Bernard Shaw

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”  -- Edward de Bono

 
“To be able to see with open eyes, what others cannot dream, even with their eyes closed is called Creativity.”  -- Anonymous

“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."  -- Bill Moyers

Quotes on Team Work

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”  -- Henry Ford

“Failure is success if we learn from it”.  -- Malcolm Forbes

“You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"  --George Bernard Shaw

“Players win games, teams win championships.”  -- Bill Taylor

“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”  -- Unknown

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”  -- Henry Ford

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”  -- Stephen Covey

“The power of a waterfall is nothing but a lot of drips working together.”  -- Anonymous

“Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.”  -- Anonymous

“Many of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!!”  -- Tom Wilson

“It is amazing what can be accomplished, when you don't care who gets the credit.”  -- John Wooden

“If everyone in the world threw a little pebble or rock, we could build Mount Everest together.”  -- Adriano Volpentesta