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"Everyone knows what to do, but that doesn't mean anything until you use it in the marketplace and get the result. Ideas without action are worthless."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on August 7, 2006

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on August 6, 2006

"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on July 25, 2006

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on July 6, 2006

"If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person's place, and to see things from their point of view - as well as your own."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on June 14, 2006

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on June 6, 2006

"I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on June 6, 2006

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on April 11, 2006

"Be brave and fight like hell. Pain is temporary but quitting lasts forever ..."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on April 2, 2006

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 14, 2006

"The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortable within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and endless effort which it demands."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 14, 2006

"One can stand still in a flowing stream, but not in the world of men."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 14, 2006

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 14, 2006

"We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 11, 2006

"Don’t be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 3, 2006

"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 3, 2006

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 3, 2006

"Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 3, 2006

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 3, 2006

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 3, 2006

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 3, 2006

"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 3, 2006

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 23, 2006

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 23, 2006

"Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 23, 2006

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 23, 2006

"The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"Revolution is not a onetime event."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"You cannot test courage cautiously."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"The world is but a canvas to our imaginations."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 22, 2006

"Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 20, 2006

"All that we are is a result of what we have thought. What we think, we become."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 20, 2006

"We understand why children are afraid of darkness, but why are men afraid of light?"

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 20, 2006

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 20, 2006

"The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 20, 2006

"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 20, 2006

"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 19, 2006

"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 19, 2006

"A am realistic -- I expect miracles."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 19, 2006

"You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 19, 2006

"Chase your passion, not your pension."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 19, 2006

"Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 19, 2006

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 19, 2006