Guard Your Spare Moments
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Similar Posts
Leadership
ByHeatherThose “best leaders” excel at six skills . . . They have a winning attitude, a passion for customers, an ability to collaborate across boundaries, a global mindset, an ability to leverage diversity and a talent for working just “fast enough” — getting the right balance point between overly rapid decision-making and paralysis by analysis.
— Ann Livermore, HP Executive VP
From a Knowledge at Wharton articleCertainty / Doubt
ByHeatherThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
— Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
Life’s a tough proposition…
ByHeatherLife’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
The Person I am Right Now
ByHeatherI gave my life to become the person I am right now.
Was it worth it?
— Richard Bach
Running the Country II
ByHeatherIf I wished to put a curse on a nation, I would invoke the gods to decree that it be governed by those who consider themselves to be the only true patriots in it.