Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

What do Americans look for in a car? I've heard many answers when I've asked this question. The answers include excellent safety ratings, great gas mileage, handling, and cornering ability, among others. I don't believe any of these. That's because the first principle of the Culture Code is that the only effective way to understand what people truly mean is to ignore what they say. This is not to suggest that people intentionally lie or misrepresent themselves. What it means is that, when asked direct questions about their interests and preferences, people tend to give answers they believe the questioner wants to hear. Again, this is not because they intend to mislead. It is because people respond to these questions with their cortexes, the parts of their brains that control intelligence rather than emotion or instinct. They ponder a question, they process a question, and when they deliver an answer, it is the product of deliberation. They believe they are telling the truth. A lie detector would confirm this. In most cases, however, they aren't saying what they mean. -- The culture code.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford