Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
This story is about people,secrets and time. About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who cover themselves with layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside.
My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.
I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.
When you think about the person responsible for creating the character and the dialogue, Bill Monahan, who's a Boston guy, obviously, his words roll off my tongue quite nicely.