“There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.” PersonsIdeasStoriesInspirationMightChanceAttentionMissingSourceFellowsPhonesBoringInsightUnexpectedTravelerLaptopsFellow TravelersEveryone Has A StoryIdeas And InspirationBoring Person Author:Richard Branson
“Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.” ChancePoorLordRichFindingsLosingPrejudiceTownsFellowsRoughNobilityRich And PoorNoblemen Book:Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
“The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.” MenSelfYoungPurposeReadingOpportunityChanceAbilityStudyPlansPositionHabitDisciplineExerciseSelf ImprovementOrganizationFellowsImprovementYoung ManRisingAddressesAssociationSelf DisciplineEarnestCompassAffording Author:B. C. Forbes
“Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.” IfsWorldShouldStillsPassionChanceSucceedExpectationsFairsEternityFellowsNobleMortalsDisappointedOur ThoughtsAnother WorldAdventurer Author:Gilbert Burnet
“I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.” PeopleIdeasArtistSongNextChanceCareersWatchesGenerationsInspireFellowsEntrepreneurVentureNext Generation Author:Nas
“Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.” GivingSaidAgeYoungDarkChanceFellowsMedicalHospitalsDark AgesSurgeonsOpen MindedPennsylvaniaGeneral Hospital Author:Paul Douglas