“Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.” HeartJoyOpportunityActingBalanceLaborTasksObligationManageRemarkableRacistCompleting Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.” FeelsShouldMayMatterEnoughOpportunitySimpleWhiteClearConscienceLaborAbsolutesShoesCommandRelativeMemorialMemorial DayLabor DayWhite Shoes Book:Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium
“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.” MenNeedsArtUseArtistCoursesOpportunityEffortStruggleHe ManDisciplineCircumstancesArt IsLaborOvercomingDifficultyExcellencePatientActiveLondonImpressionParisRomePassiveGreat ArtModeratesGreat ArtistManlyAdverseEminenceThrifty Author:George Stillman Hillard
“The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.” WayMindHeartRealityFacesMovingOpportunityFreedomEducationPracticeImagineFieldsPossibilityDemandLaborRemainsBoundariesLimitationOpennessClassroomLocationHeart And MindComrade Author:Bell Hooks
“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeDifferentAmericaMovingNightOpportunityStageFieldsBuildingColorDevelopmentIndustryPhotographyLaborTradeMajorityAddFortuneInternationalOilInventionShipsDevelopingBranchesChemicalsEnteringBankingOne NightElectricalAircraftColossalOil IndustryColor PhotographyForeign Trade Author:B. C. Forbes