Some Good Duke Ellington Quotes
cn | 16 August, 2007 16:00
Hey hey, here are a few good quotes from Duke Ellington:
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” - (thanks to Meg for pointing this one out ot me.)“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
“There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.”
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Quote of the Day
cn | 19 April, 2007 16:37
This might be my new favorite quote...
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.source: http://www.parrotsmeow.com/IQ/
- Mark Twain
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Quote of the day
cn | 03 April, 2007 01:29
source: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_persistence.htmlThe heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A Quote for Today
cn | 01 April, 2007 11:29
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them make them.
George Bernard Shaw
source: http://www.squarewheels.com/
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Quote of the Day - March 15th
cn | 15 March, 2007 22:07
source: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html
- The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy
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Quote of the Day - March 13th
cn | 13 March, 2007 23:17
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
source: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/
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Quote of the Day - March 11th
cn | 11 March, 2007 17:13
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
source: http://www.quoteland.com/
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Quote of the Day - March 10th
cn | 10 March, 2007 12:02
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.- John Quincy Adams
source: http://www.wisdomquotes.com
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Quote of the Day - Back in Action
cn | 09 March, 2007 11:00
I've been lazy!
I apologize for my recent failures to maintain the entertainment of the daily quote. So here's the quote for today:
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles DuBois
source: http://www.wisdomquotes.com
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Academy of Achievement - A Great Site
cn | 05 March, 2007 13:21
Ken K. sent me a link to this Academy of Achievement site last week and I just got a chance to look at it and I must say that it represents something I'd love to see more of in the world. A clip from their 'About' section:
The Academy of Achievement is like no other organization in the world. For more than 40 years, this unique non-profit entity has sparked the imagination of students across America and around the globe by bringing them into direct personal contact with the greatest thinkers and achievers of the age.
The site itself is beautiful and includes an 'Achiever Gallery' that has profiles of and sometimes interviews with some amazing people in the world from all walks of life - people including Rosa Parks, Oprah Winfrey, Willie Mays, Jonas Salk, Johnny Cash, etc.
The site is a great representation of upholding people who create true value in the world and who are working to move it in a positive direction.
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Quote of the Day, Feb 28
cn | 28 February, 2007 15:22
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.source: http://secretsofsuccess.com
-Abraham Lincoln
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Quuote of the Day - Feb. 27th
cn | 27 February, 2007 12:35
This comes courtesy of Barb J!
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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Quote of the Day, Feb 25
ben | 25 February, 2007 20:15
Today's quote comes from the world of sports!
It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
- Vince Lombardi
source: http://www.secretsofsuccess.com
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Quote of the Day - Feb 21st
cn | 21 February, 2007 18:49
Another woman! I found another woman! (quote from a woman, that is, and a good one too!).
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
source: http://followyourdreams.com
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Quote of the Day - Feb. 18th
cn | 18 February, 2007 23:47
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
- Aristotle
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