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Happy Birthday Dr. Suess

As many of you know I often use Dr. Suess in my teaching and team building. Kirk Weisler's T4D email newsletter today celebrated his birthday with some quotes that I thought I'd Share with you……


(Google celebrates Suess)

Some Suessical Quotes on Life, Leadership and the Pursuit of Happier Endings in a season of reduced corporate spendings.

A person's a person, no matter how small.
– Dr. Seuss
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
– Dr. Seuss
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.
– Dr. Seuss
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.
– Dr. Seuss
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
– Dr. Seuss
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
– Dr. Seuss

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
– Dr. Seuss
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
– Dr. Seuss
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
– Dr. Seuss
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent.
– Dr. Seuss
I'm sorry to say so but, sadly it's true that bang-ups and hang-upscan happen to you.
– Dr. Seuss
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
– Dr. Seuss
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
– Dr. Seuss
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
– Dr. Seuss
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
– Dr. Seuss
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!
– Dr. Seuss
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
– Dr. Seuss
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
– Dr. Seuss
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
– Dr. Seuss
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
– Dr. Seuss
You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?
– Dr. Seuss
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
– Dr. Seuss
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
– Dr. Seuss

Clint Eastwood Quotes  (from Kirk)

 

Someone sent me this first quote from Clint Eastwood and it got me wanting to look for more.  When I was young I loved his early westerns, now I find myself appreciating some of his accumulated wisdom and perspective.  Not because it's new or novel, but because of his delivery of it.  My search dug up some real nuggets.  I hope you enjoy them and that they … MAKE YOUR DAY.  

"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."  ~ Clint Eastwood
"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."  ~ Clint Eastwood

"If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster."  ~ Clint Eastwood

""A good man always knows his limitations"  ~ Clint Eastwood

"We boil at different degrees."  ~ Clint Eastwood

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."  ~ ~ Clint Eastwood

"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."

"Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves."  ~ Clint Eastwood

"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."

 "I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person 10 years from now than I am today. I think that, for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open."   ~ Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood…. Actor, Director, Politician, Academy Award Winner, and LIFE LONG LEARNER

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Thanks House Republicans for putting this off for another day.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
 People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they there-fore remain bound.
James Allen  (no relation as far as I know)
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