At the point where you see that you're in charge of your working destiny, you begin to realize that self-management is the vehicle that you need to take you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go. You're not a passive passenger. You're not an idle dreamer. You're not subject to the whims and fancies of fate and circumstance. You're in charge.

Brian Tracy
Nightingale-Conant's Insight
No. 114, pp. 15

One of the great tragedies of our educational system is that almost everyone is brought up to think of himself as an employee rather than an employer, as a company-owning entrepreneur. This attitude or myth that most people have been brought up to accept unquestioningly is a major cause of unhappiness and underachievement in life.

Brian Tracy
Nightingale-Conant's Insight
No. 114, pp. 14

It's the little things our children see us do that many times leave the greatest impression, and from our example they learn wonderful patterns for life.

Lloyd Newell
The Spoken Word
March 2, 1997

If one candle can light a thousand others, one act of kindness can indeed make a world of difference to someone else.

Lloyd Newell
The Spoken Word
March 2, 1997

The human brain is also the greatest problem-solver. It is the most wonderful creator. Out of the brain of Thomas A. Edison came a string of inventive creations. Mr. Edison gave us his own formula for success as "99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration."

Sterling W. Sill
The Best of Stirling W. Sill
pp. 46

Pediatricians are men of little patients.

Shelby Friedman
Laughter, the Best Medicine
pp. 49

A grandson, Matt Nelson, asked: "Why do we drive on parkways and park in driveways."