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Here is a sample of Quotes, Questions and Pondering where you will find 1001 challenging entries. All you have to do is send me an e-mail with 1001 in the subject.
While you are at it, why not tell me a little about yourself. Who are you? What do you create?
1
Where there is artistic excellence, there is also human dignity.
Maori proverb
In what ways do you seek excellence? How does excellence serve you? What is dignity? Is it an ingredient or requirement for excellence?
2
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H.L. Mencken
In what ways do you prove that your opponent is unfit? What alternative ways might you apply energy to honor differences?
3
Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible.
Unknown
What absurd thing have you done this week? Make a list of ten things that you have done that you used to believe were impossible.
4
Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
In what ways does art remind you that you have a soul?
5
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
Do you trust your hunches?
6
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
What habits have you defeated by approaching them creatively?
7
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.
Arthur C. Clarke
What is your expertise? In what ways do you honor opposites?
8
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
When you are meeting someone for the first time, do you find yourself talking all about yourself or do you show a genuine interest in others by asking questions about them and listening carefully?
9
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Doug Floyd
In what ways are you a team player? Do you encourage people who are different than yourself to play on your team? Make an entry in your journal about the last time you noticed your business, your relationships, and your collaborations harmonizing?
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I did not find the world desolate when I entered, and as my fathers planted before I was born, so do I plant for those who will come after me.
Talmud
How do you honor those who came before you? What seeds are you planting right now? How will you tend to your garden?