Linda Foor on Rules for Modern Travel

If there is no place to plug in a hair dryer, there is no need for me to be there.

Linda Foor

Jim Tressel on Faith

Faith is the bedrock of a winner. Belief is the outward expression of an inner faith.

Jim Tressel

Go Bucks!

Source: The Winners Manual
by Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry
(c) 2008 Tyndale House Publishers, p. 114

Troy Smith on Pressure

Pressure busts pipes -- but it can also make a diamond. I am a diamond.

Troy Smith

Go Bucks!

Source: troysmithonline.com

Archie Griffin on Resilience

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

Archie Griffin

Go Bucks!

Source: quoteland.com

Bill Willis on Progress

I'm proud of the role I played, but it was a very small part. I'm appreciative of the people who permitted me to play that role. I still get nice, thoughtful letters, saying that I had a part in how the entire fabric of professional football - management, players, everything - has moved ahead.

Bill Willis
Retired Ohio State Buckeye No. 99
The first African-American to play football at The Ohio State University

You should know about this man.

Go Bucks!

Bill Willis was the first African-American full-time starter in pro-football's modern era. He was the NFL's first middle linebacker. Willis, Marion Motley, Kenny Washington, and Woody Strode were the first African-American starters in modern pro-football in 1946.

Source: bigten.cstv.com

Jim Tressel on Genuine Love

They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Jim Tressel

Go Bucks!

Source: Source: The Winners Manual
by Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry
(c) 2008 Tyndale House Publishers, p. 180

Jesse Owens on Believing

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing it.

Jesse Owens

Go Bucks!

Source: jesseowens.com

Woody Hayes on Gratitude

You can never pay back. So you should always try to pay forward.

Woody Hayes

Go Bucks!

Source: coachtressel.com

Jesse Owens on Achieving

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens

Go Bucks!

Source: brainyquote.com

Woody Hayes on Paying Forward

Wars always bring bigger problems then they settle. We can't have that. It's up to us to have such a good democracy that other people want it too. That's a job that will be in your future. Hard work, tough decisions, teamwork, family values, and paying ahead will help to change this world and make it a better place, And I have no idea but that you have the attitude and the capacity and the ability here to go on and help make this a greater world.

Woody Hayes
1986 Commencement Speech
The Ohio State University

Go Bucks!

Source: gosu02

Jim Tressel Speak

As far as Worthington goes, Doug will be suited up and ready to go. Exactly when he’ll get his car keys back in the course of a game, I don’t know that answer at this moment, but it won’t be at the beginning.

Ohio State Buckeye Coach Jim Tressel
August 26, 2008 Press Conference
Referring to when player Doug Worthington will be playing in August 30th's game.

Go Bucks!


Source: bucknuts.com

Stella Reid on Responding

Thanks for the honesty, but I don't like the answer.

Responding to a father's list of reasons for why he won't change his behavior and work less and spend more time with his family.

Nanny Stella Reid
Nanny 911, Season 3, Episode 29 (2007)
Granada Entertainment

Source: imdb.com and wikipedia.com

Mark Victor Hansen on the Journey

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Mark Victor Hansen

Source: thinkexist.com

Maxwell Maltz on Self-Determination

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

Maxwell Maltz

Soure: brainyquote.com

Bill Gates on Learning

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.

Bill Gates


Source:
The Winners Manual
by Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry
(c) 2008 Tyndale House Publishers, p. 171

Albert Einstein on Perspective

Concern for man and his fate must form the chief interest of all technical endeavors.... Never forget that in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Source: The Winners Manual
by Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry
© 2008 Tyndale House Publishers, p. 172

Rosalynn Carter on Resilience

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rosalynn Carter


Source: The Winners Manual
by Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry
(c) 2008 Tyndale House Publishers, p. 70

Sam Grawe on The Pebble in a Pond

While our problems are indeed macro, by making incremental changes, perhaps you or I can effect change.

On the relationship between sustainability and design.

Sam Grawe, Editor-in-Chief, Dwell Magazine, July/August 2008

Michelangelo on the Journey

Ancora imparto.

Michelangelo

Latin. Translation: I am still learning.

Philip Dunne on the Journey

Pope Julius II: When will you make an end?
Michelangelo: When I am finished!

The repeated exchange between Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) and Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) while he painted the Sistene Chapel.

The Agony and The Ecstasy (1965)
Screenplay by Philip Dunne
International Classics/Twentieth Century Fox

Source: imdb.com

Voltaire on Blessings

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire


Source: workinghumor.com

Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Resilience

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Source: brainyquote.com

Mary Pickford on Resilience

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford


Source: worldofquotes.com

Roy Rogers on Citizenship

1. Be neat and clean.
2. Be courteous and polite.
3. Always obey your parents.
4. Protect the weak and help them.
5. Be brave but never take chances.
6. Study hard and learn all you can.
7. Be kind to animals and take care of them.
8. Eat all your food and never waste any.
9. Love God and go to Sunday school regularly.
10. Always respect our flag and our country.

Roy Rogers Riders Club Rules
The club is still active, the rules originated in the 1940's.

Source: royrogers.com

Michael Phelps on Possiblilities

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Michael Phelps

Source: brainyquote.com

Despair, Inc. on Tradition

Tradition: Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.

Despair, Inc.


Source: despair.com

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Jim Tressel on Purpose

Before I can do, I must be.

Jim Tressel


Source: The Winners Manual
by Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry
(c) 2008 Tyndale House Publishers, p. 25

Go Bucks!

John Wooden on Success

Success is peace of mind, which is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden


Source: The Winners Manual
by Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry
(c) 2008 Tyndale House Publishers, p. 4

Mary Chapin Carpenter on Self-Determinaton

We've got two lives, one we're given and the other one we make.

Mary Chapin Carpenter
The Hard Way
Come On, Come On
(c) 1992, Legacy Recording


Source: cmt.com

Athur Ashe on Decisions

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Arthur Ashe


Source: brainyquote.com

Bessie Stanley on Success

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.

Bessie Stanley
Lincoln Republican, December 21, 1905

This quote is often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Kansas native Bessie Stanley entered a contest in 1905 to answer the question: "What Constitutes Success?" in 100 words or less. Bessie Stanley won $250 for her eloquent response.

Source: State Library of Kansas

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Wesley Bates on Presence

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Wesley Bates, writer


Source: The Artistic Cat
(c) 1991, Running Press

Langston Hughes on Dreams

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes


Source: poemhunter.com

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Appreciation

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
(c) 1936, 1964, 1981, Pocket Books, p. 31

Helen Keller on Lessons

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller


Source: If Life is a Game, These are the Rules
by Cherie Carter-Scott
(c) 1998, Broadway Books, p. 5

James Downey on Careful Analysis

Strategery.

Candidate George W. Bush (Will Ferrell) summing up his performance in a 2000 debate in one word.

Saturday Night Live
Written by James Downey
Season 26, Episode 1, October 7, 2000
NBC Studios

Sources: wikipedia.com and imdb.com

This is not a real word... but it should be!

Sloan Wilson on Parenting

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

Sloan Wilson, novelist


Source: quotegarden.com

Eleanor Roosevelt on Facing Fear

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt


Source: gaia.com

Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel on Unwritten Rules

Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!

Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) to Evelyn Gardner (Bitty Schram)

A League of Their Own
Screenplay by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel
1992, Columbia Pictures Corporation



Source: imdb.com

Jeff Lewis on Careful Analysis

It's not even passive-aggressive; it's aggressive-aggressive.

Jeff Lewis
Flipping Out, 2008
Bravo TV/Authentic Entertainment

Robert Benchley on Discretion

Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley Columnist for The New Yorker


Source: famous-quotes-and-quotations.com

Tony Robbins on Self-Determination

In every man and woman's life there comes a time of ultimate challenge -- a time when every resource we have is tested. A time when life seems unfair. A time when our faith, our values, our patience, our compassion, our ability to persist, are all pushed to our limits and beyond. Some people use such tests as an opportunity to become better people -- others allow these experiences to destroy them.

Tony Robbins
Unlimited Power
(c) 1997, Simon and Schuster, p. 23

Mariah Carey on Focus

Never, never listen to anybody that tries to discourage you.

Mariah Carey


Source: thinkexist.com

Despair.com on Challenges

Challenges: I expected times like this - but I never thought they'd be so bad, so long, and so frequent.

Despair.com
(c) Ashleigh Brilliant

Edward Allen Bernero and John Wells on Simplicity

Officer Sullivan: I'm going to tell you this story one time. And, I'm going to tell you the 'See Spot Run.' version.

Third Watch, Leap of Faith, Season 6, Episode 7, 2004
Written by Edward Allen Bernero and John Wells
John Wells Productions

Source: imdb.com

Osmo Wiio on Human Relations

▪ If communication can fail, it will.
▪ If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm.
▪ There is always somebody who knows better than you what you meant by your message.
▪ The more communication there is, the more difficult it is for communication to succeed.

Osmo Wiio

Source: complexitystudies.org

Robert McCloskey on Communication

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Robert McCloskey, writer and illustrator of Make Way For Ducklings


Source: thinkexist.com

Leo Buscaglia on Human Relations

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Source: brainyquote.com

Shel Silverstein on Possibilities

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

Source: thinkexist.com

Epictetus on Appraisal

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus


Source: brainyquote.com

Renee Stewart on Living

Accept differences. Be kind. Count your blessings. Dream. Express thanks. Forgive. Give freely. Harm no one. Imagine more. Jettison anger. Keep confidences. Love truly. Master something. Nurture hope. Open your mind. Pack lightly. Quell rumors. Reciprocate. Seek wisdom. Touch hearts. Understand. Value truth. Win graciously. Xeriscape. Yearn for Peace. Zealously support a worthy cause.

Renee Stewart, Alphabet for Life

Source: signals.com

Leo Buscaglia on Expectations

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Leo Buscaglia

Source: thinkexist.com

Epictetus on Human Relations

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus, Greek philosopher, lived about 1900 years ago

Source: thinkexist.com

Saint Thomas Aquinas on Faith

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Source: brainyquote.com

Auguste Rodin on Patience

Patience is also a form of action.

Auguste Rodin

Source: quotegarden.com

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Patience

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: quotegarden.com

Rose Macaulay on Housework

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Rose Macaulay, writer, lived in the late 19th into the mid-20th centuries


Source: worldofquotes.com

T-Shirt Wisdom

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

T-shirt wisdom


Source: quotegarden.com

A.A. Milne on True Friendship

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

A.A.Milne
from Winnie the Pooh

Source: thinkexist.com

Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Respect

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man, in his dignity, is a crime.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, writer

Source: How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
(c) 1936, 1964, 1981
Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, p.226