From Earl's mailbox 1-19-08

"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."- Robert Benchley

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Deepak Chopra

In all things, be willing to listen to people around you. None of us is really smart enough to go it alone.  -- John Clendenin

We live not on things, but on the meaning of things."- Saint Exupery

There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as if everything is. Albert Einstein

The art of communication is the language of leadership. -- James Humes

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are. -- Epicletus

The limits of my language are the limits of my world."- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

When the best leader's work is done, the people say "we did it ourselves." -- Lao Tzu

To say that communication is important to human life is to be trite, but that bit of triteness witnesses to an invariable truth; Communication means life or death to persons. Both the individual and society derive their basic meanings from relations that exist between [persons]. It is through dialogue that man accomplishes the miracle of personhood and community."- Revel Howe

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: 'the work is done.' But just as one says that, the answer comes: 'The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains.' The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.      Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 ..in order to be a leader, you must do the things that leaders do ... and you must do them well. -- Steve Ventura