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Presentation Date: March 31, 2020
- “Don’t think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.” ― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
- “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” -May Sarton
- “The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.” – Simon Mainwaring
- “At the center of your being you have the answer: you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu
- “All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.” – Tom Peters, Fast Company
Presentation Date: March 24, 2020
- “Approach life with bold enthusiasm.” – Panda Express
- “You have the ability to undertake and complete anything you desire.” – Panda Express
- “You see beauty where others see ordinary.” – Panda Express
- “LIVE WITH INTENTION. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass.
It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene.
Presentation Date: March 10, 2020
- “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” – Dale Carnegie
- “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.” – George F. Burns
- “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere” – Erma Bombeck
- “There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” – Harold Stephen
- “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” – Robert Eliot
Presentation Date: March 3, 2020
- “The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
- “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” – Warren Buffett
- “We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King
Presentation Date: February 25, 2020
- “It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt
- “To all those reaching to new heights: yes you can.” – Christina Koch
- “What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.” – Warren Buffett
- “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
- “No doubt, emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader.” – Jack Welch
Presentation Date: February 18, 2020
- “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Winston Churchill
- “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” – Alexander Den Heijer
- “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” – Yoda
- “Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work.” – Andre Agassi
- “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
Presentation Date: February 11, 2020
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford
- “It is our choices…That show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
- “The biggest risk is not taking any risk…In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that’s guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
Presentation Date: February 4, 2020
- “Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.” – Hal Lancaster
- “During job interviews, when they ask, ‘What is your worst quality?’ I always say, ‘Flatulence’. That way I get my own office.” – Dan Thompson
- “Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.” – Brian Tracy
- “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.” – Anna Quindlen
Presentation Date: January 28, 2020
- “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison
- “Luck to me is something else: Hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.” – Lucille Ball
- “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Henry Ford
- “There is nothing permanent but change.” – Heraclitus
- “The mindset isn’t about seeking a result—it’s more about the process of getting to that result. It’s about the journey and the approach. It’s a way of life. I do think that it’s important, in all endeavors, to have that mentality.” – Kobe Bryant
Presentation Date: January 21, 2020
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
- “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
Presentation Date: January 14, 2020
- “Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” – Tina Fey (from “Bossypants”)
- “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” – Charlotte Bronte
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
- “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston
Presentation Date: January 7, 2020
- “What you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.” – Napolean Hill
- “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” – Sir Richard Branson
- “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
- “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
- “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” – Invictus by William Ernest Henley