Dare to Dream

"Sometimes you need to dare to dream, despite the nay-sayers around you."
David Perry of Cascade Toy

Cultivate

"Your challenge is not to keep trying to repair what was damaged; your practice instead is to reawaken what is already wise, strong and whole within you; to cultivate those qualities of heart and spirit that are available to you in this very moment."
- W Muller

Dont Let Them

"People who have given up on their dreams will try to destroy yours."
Bumper sticker quoted by Fred Carpenter - Glenwood group of Companies executive

Pounce

"You have to be able to pounce on the luck when it shows up."
David Burnett - photographer interviewed by John du Pre on "In Sight" BYU Television

Impact of a New Thing

"The impact of a new thing only last about nine months, but buying an experience is a memory that will increase happiness, add lustre over time."
Dan Beuttner

Me and My Mouse

"As for me and my mouse, we will serve the Lord.
Keep it up! Don't screw up!
Being a husband and a father is hard because they happen every day.
Go home - be men of nobility in our homes."
Dan Seaborn "Winning at Home" www.winningathome.com

Scatter or Gather?

"Dads - when you come home do your children scatter or gather around you?
Are you fun to be with?
Do you share your values with them?"
Wynand Rossouw - Radio Pulpit

Greatness

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."
Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Know Who You Are

"Every day, if you know who you are, and remember who you are, every decision will be a good decision."
Dan on "Survivor Gabon"

Avoid; Beware; Help; Seek

Avoid the pitfalls, the detours.
Beware of the flashy start and the fading finish.
Help others in the race of life.
Seek and Find the Saviour.
Thomas S Monson

Powerful...

"I'm a powerful advocate... and I am a powerful adversary."
Dr Phil

A Man...

"A Man is more than his wallet.
Providing is more than providing dollars and cents.
We are learning to see the more in the less.
"In not having a radio in our car - the less, we had a seven hour conversation with our children - the more..."
Identify what it is you want to accomplish as a family.
Look at the different areas of your life - "How can we accomplish what we want?"
Begin the process of making counter-cultural decisions.
Let go of peer-pressure.
Make daily decisions along your way to what your family wants.
Let God call the shots - ask Him "What is it You want me to do?"
Invite conversations with your spouse.
Don't drive your decision on the others.
Have the attitude... "Here's what I am willing to do... How can you join me?"

"Living with Less so Your Family Has More"
Mark and Jill Savage

Peace, Prosperity, Security

"Work towards a peace of virtual equals: not of power, but a balance of mutual benefit: peace, prosperity and security.
Play a constructive role.
Be a responsible stakeholder.
Create a new identity politically, culturally, economically - one of co-operation.
Be more interconnected.
Balance competition and co-operation in order to prosper.
Govern your competetive impulse to dominate for the sake of the people and those who come after you.
Shake hands. Embrace each other. Attain peace.
We're all on the same ship; so, if you see a hole, plug it.
Be respectiful of the universal norms of co-operation and competition.
Create a positive trend. Continue to push it.
It will take hard work: caring, sharing, daring.
Be people oriented, far looking.
Win the battle - win the peace.
It was not the military, it was Mrs Ramos that changed my life.
After the devastation done by friends and enemies, I decided to become an engineer - I decided to build up.
Maybe I could do better by becoming an engineer using dialogue, diplomacy, courage and daring.
Forget confrontation.
Fortify yourselves to survive the threats from outside.
Become effective, influential, peaceful, relatively united as a social, economic, cultural unit.
Resolve differences diplomatically.
Be not a bad example.
Help build a better future.
Make one plus one equal more than two - it can be three, five, ten, eleven or more.
Encourage the synergy of the participants.
One plus one can equal zero - or minus five, minus ten.
We can do it!
Have a "Yes we can" attitude.
Assess, calculate, influence difficult, multi-faith relationships.
Create a regional block.
The cost of one supercarrier could finance ten universities.
Invest in education.
Transfer more budget to development, outreaching.
Defend through aliances.
Agree as virtual equals.
Act as partners instead of as enemies.
Join together to defend against natural enemies.
Say "I will try again."
Use economic and intellectual rather than military influence.
Keep the balance between the powers - neither of whom you want to antagonise.
Let cooler solutions predominate."
- Fidel V Ramos (Former Philipines President)
Wheatley Institute Lecture.

Bitterness and Wrath

"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking,be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
Paul Ephesians 4:31,32

People

"Life is people - and it's all about impacting with them - and if you don't do that - that's too bad."
BYU Folk Dance Group Guitarist.

Complexity

"In the absence of data (in this World War II airforce operation to bomb Ploeste and destroy fuel reserves) the men rely on hope and the ability to adapt and overcome.
A complex plan had become chaos and the pilots are improvising desparately to avoid collision.
If you don't attempt something, you don't achieve anything.
Some thought this was a crusade, some thought it an adventure; but for the majority (of us) it was a case of doing our duty."
"On a Wing and a Prayer" BYU TV

Stand

"Stand in the Word of God.
Clothe yourself with the Word of God.
Take your place in your home.
Be the head of your home."
Angus Buchan

Living...

"People are not really afraid of dying, but of living a life that doesn't matter."
Lloyd D Newell