I was born and raised in a small farming community in Southern Idaho. Upon my “escape,†I moved to the panhandle of Idaho (Moscow) for 7 years of undergrad and grad school. Next I moved to Raleigh, NC for 3.5 years to complete my graduate education. Then I lived in the Ann Arbor area of Michigan where I worked for an engineering consulting firm for the past 2.5 years. A year ago I moved back to Idaho (Boise) to work for a human factors consulting firm.
I’ve always been fascinated by insightful quotes. I find that a person can gain a lot of wisdom from the words of others. A few of my favorites include:
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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