Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

[Innovation] comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. -- Steve Jobs

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown