Quotes for early January

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending~~Maria Robinson

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first~~David H. Comins

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves~~Thomas Edison

Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson~~Alan Cohen

The lesson I learned is that it really pays to say yes unless you’ve got a really solid reason to say no. Life is an adventure, but to take advantage of it, you have to say yes to things~~Anonymous 73-year-old

Those who say it can’t be done should not interrupt the person doing it~~Chinese Proverb

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking~~George Patton

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week~~Evan Esar

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm~~Winston Churchill

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt~~Bono

Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one~~N.T. Wright

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep~~Scott Adams

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint~~Pablo Picasso

To live is like to love—all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it~~Samuel Butler

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable~~David Augsburger

If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear~~ Winnie the Pooh