BRAINFOOD

Thoughts - Quotes, bits of wisdom and perspective.

 

Your Customer

There are organisations that talk a lot about the customer and
then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer
- the  employees.  Always treat  your employees exactly as you 
want them to treat your best customers.

You can buy a person's hand, but you cannot  buy  their heart.  
The heart is where  the  enthusiasm,  and loyalty is.  You can 
buy their back, but you can't  buy  their brain.  That's where
a person's creativity, ingenuity and resourcefulness is.

Work  is treating  employees as volunteers  just as you  treat 
customers  as volunteers,  because that's what they are.  They 
volunteer the best part - their hearts and minds.
 
author unknown

TEAM WORK

Team Work

is the ability to

work together

towards a common goal...


With that

Nothing is impossible.

RISK

To laugh, is to risk playing the fool.
To weep, is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another, is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings, is to risk exposing our true selves.
To put your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk loss.
To love, is to risk not being loved in return.
To live, is to risk dying.
To hope, is to risk despair.
To try at all, is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken,
Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they simply cannot learn, change, feel, grow, love, live...
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves.

ONLY THE PERSON WHO RISKS IS FREE.

Author Unknown

CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE

 
If children live with CRITICISM
     They learn to CONDEMN
If children live with HOSTILITY
     They learn to FIGHT
If children live with RIDICULE
     They learn to BE SHY
If children live with SHAME
     They learn to FEEL GUILTY
 If children live with TOLERANCE
     They learn to BE PATIENT
If children live with ENCOURAGEMENT
     They learn to HAVE CONFIDENCE
If children live with PRAISE
     They learn to APPRECIATE
If children live with FAIRNESS
     They learn JUSTICE
If children live with SECURITY
     They learn to HAVE FAITH
If children live with APPROVAL
     They learn to LIKE THEMSELVES
If children live with ACCEPTANCE and FRIENDSHIP
     They learn to FIND LOVE IN THE WORLD.

Author Unknown

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
courage to change
the things I can
and the wisdom
to know the difference.

 

Author Reinhold Niebuhr

LIFE IS A GIFT
   

Life is an opportunity, .... benefit from it.
Life is beauty, .... admire it.
Life is bliss, .... taste it.
Life is a dream, .... realize it.
Life is a challenge, .... meet it.
Life is a duty, .... complete it.
Life is a game, .... play it.
Life is a promise, .... fulfill it
Life is sorrow, .... overcome it.
Life is a song, .... sing it.
Life is a struggle, .... accept it.
Life is a tragedy.... confront it.
Life is an adventure, .... dare it.
Life is luck, .... make it.
Life is too precious, .... do not destroy it.
Life is life, .... fight for it.
Author:  Mother Theresa
"Only when the last tree has died
And the last river been poisoned
And the last fish been caught,
We will realise,
We can not eat money"

Chief Seattle
William Blake

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity … and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake (1757–1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Letter, 23 Aug. 1799 (published in The Letters of William Blake, 1956).

Lord Byron

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet. Letter, 10 June 1822, to author Isaac D’Israeli (published in Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 9, ed. by Leslie A. Marchand, 1979).

Walt Whitman

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman (1819–92), U.S. poet. Specimen Days and Collect, “New Themes Entered Upon” (1882).

James Thomson

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
James Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet. The Seasons, Preface. The poem’s novel attitude toward nature anticipated the Romantic movement.

Anne Frank

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank (1929–45), German Jewish refugee, diarist. The Diary of a Young Girl (1947; tr. 1952), entry for 23 Feb. 1944.

All the above quotes are courtesy of The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. Columbia University Press (1993). Microsoft Bookshelf ‘95

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