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It’s the end of yet another interesting month here at the Zone (and one with an extra day in it, no less!), and it’s time for another inspiring edition of Great Quotes. So, if you find yourself searching for some encouragement, inspiration or perhaps even just a chuckle or two, you’ve come to the right place.

I think you’ll agree they may even impart a bit of wisdom - along with a bit of fun! Check these out:

• The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. - Agnes De Mille
• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - H. L. Mencken
• We must walk consciously only part way towards our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. - Thoreau
• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. - Frank Herbert
• Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. - John Lennon
• I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What good would that do? - Ronnie Shakes
• If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around. - Unknown
• A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. - Grace Murray Hopper
• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie
• Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Row out and meet it. - Jeanne Dininni’s Aunt
• For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn–much. - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield
• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Winston Churchill
• Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long. - Leonard Bernstein
• The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture. - Ken Langone
• The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke
• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln
• Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton
• Champions take risk, and pressure is privilege. - Billy Jean King

And as food for thought, here’s a particularly powerful point to ponder from one of the best known names in Business today:

• If you can’t think of anything or anyone to say “Thank you” to - I suggest you go see a shrink. - Tom Peters

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