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Soft Skills for Tough Issues wishes all our readers a Happy Birthday and a happy, prosperous, healthy 2017! Note that Beyond the Horizons Consulting has moved its physical location to Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. We needed a little time to get organized, but we are now back in business and loving our new location near the beautiful Atlantic beaches ! (Jean Eva, November 21, 2016!)
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 !
Quote for the week of July 10, 2017:
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the week of July 3, 2017:
A thief who stole a calendar ... got twelve months! -- Anonymous
Quote for the week of June 26, 2017:
"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of May 8, 2017:
Thinking is only helpful when it leads to positive action. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of May 15, 2017:
When you get all wrinkled with care and worry, it's time to have your "faith" lifted! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of February 6, 2017:
Buenos Dias! It's a good day to think about our brothers and sisters in Spain, Latin America, and elsewhere. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of February 13, 2017:
Love does not entitle us to treat those we love in a way we wouldn't dare treat strangers! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of January 2, 2017:
"Kindness is the language the clind can see and the deaf can hear." -- Mark Twain
Quote for the Week of January 9, 2017:
"If you talk to a person in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of November 28, 2016:
Remembering to take Thanksgiving seriously, here is a quote from basketball coach, John Wooden: "You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
Quote for the Week of November 21, 2016:
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Winston Churchill
Quote for the Week of June 27, 2016:
"There are no secrets of success. ... Success is discovering your best talents, skills, and abilities and applying them where they will make the most effective contribution to your fellow human beings. Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth." -- Wilfred Peterson
Quote for the Week of June 20, 2016:
"A person without a smiling face should not open a shop." --Chinese proverb
Quote for the Week of June 13, 2016:
"Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into leisure." Sidney J. Harris
Quote for the Week of June 6, 2016:
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." -- Harper Lee
Quote for the Week of May 30, 2016:
"What do you do when you don't have to determines what you will be when you can no longer help it!" -- Rudyard Kipling
Quote for the Week of May 23, 2016:
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Alva Edison
Quote for the Week of May 16, 2016:
On leadership: "A leader is someone who can set direction and impart vision. A leader is able to serve, build loyalty, motivate, and inspire. ... A leader is someone who wins hearts." -- Roy Lessin.
Quote for the week of May 9, 2016:
On perseverance: "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President
Quote for the week of May 2, 2016:
On Expression: "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." Ray Bradbury, writer
Quote for the week of April 25, 2016:
On Preparation: "Chance favors only the prepared mind." -- Louis Pasteur, biologist
Quote for the week of April 18, 2016:
On Pioneering: "Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier." -- Paula Nelson, economist
Quote for the Week of Aoril 11, 2016:
On individualism: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau, writer
Quote for the Week of April 4, 2016:
On Short-sightedness: "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." -- Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher.
Quote for the week of March 28, 2016:
On Risk: "What would life be if we had not courage to attempt anything?" -- Vincent van Gogh, painter
Quote for the week of March 21, 2016:
On Happiness: "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." -- Julius Oppenheimer, physicist
Quote for the week of March 14, 2016:
On Fear: "I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards -- in the life of an artist." -- Quentin Tarantino, filmmaker
Quote for the Week of March 7, 2016:
"People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of February 29, 2016:
"I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them". -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of February 22, 2016:
If only we would forget our troubles as easily as we seem to forget our blessings! - Anonymous
Quote for the Week of February 15, 2016:
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Quote for the Week of February 8, 2016:
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
Quote for the Week of February 1, 2016:
When you stop and think about it, common sense is really special -- not common.
Quote for the Week of January 25, 2016:
"And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." -- Kahlil Gibran
Quote for the Week of January 18, 2016:
Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others -- qualities which are within reach of every soul -- are the foundation of one's spiritual life." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of January 11, 2016:
"There is no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you." -- O. Wayne Rollins
Quote for the Week of January 4, 2016:
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of November 16, 2015:
One thing you can give and still keep is your word! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of November 9, 2015:
Faith is like a wheelbarrow -- you've got to put some push behind it to make it work. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of November 2, 2015:
"Be still and know that I am God." -- Psalm 46:10
Quote for the Week of October 26, 2015:
"Do all things without Grambling or questioning." -- Philippians 2:14
Quote for the Week of October 19, 2015:
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of October 12, 2015:
After all is said and done, more is said than done! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of October 5, 2015:
Happiness is a lot like jam: When you spread it around, you usually end up getting some on yourself! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of September 28, 2015:
Happiness is a lot like jam: When you spread it around, you usually end up getting some on yourself. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of September 21, 2015:
Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people. Give me the grace to tell them so. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of September 14, 2015:
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while s/he knows something! -- Anonymous !
Quote for the Week of September 7, 2015:
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." -- Harper Lee
Quote for the Week of August 31, 2015:
"What constitutes success? He has achieved success who has lived well; laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it ... who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.: -- Bessie Anderson Stanley
Quote for the Week of August 24, 2015:
Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talents in unexpected people. Give me the grace to tell them so. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of August 17, 2015:
Where you stand is not important - it is in what direction you are moving that counts! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of August 10, 2015:
"Cherish your vision, cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind ... if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built." -- James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
Quote for the Week of August 3, 2015:
"To do carefully and constantly and kindly many little things is not a little thing." -- Stephen Covey
Quote for the Week of July 27, 2015
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." -- William Feather
Quote for the Week of July 20, 2015:
"Excellence is not doing the best htat has ever been done, it is doing the best that you can do; it is not doing something perfectly, but doing it wholeheartedly." -- Roy Lessin
Quote for the Week of July 13, 2015:
"Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath." -- Marie Chapian
Quote for the Week of July 6, 2015:
"The mark of a good leader is loyal followers; leadership is nothing without a following." -- Proverbs 14:28
Quote for the Week of June 29, 2015:
"Nothing is so infectious as good example." -- F. Rochfoucauld
June 22, 2015: A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -- Anonymous
June 15, 2015: Where you stand is not important -- It is in what direction you are moving that counts! -- Anonymous
June 8, 2015: Use whatever talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang best. -- Anonymous
June 1, 2015: "Leadership is not a job title, it is a characteristic of life. We lead by our attitudes, by the words we speak, and by the example we set." -- Roy Lessin
May 25, 2015: "Work well done is its own reward." -- Proverbs 12:14
May 18, 2015
On Character: " There are many things about us that we have received from birth, but character is something we must develop. However, it is not developed in a crisis moment, but by a series of small choices based on truth. Like tiny fibers woven together through time, these choices build strength and reliability." -- Roy Lessin
Quote for the Week of March 16, 2015:
"Like the horizons for breadth and the oceans for depth, the understanding of a good leader is broad and deep." -- Proverbs 25:3
Quote for the week of March 9, 2015:
"It is not the job that determines its worth and impact, rather the heart of the person approaching and executing the task." -- Jean Fleming
Quote for the Week of March 2, 2015:
"All work, from the simplest chore to the most challenging and complex undertaking, is a wonder and a miracle. To work is to do something essential to our humanness." -- Ben Patterson
Quote for the Week of February 23, 2015:
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon seem inevitable." -- Christopher Reeve, Nothing is Impossible
Quote for the Week of February 16, 2015:
"If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living." Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Quote for the Week of February 9, 2015:
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." -- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Quote for the Week of February 2, 2015:
"People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive." -- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Quote for the Week of January 26, 2015:
"It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was adrk because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret." -- Vernon Howard, The Power of your Supermind
Quote for the Week of January 19, 2015:
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." -- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Quote for the Week of January 12, 2015:
"Follow your bliss. ... I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. Wherever you are, if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time." Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Quote for the Week of January 5, 2015:
"The world without spirit is a wasteland. ... The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where that life is and become alive yourself." -- Joseph Campbell, he Power of Myth
Quote for the week of December 29, 2014:
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of December 23, 2014:
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -- Abraham Lincoln
Quote for the Week of December 16, 2014:
The most precious thing we can give our children is time. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of December 9, 2014:
"Many eyes go through the meado w, but few see the flowers in it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote for the Week of December 2, 2014:
Even if a person of Spirit strays, he or she has something to come back to. The person who walks with Spirit always gets to his/her destination. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of November 24, 2014:
Success is not permanent. The same is true of failure! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of November 17, 2014:
On Moving Forward: "You promote yourself every time you take on a new responsibility." -- William Gore, executive
Quote for the Week of November 10, 2014:
By yielding to temptation one may lost in a moment what it took a lifetime to gain. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of November 3, 2014:
Shadows fall behind you when you face the sunshine! --Anonymous
Quote for the Week of October 27, 2014:
On Innovation: "The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." -- Arthur Koestler, author
Quote for the Week of October 20, 2014:
On Focus: "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." -- Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist
Quote for the Week of October 13, 2014:
On Learning: Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of October 6, 2014:
On Action: "In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you." -- Amy Tan, writer
Quote for the Week of September 29, 2014:
Blowing out the other person's candle won't make yours shine any brighter. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of September 22, 2014:
Your smile is more important than anything else you wear! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of August 25, 2014:
On Action: "In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you." -- Amy Tan, writer
Quote for the Week of August 18, 2014:
On Education: "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -- B.F. Skinner, psychologist
Quope for the week of August 11, 2014:
"Resentmant is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of August 4, 2014:
On Shortcuts: "One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time." -- G.K. Chesterton, journalist
Quote for the Week of July 28, 2014:
"Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of July 21, 2014:
Let's hope that marriage and relationship skills are so much more than planning a wedding. This quote gives us a sardonic insight into the lightness with which some individuals take a marital commitment: "With her marriage, she got a new name . . . and a dress.
Quote for the Week of July 14, 2014:
On Forgiveness: "If you still think back on something a person did and you instantly feel angry, you're no longer the victim -- you're now the perpetrator. You're inflicting pain on yourself. The purpose of forgiveness is to take back power. You can't do that until you let old issues go." -- Hamilton Beazley in No Regrets.
Quote for the Week of July 7, 2014:
On Luck: "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." -- Ray Kroc, McDonald's long-time chairman
On Effort: "People make a mistake who think that my art has come easily to me. Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not studied over and over." -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer
Quote for the Week of June 30, 2014:
On Creativity: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein, physicist
Quote for the Week of June 23, 2014:
On Patience: "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." -- Arnold Glasgow, author
Quote for the Week of June 16, 2014:
For those of you who (rightly) feel that the pen is more powerful than the sword: "To write with a broken pencil is -- pointless!" -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of June 9, 2014:
On character: "Not what I have but what I do is my kingdom." -- Thomas Carlyle, historian
Quote for the Week of June 2, 2014:
On positive thought: "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." --Oprah Winfrey, entertainer, publisher
Quote for the Week of May 26, 2014:
On imagination: "Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model." -- Vincent van Gogh, artist
Quote for the Week of May 19, 2014:
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of May 12, 2014:
On Mistakes: " I have learned through my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." Igor Stravinsky, composer
Quote for the Week of May 5, 2014:
On Challenges: "I do not like to repeat success; I like to go on to other things." -- Walt Disney
Quote for the Week of April 28, 2014:
On taking action: "In life, be a participant, not a spectator." -- Lou Holtz, football coach
Quote for the Week of April 21, 2014:
"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of April 14, 2014:
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"A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of." -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of April 7, 2014:
On Forgiveness: "If you still think back on something a person did and you instantly feel angry, you're no longer the victim -- you're now the perpetrator. You're inflicting pain on yourself. The purpose of forgiveness is to take back power. you can't do that until you let old issues go. " -- Hamilton Beazley in No Regrets
Quote for the Week of March 31, 2014:
Here's a pun that is so important in everyday life: "You are stuck with your debt if ... you can't budge it!
Quote for the Week of March 24, 2014:
It always seems impossible until it's done. -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of March 17, 2014 -- Happy St. Patrick's Day:
Jean Eva always tells couples in therapy that humor intimacy will get them through ANYTHING:
A dentist and a manicurist married. ... They fought tooth and nail! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of March 10, 2014:
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." -- Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State
Quote for the Week of March 3, 2014:
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
Quote for the Week of February 24, 2014:
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. -- Anonymous
Quote for the week of February 17, 2014:
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
Quote for the Week of February 10, 2014:
"A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of". -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the week of February 3, 2014:
Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of January 27, 2014:
Where you stand is not important -- it is in what direction you are moving that counts! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of January 20, 2014:
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of January 13, 2014:
This "quote" is a challenging anagram which asks you, the reader, to perceive things from the angle of the other person in the relationship. Here it is:
TWIST: The Way I See Things! So try not to TWIST reality this week but instead empathize with your communication partner!
Quote for the Week of January 6, 2014:
Use what talent you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang best. -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of December 30, 2013:
Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live for today! -- Anonymous
Quote for the Week of December 23, 2013:
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do. -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of December 16, 2013:
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave person (sic) is not the one who does not feel afraid, but the one who conquers that fear. -- Nelson Mandela
Quote for the Week of December 9, 2013:
Faith is like a wheelbarrow -- you have to put some push behind it to make it work!
Quote for the Week of December 2, 2013:
One thing you can give and still keep in your word!
Quote for the Week of November 25, 2013:
Thanksgiving for all our blessings, spiritual and material: "If you can't feed one hundred people, then feed just one." -- Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Quote for the Week of November 18, 2013:
On Character: "Not what I have but what I do is my kingdom." -- Thomas Carlyle, historian
Quote for the Week of November 11, 2013:
A bit of humor: "People want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention!"
Quote for the Week of November 4, 2013:
Out of the mouths of babes:
" A father was approached by his small son who told him proudly, 'I know what the Bible means!' His father smiled and replied, 'What do you mean you 'know' what the Bible means? The son replied, 'I do know!' 'Okay,' said his father. 'What does the Bible mean?'
'That's easy, Daddy ...' the young boy replied excitedly,'It stands for Basic Information Before Leaving Earth.'"
Quote for the week of November 11, 2013:
There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bible to her brother in another part of the country. "Is there anything breakable in here?" asked the postal clerk. "Only the Ten Commandments," answered the lady.
Quote for the week of November 18, 2013:
Somebody has said there are only two kinds of people in the world. There are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Lord." and then there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it's morning!"
Quote for the Week of July 22, 2013:
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Are you slogging through mud that makes you feel HEAVY?
Consider this quote:
"Why can angels fly? -- Because they take themselves so lightly!"
Quote for the week of July 29, 2013:
On listening:
"One often hears the remark, 'He talks too much.' But when did anyone last hear the criticism, 'He listens too much?'" Norman Augustine, executive
Quote for the week of August 5, 2013:
On self-improvement:
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy, author
Quote for the week of August 12, 2013:
On dreams:
"At first our dreams seem impossible, then they seem improbable, but when we summon the will, they become inevitable." Christopher Reeve, actor
Quote for the week of August 19, 2013:
On Positive Thinking:
"In almost all cases, positive outcomes hinge on language. When you say, "I have to go to the gym," you're labeling it drudgery, and it affects your performance. If you say, "I'm off to the gym to boost energy and healthy living," you've made going to the gym part of your vision." Anonymous
Quote for the week of August 26, 2013:
Have you ever felt unimportant? Consider these words of the Psalmist:
"The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone."
Quote for the week of September 2, 2013:
On change:
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -- Charles Darwin, naturalist
Quote for the week of September 9, 2013:
On Happiness:
" The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. "-- Julius Oppenheimer, physicist
Quote for the week of September 16, 2013:
On passion:
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius, philosopher
Quote for the week of September 23, 2013:
On Generosity:
"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." John Wooden, basketball coach
Quote for the week of October 28, 2013:
On Positive Attitude:
"Somebody has said there are only two kinds of people in the world. There are those who wake up in the morning and say, 'Good morning, Lord,' and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, 'Good Lord, it's morning.'" -- Anonymous