A four-year old actress was appearing in a movie with an aging, crotchety star. One day the star came on the set made up to the nines, and the little girl said to her, “Gee, you look so nice.” The actress made a pouty face and replied, “What am I supposed to say to that?”
In my favorite comic strip, “Peanuts,” Charlie Brown is walking off the baseball field with Lucy, his head down and totally dejected. Charlie says, “Another ball game lost! Good grief! I get tired of losing. Everything I do, I lose!” Lucy replies: “Look at it this way, Charlie Brown. We learn more from losing than
In business, you can view yourself in two ways – a worker or an entrepreneur. You don’t have to be an hourly employee to have a worker mentality, nor do you have to be an independent businessperson to have an entrepreneur mindset. My friend, Nido Qubein, president of High Point University in North Carolina and
A monk decided to meditate alone, away from his monastery. He took his boat out to the middle of a lake, dropped anchor and closed his eyes to begin his meditation. After a few hours of serene, undisturbed silence, he suddenly felt the bump of another boat colliding with his. He immediately grew angry at
Ronald Reagan was 69 years old when he ran for U.S. President in 1980. Despite continual criticism, he won the election and never passed up an opportunity to use humor when referring to his age. Perhaps the most memorable time was when he was running for re-election four years later. During a televised debate between
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