Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.  Bob Nelson quotes The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. Richard M. Nixon quotes Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Baron Lytton Richelieu quotes Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles quotes Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. Aldous Huxley quotes I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson quotes Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. Will Smith quotes One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell quotes | 
