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21 Favorite Quotes to Inspire You on Your Passioneering Journey

October 13, 2011 By Sue Oliver 2 Comments

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” ~Anthony Robbins
“The beauty of intentions…you can’t often choose your circumstances, but you can always choose your reaction, your attitude, your behavior, and your intention. Nobody can ever take that away from you. It’s one of the gifts we have as human beings.” ~Greg Foster
“There are some bonds that S&P and Moody’s can never de-value. Bonds of the heart are always AAA-rated.” ~SZO
“Don’t believe everything you think.” ~bumper sticker
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” ~Einstein
“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.” ~Chinese Proverb
“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die.” ~William Wiley
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’” ~Audrey Hepburn
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~ William James
10. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” ~Wayne Dyer
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~Emerson
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman
“Expect to become prosperous; start thinking and speaking in those terms and no other. Remind yourself often that scattered, idle thoughts words and expectations bring scattered, idle, poverty-stricken results. Hitch your mental image of prosperity to the rich start of success and keep it there.” ~Catherine Ponder
“Joy is the best makeup.” ~Anne Lamott
“Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.” ~Kate Douglas Wiggin
”We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” ~Rabindranath Tagore
“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.” ~Michael Farady
“I think all great innovations are built on rejections.” ~Louis Ferdinand Celine
Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” ~Carl Jung
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” ~Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
“The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” ~Edwin H. Land.

Next Gen Passioneers: Time to Shake UP the Entrepreneur Game

October 11, 2011 By Sue Oliver Leave a Comment

Big thanks to Nathalie Lussier for posting an awesome blog on Under30CEO.com: “How Gen Y Will Leverage the New Economy and Come Our Ahead.” She calls the next generation into creating its own rules, is hopeful about the future and about entrepreneurship as a solution to current challenges. It’s so refreshing to hear a young [...]

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Passioneering Moment #14 : How to Be More Bliss-ciplined in Your Life

October 8, 2011 By Sue Oliver Leave a Comment

Life is short. Events such as Steve Jobs’ death remind us that we have a limited, unknown number of years on this planet. Even if you believe in some form of eternal life, the fact is that your current “skin bag” will reach the end of its useful life in the near future. So, how [...]

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Passioneering Moment #13 : The Completely Unleashed YOU

September 27, 2011 By Sue Oliver Leave a Comment

If you’re like me and most individuals, you spend little if any time during the week dreaming. In fact, here in the United States, dreaming gets a bad rap because it’s not “productive” or valuable. As rugged individuals and pioneers, most Americans pride themselves on doing and making things happen. That’s their definition of productivity. [...]

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Passioneering Picks: Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Scores Bigtime

September 14, 2011 By Sue Oliver Leave a Comment

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), an international non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring young people from low-income communities to stay in school and to recognize business opportunities, today announced its World Series of Innovation, presented by Microsoft, was selected as a featured event for the 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Week from Nov. 14-20, 2011. “The World [...]