TIME

'Time runs out for everyone, but the young can't hear it rushing under the bridge'.

Source: Clive James

DILIGENCE

‘Diligence is the mother of good luck’.

Source: Benjamin Franklin

ENTHUSIASM

‘A fly’s got enthusiasm but that doesn’t stop it head butting the window’.

Source: Alan Sugar, Series 6, The Apprentice (BBC).

PREDICTING THE FUTURE

‘I think there is a world market for maybe five computers’

Source: Thomas Watson 1943. IBM Chairman.

LIVING DELIBERATELY

‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived’.

Source: Henry Thoreau. Also the film ‘Dead Poets Society’.

RISK MANAGEMENT

'What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail'?

Source: Robert Schuller. Combat Magazine (June 1998).

RISKS

To laugh is to risk being the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To show feelings is to risk showing yourself.

To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Those who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing and are nothing
They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves,
They have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks...is truly free.

Source: Anon. Theme of Brathay outward-bounds course for Leadership Development (1987).