Quotes from the Apprentice.. pay attention!

The Apprentice!

*Don't talk about it. Be about it!
*None of us have enough time to do what we need to do so just get over it and move on.
*You can't be confrontational, argumentative, erratic and stubborn to be sucessful. You've got to be a level headed, sharp, fair leader.
*People need to lead by example, not just stand there in the corner and delegate..
*You must have a clear focus on your goals and dreams
*You cannot compromise on moral issues.
*People have to respect you or you truly can't be a leader.
*Can you hang and bang with the heavy hitters?
*Im not accustomed to losing
*Give a CEO quality performance in all of your endeavors
*Do not get emotional
*Account for every penny, be proud of your money handling skills
*Draw from positive strong energy around you
*I'm an upfront person, I state the facts.
*Some people are very affected by emotions, moods, and comments. You have to focus
*You have to stand up for yourself. Some situations just require you to stand up for yourself
*Leading by group consensus is not always a good idea
*Business is strictly about making money
*Life is about being in the hot seat
*You're either a worker or a leader
*People will lose respect for you if you don't fight for yourself
*Know what you're up against. Know your opponent.
*Nice girls don't get the corner office. Leave your ruffles at the door.
*You have to be pumped and passionate about your goals
*Being timid and not defending yourself are a sign of weakness. When you let someone treat you rudely you are just as wrong as they are for taking it.
*GOD is in the details
*Keep your word at all times
*If they're not loyal to you once, don't give them another chance because they won't be loyal again.
*Project composure and organization at all times- even if it's not what you're feeling
*A calm collected manner is the greatest asset
*You know what? The world is full of problems. You are here to excel.
*If the leader is freaking out----that's the image you project to the team and then it all falls apart. Still waters run deep.
*Never correct yourself or doubt your actions taken to appease the crowd. You must stand tall and believe in yourself even when you take a wrong turn. There are no mistakes if you learn from them. Walk the walk and talk the talk and go down fighting.
*You're only as tall as the shoulders you stand on.

Imagine A Woman

The Goddess in you has the power to remember. All things are possible when you reclaim your goddess self. The enchantress has always resided in you.

Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good that she is a woman. A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories. Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life.

Imagine a woman who believes she is good. A woman who trusts and respects herself. Who listens to her needs and desires and meets them with tenderness and grace.

Imagine a woman who has walked through her past. Who has healed into the present and authors her own life.

Imagine a woman who is in love with her own body and charms. She knows she is enough, just as she is and celebrates her body and the joys it brings her.

Imagine a woman who honors the face of the Goddess in her changing face. A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom. Who refuses to use precious energy disguising the changes in her body in life.

Realize you are this woman.

The greenest grass is under your feet...

i found God in myself
& i loved her
I loved her fiercely
-Ntozake Shange

You can bear any how if you have a strong enough why - Nietzche

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each is to succeed.

I believe it is better to be looked over than to be overlooked! Mae West

Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobodys listening, Love like you've never been hurt before, Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

Wolves eat sheep

You have to get up with determination if you want to go to bed with satisfaction

If grass can find it's way to grow through cement, love will surely find you.

All things change in a dynamic environment, your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

Sucess: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intellegent 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.

"Exercise is King. Nutrition is Queen. Put them together and you have a Kingdom. Sure, if you eat whatever you want, don't exercise, become depressed, let yourself become sedentary you will be miserable. That is not a life. Find something that you LOVE to do right now. It's not about the good old days, it's about living a happy life right now, today!"
-Jack La Lanne on his 90th birthday

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed in the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
-Samuel Clements

WANING MOON & TIME FOR CHANGE

Anais Nin:

-The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

-He does not need opium, he has the gift of reverie.

-I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images pass by which I cannot live in, love tenderly, posess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

-What I cannot love, I overlook.

-There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

-I postpone death by living, by hurting, by loving, by risking, by error, by giving, by losing.

-Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

-Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. That is a kind of death.

-Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

-We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

-It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before...to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Born in the sign of water...

I found a company that will make me a tail. I just pick out the fabric and they do it all and ship it to me because I have an idea!! Can't hardly wait and this is going to be so very incredible and someone will be very happy! Me!

Everything I wished for went perfectly today. My career is totally set to fly now because I am certified to do whatever I want. No one can outdo me in qualifications and whatever I decide to do that is going to get me in the door. Today was the top I guess a total 360- my first day there I didn't have any idea how it all worked together or where to even begin and today was the milestone marking the place where I can do every single type of loan possible and do it right. I really was proud of myself today & pretty good for a small town girl with one year of college and no student loans who walked into a big intimidating world and pulled it all off.

GOD BLESSED AMERICA!

"It was the Lord who put into my mind ( I could feel his hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures"

-Christopher Columbus

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Not what I wished for tonight but I really did have a great 4th of July. I can't believe Chuckie and Tim and John Payne were there I cracked up havn't seen those guys since we graduated and walked out of the church. None of us have changed at all and we just stood there laughing all night. It was nice to see them and catch up.