This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
Do you know that if you are courteous and pleasant all day during your work that you will go home at night less fatigued than if you gave way to irritation? Pleasantry, light laughs, relieve tension. It isn't work that makes you tired, it's your mental attitude. Try it.
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Heart | Life | Life | Thought | Will | Work | Happiness | Thought |
Elton Trueblood, fully David Elton Trueblood
The notion that one opinion is as good as another will not work in any other area of human experience, why should it work in the area of faith?
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Family | Future | Happy | Life | Life | Time | Work | Think |
To understand the world is wise than to condemn it. To study the world is better than to shun it. To use the world is nobler than to abuse it. To make the world better, lovelier, and happier, is the noblest work of man or woman... He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Abuse | Better | Man | Study | Wise | Woman | Work | World | Understand |
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - not all of a sudden, but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.
No invention could ever take the hard work out of creating - out of good writing, painting, composing, inventing, etc. The economy of the spirit is incurably an economy of scarcity. An affluent society might be able to dispense with the ethic of work in its everyday life, but to attain any sort of excellence it will have to implant implacable taskmasters in the breasts of its people. Indeed, without the disciple of the creative effort the affluent society will be without stability. It might have to become a creative society in order to survive.
Effort | Excellence | Good | Invention | Life | Life | Order | People | Society | Spirit | Will | Work | Writing | Excellence | Society |
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.