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“Poor design accounts for a good deal of human frustration. Whether it is packaging, which is difficult to open, signs which send mixed and confusing signals, or systems that make accomplishing our aims difficult, designs are either facilitators or inhibitors of efficient action.”

“Where there are no problems, there are no opportunities.”

“It is considered a basic principle that one can never have too many options. However, too many choices will cause people to freeze up and be unable to make a choice. Barry Schwartz dealt with this at length in his book, ‘The Paradox of Choice.”

“Deeds are more to be valued than creeds.”

“The problem with accepting favors is that they always come with strings attached.”

“All material possessions, and the money it takes to buy them, are only tools. Tools however (think of fire) can be used beneficially or harmfully. The choice is in the hands of the one who wields them.”

“The funny thing about happiness is that it cannot be acquired directly. It is the result of pursuing and achieving worthwhile goals. Consequently, the right to pursue happiness is actually the right to pursue those things which make happiness possible.”

“You can either drown in the memories of your failures, or swim on and see things through.”

“We are often hindered in accomplishing our objectives because we allow ourselves to be distracted and lose our focus. Keep your eyes on the prize.”

“The time to avoid having regrets is today. Do what you would have regretted not doing, and refrain from doing that which you would regret.”

“People are more interesting and successful when they are less concerned about being normal and more concerned about being natural.”

Michael Nolan

“I am convinced that the worst suffering is not that which comes from the hands of others, but that which we inflict upon ourselves. The person occupying the house can do more damage to it than can anyone outside it.”

“Probably my favorite word is the Greek word ‘Entelechy’ which was coined by Aristotle and means ‘the realization of potential’. My primary mission in life is to realize my own potential and to help others do the same.”

“The food chain, and life itself, is based upon living things eating other living things. Generally speaking, the smarter, faster and more ferocious eat the dumber, slower and more timid life forms. We humans have and are, in one way or another, eating all the living things beneath us in the food chain.”

“Life often seems to be pulling us downward like gravity. Since this is the case we each need a ‘champion’ to inspire and encourage us. Consider how you might be someone’s champion. It will make more difference than you know.”

“If people aren’t giving you what you believe you deserve, you are either with the wrong people, or you are overestimating the value you are bringing to others.”

“There are many ways to earn a lot of money. None of them involve working for others.”

“The most productive way to frame objections in any situation, is to view them as requests for more information.”

“Laugh, and the world laughs with you/Weep, and you weep alone

For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth/But has trouble enough of its own.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. It is on account of this phenomenon that numerous people have lost their lives unnecessarily.