Catalyst Quotes

“Dreams, Life, Multiple Choice Test – Never Give Up”

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”    (Carl Sandburg)

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“’When I grow up …‘

No kid sets out to make Doritos commercials.  No one grows up saying, ‘I want to go into marketing.’

More than ever, though, folks grow up saying, ‘I want to change the world.’  More than ever, that means telling stories, changing minds and building a tribe.

You know marketing.

At least if you want it to be.”    (Seth Godin, Seth’s Blog 8.25.13)

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“Dreams are illustrations, from the book your soul is writing about you.”    (Marsha Norman)

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”    (Mark Twain)   

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 “The next time life tosses you a multiples choice test, remember…

  1)   The more time you give it, the more choices you’ll have.

  2)   There’ll always be more than one right answer. And,

  3)   Waiting for divine intervention is almost never a good idea.

Unless, the divine intervention is your own.

     (signed)    The Universe                (Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe, July 15, 2013)   

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“Dream and give yourself permission to envision a you that you choose to be”    (Joy Page)

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“I believe that every one of us has something that’s very unique to us specifically.  Something

unique enough that no one else might really ever understand it — not our parents, or teachers, or best friends, or siblings.

It’s our point of view.

Our point of view is what makes us unique, because no one else — no one else — has your particular combination of thoughts, and dreams, and hopes, and desires, and ambitions and memories, and experiences.  No one.  And I believe that every once in a while, the Universe opens itself up to you and you alone, and shows you something that no one else is going to understand.   And you have to decide in that moment how much you believe in what you have seen — even if everyone else in the world tells you you’re wrong.”     (James A. Owen)

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“Never give up.

It’s like breathing – once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope.  You can’t do that.  You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams.  Don’t ever, ever, ever give up.”     (Richelle E. Goodrich)

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“Follow Your Bliss; Be Brave”

“Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father:   ‘Let’s play darts.  I’ll throw and you say ‘Wonderful!'”    (The Best of Bits & Pieces)

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“You gotta have a dream.  If you don’t have a dream, how ya gonna make a dream come true?”   (Bloody Mary, in the movie ‘South Pacific’)

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“Follow your bliss, and doors will open where there were no doors before.”    (Joseph Campbell)

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“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.”   (Michael Pritchard)

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“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale.  The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”   (Alan Watts)

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“Be brave.  Even if you’re not, pretend to be.  No one can tell the difference.”    (Life’s Little Instruction Book)

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“Traveling the Road of Your Dreams”

“”The master says:  If you are traveling the road of your dreams, be committed to it.  Do not leave an open door to be used as an excuse such as, ‘Well, this isn’t exactly what I wanted.’ Therein are contained the seeds of defeat.  “Walk your path.  Even if your steps have to be uncertain, even if you know that you could be doing it better.  If you accept your possibilities in the present, there is no doubt that you will improve in the future.  But if you deny that you have limitations, you will never be rid of them.  “Confront your path with courage, and don’t be afraid of the criticism of others.  And, above all, don’t allow yourself to become paralyzed by self-criticism.”    (Paolo Coelho, Maktub)

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“Security is mostly a superstition.  It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.  Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.  Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”    (Helen Keller)

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“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.  People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”     (Peter Drucker)

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“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring.  Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.”    (Herbert A. Otto)

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“The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.”    (Robyn Davidson)

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“Nothing is as real as a dream.  The world can change around you, but your dream will not.  Responsibilities need not erase it.  Duties need not obscure it.  Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”    (Tom Clancy)

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“Walk With the Dreamers, The Believers, The Courageous”

“A dream is an idea involving a sense of possibilities rather than probabilities, of potential rather than limits.  A dream is the wellspring of passion, giving us direction and pointing us to lofty heights.  It is an expression of optimism, hope and values lofty enough to capture the imagination and engage the spirit.  Dreams grab us and move us.  They are capable of lifting us to new heights and overcoming self-imposed limitations.”    (Robert Kriegel, author of Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers)

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“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.  Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it….”    (Wilfred Peterson)

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“Take what you can from your dreams

Make them real as anything

It takes the work out of the courage.”    (Dave Matthews Band)

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“The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity.  Choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over popularity … these are the choices that measure your life.  Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.”    (Successories)

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“The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”    (Oprah Winfrey)

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“Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.”    (William James)

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