Ali quote

"Don't count the days, make the days count"

Muhammad Ali

Leonard Bernstein

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan,and not quite enough time."
Leonard Bernstein


About Bernstein:
Few composers capture their time and become the iconic voice of their age. Leonard Bernstein found his "voice" in the early 1940s and projected the sound of urban and urbane America from the period of World War II to the anti-war movements of the 1970s and the restoration of freedom in Europe, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Soviet communism.

Writing for small ensembles, symphony orchestras, Broadway, film and opera houses, Leonard Bernstein projected a simple message of understanding and hope employing both complex and simple forms and styles - yet always sounding like "Bernstein," a voice best known in his score to West Side Story.

Exploring his output, one finds the famous and obscure — works that both are reflective of their times and somehow also preserve and encapsulate them. Everywhere one hears his internal struggle to sound inevitable as the tumultuous era of the second half of the 20th century unfolded itself. He is as once linked with the music of Benjamin Britten and Dimitri Shostakovich, as well as George Gershwin and Aaron Copland.

While his music finds its spiritual home in his world view, his music speaks with a New York accent, even though he was born in Massachusetts. His love affair with Europe and his sensitivity to his Russian and Jewish roots are never far from his lyrical expressivity, with its fragile sense of optimism, its loneliness, its humor and its demand for acceptance. All of this is wrapped in the rhythmic propulsion of a great American urban landscape. He has left us an aural image of his time and place and, at the same time, an eternal voice of humanity.

Learn more about this amazing man here!

Bruce Feirstein

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

Bruce Feirstein


This is entirely true! It's funny how hard work and determination are qualities that this society thrives on, however, if you actually practice this you are risking "insanity". That is, unless you make a ton of money doing it :)


Bruce Feirstein (born 1956) is an American screenwriter and humorist, best known for his contributions to the James Bond series and his best-selling humor books, including Real Men Don't Eat Quiche and Nice Guys Sleep Alone.


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Albert Einstein

Everyone knows about Albert Einstein and all of his success. I like to suck up any amount of wisdom he had. Here is a great quote for the day from the genius himself.




"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value."
Albert Einstein







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"A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams"
John Barrymore

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov was a British director, comic, diplomat comedian and writer. I came across one of his quotes and even though he wrote it years ago, it seems so appropriate for this day and age.

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."

Pay it Forward!

Ellen Goodman is a Pulitzer prize winning columnist, author, speaker, and commentator who refuses to call herself a pundit. She has long been a chronicler of social change in America, especially the women’s movement and its effects on our public and private lives. She has been quoted for the following

"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another."

Click HERE to link to a list of her published books!

Today, pay it forward and do one good thing for someone else. It's the small things in life that make the biggest difference!