“The road to success is always under construction.” - Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

3 October

Success is getting what the loser wants

Success is wanting what the winner gets.

“True love has no expiration date.” - Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual” by Arnold Kunst

2 October

Want her to bring you breakfast in bed on Sunday morning? Bring her breakfast in bed on Saturday morning. She’ll get the idea.

“Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to un-ring a bell.” - Shana Alexander

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

October 4

Over and over again opposition newspapers large and small said that Lincoln's goal was to raise the then-current presidential salary of $25,000 to $100,000 a year, as he wished, that he was drawing his salary in gold [think “real money”] while the soldiers were paid in greenbacks [think “Monopoly money”] as he wished, that his length of time in office was to be fixed by Congress for a life term, as he wished.

 

"Leadership is service or it's not leadership." = Arnold Kunst

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

October 3

“No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Be a leader and avoid the seductive allure of being a boss, for there is a vast difference between being the two. At his worst, The boss From Hell is plagued by feeble imagination and profligate fears; he relishes the bit of turf entrusted to him; he shows precious little understanding of human nature; he would rather give orders than seek buy-in; he feels empowered as well as justified in belittling his underlings; he balances out making a little deal out of a big deal by making a big deal out of a little deal.” - Arnold Kunst

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” - John Muir

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

October 2

“I never behold them [the heavens filled with stars] that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.” - Abraham Lincoln

 

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Zigler

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

1 October

From the Which-End-Is-Up Department:

For a number of years I taught recorder to small classes of children in various primary schools. A recorder is a plastic musical instrument about 15 inches long, an inexpensive cross between a tin whistle and a flute, and a wonderful way to introduce children to music from the inside out.

At the end of each school year we would put on a concert for parents and teachers of the music we had learned during the school year. One such concert stands out in my mind particularly. Standing in the hallway just before we entered the room where our audience had gathered, little Moira Elmore said excitedly to me, “Oh, Mr. Kunst, I’m SO nervous – do we have to do this?”

When the concert was over and we were once again back in that same hallway, she said, every bit as excitedly, “Oh, Mr. Kunst, can we do that again?!”

“A good example is the best sermon.” - Anonymous

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

October 1

“Had he [Lincoln] put the abolition of slavery before the salvation of the Union, he would have inevitably driven from him a powerful class of the American people and rendered resistance to rebellion impossible. Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.” - Frederick Douglass, ex-slave [11 years after Lincoln's assassination]