MASTERY

"We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it." -- Alistair Cooke

"With more success, comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them." -- Mark Victor Hansen

"Challenge everything you do. Expand your thinking. Refocus your efforts. Rededicate yourself to your future." -- Patricia Fripp

NOSTALGIA

A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the spirit, as long as you don’t set up housekeeping.
Dan Bartolovic

You should be warned that it becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. In fact, you can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back, rather than ahead.
Ted Koppel