The early bird gets the worm

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the
cheese."

-- Jon Hammond





Who will beat early performers?

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind

The inspiration..
The investment for education pays the best interest..

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open
one."

-- Malcolm S. Forbes

Other idea..

Knowledge and skills can only be acquired through learning. Learning is doing it by

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's
not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned
the meaning of the friendship, you really haven't learned
anything."

-- Muhammad Ali





What is the difference between friend and acquaintances?

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong

"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is
more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to
conformity."

-- Irving Wallace





Do you have courage to stand alone in front of people?

Take care of the minutes

"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of
themselves."

-- Phillip Dormer Stanhope




Is your time manage, or the time manage you?

Let the world know you as you are

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you
should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you
will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

-- Fanny Brice





What if, the world will see the opposite of you?

If you do not tell the truth about yourself

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell
it about other people."

-- Virginia Woolf




Is it necessary to be truth about yourself?

I'm a great believer in luck

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work
the more of it I have."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Can you work hard without believing? 

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do
doesn't mean it's useless."

-- Thomas A. Edison



How does a plan or thing become useless?

If you've never run around

"If you've never run around, you've never been anywhere!"

-- Unknown



Aside from running around, what other activities will give opportunity to go anywhere?

It takes courage to grow up

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

-- e.e. cummings



What if we don't have courage, can we not become what we really are?

Tell everyone what you want to do

"Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to
help you do it."

-- W. Clement Stone




How important to tell everyone what we want?

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."


-- Charles R. Swindoll



Is it true that opportunities are like precious gems, they are slowly dig?

When you hold resentment toward another

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to
that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger
than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link
and get free."

-- Catherine Ponder

Is there any profit in holding a resentment towards another?

Sometimes I lie awake at night

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone
wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more
than one night.'"

-- Charles M. Schulz

How does wrong act affect us, and to the extent we may even have an sleepless nights?

Have more than thou showest

"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."

-- William Shakespeare


Why is it important to show more?

Art is the act of navigating

"Art is the act of navigating without a map."

-- Seth Godin

Why is it that art has no pattern?

The spirited horse

"The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to win the
race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged."

-- Ovid

It is a prerequisite to be spirited like horse so that you will strive and win?

A problem well stated

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

-- Charles F. Kettering

How does stating a problem be partly solved?

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where
you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

-- George Herbert

Why is it that there is no proper time for waiting?

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in
the use made of them."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

How do we utilize treasure properly? 

A man is not finished when he is defeated

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished
when he quits."

-- Richard M. Nixon

What motivates you to quit?

Failure is never final

"Failure is never final and success is never ending. Success
is a journey, not a destination."

-- Ben Sweetland

How do we start a journey of success?

Adding years to your life is a great blessing

"Growing old is not pleasing, but adding years to your life is a great blessing."


--David  Danio Jr. 

Then give to the world the best you have

"Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will
come back to you."

-- Madeline Bridges

I think when you move past

"I think when you move past your fear and you go after your
dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying?
Move past the fear."

-- James Todd Smith (aka LL Cool J)

The self is not something ready-made

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in
continuous formation through choice of action."

-- John Dewey

The happiest people

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they
just make the best of everything they have."

-- Anonymous

It had long since come to my attention

"It had long since come to my attention that people of
accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

Dwell not upon thy weariness

"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according
to the measure of thy desire."

-- Arab proverb

The finest steel

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

-- Richard Nixon

He who does not know how to look back

"He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination."

-- Jose Rizal

You've got to get up every morning with determination

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if
you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."

-- George Horace Lorimer

When you make a mistake

"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you
should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and do not
repeat it."

-- Paul "Bear" Bryant

If you see someone without a smile

"If you see someone without a smile, give 'em yours!"

-- Dolly Parton

To lead the people

"To lead the people, walk behind them."

-- Lao Tzu

Men are alike in their promises

"Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds
that they are different."

-- Jean Baptiste Moliere

Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot

"Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them
when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they
would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with
men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and
never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their
senses and become mad."

-- Herodotus

There are no traffic jams

"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile."

-- Zig Ziglar

It is not who is right

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is
important."

-- Thomas Henry Huxley

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak
out and remove all doubt."

-- Abraham Lincoln

Nature, time and patience

"Nature, time and patience are three great physicians."

-- H.G. Bohn