Phoebe Featherly

Focus

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates More on Focus: “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” ~ Zig Ziglar “It is during our darkest moments that we must focusContinue reading “Focus”

Find Your Niche

“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.” ~ Charles Eames More on finding your niche: “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ~ Nietzsche “I don’t believe in this ‘gifted few’ concept;Continue reading “Find Your Niche”

Speak Up

“You’ve really got to appreciate an artist that’s really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world.” ~ Rakim More on speaking up: “What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.” ~ Paul J. Meyer “I think it is important toContinue reading “Speak Up”

Learn

“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” ~ Malala Yousafzai More about learning: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ~ Leonardo da Vinci “There is noContinue reading “Learn”

Be Passionate

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” ~ Jane Goodall More on passion: “There is no passion to be found playing small–in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ~ Nelson Mandela “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”Continue reading “Be Passionate”

Don’t Be Afraid

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson More about fear: “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” ~ Rosa Parks “What is a fear of living? It’s beingContinue reading “Don’t Be Afraid”

Start Small

“As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world… but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.” ~ Amy Klobuchar More on starting small: “Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that bigContinue reading “Start Small”

Ambition

“When ambition ends, happiness begins.” ` Thomas Merton More on ambition: “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” ~ Barack Obama “Our ambitionContinue reading “Ambition”

Money, Money, Money

“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.” ~ Gloria Steinem More from Gloria: “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” “Don’t think about making women fit the world—think about making the world fit women.” “Revolutions that last don’t happen from the top down.Continue reading “Money, Money, Money”

One day . . .

“One day or day one. You decide.” ~ Unknown Here’s what Goethe had to say about it: “Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His worksContinue reading “One day . . .”