QUOTE A DAY - February 13, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
--Pablo Picasso

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
--Frank Scully

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
--Tim McMahon, Consultant, (Yikes! I rarely quote one of these but this is good.)


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
--Drew Barrymore

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
--Wayne Gretzky

A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.
--John A. Shedd, "Salt from My Attic"


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?

ANSWER: Logan Pearsall Smith, Essayist and critic

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