Thoughtful Thursday

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle

"It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."
- Renata Adler

"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
- Norman Cousins

"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
- Oscar Wilde

"Do well and you will have no need of ancestors."
- Voltaire

"The sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present."
- Sydney Smith

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
- Steve Jobs