Solopreneurial Tendencies, the blog for Sharilyn Horne Business Concepts
Category: Quotes

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures...

December 20, 2007

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. - Gilda Radner


Great spirits always encounter...

December 14, 2007

"Great spirits always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein


Style is knowing who you are...

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." -Gore Vidal


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

April 16, 2007

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


Dream in a pragmatic way...

March 20, 2007

"Dream in a pragmatic way." - Aldous Huxley


Only those who risk...

December 27, 2006

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot


There is nothing worse...

November 9, 2006

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


At the age of eleven or thereabouts...

October 13, 2006

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies." - P.G. Wodehouse


The most wasted of all days

September 4, 2006

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E.E. Cummings


Not everything that can be counted counts

July 25, 2006

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -Albert Einstein


A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return...

May 26, 2006

"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Find out who you are...

May 22, 2006

"Find out who you are, and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton


Promise me you'll always remember...

April 22, 2006

"Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A.A. Milne


Those who plant quality, harvest loyalty

April 12, 2006

During our second trip to France in late 2004, we spent several days in Beaune, a quaint little city in the heart of Burgundy.


We must not be afraid...

April 11, 2006

"We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality." -Vaclav Havel


The great thing in this world...

April 4, 2006

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


True greatness...

February 28, 2006

"True greatness is to start where you are, use what you have and do what you can." - Arthur Ashe


Accept Your Genius

February 25, 2006

"Accept your genius and say what you think. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson


What is important...

February 22, 2006

"What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us." - Jean-Paul Sartre


If you obey all the rules...

February 18, 2006

"If you obey all the rules you will miss the fun. "- Katharine Hepburn


To Be Yourself...

February 11, 2006

"To be yourself in a world that is trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Be Who You Are

February 7, 2006

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)


Wise Words for the New Year

January 2, 2006

This "Inspiration Infusion" comes courtesy of Laura Howard at Cafe Entrepreneur (who also happens to be my client)...I think it bears repeating.


"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual"

October 7, 2005

I came across this quote the other day, and I immediately fell in love with it. How perfect! There was no attribution, so I decided to follow-up and find out who gifted us with this witty (and so-true) observation. Boy, was I in for puzzle...