What’s your attitude to receiving advice? Suspicion, annoyance, heartfelt welcome? A barely controllable desire to clobber the advicer with a hardback collection of wise sayings?
What about giving advice?
An Act of Piety
“When Providence throws a good book in my way, I bow to its decree and purchase it as an act of piety, if it is reasonably or unreasonably cheap. I adopt a certain number of books every year, out of a love for the foundlings and stray children of other people’s brains that nobody seems to care for.”
from The Poet at the Breakfast Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
How Dreams Come True
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
