Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration

Quote from Patricia Neal: A strong mental attitude will create more miracles than any other drug.

Question: What do you do to help with your mental attitude, to strengthen it up?

For me, I work out 5.3…

Quote from Martin H Fischer: Knowledge is a process of piling up facts: wisdom lies in their simplification.

Question: What are some things that when you first started out, maybe in college or the uni…

Quote from Herbert Gardner: Once you get people laughing, they're listening, and you can tell them almost anything.

Something I'll have to try in the future.

Question: What do you do to help people lis…

Quote from William Penn: Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its oppressors.

Question: Have you ever really tried to defend things so much that you kind of miss…

Quote from Yogi Berra: Sometimes you can observe a lot by watching.

Question: What are some things that you think you know, but if you actually watched it, it might be a little bit different.

Personall…

Quote from Robert Pirsig and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.

Question: What are some things that you do that you just love doing?

Put…

Quote from Libbie Fudim: Love me or hate me but spare me your indifference.

Question for you: Have you ever had a person who just didn't care and it really kind of ticked you off more than anything el…

Quote from John Allston: The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.

Question: What are the things that you're leaving behind if you were to go poof?

For me, as I get ol…

Quote from William Arthur Ward: When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Question: Who brought out the best in you — simply because they believed in the…

Quote from Marcus Allen: Here are the four Ps. Preparation prevents poor performance.

At the time, he was part of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Question: What’s something in your life right now that deserve…

Quote from Samuel Johnson: Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Question: What would you start today if you stopped needing perfect conditions?

Personally, …

Quote from Erma Bombeck: You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and …

Quote from Gene Brown: Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Question: What’s one bold move you could make today that would make your past failures irrelevant?

I think I’m taking these bold…

Quote from Christopher Morley: There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Question: Are you living life on your own terms, or someone else’s definition of success?

For me…

Quote from Diogenes: I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Question: When did simplicity show you a better way to live?

For myself, my goal is to continue to min…

Bulgarian Proverb: From the promise to the deed is a day's journey.

Question: What’s stopping you from turning today’s good intention into real momentum?

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Quote from André Gide: Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Question: Is there anything in your life you’re afraid to let go of?

Robert’s Substack is …

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people.

Question: What’s a right you believe should always stay with the people —…

Quote from Albert Einstein: If we knew what it was that we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Question: Have you ever started something totally unsure — and discovered something am…

Quote from Sir John Lubbock:

I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty. For we ought to be as b…