Raiders Of The Lost Badges: Side Quest!

Larry Wheeler

Kathi Sacha says...

Larry, This is one of my favorite quotes: " Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still"- Chinese Proverb

Claudia Sauers

Heather MacKenzie said "Everything's okay in the end.  If it's not okay, it's not the end." - good ol' Anonymous.

Carley Haynes

Austen Brown says her answer to this is  "The biggest barrier to success is often fear of failure. But that's okay… it's better to try often and fail, than to wait for perfection which will never come."

Laura Salfen

Amy Dana said: I loved hearing Ashley Judd at bbcon a few years ago talking about how we try to be everything to everyone. She said, "You are enough. Your are SO enough."

Barb Gill

There is SOOOOO much good stuff here! Should be required reading.

Jason Guan

My friend, Laura Salfen, who works as a DA at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, said her quotes are "You can't pour from an empty cup" and "There are more important things in life than doing your hair everyday". The first quote was from herself and the second comes from one of her professors." 

Barb Gill

Ninja Sauntel Richardson says "One of my favorite inspiration quotes is "there are years that asks questions, and there are years that answer" by Zora Neale Hurston. For me, this quote speaks volumes both personally and professionally "

Amy Dana

George Buss chose "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly - What is essential is invisible to the eye."  Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince"  spoken by the Fox to his new friend, the Prince.

Sauntel Richardson

Hi All! My new Ninja Friend, Barbara Gill, said that her favorite inspirational quote is: "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder (attributed to Rumi)"

Marie Stark

Sunshine Watson's favorite saying is "We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.”"

Chris Geady

Nice advice from Cindy Filler (UND Foundation): "This relates to love Feb in general...   stop dreaming and start doing."

Marie Stark

Amy Dana's quote for the day is  "Everybody's workin' for the weekend." :

George Buss

Christopher Blitz's inspirational quote came from his father, and it rocks - "If you're going to half-ass it, don't bother doing it!" 


If you really live that, you're work will show it.  (Might need to make this our new ALTRU team slogan. )

Rachel Lamb

Jen Claudy quoted Alexander Graham Bell, stating, “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

 

Joan Perry

So I personally went with an inspiration quote...but as a DBA, Chris Geady shared a GREAT piece of advice that does always impact what we do


Here's one: Remember, of all the software and policies you decide to implement, you need to factor in time and resources to maintain it.

Stephanie Crawley

My new connection Suzan Schwartzentrover's favorite quote is: "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. (Mother Teresa)"

Judy Ramos

Beth Hudson said one of her favorite quotes is from Eleanor Roosevelt:“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ”   

Matthew Crawford

I've got to get working on finishing the ninja badge!

Melonie AllynSchwerin

Holly Herbert's inspirational quote is the poem "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou. Super inspiring!

Jessica Bobbitt

Jennifer Vincent's inspirational quote: "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."  - Alice Walker 

Mercedes McCay-Read

Karen Tuecke said: "My favorite piece of advice directed me to leave the for profit world and join the nonprofit career path in 2006. I did not enjoy my job so a coworker told me to 'Do what you love and love what you do.' I love working in the not for profit sector and love what I do."

Petra Hall

Keep moving forward!

Arlene Harten

Stephanie Crawley’s and mine favourite and inspirational quote is: Remember to love each other instead of judge one another. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”  Mother Theresa

Robert Brown

My favorite quote is this:


“Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you React to it, Stay Strong, Be Unstoppable.” - Diamond Dallas Page

Cara Groshong

I wasn't PM'd, but this has always been my favorite quote!

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And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.” ~Kent Nerburn

Jenna Anderson

The inimitable Ron Swanson: "Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing." Very applicable in Data. 

Stacy Wintjen

Tanya Brozell says her favorite inspirational quote is "If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it. Teach yourself to be impatient."

and the best piece of nonprofit advice she has received is "It is important to build and value relationships."

Chris Rainwater

Jen Claudy responded with, "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -Mark Twain." I wish this didn't hit so close to home but it's great advice. 


 

Lia Wilson

A fellow Ninja, Susan Chomsky, shared some of her favorite inspirational quotes with me, and my favorite two are below:

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein 

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." Maya Angelou

Jenna Anderson

I can't help but post this gem from Crystal Chouinard who penned a new "Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go rap" on behalf of Vanilla Ice, which was subsequently deemed an inspirational mantra:


YO! It's the data machines

Gonna rock that data without being seen

Have you ever seen data nerds Get Down?

Slammin and Jammin to the new swing sound

Yeah, everybody let's move

Vanilla is here with the New Jack Groove

Gonna rock, And roll this place

With the power of the ninja database

Iceman, ya know I'm not playin Devastate the show while the data is sayin

Ninja, Ninja, RAP! Ninja, Ninja, RAP! GO GO GO GO!

Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO: Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!

Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO: Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO! GO GO GO GO!