This document contains a collection of inspirational quotes by Mel Feller on topics such as happiness, creativity, new ideas, freedom, and the future. Some of the quotes highlight that happiness comes from achieving one's values, creativity gives life meaning, and new ideas often face skepticism at first but are later seen as obvious. Other quotes discuss freedom and the importance of not giving up essential liberties for temporary safety. Quotes on the future discuss trends toward more leisure time, automation, and a greater emphasis on creativity and entertainment as work becomes more about supervising machinery. The document concludes by introducing Mel Feller and his work as a business consultant and author.

1. A Collection of Inspirational Quotes by Mel Feller
By Mel Feller, MPA, MHR
Mel Feller Seminars, Coaching For Success 360 Inc. /Mel Feller Coaching
Power, Success and Value Creation
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
-- Ayn Rand
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied
at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge
around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had
everything to do and you’ve done it.
-- Margaret Thatcher
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If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning. The
creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is
what makes life worth living.
-- Marion Woodman
A Collection of Inspirational Quotes by Mel Feller

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Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives... [and] when we are involved in it, we feel
that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors
of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I
have received and am still receiving.
-- Albert Einstein
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never
think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
-- Isaac Asimov

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One person can make a difference, one person can change the world, but you must choose to
do so. You must make the future or others will make it for you.
-- J. Michael Straczynski
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill
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If you think you can do a thing or you think you cannot do a thing, either way, you are right.
-- Henry Ford
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Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the
shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
-- Nolan Bushnell
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4. New ideas pass through three periods: *It can’t be done, *It probably can be done, but it’s not
worth doing, *I knew it was a good idea all along!
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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You see things and you say why? But I dream things that never were; and I say why not?
-- George Bernard Shaw
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Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
-- Winston Churchill
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
-- Earl Nightingale
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

5. -- Henry Ford
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The problems we have today cannot be solved, by thinking the way we thought - when we
created them.
-- Albert Einstein
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If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create
perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
-- Stephen Covey
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be
little hope for advance.
-- Orville Wright
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

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No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his
knowledge.
-- Ayn Rand
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Trinity: No-one has ever done anything like this before.
Neo: That’s why it’s going to work.
-- The Matrix, Wachowski Brothers, Warner Brothers Studios
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Self Authority
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Salute no man along the highway.
-- Jesus
One of the best expressions of self-authority ever written. We’re sure there are many
interpretations as to what that phrase means, but we interpret it as, don’t consider any person

7. you meet or pass to be of higher authority than yourself. That’s why we think it is one of the
best expressions of self-authority ever written. Throughout history, leaders and conquerors -
whether they were kings, clergy, or Roman soldiers - have made their subjects either salute
them as they passed, or the people were made to take a submissive posture by lowering the
head and gaze.
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You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead,
nor feed on the specters of books. You shall not look through my eyes either, not take things
from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them through yourself.
-- Walt Whitman
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
-- Isaac Asimov
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
-- E.M. Forster
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Commander Lock: Not everyone believes what you do Morpheus.

8. Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.
-- The Matrix Reloaded, Wachowski Brothers, Warner Brothers Studios
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Freedom
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a
fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
-- George Washington
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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
-- Albert Einstein
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights
of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression
by majorities.

9. -- Ayn Rand
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty or safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
-- Charles de Gaulle
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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you’re told.
-- Dave Barry
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A fool is very dangerous when in power.
-- Denis Fonvizin

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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey
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Only the educated are free.
-- Epictetus
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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that
again? I missed something.
-- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from
Robert Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love
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It’s dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-- Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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11. The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
-- Winston Churchill
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Thinking men cannot be ruled.
-- Ayn Rand
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Reality and the Future
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Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It’s a system for
testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
-- Isaac Asimov
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society
gathers wisdom.
-- Isaac Asimov

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God.
-- Shermer’s Last Law
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I don’t want to become immortal through my work. I want to become immortal through not
dying.
-- Woody Allen
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In considering the future society, let us assume that 1) there will be no nuclear war; 2) the
population will increase but not disastrously; and 3) the trend toward automation will continue.
In that case, the kind of work that will be done in the future will tend to be more and more that
of supervision of the machinery that does the real work.... Because the type of work will be just
as applicable to women as to men, the trend toward sexual equality will be accelerated. This
means there will be more and more leisure in the world, and the leisure will have to be filled
because doing nothing is a terrible chore and very painful for any mind above that of an idiot.
This means there will be a great emphasis on creativity and the purveying of amusement.

13. -- Isaac Asimov, 1969
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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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The weak only appear weak because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
-- John Baker
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Mel Feller, MPA, MHR, is a well-known real estate business consultant and speaker, specializing
in performance, productivity, and profits. Mel is the president of Mel Feller Seminars with
Coaching For Success, Inc. and Mel Feller Coaching, a real estate and business specific coaching
company. His three books for real estate professionals are systems on how to become an
exceptional sales performer. His four books in Business and Government Grants are ways to
leverage and increase your business Success in both time and money!