All Chandlers will be very busy with candle making during the demanding Holiday Season. Here are a few cool thoughts to ponder as you pour hot wax. Every candle you make is helping to build a very strong Chandler Guild. Out of the work of many hands, a great work will be made real.
“People never quit a mission, they only quit a job; people don’t quit a team, they only quit an organization.”
-JOE TYE
“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up.” -ECCLISIASTES 3:9-10
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
-WILLIAM J. BENNETT: The Book of Virtues
“General George Patton demanded that his men know and be able to articulate exactly what the current mission was. ‘What is your mission?’ he would frequently ask. The definition of the mission was the most important piece of information a soldier could carry into combat. Based on that knowledge, he could make his decisions and implement the plan… Not to regularly ask this question is to leave yourself open to mistakes of judgment and direction.”
-GORDON MCDONALD: Ordering Your Private World
“Passion generates a supply of positive energy far more abundant than vitamins, exercise, or any other health remedy you can imagine. When you’re passionate about what you do, it’s not just the destination that matters, but the entire journey. From beginning to end, the journey is an adventure. When you love what you do, you have the energy to overcome any obstacle.”
-CYNTHIA KERSEY: Unstoppable
“You can dream all you want, but, bottom line, you’ve got to work with what you’ve got. Otherwise, you’re wasting your time. The team won’t buy your plan and everyone – most of all you – will end up frustrated and disappointed. But when your vision is based on a clear-sighted, realistic assessment of your resources, alchemy often mysteriously occurs and a team transforms into a force greater than the sum of its individual talents. Inevitably, paradoxically, the acceptance of boundaries and limits is the gateway to freedom.” -PHIL JACKSON: Sacred Hoops
“As the sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) wrote in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the assertion that capitalism promotes greed belongs in the kindergarten of sociological opinions. The contrary is true. Where the creation of plenty is the aim, particular material goods lose their high value and become plentiful and accessible. Further, what people have, they again put at risk, re-investing it. The aim is not acquisition but increase. The clutching fist is not the capitalist style.”
-MICHAEL NOVAK: Business as a Calling
“When God trusts you with His dream, it becomes your job to call together persons with a variety of skills and talents until, through massive team effort, the mountain is scaled and the dream succeeds! Success becomes possible the moment you realize you can’t do it alone.”
-ROBERT H. SCHULLER: Tough Minded Faith For Tender Hearted People
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet