"You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you." - W. Somerset Maugham

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." - Elbert Hubbard

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." - Robert Fulghum

"Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders." - Bob Moawad

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." - Florence Shinn

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit Coffee from 6AM to 12PM today > Blacksburg Health & Fitness @ The Weight Club (Visit www.Java411.org for details)

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence." - Democritus

"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out." - W.C. Handy

"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character." - Heraclitus

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit Coffee from 10:00AM to 1:00PM today at the 6th Annual Women's Health Event at The Inn at Virginia Tech

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them." - John Henry Cardinal Newman

"In this world nothing can be said to be
certain, except death and taxes." - Benjamin
Franklin, 1789

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." - Tony Robbins

"Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being." - Daisaku Ikeda

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement." - Mabel Newcomber

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit Coffee from 7:30AM to 4:30PM at the Narrows Craft Show at NHS in Narrows, VA (Visit www.Java411.org for details)

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." - Brian Tracy

"The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way." - African Proverb

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way." - Will Rogers

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint." - Albert Schweitzer

"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds." - Tryon Edwards

"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." - Lillian Eichler Watson

"Life is full of obstacle illusions." - Grant Frazier

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E E. Cummings

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit coffee from 7AM to 12PM at Marsha's Restaurant, 100 S Main Street, Pearisburg, VA (FREE samples are available! Visit http://Java411.org for more info)

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration." - Kurt Lewin

Chris Clark is attending the JavaFit Leadership Call - Monday, October 26, 2009 - 8:50PM EST - Dial 646-519-5860 code 9258#

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Chris Clark is attending JavaFit Distributer Training - Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 9:00PM EST - Dial 646-519-5860 code 9258#

"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either." - Jewish Proverb

Chris Clark is updating his websites today, including http://Claytor-Lake.net

Chris Clark is attending JavaFit Distributer Training - Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 11:00AM EST - Dial 646-519-5860 code 9258#

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese Proverb

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do." - Vince Poscente

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." - Calvin Coolidge

"I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist." - Paul Harvey

Chris Clark had a great week of JavaFit parties and events in southern California, and is traveling from SAN to ROA today, with a brief stop in ATL

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." - Dale Carnegie

"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do." - Charlize Theron

"When you build bridges you can keep crossing them." - Rick Pitino

"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence." - Will Henry

"Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive ... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda

"Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile." - William Raspberry

Chris Clark is at ROA, traveling to SAN, with a brief stop in ATL

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy; they just promised it would be worth it." - author unknown

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." - Brian Tracy

"Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time." - Sam Rayburn

"Live your life as an Exclamation, not an Explanation." - Anonymous

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." - Evan Esar

"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think." - Horace

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." - Woodrow Wilson

"Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death." - Anonymous

"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground." - Thomas Overbury

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy

"My future starts when I wake up every morning ... Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit coffee at the BNI Virginia Beach meeting 7:30AM Penbrook #2, 4693 Virginia Beach Blvd. Virginia Beach, VA 23462
(FREE samples are available! Visit http://Java411.org for more info)

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit coffee from 6PM to 9PM at the Sandler Center, 201 Market St, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 (FREE samples are available! Visit http://Java411.org for more info)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will." - John Atkinson

"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present." - Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." - Indira Gandhi

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs

"Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end ... and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand." (Daniel 12:9-10)

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." - Maori Proverb

"Now the Spirit expressly says that in LATTER TIMES some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons." (1 Timothy 4:1)

"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged." - Ronald Reagan

"It is better to wear out than to rust out." - Bishop Richard Cumberland

Chris Clark will be serving JavaFit coffee from 10AM to 2PM at Fitness Together - 1320 Kempsville Rd, Chesapeake VA 22320 (FREE samples are available! Visit http://Java411.org for more info)

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change." - Stephen Covey

"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen." - Desiderius Erasmus

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson

"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." - Judith Martin

"There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Chris Clark is attending the JavaFit Event in Virginia Beach, VA (9/11-9/12)

"No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten" - Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito." - Betty Reese

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie

"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win." - Carl Lewis

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese Proverb

"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach." - Margaret Cho

"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old." - Edgar Watson Howe

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." - Frank A. Clark

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!" - Dr. Seuss

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path." - Paulo Coelho