Career Paths

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

-- Paul Mccartney

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

-- Geoffrey F. Abert

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

-- John Quincy Adams

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

-- William Faulkner

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

-- Albert Einstein

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

-- William Arthur Ward

There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

-- Nelson Mandela

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

-- James Cook

Connect to your core and you'll find strength. Act from your core and you'll move mountains.

-- Gabriella Goddard

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

-- Seneca

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

-- Herman Cain

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

-- Harriet Braiker

The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, 'The Karnival Kid', is released.

--May 23, 1929

Namco releases the highly influential video game Pacman.

--May 22, 1980

The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

--May 21, 1881

Amelia Earhart begins the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot.

--May 20, 1932

World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates from Mount Sinai.

--May 19, 1995

Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.

--May 18, 1953

The New York Stock Exchange is formed.

--May 17, 1792

The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.

--May 16, 1866

McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

--May 15, 1940

John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation.

--May 14, 1913

Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: '...blood, toil, tears and sweat.'

--May 13, 1940

1st Belgian woman, Ingrid Baeyens, to ascend Mount Everest.

--May 12, 1992