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Nancy E. Wigal, Owner, Search Engine Academy Washington DC

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Nancy E. Wigal owns and operates Search Engine Academy Washington DC, an organization that trains and certifies anyone with a website on the search engine optimization (SEO) techniques necessary to have their pages show up higher search results.

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Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– John Quincy Adams

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey