George Bernard Shaw
.A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Mark Twain
1. A recipe for contentment
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."2. True wisdom
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
3. Reading habits
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
4. Success
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
5. Bravery
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
6. Procrastination
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
7. Progress
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
8. Risk-taking
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
9. Good editing
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
10. Life
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
(thank you, Sherry, for pointing these out to me!)
William Ewart Gladstone
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Seth Godin
There aren’t shortcuts.
Merely direct paths.
Most people don’t take them, because they frighten us.
Things that look like shortcuts are usually detours disguised as less work.
Merely direct paths.
Most people don’t take them, because they frighten us.
Things that look like shortcuts are usually detours disguised as less work.
Anonymous
The gap between where you are and where you want to be is called frustration. Frustration is eliminated by education and action.
Steve Jobs
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Thomas Paine
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Julia Cameron
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
Pericles
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Anwar al-Sadat
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Dale Carnegie
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Nora Roberts
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
Albert Einstein
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.
Sophia Loren
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
G. K. Chesterton
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
Maria Robinson
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Robert Ringer
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Mahatma Gandhi
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
William Feather
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Ralph Nader
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Mother Teresa
We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
Freya Stark
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Jack Handey
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
Author Unknown
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?
Anwar al-Sadat
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
Basil Maturin
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Orison Marden
Most of our obstacles would melt away if instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Anne Lamott
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
--From Imperfect Birds: A Novel
--From Imperfect Birds: A Novel
Billy Wilder
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
Pearl S. Buck
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Maria Robinson
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Judy Garland
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Lin Yutang
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
St. Francis de Sales
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving
William Penn
Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.
Vincent van Gogh
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Marilyn Manson
"I wouldn't say a single word to them I would listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did."
(Responding to the question, "If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine or the people in that community, what would you say to them if they were here right now?")
(Responding to the question, "If you were to talk directly to the kids at Columbine or the people in that community, what would you say to them if they were here right now?")
Jimi Hendrix
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Barbara Bush
(please note - i posted this because it cracked me up, i am not making a political statement!)
"Clinton lied.
A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is."
Herbert Bayard Swope
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Buddha
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
Martin Luther King
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Saint Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Sandra Carey
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Socrates
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Osho
Relate with others, but relate with yourself also. Love others, but love yourself also. Go out! - the world is beautiful, adventurous; it is a challenge, it enriches. Go out fearlessly - there is nothing to lose, there is everything to gain.
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