QOTD November 30 2016
Wednesday, November 30th, 2016Thomas A. Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas A. Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Irving Wallace: “To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
John Barth: “Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”
Ali Vincent: “Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.”
Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
Edward Chapin: “A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.”
Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
Wil Wheaton: “I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”
Samuel Johnson: “Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
John Burroughs: “The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.”
Winifred Holtby: “The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.”
Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.”
Colette: “The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”
Elsa Maxwell: “Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Albert Camus: “We only know of one duty, and that is to love.”
Thomas Merton: “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.”
Michael J. Fox: “There’s a rule in acting called, “Don’t play the result.” If you have a character who’s going to end up in a certain place, don’t play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that’s what you do in life: You don’t play the result.”
Ali Vincent: “The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.”