QOTD January 31 2018
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Martha Graham: “The body says what words cannot.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch: “The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.”
Rod Steiger: “The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”
Fulton J. Sheen: “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
Jewish Proverb: “What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.”
Margot Fonteyn: “If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”
Joel Spolsky: “An idea isn’t worth that much. It’s the execution of the idea that has value. If you can’t convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it’s not worth it.”
Anatole France: “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
Mary Catherine Bateson: “The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “You try to give away what you want yourself.”
Al Batt: “The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.”
Seneca: “We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?”
Anonymous: “Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.”
Oscar Wilde: “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
William Ellery Channing: “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”
Johnny Carson: “Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
William Feather: “Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.”