QOTD June 30 2019
Sunday, June 30th, 2019Walt Whitman: “Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
Walt Whitman: “Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
Steve Jobs: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Anonymous: “Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.”
Henry Miller: “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
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.”
Jennifer Neal: “Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.”
Eugene S. Wilson: “Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
Leonardo da Vinci: “Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
Stephen Covey: “The way we see the problem is the problem.”
German Proverb: “Who begins too much accomplishes little.”
John Green: “What is the point of being alive if you donβt at least try to do something remarkable?”
Joss Whedon: “The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.”
Wayne DyerΒ “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
KrishnamurtiΒ “When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.”
Mother Teresa: “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”
Larry Page: “I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.”
Hugh Prather: “True humor is fun – it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.”
Henry Moore: “One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.”
Jeff Melvoin: “You’re confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they’re talking about product. That’s not art, that’s the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I’m not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.”
Peter McWilliams: “If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.”