QOTD September 30 2019
Monday, September 30th, 2019John Scalzi: “If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it’s best to meet it with an empty bladder.”
John Scalzi: “If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it’s best to meet it with an empty bladder.”
Helen Keller: “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Steve Jobs: “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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
John Ruskin: “The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”
Nigerian Proverb: “Hold a true friend with both hands.”
Dag Hammarskjold: “Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.”
Jennifer Hudson: “Donβt be afraid of the answers. Be afraid of not asking the questions.
Ellen Metcalf: “You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can’t sit back and wait.”
Publilius Syrus: “Never promise more than you can perform.”
Chuck Palahniuk: “You can’t base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.”
Joseph Addison: “Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.”
Sholem Asch: “Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
Henry S. Haskins: “The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.”
Gail Pool: “Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”
Thomas A. Edison: “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “Fresh clean sheets are one of life’s small joys.”
Lord Chesterfield: “The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
Amber Deckers: “Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn’t. Failure is part of what makes us human.”
Mahatma Gandhi: “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”