QOTD February 11 2019
Monday, February 11th, 2019Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.”
Pete Seeger: “Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower: “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that’s really why were here: to evolve as human beings.”
Saadi: “Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.”
Hugh Macleod: “Your idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.”
Peter McWilliams: “If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.”
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.”
Thomas Jefferson: “Never spend your money before you have it.”
Meredith Willson: “You pile up enough tomorrows and you’ll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.”
John Updike: “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
Robert Fripp: “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
Will Rogers: “Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.”
Hugh Elliott: “Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.”
Victoria Holt: “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
Woody Allen: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Daniel H. Burnham: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.”
Kathleen Norris: “Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”