QOTD October 15 2019
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019Sir Winston Churchill: “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Seth Godin: “Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Susan Sontag: “What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
Emily Dickinson: “I dwell in possibility…”
Randall Munroe, xkcd: “You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.”
Wilson Mizner: “Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.”
Arab Proverb: “Examine what is said, not him who speaks.”
Rob Sheridan: “Acting like someone you’re not is exactly what it takes to realize you’re capable of more than you ever knew.”
Nathaniel Branden: “Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
Irma Kurtz: “Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.”
Aristotle: “Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”
Saint Francis de Sales: “When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.”
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.”
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.”
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.”