QOTD January 26 2018
Friday, January 26th, 2018Jewish Proverb: “What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.”
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.”
Thomas A. Edison: “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Jean-Paul Sartre: “In love, one and one are one.”
Frank Tyger: “Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers: “No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.”
John Cleese: “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”