QOTD December 22 2016
Thursday, December 22nd, 2016A. R. Ammons: “Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.”
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QOTD December 21 2016
Wednesday, December 21st, 2016Dr. Seuss: “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
QOTD December 20 2016
Tuesday, December 20th, 2016John Ruskin: “Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”
QOTD December 19 2016
Monday, December 19th, 2016Will Rogers: “Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
QOTD December 18 2016
Sunday, December 18th, 2016Lois McMaster Bujold: “If you want to catch something, running after it isn’t always the best way.”
QOTD December 17 2016
Saturday, December 17th, 2016Edgar Allan Poe: “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
QOTD December 16 2016
Friday, December 16th, 2016Hugh Macleod“: The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur.
That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you’re already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can’t help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.”
QOTD December 15 2016
Thursday, December 15th, 2016Albert Pike: “He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current… Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.”
QOTD December 14 2016
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016Albert Einstein: “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
QOTD December 13 2016
Tuesday, December 13th, 2016Ali Vincent: “Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.”
QOTD December 12 2016
Monday, December 12th, 2016Steve Jobs: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
QOTD December 11 2016
Sunday, December 11th, 2016Amy Bloom: “Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.”
QOTD December 10 2016
Saturday, December 10th, 2016Benjamin Disraeli: “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”
QOTD December 9 2016
Friday, December 9th, 2016Lyndon B. Johnson: “We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
QOTD December 8 2016
Thursday, December 8th, 2016Ernest Hemingway: “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
QOTD December 7 2016
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016Antoinette Brown Blackwell: “Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”
QOTD December 6 2016
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016Paul Tillich: “The first duty of love is to listen.”
QOTD December 5 2016
Monday, December 5th, 2016Max L. Forman:” Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”
QOTD December 4 2016
Sunday, December 4th, 2016Hugh 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.”
QOTD December 3 2016
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016Martin Luther King Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
