Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD October 23 2016

Sunday, October 23rd, 2016

Nikki Giovanni: “Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”

QOTD October 22 2016

Saturday, October 22nd, 2016

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “Deal with the consequences of your actions, ’cause life ain’t no video game.”

 

QOTD October 21 2016

Friday, October 21st, 2016

Sol Hurok: “Get pleasure out of life…as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.”

 

QOTD October 20 2016

Thursday, October 20th, 2016

Thomas Guthrie: “Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.”

 

QOTD October 19 2016

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

Seth Godin: “People don’t believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.”

 

QOTD October 18 2016

Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

Martha Graham: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”

 

QOTD October 17 2016

Monday, October 17th, 2016

Barbara Hall: โ€œBecause you are in control of your life. Donโ€™t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.โ€

QOTD October 16 2016

Sunday, October 16th, 2016

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.”

 

QOTD October 15 2016

Saturday, October 15th, 2016

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.”

 

QOTD October 14 2016

Friday, October 14th, 2016

Andre Gide: “Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable.”

 

QOTD October 13 2016

Thursday, October 13th, 2016

Paul Hawken: “Everything is connected… no one thing can change by itself.”

 

QOTD October 12 2016

Wednesday, October 12th, 2016

Saint Francis de Sales: “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.”

 

QOTD October 11 2016

Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

Okakura Kakuzo: “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”

 

QOTD October 10 2016

Monday, October 10th, 2016

John Cleese: “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”

 

QOTD October 9 2016

Sunday, October 9th, 2016

Erica Jong: “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.”

 

QOTD October 8 2016

Saturday, October 8th, 2016

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata: “Fresh clean sheets are one of life’s small joys.”

 

QOTD October 7 2016

Friday, October 7th, 2016

Ralph Charell: “Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”

 

QOTD October 6 2016

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci: “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

 

QOTD October 5 2016

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

Thomas Fuller: “He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.”

 

QOTD October 4 2016

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl: “If you’re here for four more years or four more weeks, you’re here right now. I think when you’re somewhere, you ought to be there. It’s not about how long you stay in a place, it’s about what you do while you’re there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?”