QOTD April 26 2016
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016Franz Kafka: “Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
Franz Kafka: “Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
Eric Schmidt: “Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It’s not to have a detailed plan of everything that you’re going to do. You can’t plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.”
Anna Quindlen: “Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That’s what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.”
George Herbert: “The best mirror is an old friend.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
Wil Wheaton: “Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who donโt will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if youโre proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is whatโs important.”
Susan Partnow: “It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.”
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas: “If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbour.”
Ali Vincent: “When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you’re really afraid of, fear doesn’t have control over your life.”
Gordon Atkinson: “When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.”
Og Mandino: “I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
Jean De La Fontaine: “By the work one knows the workmen.”
Johann Georg von Zimmermann: “Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.”
Steve Jobs: “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
Jackie Joyner-Kersee: “It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
Arthur Hays Sulzberger: “I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
Doris Mortman: “Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.”
John Muir: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
Gordon Parks: “The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.”
Jean Houston: “We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.”