Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD January 1 2015

Thursday, January 1st, 2015

Sheryl Crow: “It’s not having what you want…It’s wanting what you’ve got.”

 

QOTD December 31 2014

Wednesday, December 31st, 2014

Rick Pitino: “When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.”

 

QOTD December 30 2014

Tuesday, December 30th, 2014

Ernest Hemingway: “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

 

QOTD December 29 2014

Monday, December 29th, 2014

George Bernard Shaw: “You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

QOTD December 28 2014

Sunday, December 28th, 2014

Dame Rose Macaulay: “At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.”

 

QOTD December 27 2014

Saturday, December 27th, 2014

Sydney Smith: “There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle – to do nothing at all.”

 

QOTD December 26 2014

Friday, December 26th, 2014

Salman Rushdie: “A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

QOTD December 25 2014

Thursday, December 25th, 2014

Latvian Proverb: “A smiling face is half the meal.”

 

QOTD December 24 2014

Wednesday, December 24th, 2014

John Wesley: “Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”

 

QOTD December 23 2014

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014

Jeff Bezos: “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”

 

QOTD December 22 2014

Monday, December 22nd, 2014

Hugh Macleod: “The best way to get approval is not to need it.”

 

QOTD December 21 2014

Sunday, December 21st, 2014

Christopher Reeve: “Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”

 

QOTD December 20 2014

Saturday, December 20th, 2014

Henry Miller: “Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

 

QOTD December 19 2014

Friday, December 19th, 2014

Lord Chesterfield: “The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”

 

QOTD December 18 2014

Thursday, December 18th, 2014

Oprah Winfrey: “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”

 

QOTD December 17 2014

Wednesday, December 17th, 2014

Brian Adams: “Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.”

 

QOTD December 16 2014

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

Lady Gaga: “Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner.”

 

QOTD December 15 2014

Monday, December 15th, 2014

Frank Herbert: “There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man–with human flesh.”

 

QOTD December 14 2014

Sunday, December 14th, 2014

Maureen Dowd: “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

 

QOTD December 13 2014

Saturday, December 13th, 2014

Mikhail Bakunin: “The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”