Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.”
Aaron Burr: “Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”
James Joyce: “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
Jane Goodall: “I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.”
Ernest Hemingway: “I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”
Dorothy Sarnoff: “Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”
Sean O’Faolain: “There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”
Aboriginal Saying: “The more you know, the less you need.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”
Fred Brooks: “How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.”
John Gotti: “I never lie because I don’t fear anyone. You only lie when you’re afraid.”
Meryl Streep: “This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.”
Howard Thurman: “Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive… then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Og Mandino: “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
Edith Sitwell: “Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
Charles Kingsley: “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
Albert Schweitzer: “A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.”
Napoleon Bonaparte: “[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”
Mary Kay Ash: “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Donald Barthelme: “The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day…”
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