QOTD February 9 2018
February 9th, 2018 on 16:23Eric Hoffer: “A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.”
Eric Hoffer: “A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.”
Kenneth Hildebrand: “Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.”
Jean Nidetch: “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
Alice Roosevelt Longworth: “I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches.”
Oprah Winfrey: “We are each responsible for our own life – no other person is or even can be.”
Tish Grier: “Maybe it’s easier to like someone else’s life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsibility to change our lives into lives we might like.”
Thomas a Kempis: “Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”
Robert Service: “Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
Martha Graham: “The body says what words cannot.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch: “The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.”
Rod Steiger: “The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”
Fulton J. Sheen: “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
Jewish Proverb: “What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.”
Margot Fonteyn: “If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”
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.”
Anatole France: “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
Mary Catherine Bateson: “The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “You try to give away what you want yourself.”