QOTD August 15 2019
August 15th, 2019 on 23:52Thomas A. Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas A. Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Logan Pearsall Smith: “Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”
Shantideva: “If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?”
Shakti Gawain: “I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.”
Henry David Thoreau: “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Irish Proverb: “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Randy Pausch: “It’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.”
Emily Dickinson: “Forever is composed of nows.”
Jean Nidetch: “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.”
Waiter Rant: “But seduction isnβt making someone do what they donβt want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.”
Hugh White: “When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
Askhari Johnson Hodari: βIf everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.β
H. G. Wells: “We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
Carl Jung: “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
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.”
Earl Mac Rauch: “Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
John Scalzi: “Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.”
Jef Mallett: “Mach-S, the speed at which stress can’t keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.”
Paul Hawken: “Everything is connected… no one thing can change by itself.”
John F. Kennedy: “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”