QOTD February 22 2017
February 22nd, 2017 on 23:31Peter McWilliams: “Stubbornness is also determination. It’s simply a matter of shifting from “won’t power” to “will power.””
Peter McWilliams: “Stubbornness is also determination. It’s simply a matter of shifting from “won’t power” to “will power.””
Steve Jobs: “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Juvenal: “Be gentle with the young.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.”
Celia Thaxter: “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
John Lennon: “Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.”
Meladee McCarty: “Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced… an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.”
Sir Francis Bacon: “Knowledge is power.”
Scott Adams: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Carol Burnett: “Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
Annie Lennox: “Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
Ruben Studdard: “You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.”
Beverly Sills: “I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.”
Abraham Lincoln: “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Hugh Elliott: “Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume – snap… crackle… this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world…”
Andre Gide: “Dare to be yourself.”
Samahria Lyte Kaufman: “Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.”
Lillian Hellman: “The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.”
Hugh Macleod: “Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it.
It’s your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.”
Steve Jobs: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”