Quotes August 24, 2023

“You have to be good at saying no and picking the things that really matter.”
“It’s much better to aim low. I did not intend to get rich. I wanted to be independent. I just overshot.”
Warren Buffet
 
 
 
 
“Focus is about saying no.”
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
 
 
 
 
“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.”
Edith Schaeffer
 
 
 
 
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“Think simple” as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
 
 
 
 
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
 
 
 
 
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 
 
 
 
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
Madame Marie du Deffand
 
 
 
 
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
Earl Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.”
Edith Schaeffer
 
 
 
 
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius