Quotes January 14, 2020

If we can’t tolerate a possible consequence, remote though it may be, we steer clear of planting its seeds.”
Warren Buffett
 
 
 
 
I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I…I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts…It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.”
The Hours (screenplay by David Hare)
 
 
 
 
“Information is knowledge which is merely acquired and stored up; wisdom is knowledge operating in the direction of powers to the better living of life.”
John Dewey
 
 
 
 
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake,
poet, painter
 
 
 
 
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud,
painter
 
 
 
 
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
Peter Drucker,
management consultant, educator, writer
 
 
 
 
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.
Seneca the Elder,
orator
 
 
 
 
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
J.C.F. von Schiller,
poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright
 
 
 
 
Inhale. Exhale. Everything is going to be ok. Actually, it’s going to turn out better than okay, you’ll see.
Unknown

 
 
 
 
Don’t Quit. Sometimes the things you are hoping for come at unexpected times.
Unknown