Tag: Various

Quotes January 08, 2019

Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up. As them what problems they want to solve. This changes the conversation from who do I want to work for to what do I need to learn in order to be able to do that.
Jaime Casap
 
 
 
 
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
Dorothy Sayers,
writer
 
 
 
 
Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.
C. Assaad
 
 
 
 
Never wish them pain. That’s not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing.
Najwa Zebian
 
 
 
 
Quit saying you don’t have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.
Bryant McGill
 
 
 
 
Always walk like you deserve to be right where you are.
Black Lapel
 
 
 
 

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
John Henry Newman,
theologian

Quotes December 29, 2018

The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what no one has yet thought, about that which everyone sees.
Erwin Schroedinger,
physicist
 
 
 
 
Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.
T. Harv Eker
 
 
 
 
If you wish to be a warrior prepare to get broken, if you wish to be an explorer prepare to get lost and if you wish to be a lover prepare to be both.
Daniel Saint
 
 
 
 
The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Even the wolf has its moments of weakness, in which it sides with the lamb and thinks: I hope it runs away.
Adolfo Bioy Casares,
writer
 
 
 
 
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot,
writer
 
 
 
 
I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris,
writer and comedian

Quotes December 13, 2018

You know you’re on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
You don’t need a reason to help people.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
People who shine from within don’t need the spotlight.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
What you tell yourself every day will either lift you up or tear you down.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
I think part of the reason why we hold on to something so tight is because we fear something so great won’t happen twice.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
Kindness is magic.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
No matter how talented, rich or intelligent you are, how you treat animals tells me all I need to know about you.
Unknown

Quotes December 12, 2018

All rules for study are summed up in this one: Learn only in order to create.
Friedrich Schelling,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
If you doubt your power, you give power to your doubts.
Diane von Furstenberg
 
 
 
 
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
Do as you please,
Be true to yourself,
And only then can you be attractive the type of partner you most desire.
Nick Offerman
 
 
 
 
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Issac Newton
 
 
 
 
Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
E.V.
 
 
 
 
May my heart be kind, my mind fierce and my spirit brave.
Lessons Learned
 
 
 
 
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
 
 
 
 
Do as you please,
Be true to yourself,
And only then can you be attractive the type of partner you most desire.
Nick Offerman
 
 
 
 
Life is a one time offer, use it well.
Unknown

Quotes December 11, 2018

Tomorrow is the most important thing. … It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne,
actor
 
 
 
 
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
Lauren Bacall,
actress
 
 
 
 
You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.
Ann Brashares
 
 
 
 
Not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believes the things you believe, nor acts the way you would act.
Remember this and you will go a long way in getting along with people.
Arthur Forman
 
 
 
 
A healthy relationship will inspire you to be more of who are you, not require you to give up who you are.
The SW
 
 
 
 
If you never allow your child to experience failure and disappointment, they will not be equipped to handle adulthood.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Unknown

Quotes December 06, 2018

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal,
mathematician, physicist and theologian
 
 
 
 
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall,
writer
 
 
 
 
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young,
poet
 
 
 
 
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
 
 
 
 
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.”
Emery Allen
 
 
 
 
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.
Frank Lucas
 
 
 
 
Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
There are only two options: make progress or make excuses.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.
Unknown

Quotes November 28, 2018

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Walter Scott,
writer and historian
 
 
 
 
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavor to have those who do us honor.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve,
writer and literary critic
 
 
 
 
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy
 
 
 
 
Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
Bryant H. McGill
 
 
 
 
Your attitude towards failure determines your attitude after failure.
John C. Maxwell
 
 
 
 
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
 
 
 
 
A man who wants to leads the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado
 
 
 
 
No man will make a great leader who want to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie
 
 
 
 
Positivity is like a muscle; keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
Natalie Massenet
 
 
 
 
No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!
Buddy Valastro
 
 
 
 
If you can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.
Amy Purdy
 
 
 
 
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child
 
 
 
 
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Napoleon Hill
 
 
 
 
Mindfulness can help people of any age. That’s because we become what we think.
Goldie Hawn
 
 
 
 
Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention – phones, internet – and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and people that are actually present.
Nicholas Hoult
 
 
 
 
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
 
 
 
 
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle

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Quotes November 20, 2018

Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.
Warren Buffett,
investor
 
 
 
 
The grass is greener where you water it.
Neil Barringham
 
 
 
 
No one looks stupid when they’re having fun.
Amy Poehler
 
 
 
 
Never wish them pain. That’s not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing.
Najwa Zebian
 
 
 
 
Dreams
is not what you see in sleep
is the thing which doesn’t let you sleep.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
 
 
 
 
Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
Wes Angelozzi
 
 
 
 
There are seven days in the week and Someday isn’t one of them.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding.
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
When I give you my time, I’m giving you a portion of my life that I will never get back.
So don’t waste it.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.
Anonymous

Quotes November 17, 2018

When it comes to imposing tariffs, the Chinese have a Ph.D. and the US is in kindergarten.
Bob Woodward,
Associate Editor at The Washington Post
 
 
 
 
As the hype about blockchain begins to dissipate, the blockchain story will become boring in the sense that it will simply be in use everywhere.
Dan O’Prey,
Chief Marketing Officer for Digital Asset
 
 
 
 
Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
Stephen Covey,
writer and educator
 
 
 
 
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Simone de Beauvoir,
writer and activist
 
 
 
 
Credibility as a journalist means taking a minute and thinking about the responsibility you have to readers versus trying to please the people you are reporting about.
Dylan Byers,
Senior Media Reporter for NBC News
 
 
 
 
A big challenge for the tech industry is restoring the image of tech corporations. It is important and a huge part of marketing, but we’ve lost it by taking advantage of people to make a dollar.
Steve Wozniak,
Co-founder of Apple
 
 
 
 
I must not fear. Fears the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And one it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert,
Dune
 
 
 
 
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali