§ “First
they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” ~
Mahatma Gandhi
§ “Life
isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George
Bernard Shaw
§ “There
are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who
claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” ~ Mark
Twain
§ “The
greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling
short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ~ Michelangelo
Buonarroti
§ “Money
is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your
trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to
money, but it shouldn’t be about the money.” ~ Tim O’Reilly
§ “Doing
what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” ~ Frank Tyger
§ “In the
end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments
took your breath away.“ ~ Shing Xiong
§ “We act
as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that
we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” ~ Albert
Einstein
§ “Imagination
is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert
Einstein
§ Only
two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure
about the former.” ~ Albert Einstein
§ “Any
man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits
of thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein
§ “Few
people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the
prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of
forming such opinions.” ~ Albert Einstein
§ “Any
intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of
genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” ~ Albert
Einstein
§ “If you
can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ~ Albert
Einstein
§ “I know
nothing except the fact of my ignorance.” ~ Socrates
§ “People,
who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
~ Apple Inc.
§ “You
got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they
wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” ~
Pursuit of Happyness
§ “Between
stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose
our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom”. ~ Viktor Frankl
§ “Whether
you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” ~ Henry Ford
§ “Peace
comes from within. Do not seek it without.” ~ Buddha
§ “Believe
nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said
it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” ~
Buddha
§ “There
is no failure except in no longer trying.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
§ “I
haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison
§ “But it
ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep
moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how
winning is done!” ~ Rocky Balbo
§ “Don’t
let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
§ “Management
is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ~ Peter F.
Drucker
§ “Interviews
I conducted with more than 70 CEOs and other leaders point to 5 essentials for
success — qualities that most of those C.E.O.’s share and look for in people
they hire. They all shared five qualities: Passionate curiosity.
Battle-hardened confidence. Team smarts. A simple mind-set. Fearlessness.” ~
New York Times
§ “Management
is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation
offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be
recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.” ~ Clayton
Christensen
§ “Pause
now to ask yourself the following question: “Am I dreaming or awake, right
now?” Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability
and be ready to justify your answer.” ~ Stephen Laberge
§ “It is
not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to
our lives.” ~ Anthony Robbins
§ “Those
three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and
reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it
is to be satisfying.“ ~ Malcolm Gladwell
§ “Practice
isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you
good.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell
§ “One
man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who
has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.” ~ Edward B. Butler
§ “A
great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” ~ Walter
Gagehot
§ ”Always
forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ~ Oscar Wilde
§ “The
question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn
Rand
§ “Three
ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.” ~ Tim
Ferriss
§ “Doing
the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.” ~ Tim Ferriss
§ The
question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?”
but “What would excite me?” ~ Tim Ferriss
§ “Tomorrow
becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now.” ~ Tim
Ferriss
§ “The
most important actions are never comfortable.” ~ Tim Ferriss
§ “Slow
down and remember this: Most things make no difference.” ~ Tim Ferriss
§ “Lack
of time is actually lack of priorities.” ~ Tim Ferriss
§ “It
isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting
outside the box.” ~ Tim Ferriss
§ “Being
able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.” ~ Tim
Ferriss
§ “Slowing
down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive
distractions and the perception of being rushed.” ~ Tim Ferriss
§ “Too
many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to
impress people they don’t like.” ~ Will Smith
§ “Avoid
losers. If you hear someone use the words ‘impossible’, ‘never’, ‘too
difficult’ too often, drop him or her from your social network. ~ Nassim
Nicholas Taleb
§ “The
three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
~ Nassim Taleb
§ “I
start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more
leaders, not more followers.” ~ Ralph Nader
§ “So the
only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and
show them how to get it.” ~ Dale Carnegie
§ “People
can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the
most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” ~ George
Orwell
§ “Hard
work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it
becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and
dance a jig.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell
§ “The
key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you
look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If
you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll
die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also
our omissions, become our destiny.” ~ Abraham Verghese
§ “Envision,
create & believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around
you.” ~ Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness
§ “You
never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,
build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ R. Buckminster
Fuller
§ “It
doesn’t matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does
anything is personal power.” ~ Carlos Castaneda
§ “Don’t
Believe Everything You Think.” ~ Thomas Kida
§ “Far
better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither
enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows
neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
§ “Achievement
of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness,
not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity,
since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your
values.” ~ Ayn Rand
§ “God, grant
me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the
things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.”~ Reinhold Niebuhr
§ “Do not
let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of
the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the
hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but
have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is
yours.”~ Ayn Rand
§ “A
human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog,
conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall,
set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,
solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook
a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
~ Robert A. Heinlein
§ “Watch
your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they lead to actions. Watch
your actions, they create habits. Watch your habits, they build your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” ~ Upanishads
§ “Think about
what it feels like when you interact with someone who makes you notice what’s
good about yourself (raising your status), who is clear with his expectations
of you (increasing certainty), who lets you make decisions (increasing
autonomy), who connects with you on a human level (increasing relatedness), and
who treats you fairly.” ~ David Rock
§ “Impossible
is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the
world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration.
It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is
nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
§ “Become
one who is happy with that which you are and with that which you have – while
at the same time being eager for more. That is the optimal creative vantage
point. To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic
anticipation – with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering
the receiving of it.” ~ Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks.
§ “Talent
hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
