- "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin
- "You've spent too much time running away to learn what you're running towards."
- "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin
Friday, May 16, 2008
On Perspective
On Friendship
- "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey
- “It never hurts anybody to be told that they are loved, to say to somebody ‘I love you.’” – Leo Buscaglia
- "A friend is someone who knows the song to your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- "Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
- "It's the friends that you can call up at 4 am that matter."
On Success
- "Success is not final, failure is not fated. It's the courage to continue that counts!" - Sir Winston Churchill
- "What you measure, improves." (flip side is that you need to understand what the measurements mean).
- "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." - Thomas Watson
- "Failure's hard but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever." - Po Bronson, Author
On Living
- "A day well spend brings blessed sleep, so a life well lived brings a blessed death." - Leonardo Da Vinci
- "You have to give up the life you have to get the life that is waiting for you." - James Hilman
- “Dedicate yourself to the process of finding out who you are, it will be the most exciting trip you’ve ever taken in your life.” – Leo Buscaglia
- "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." - Mahatma Gandhi
- "The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
- "So many people are expecting a miracle instead of being a miracle." - Wayne Dyer
- "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo DaVinci
On Pursuit of Knowledge
- "Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous." - Confucious
- "If everyone is thinking alike than someone isn't thinking." - George S. Patton
- "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." - Thomas Henry Huxley
- “Learning is the greatest joy. To learn something is fantastic because every time you learn something you become something new.” – Leo Buscaglia
- "Intelligence and Character -- that is the goal of true education." - Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
- "No one knows enough to be a pessimist."
- "Wisdom denotes pursuing of the best ends by the best means possible." - Francese Hutcheson
On Goals
- "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals- that is, goals that do not inspire them." - Anthony Robbins
- "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes." - Andrew Carnegie
- "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "- T.S. Eliot
- "Winning starts with beginning." - Anonymous
- "When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. " - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- "Limited goals create limited lives." - Anthony Robbins
- "When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible." - Nido Qubein
- "If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time." - Anonymous
- "Talent wins games but teamwork and collaboration wins championships." Michael Jordan
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