As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.-Seneca
I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
The best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life-CP
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -Thomas Edison
Whether You Think You Can or Can’t, You’re Right”-Henry Ford
Let us live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
80 percent of success is just showing up- Woody Allen
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
No one is the most significant piece in the puzzle, but rather we all are important, necessary pieces.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination
-oscar wilde
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
-Machiavelli
Money doesn’t change you. It reveals who you are when you don’t have to be nice.
If you strive to do anything remotely interesting, just expect a small percentage of the population to always find a way to take it personally. FUCK THEM.
If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t working on hard enough problems, and THAT’S A BIG MISTAKE.
-Frank Wilczek
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwellin deeply in the present moment and truly feeling alive.
-TNH
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
-PP
The greatest risk in life wasn’t making mistakes but regret: missing out on things.
Noone can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man…you take it.
-Malcom x
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
-Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
-HDT
People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themelves.
Beg for forgiveness, DON’T ask for permission.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
-Emerson
A great man is always willing to be little.
-Emerson
It is imperative that you learn to ignore all information/interruptions that are irrelevant unimportant or unactionable… Most are all three.
Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others.
Reading diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his brain too little falls in lazy habits of thinking.
-Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
-Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality.
-Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-Einstein
Parkinsons Law-a task will sweel in perceived importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
-WO
The most important actions are never comfortable
Life is too short to be small.
-Benjamin Disareli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-Samuel Beckett
The fishing is best where the fewest go.
There is less competition for bigger goals.
99% of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore progress depends on the unreasonable man
-George Bernard Maximus
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
-Mark Twain
Conquering fear=Defining Fear
Many a false step was made standing still
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure. Try to please everyone all the time.
-HBS
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
-JFK
Whenever you find yourself on the time of majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain
