All quotes — page 118

• It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

  Steve Jobs

• Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.

  Mary Davis

• No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

  Francesco Mauri

• Everything has to do with geography.

  Judy Martz

• Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but yo…

  John McPhee

• Life is too short to work so hard.

  Vivien Leigh

• Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it.

  Jim Rohn

• Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

  Louise Brown

• The threat is stronger than the execution.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

• Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

  Ricky Williams

• Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

  Mary Ellen Chase

• Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.

  Carry Nestor

• We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

  Michael Greger

• Then I am reminded that life will continue on, regardless of whether I choose to board the train or stay on the platform.

  Courtney Poppenell

• I don't think any of us are normal people.

  Wes Anderson

• A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

  Joan Lunden

• Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.

  Rick Steves

• The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of…

  Turkish Proverb

• All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how…

  Jawaharlal Nehru

• The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss...

  Hildegarde Zwingli

• Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspirati…

  Rudy Ruettiger

• There is no better way to learn than to teach.

  Benjamin Whichcote

• Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe…

  Osho

• Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

  Robert T. Kiyosaki

• I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.

  Simon Pegg

• Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

  Hassan Fathy

• I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

  Kathleen Hanna

• We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

  Ken Levine

• Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

  Miriam Makeba

• If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

  Joseph O'Connor

• It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

• The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you se…

  James A. Michener

• They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It's the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn't ha…

  that's like spitting in his face.

• As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

  John Denver

• Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

  Michael J. Fox

• When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

  Richard Peck

• Change before you're forced to change.

  Roger Goodell

• Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place – and still be home in time to have dinner.

  Mary Pope Osborne

• The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

  Israel Zangwill

• The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

  Paul Davies

• We are all the children of God.

  Alice Bailey

• I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

  John Oliver

• The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

  Blake Lively

• Lucifer is God in the public school system.

  Vinnie Paz

• I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that…

  Peter Brook

• Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

  Anthony of Padua

• Even the Stoic wise man, therefore, may tremble in the face of danger. What matters is what he does next. He exhibits courage and self-control prec…

  Unknown

• Balance is not something you find, it's something you create.

  Jana Ringstone

• Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

  Jessica Lange

• When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

  Emmy Rossum