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A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving
Speaker: Lao TzuSource: http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 5:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“People are so goddamn predictable. i should write a book about how to suckerpunch people into caring.” Jibsen
Speaker: Reif LarsenSource: The Selected Works of T.S. SpivetPosted: 18 May 2010 at 7:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most efficient route that nature has found from point A to point B is rarely a straight line. It is always the path of least resistance. The most efficient way to to turn someone’s talent into performance is to help him find his own path of least resistance toward the desired outcomes.
Speaker: Marcus Buckingham & Curt CoffmanSource: First, Break All the RulesPosted: 08 May 2010 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still maintain the ability to function.
Speaker: F. Scott FitzgeraldSource: First, Break All the RulesPosted: 08 May 2010 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A question where everyone always answers “Strongly Agree” is a weak question
Speaker: Marcus Buckingham & Curt CoffmanSource: First, Break All the RulesPosted: 08 May 2010 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When walking, walk. When eating, eat.
Speaker: Zen proverbPosted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water
Speaker: Zen proverbPosted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life
Speaker: Katherine F. GerouldPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves
Speaker: Edwin Way TealPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials
Speaker: Lin YutangPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Speaker: Leonardo da VinciPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 23 Mar 2010 at 5:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else
Speaker: John BorroughsPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wiseSpeaker: Lao TzuPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Speaker: E. B. WhiteSource: http://www.quotationspage.comPosted: 08 Aug 2009 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction.
Source: Bhagavad GitaPosted: 14 Mar 2010 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
Speaker: Evan EsarPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.
Speaker: RousseauSource: Du Contrat SocialPosted: 01 Mar 2010 at 5:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!