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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
Speaker: Malcolm GladwellSource: OutliersPosted: 26 Aug 2012 at 1:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairPosted: 14 Aug 2012 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To borrowing and lending there is more than the passing of gold from the hands of one to the hands of another
Speaker: George S. ClasonSource: Richest Man in BabylonPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 22 Aug 2011 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trick is to promote actual freedom – not just by giving people lots of choices (though that can help) but also by putting people in a good position to choose what would be best.
Source: NudgePosted: 06 Aug 2011 at 11:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I’m telling the perfect truth.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune’s tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart’s mettle, and there’s no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you’ll sound sour as a broken bell.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing Because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something Despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Success in life is directly proportional to the number of awkward conversations you’re willing to have.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 28 Jun 2011 at 5:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: http://zenhabits.net/own/Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 6:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Speaker: Groucho MarxPosted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 17 Aug 2010 at 10:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do.Speaker: John WoodenPosted: 09 Jun 2009 at 9:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you decide to go with the flow, you’ll end up where the flow goes (which is usually downhill).
Speaker: Sean CoveyPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!