Browsing Quotes, page 73
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
Speaker: Bill WattersonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
Speaker: Robert HenriSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora’s box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.
Speaker: Jules HenrySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True freedom is much more than having enough income and time to do what you want. It is quite possible – actually the rule rather than the exception – to have financial and time freedom but still be caught in the throes of the rat race. One cannot be free from the stresses of a speed- and size-obsessed culture until you are free from the materialistic addictions, time-famine mind-set, and comparative impulses that created it in the first place.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Speaker: Charles KuraltSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is the very perfection of man, to find out his own imperfection.
Speaker: AugustineSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.
Speaker: Rolf PottsSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.
Speaker: Paul FusselSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Speaker: Colin WilsonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon. The problem and the solution are usually obvious and simple. It’s not that you don’t know what to do. Of course you do. You are just terrified that you might end up worse off than you are now.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Speaker: Chinese proverbSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Speaker: Robert FrostSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
Speaker: Thomas H. HuxleySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Speaker: Warren G. BennisSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Speaker: Vida D. ScudderSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Speaker: Woodrow WilsonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Speaker: John RuskinSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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