Category: Quotes

  • Nothing is as simple as…

    Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.– Jim Horning … This brings me back to the point. Nothing is as simple as we hope it to be. Not even something as simple as posting a blog entry.

  • Regret for things we did can be tempered…

    Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sidney J Harris … We all think that we would or we should do something and then back out on the last moment. It could be something as simple as…

  • We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to…

    We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.– Frank Tibolt… There, I talk about beginning any task you can do or dream about. We see that just dreaming about doing something isn’t going to get you anywhere. You have to begin it.…

  • The best of times is now

    The best of times is now.– Oprah Winfrey … Have a great day and week. We will be in the year 2011 by the time I put my next quote here. I hope you had a fun 2010 and wishing the best for 2011. Another thing: Like the quote says, the best of your times…

  • Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute

    Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.– Unknown … It takes a lot of effort to beat procrastination and get a complex thing done with a single deadline. Almost all of the work piles up and accumulates at the last minute when you have no choice but to do it anyway you…

  • Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore?

    Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore?– Henry Ward Beecher … Where do you think your control is at its weakest? Is it an ice-cream parlor, gift shop, fast-food joint or the bookshop again?

  • To be content with little is hard…

    To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach … Haven’t you noticed a person with a low-end or mid-end mobile phone is usually satisfied and is content for months or even years; however, someone with a high-end phone is constantly switching phones. Similarly, someone living in a…

  • The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase…

    The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.– C.P. Snow … It might as well be that Chris Gardner was finally happy with the job and founding of his own multi-million dollar brokerage firm; however, stories like these are a rarity. It needs a person who…

  • Ask yourself whether you are happy…

    Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.— John Stuart Mill … Wikipedia defines happiness as “a state of mind or feeling characterised by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure or joy.” Each of these concepts is hard to measure or quantify to provide a meaningful quantity to happiness. Consequently, when one asks…

  • If you are going through hell, keep going…

    If you are going through hell, keep going…Winston Churchill … The beauty here, in my opinion, is the play on the word “going”. The repeated word makes it straight-forward that you don’t have to put a lot more effort to keep going onwards since you are going anyway. The only problem would be you. More…