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…