If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
-Ovid
A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
-Maurice Chevalier
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
..................... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
WISDOM TO START THE DAY....
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J.K. Rowling
R.I.P Chris.
What is reality but a concept unique to each of us? Can anything be classed as real when our perceptions differ greatly on so many things? Just because we see something a particular way does not make it so.
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