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Robin Tierney, Travel Writer

COLUMN = TRAVEL

About Robin Tierney

Robin is a full-time freelance writer who covers art and artists, health, cuisine, and the outdoors. When traveling, this avid (some say intrepid) cyclist looks for offbeat, intriguing places, inventive eco-friendly ventures, and hiking, biking, and water trails that provide communion with natural wonders.

Side projects have ranged from writing canine-care guides, veganized recipes, and mindful living tipsheets for nonprofit groups to building a near-net-zero Earth-friendly homestead by the ocean in Florida. Robin’s articles have appeared in regional and national newspapers; travel, business, and arts magazines; and other media (including very short works etched on sand, ice, and random signposts).

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar