I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
Richard Dumb
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
Marcel Proust
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliott
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
President Calvin Coolidge
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
Emily Dickinson
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
Chinese Proverb
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
Basil King
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
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
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
August Rush
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
Lord Chesterfield
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
Martha Beck
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
Marilyn vos Savant
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
Indira Ghandi
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
Barack Obama
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
Maureen Cook
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
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
Mary Jean Irion
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
Mary Kay Ash
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Magical
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
Thomas Edison