Perspectives and Reflections

Reality is reality.  Thoughts, ideas, models and perspectives are a kind of reflection of reality.  Words are ripples of that reflection.  It is good to experience reality, to develop your own ideas and maps of it, and to read and listen to words that describe it from different perspectives.  One perspective lets you see a glimmer, multiple perspectives lets you see a multidimensional image from all sides.  With enough experience and perspectives you can begin to pick up and manipulate the object.

Sometimes when lost you may find an answer in the haystack of others ideas.  Below is such a haystack.  The ideas and the people are not to be trusted - merely it is to provoke your own thought and integration thereof.

You will never be as good a Jimmy Hendrix as Jimmy, but no one else will can be the best you that you can be.  Should Eddie Van Halen not have picked up the guitar because Jimmy Hendrix existed?

Where is your self worth coming from?  You be the one that creates the meaning in your life.

Tom Bilyeu

Without discipline you will never have choice.  It will give you many things choice being one of them.  

I am a physicalist - I believe everything comes down to your brain.  Even if this is all a simulation - the simulation works in a certain way and that is it has its physically causal laws, its own pattern of cause and effect.  

Tom on Fulfillment ("Every word is non negotiable")

You must work hard to garner a set of skills that allow you to serve not only yourself but other people in a way that is exciting to you.  If you do that and you are making progress serving yourself as well as others - even in moments of grief you will have fulfillment.  No one is happy in grief, but you can feel fulfillment in grief.

As you get strong and look aesthetically pleasing you will feel better about yourself.

The biggest breakthrough in business for me was changing my physique.

Never ask someone else to slow down so you can lead. 

Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. 

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. 

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. 

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still  greater. 

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the  the universe. 

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. 

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. 

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.  Imagination is more  important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. 

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. 

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. 

It´s not that I´m so smart; it´s just that I stay with problems longer. 

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. 

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of  those who look on and do nothing. 

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. 

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. 

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. 

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. 

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember.

Steve Jobs

"It was impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but it was very very clear looking backwards 10 years later.  Again you can't connect the dots looking forward only looking backwards.  You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future.  You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever - because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path and that will make all the difference."

"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick.  Don't lose faith.  I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going is that I loved what I did.  You've got to find what you love.  And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.  Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.  And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.  If you haven't found it yet keep looking and don't settle.  As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years go on so keep looking, don't settle."

"For the past 33 years I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today.  And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row I know I need to change something.  Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool that I have ever encountered in helping me to make the big choices in life.  Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death - leaving only what is truly important.  Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.  You are already naked.  There is no reason not to follow your heart."

"Death is the destination we all share.  No one has ever escaped it.  And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.  It's life's change agent.  It clears out the old to make way for the new.  Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.  Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking.  Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your inner voice.  And most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.  They somehow already know what you truly want to become.  Everything else is secondary." 

"I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life.  Waz and I started apple in my parents garage when I was 20."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change  the world?"

"If today were the last day of my life, Would I want to do what I’m about to do today?  And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to  change something."

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know  what they want until you show it to them."

"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better."

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple  came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not  about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

"Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than  complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's  worth it in the end, because once you get there, you can move mountains. 

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative  tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the  parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people. 

I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying  no to 1,000 things.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old  models that are obsolete.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious  resource we all have is time."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I apportion what I think is true based on the quality and quantity of evidence in support of it.  For that reason I probably believe fewer things than most people that were ever born.

On Science as we know it today.

The Milky Way galaxy has 200 Billion stars, most with planetary systems estimating about 20 Billion earthlike planets.  There are 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe.  

You can see pictures of the big bang.

The universe was around for approx. 13.8 Billion years.

The known universe is 93 Billion light years big, 28,800 mega parsecs

The Universe is speeding up its expansion not slowing down.  Like raisins in a dough cooked each expand.  Expansion of 70 kilometers per mega second.

On Meditation

Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. 

Abraham Lincoln

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. 

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail;  without it nothing can succeed.

That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubts. 

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. 

Abdul Kalam 

Dream, Dream, Dream, Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action. 

Hitler

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise  as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. 

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. 

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. 

On AI

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can  swim. ― Edsger W. Dijkstra 

Like consciousness is to the human being, artificial intelligence is to the planet earth. -Marcin Gamza

Bhagwad Gita

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. 

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right  place, and when we expect nothing in return. 

Buddha

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. 

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. 

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be  shortened. 

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering - an image of death. 

It is better to travel well than to arrive. 

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. 

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and  be influenced by them for good or ill.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. 

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. 

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. 

*Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. 

The first mistake in public business is the going into it. 

Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. 

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. 

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Life's not fair, get over it!

*We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit.  ― Aristotle 

On Business

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.  ―John Gottman 

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. ― Chinese Proverb 

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you. ― Benjamin Franklin 

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. ― Aristotle

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. ― Richard Branson 

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ― Henry Ford

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ―Richard Branson 

Confucius

*By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by  imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. 

*Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. 

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. 

*Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. 

*The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. 

*If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for  one hundred years educate children. 

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. 

Chanakya

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first. 

*Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the  results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory  answers to these questions, go ahead. 

Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon  it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. 

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.  

Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most  responsive to change.

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. 

Charlie Chaplan

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. 

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it. 

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Brunettes are troublemakers. ='D

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be  understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the  creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do  than by the ones you did do. -Mark Twain

Nathalie Gamza

If you are having a hard time loving yourself put a baby picture of yourself on your mirror treat it and yourself accordingly.  

Hemmingway

Never confuse movement with action.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. 

In order to write about life first you must live it. 

Dostoyevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to  a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect  for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. 

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a  month.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in  the most difficult case. 

Charles Bernard Shaw

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. 

The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. 

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did  ten times more work.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never  lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Orwell

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls  the past.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who  are not fighting.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence  on those who would do us harm.

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell  next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. - Groucho Marx 

Henry Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. 

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. 

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain  defeat. ― Ralph Ellison

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to  believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil  all by themselves. ― Tess Gerritsen

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a  leader. ― John Quincy Adams

The unhappiest & unsuccessful people in this world, are those who care the most about  what other people think. ― C. JoyBell 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort  and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  ― Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go  in. ― Napoleon Bonaparte 

You just can´t beat the person who never gives up. ― Babe Ruth

I have failed over and over again –that is why I succeed. ― Michael Jordan

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.  ― Albert Einstein 

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.  Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small  amount of heat. ― Napoleon Hill 

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When  they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success. ― Norman Vincent Peale

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. ― Wayne Gretzky

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have.  ― Thomas Jefferson 

Remember, if you want a different result, do something different. ― Anon

People are not lazy; they just have impotent goals, that is, goals that do not inspire  them. ― Anthony Robbins

Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom  it is aimed.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.  

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. 

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

I trust no one, not even myself.

America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its  morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will  collapse from within. 

Karl Marx

Religion is the opiate of the masses. 

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh,  who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones  worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Leo Tolstoy

I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others  that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his  back.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Ghandi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good,  the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

 A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and  take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a  surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. 

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself,  I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain  his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. 

It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. 

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the  mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or  democracy?

Mark Twain

We are all stupid, just on different subjects.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. 

On Intelligence

None of us is as smart as all of us. ― Ken Blanchard 

Teamwork

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get  something back. ― Michael Schumacher

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ― Anon

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ― Alexander the Great 

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them  tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.  ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

 Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.  ― Casey Stengel 

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each  individual. ― Vince Lombardi

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because  man is disunited with himself. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad not whipping  individuals into a single batch of V8. ― Sandra Richardson Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.  ― Max DePree 

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. 

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. 

*All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. 

It is by suffering that human beings become angels. 

Shakespear

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I'll always be in your heart…  If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind. 

All's well if all ends well. 

What's done cannot be undone. 

There are three people in yourself: Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who  you really are. 

Speak low, if you speak love. 

Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in  every difficulty.

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. 

If you are going through hell, keep going. 

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. 

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average  voter. 

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin,  keep out of the way till you can. 

There is no such thing as a good tax. 

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried. 

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that  barks.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough  to create interest. 

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty,  you have no brain. 

Continuous effort! not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking your potential. 

Will Rogers

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress? 

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet. 

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians  as a joke. 

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law  it's a joke. 

Money

Warren Buffet

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy  when others are fearful. - Warren Buffet

Never invest in a business you can’t understand. -Warren Buffet

The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. 

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. 

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. 

Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when  it is marked down. 

Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about  that you'll do things differently.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior  is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction. 

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. 

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. 

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them.  Because sooner or later, one will. 

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water  has run out. 

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things  difficult. 

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that  they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. 

Walt Disney

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. 

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. 

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children. 

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.  

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting. 

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics:  Freedom for slave owners. 

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world. 

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. 

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.... Make mass searches and hold  executions for found arms.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation  and inflation. 

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there  are millions, that is where serious politics begin.  

Leadership

Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More 

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ― Michael Jordan 

Religion

The Bible: It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and  some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and  upwards of a thousand lies. -Mark Twain

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake.. Religion is all bunk. -Thomas Edison

On Entrepreneurship and Accomplishment

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds. -Mark Twain

On Life

 Time is like a river that will take you forward into encounters with reality that will require you to make decisions. You can’t stop the movement down this river, and you can’t avoid the encounters. You can only approach these encounters in the best way possible. -Ray Dalio

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. -Oscar Wild

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first  time as a newborn child that has no name.  -Rabindranath Tagore 

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives  a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -Oscar Wild

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn´t do than by

 the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade

 winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain

The two most important days in your life are, the day you are born and the day you  find out why. -Mark Twain

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than  absolutely boring. -  Marilyn Monroe 

To move the world we must move ourselves. -Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -Socrates

 When death is certain, it is best to sacrifice oneself for a good cause. - Swami Vivekananda 

 Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. -- Henry Ward 

On Success

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too  low and we reach it. ― Michelangelo

Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. -Thomas Eddison 

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the  world calls success.  

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. -Thomas Edison

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes,  but they don’t quit. ― Conrad Hilton 

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ― Mark Twain

50% of success is showing up. -Woody Allen

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me?  Why not now? ― James Allen 

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. ― Napoleon Bonaparte It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ― Theodore Roosevelt

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure  which is, try to please everybody. ― Herbert Swope

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.  ― Theodore Roosevelt

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he  hits bottom. ― George Patton 

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.  ― Anthony J. D'Angelo 

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success. ― Pete Zafra 

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ― Jim Rohn 

Many of life´s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success  when they gave up. — Thomas Edison

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any  other thing. — Abraham Lincoln

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever  afraid of the consequences. — Jawaharlal Nehru 

Thomas Edison

There is always a better way. - Thomas Eddison

We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.

We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak. 

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. 

Worry + Anxiety 

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky. 

On Failure

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. 

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results.  I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t. 

Swami Vivekananda 

Experience is the only teacher we have. 

If superstition enters, the brain is gone. 

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. 

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. 

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you. There is no other teacher but your own soul. 

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the  brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone 

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words  are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far 

On Happiness 

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to  get it. -Socrates

On Government

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. -Mark Twain

 No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself  sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government. -Socrates

On Knowledge and Wisdom

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper,  you're mis-informed. -Mark Twain

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life,  ourselves, and the world around us. 

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. 

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall  come easily by what others have labored hard for. -Socrates

On Internal States

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. -Mark Twain

On The Public

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the  other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. -Robert Frost

On Relationships

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -Ghandi

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.  - Mother Theresa

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses  in conversation. -Mark Twain

There are so many negative things in this world, if you have something nice to share- share it. - Marcin Gamza

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. -Mother Theresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Theresa

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.  -Oscar Wilde

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. -Rabindranath Tagore 

On Belief

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a  poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing. -Robert Frost

On Good and Evil

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. -Socrates

On Death

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -Socrates

On Humor

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll

 become a philosopher. - Socrates

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love. -Woddy Allen

Let us be thankful for the fools. Because of them the rest of us could not succeed. -Mark Twain

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. -Marylin Monroe

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot! -Marylin Monroe

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. -Marylin Monroe

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the  people. -Oscar Wilde

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the  morning and does not stop until you get into the office.  -Robert Frost

Call no man unhappy until he is married. -Al Bundy errr Socrates

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t  smart enough to get out of jury duty. — Norm Crosby

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get  smart just in time to ask questions? — Scott Adams  

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ― Mae West

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know  he's crooked. - Groucho Marx  

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.  -Groucho Marx 

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. ― Henry Ward Beecher

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.  ― Frank Howard Clark 

On Sex

You don't have to be naked to be sexy. ― Nicole Kidman 

On Self Care

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. -Marylin Monroe

On Accomplishment

A career is born in public—talent in privacy. -Marylin Monroe

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. -Marylin Monroe

On Perspective

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wild

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes  after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all  yourself from the clues. ― Terry Pratchett

On Suffering and Enlightenment

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The  one you are looking for is you. You are the traveler and you are the destination. In  experiencing the ecstasy of your own being, you have achieved the final goal. -Osho

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. Each is unique and  incomparable. You are just yourself: nobody has ever been like you, and nobody will  ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either. -Osho

Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowhere is the Now-Here. -Osho

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to  feel meaninglessness. -Osho

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light. -Osho

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. - Rabindranath Tagore

The Chinese Farmer Story: Maybe

Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.”

The next day the horse came back bringing seven wild horses with it, and in the evening everybody came back and said, “Oh, isn’t that lucky. What a great turn of events. You now have eight horses!” The farmer again said, “Maybe.”

The following day his son tried to break one of the horses, and while riding it, he was thrown and broke his leg. The neighbors then said, “Oh dear, that’s too bad,” and the farmer responded, “Maybe.”

The next day the conscription officers came around to conscript people into the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. Again all the neighbors came around and said, “Isn’t that great!” Again, he said, “Maybe.”

On Buddha

He taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and severe asceticism.

Dogma

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

On Humanity

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. -Oscar Wild

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will  tell you the truth. -Oscar Wild

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. -Oscar Wild

On Suffering

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. -Ocar Wilde

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than  work. -Robert Frost

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

On Art + Creativity

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to  make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before? ― Francis Ford Coppola 

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it – if my work has anything it’s that  I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people  don’t like that, then tough titty, don’t go and see it, alright? I steal from everything.  Great artists steal; they don’t do homages. ― Quentin Tarantino 

 Films are subjective-what you like, what you don’t like. But the thing for me that is  absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money  and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made  that film think it’s the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it  and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they’ve done, I want that effort  there-I want that sincerity. And when you don’t feel it, that’s the only time I feel like I’m  wasting my time at the movies. ― Christopher Nolan

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. ― George Lucas

I make movies I want to see. ― Neil LaBute

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. -Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.  -Oscar Wilde

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. -Robert Frost

 A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. -Robert Frost

On Truth

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you. -Oscar Wild

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. -Rabindranath Tagore 

On Music

Music’s a good thing, It calms the beast in the man. -Joseph Stalin

Without music, life would be a mistake. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life  to everything. ― Plato 

Music is my love, playing it is my religion. -Marcin Gamza

Big Shout Out to Abhi Sharma author of: The Great Book Of Best Quotes Of All Time 

 - I would love to share tea with you!