You are never given a wish without the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
— Richard Bach
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
— Dr. E. Land (inventor of the Polaroid Camera)
If you follow the crowd, you will likely get no further than the crowd. If
you walk alone, you're likely to end up in places no one has ever been before. Being an achiever is not
without its difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. The unfortunate thing about being ahead of your
time is that when people finally realize you were right, they'll simply say it was obvious to everyone all
along. You have two choices in life. You can dissolve into the main stream, or you can choose to become an
achiever and be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be
what no else but you can be.
— Unknown wise person
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue
than collective man ever can be.
— John Stuart Mill
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you
can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
— S. I. Hayakawa
When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse.
Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
— Jim Rohn
People who don't respect money don't have any.
— J. Paul Getty, Billionaire Oil Tycoon
Money will appear when you are doing the right thing in your life.
— Michael Phillips
It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they
are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is
thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy
consuming. It is easier to raise
$10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the
five 8s.
— Timothy Ferriss
To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else —
is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
— e. e. cummings
If you believe it can't be done, at least don't get in
the way of the person who is doing it.
— Unknown wise person
Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.
— John Otway
Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until
we choose to use it.
— Richard Bach
We know that the nature of genius is to
provide idiots with ideas
twenty years later.
— Louis Aragon
The law of floatation was not discovered by
contemplating the sinking of things.
— Thomas Troward
Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy
thinking and indiscriminate actions.
— Timothy Ferris
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances
are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
— Bob Black
A goal should scare you a little and excite you a
lot.
— Joe Vitale
If you aren’t living on the edge, you’re taking up too
much space.
— Unknown wise person
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give
me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
— J. C. Penny
1001
Best Things Ever Said about Work (and the Workplace)
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful,
when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
— Michael Pritchard
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure
— which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert B. Swope
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
— Sylvia Plath
I don't have a lot of respect for talent.
Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
— Martin Ritt
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you
are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The greater the fool the better the dancer.
— Theodore Hook
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the
broth.
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
When a true genius appears in the world, you
will know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
— Jonathan Swift
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we
have to alter it every six months.
— Oscar Wilde
The 237 Best Quotes and Sayings Ever Said about Retirement
Love is a state of temporary psychosis.
— Freud
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the
collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming
for base hits.
— Timothy Ferriss
The greatest 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
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for
anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from wise men.
— Cato
If fifty million people say [or do] a foolish
thing, it is still a foolish thing.
— Anotole France
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in
making those idiots understand their own language.
— Mark Twain
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
— American proverb
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them
out, the conservative adopts them.
— Mark Twain
Money will buy you a bed but not a good night’s sleep, a
house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
— Zig Ziglar
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
— Niels Bohr
Most people can tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever
people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
— Stephen Leacock
He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
— Mark Twain
I often quote myself. This adds spice to my conversations.
— George Bernard Shaw
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A
terrible thing: no one to blame.
— Erica Jong
