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“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.”
Mason Cooley
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”
Brian Tracy
“We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.”
— Max Planck
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Oscar Wilde
“If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.”
— Tim Cook
“To be alive - is Power.”
Emily Dickinson
“Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.”
— John Charles Polanyi
“We become brave by doing brave acts.”
Aristotle
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
“Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.”
Morihei Ueshiba
“When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.”
Seungsahn
“Microsoft didn't kill Linux on the Desktop... Apple did.”
— CmdrTaco
“Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.”
Chinese Proverb
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
A.A. Milne
“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
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
Alan Watts
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ”
Oscar Wilde
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little; do something.”
Sydney Smith
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
Plato
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
Margaret Mead
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
Mark Twain

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