Entries for the 'Quotes to Consider' Category
Quote to Consider: Seriously Now
Thursday, April 26th, 2012“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”
Margot Fonteyn
Quote to Consider: Every Step Matters
Saturday, April 14th, 2012“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
Jacob A. Riis
Quote to Consider: The Discipline of Inspiration
Saturday, March 31st, 2012“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. “
Ernest Newman
Quote to Consider: Ah, What Incredible Potential!
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible… what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!”
Soren Kierkegaard
Quote to Consider: The Risk of Dying
Saturday, February 25th, 2012“An individual dies… when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.”
E. M. Cioran
Quote to Consider: Feeling Happy or Being Happy?
Saturday, February 11th, 2012“Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.”
John B. Sheerin
Quote to Consider: The Lies Good Friends Tell
Saturday, February 4th, 2012“Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
Albert Camus
Quote to Consider: The Medicine Called Hope
Saturday, January 28th, 2012“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
Orison Swett Marden
Quote to Consider: The Habit of Excellence
Saturday, January 21st, 2012“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.”
Marva Collins