Gregory Barton > Quotes

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” — Steve Jobs”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?” — Sam Harris”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” — Stephen Covey”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“Don’t try to be the ’next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.” — Seth Godin”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.” — Maya Angelou”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence.” — Sam Harris”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” — Robert Pirsig”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“We are free to choose our actions, but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.” — Stephen Covey”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” — Steve Jobs”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“Don’t be the best. Be the only.” — Kevin Kelly”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.” — Kevin Kelly”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel J. Boorstin”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“I am enjoying my life because things aren’t going the way I planned.” — Rohit Pandita”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“Never get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.” — Colin Powell”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” — John C. Maxwell”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” — Thomas Edison”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” — Benjamin Franklin”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing

“When I look at the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes!” — Oprah Winfrey”
― Gregory Barton, Awaken Optimism: 366 Meditations for Making Each Day Amazing