Sharon Heck > Sharon's Quotes

“There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”
― Warren Buffett

“You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.”
― Warren Buffett

“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”
― Warren Buffett

“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.”
― Charles T. Munger, Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

“If something is too hard, we move on to something else. What could be simpler than that?”
― Charles T. Munger, Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

“We have three baskets: in, out, and too tough. … We have to have a special insight, or we’ll put it in the “too tough” basket.”
― Charles T. Munger

“I can rise despite them, despite what you and they would have me believe about myself. I used to think the world didn’t belong to women. We were spectators, disciples, slaves. But this world is ours.”
― Emily R. King, Wings of Fury

“We must stop shrinking ourselves to accommodate them.”
― Emily R. King, Wings of Fury

“The greatness of Intel is not that it is smarter than other companies (though it may well be) or that it is too clever and competent to make a false move (we’ve just seen a stunning example of the very opposite) but that it has consistently done better than any company, perhaps ever, at recovering from its mistakes.”
― Michael S. Malone, The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company

“There is no such thing as a stressful situation, only stressful responses to a given situation.”
― Emily Fletcher, Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance

“Mindfulness helps you deal with stress in the present; meditation gets rid of stress from the past; and manifesting helps you clarify your dreams for the future.”
― Emily Fletcher, Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance

“Retaining your power is about being confident in who you are and the choices you make, despite the people around you and the circumstances you’re in.”
― Amy Morin, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”
― Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves.”
― William Ury, Getting to Yes with Yourself:

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“But I still wondered: if we didn't matter as individuals, then what were we saving the group for?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Sunreach

“Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“Advice? You're too old to be given it and too young to take it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?”
― Geraldine Brooks, Horse

“How good is email as a communication device? “Terrible,” most people say. One reason is that email has no tone. It’s sort of like tofu—it takes on the flavor of what the recipient is feeling at the moment.”
― Stuart Diamond, Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life

“Lonely was much better than alone.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“Too many peoples have traveled back and forth, and too many legends and tales have mingled.”
― George R.R. Martin, The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones

“Snipers must make themselves calm in order to succeed, and that is why women are good at sharpshooting. Because there is not a woman alive who has not learned how to eat rage in order to appear calm.”
― Kate Quinn, The Diamond Eye

“It was about as organized and efficient as a monkey shit fight in a zoo.”
― Kate Quinn, The Diamond Eye

“A prisoner could be convinced that they lived in a paradise, if the prison was pretty enough.”
― Brandon Sanderson, ReDawn

“Learn to say no. And when you do, don’t complain and don’t explain. Every excuse you make is like an invitation to ask you again in a different way.”
― Kelly Corrigan, Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say

“I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.”
― Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage