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  • #1
    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

  • #2
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #3
    Maxim Gorky
    “When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
    Maxim Gorky

  • #4
    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

  • #5
    Maxim Gorky
    “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
    Maxim Gorky

  • #6
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #7
    Dale Carnegie
    “Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

  • #8
    Malcolm X
    “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
    Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

  • #9
    Maxwell Maltz
    “Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.”
    Maxwell Maltz, New Psycho-Cybernetics

  • #10
    David Deida
    “Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes.”
    David Deida

  • #11
    “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
    Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

  • #12
    Gautama Buddha
    “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • #13
    Gautama Buddha
    “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
    Buddha

  • #14
    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #15
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”
    Robert Green Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV

  • #16
    Annie Dillard
    “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.”
    Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

  • #17
    Timothy Ferriss
    “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. —BRUCE LEE”
    Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

  • #18
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

  • #19
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #20
    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    Herbert Bayard Swope

  • #21
    Jerry Weintraub
    “Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.”
    Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man

  • #22
    Jerry Weintraub
    “Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.”
    Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man

  • #23
    David Deida
    “Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.”
    David Deida, Blue Truth

  • #24
    David Deida
    “Every moment waited is a moment wasted....”
    David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

  • #25
    David Deida
    “If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now.

    The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.”
    David Deida

  • #26
    Gautama Buddha
    “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
    Siddhārtha Gautama

  • #27
    B.F. Skinner
    “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
    B. F. Skinner

  • #28
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #29
    Francis Bacon
    “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
    Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

  • #30
    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    Francis Bacon



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