QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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André Gide

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Mindfulness
Outcomes

T. S. Eliot

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Action
Energy
Identity

Groucho Marx

People say I don’t take criticism well, but I say, what the hell do they know?

Authenticity
Emotions
Energy

Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.

Outcomes
Values

Francis Bacon

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Authenticity
Values

Phil Daniels

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Success

Dee Hock

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Authenticity
Purpose
Values

Edward Albee

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Action

Robert Evans

Sumner Redstone came all the time to visit me [after my stroke]. He held my hand and said, “You’re gonna make it! I was burnt to death and now I can walk. And you’re gonna make it, too!” The doctors told him to not keep coming back because I wasn’t going to make it, but…

Authenticity
Values

David Hockney

Surface is illusion, but so is depth.

Mindfulness
Spirituality

William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Leadership
Mindfulness
Values

Chinese Proverb

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Outcomes
Time

Eric Hoffer

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else, we…

Mindfulness
Presence
Time

Tom Cargill

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 10 percent of the development time…The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

Energy

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Action
Outcomes

George Martin

The greatest attribute a producer can have is the ability to see the whole picture. Most artists, when they record something, don’t listen to the whole thing. They listen to what they’re doing. It’s a bit like when you’re a kid and you look at a school photograph of a hundred kids. The first thing…

Leadership
Perspective

Lou Gerstner

The Noah Principle:  No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.

Outcomes

Barbara Tuchman

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

Rainer Marie Rilke

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Purpose

Francis Ford Coppola

The things that you get fired for when you are young are the exact same things that you win lifetime achievement awards when you are old, which is to say that the things that run against the grain, that are not common or not logical, or don’t fit into what is the standard approach, that…

Authenticity
Success
Values

Nelson Henderson

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Purpose

Unknown

There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy.

Action
Integrity
Outcomes

Unknown

There are two great rules of life. The first is, never tell everything at once.

Authenticity
Time
Writing

Henry James

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Emotions
Values

Niels Bohr

There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another profound truth.

Values

Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon

A historian in the fourteenth century wrote a book about what he knew of the world. One observation he made is that all the tribes that have difficulty feeding themselves are lean and healthy, and those that have plenty of food are fat, lazy, and unhealthy.

Health
Values
Writing

Louis L'Amour

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Perspective
Success
Time

Thomas Edison

There’s a way to do it better. Find it.

Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Chief Seattle

This we know. The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.

Relationships
Spirituality

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