Enthusiasm, Creativity, Inspiration

Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
~ Advice

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
~ John Updike (1932-2009)

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
~ Jack London

On the right track, nonconformist

When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, "My purpose is to ___________ today."
~ Advice


Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
~ Will Rogers

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
~ James Thurber

Civilized? Not-normal? These are for you!

Buy a DVR. Tape your late night shows and get more sleep.
~ Advice

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
~ Frank Zappa

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
~ Robert E. Howard

Range of Influence

Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to. 
~ Advice

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
~ Edward R. Murrow

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
~ Douglas Adams

Audacity, diversification and smiling...

Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
~ Advice

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
~ Warren Buffett

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte