Wasted energy, Honesty, Fine Quotations

Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
~ Advice

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~ Arthur C. Clarke

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
~ Joseph Roux

Declutter, Learn, and Shine!

Clear your clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flowing energy into your life.
~ Advice

In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.
~ James Thurber

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.
~ Ray Bradbury

Encountering minds, and who is education for?

Try to make at least three people smile each day.
~ Advice

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
~ Mark Twain

Truth, Persistence

Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
~Advice

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ John Calvin Coolidge

Experimentation

Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
~ Advice

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~ Anonymous

Dreaming, Logic and Saying the Right Thing

Dream more while you are awake.
~ Advice

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
~ Laurence J. Peter

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Listen, the Future, Fruitful Errors

Spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
~ Advice

The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed.
~ William Gibson

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
~ Issac Asimov

Fuel, Founders, and Focus

Make time to practice meditation, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
~ Advice

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
~ Oscar Wilde

Enrichment, Leadership and Perfection

Play more games and read more books than you did last year.
~ Advice

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.
~ Warren Bennis

It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it.
~ Thomas J. Watson

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

Effective Thinking

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
~ Walter Chrysler(1875-1940)

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
~ Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.
~ Richard Gere

Success... and relaxation

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
~ Denis Waitley (American motivational speaker)

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
~ Ralph Marston

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to
admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error.
~ Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)

and relating to playing...

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

~ George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

~ Leo F. Buscaglia quotes (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love, 1924-1998)

Just playing

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~ Kin Hubbard.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
~ Hubert Humphrey

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
~ Carl Gustav Jung

Guard your time and your thoughts

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

~ Carl Sandburg

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

~ quotes about Confidence by Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970 Personal Growth and Self Development
(the moral is don't give space in your head to your enemies - K)

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

~ Unknown

Heroes, Attitudes, and Vision

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~ Herm Albright

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
~ Benjamin Franklin