December 2011
1 post
“People are always ready to admit a man’s ability after he gets there.”
– Bob Edwards
November 2011
4 posts
“I need a plan.” →
The hard part isn’t coming up with the plan. The hard part is bearing the stage of “No action” necessary so that the right amount of data can unfold. And then, when you know where you want to go, where you need to be, exactly how you’d like the change to manifest, the steps to getting there lay themselves out the way the Yellow Brick road revealed itself to Dorothy.
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the...”
– Alan Keightly, via Maneesh
“Imagine for a moment that the life you currently have is taken away from you....”
– Ann Mehl (an amazing read)
October 2011
4 posts
“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”
– George Bernard Shaw, via Mike
“Will you look back on life and say, “I wish I had,” or “I’m glad I did”?”
– Zig Ziglar (via Mike)
“It isn’t the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over...”
– Robert J. Hasting (via Mike)
September 2011
4 posts
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch (via Diva)
“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”
– Michael Caine (via How do I become a hustler?)
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
– Michael Jordan
“Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to...”
– Robert Brault
August 2011
3 posts
“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right,...”
– Win Borden
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having...
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re...”
– Ken Blanchard
July 2011
7 posts
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old...”
– Lady Gaga (via Tara)
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
– Martin Buber
“Experience is the greatest teacher of all. Stop reading about or watching the...”
– 29 life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it...”
– John Wooden
“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
– Billy Wilder
“Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.”
– Thomas Edison
June 2011
9 posts
“”Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster...”
– Bruce Lee (via Stacy)
Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything? →
“I love living in a big city because I find solace in the anonymity it brings.”
– via The Rawness
“You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is...”
– Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (via crookedindifference)
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you...”
– David Bly
“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only...”
– John Stuart Mill
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in...”
– Jackie Robinson
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Blame admittedly allows us to languish in the presumed comfort of bad habits. It...”
– The Blame Game
May 2011
8 posts
“Forgiveness is having given up all hope of having had a better past.”
– Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions (via psychotherapy)
“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the...”
– Paulo Coehlo (via coffeeanddreams)
“Love is not something you have or don’t have. Love is something you do.”
– David Deida
21 Lessons Learned from 16 Years of Hustling →
Genius. Two great lessons:
2. It’s never about you
Read something on the internet and get all offended cuz the author dissed your favorite life choice/programming language/company/90s band/vampire novel? It’s not about you. Somebody thought you weren’t worth their time, attention, kindness, or money? Not about you. Somebody slammed you or you work? It definitely wasn’t about you. Somebody made a...
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within...”
– Galileo
“Living in the world of unsaid never really serves”
– Sage Robbins
“I don’t associate heartbreak with romance anymore, though I did when I was...”
– What does heartbreak mean to you?
April 2011
5 posts
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their...”
– Mark Twain
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when...”
– Pete Seeger
“Skills that transfer: street fights, off-path hiking, seduction, broad...”
– Nassim Taleb
The traveling German carpenters →
March 2011
7 posts
“Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and...”
– Philip Appleman
“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,...”
– Mark Twain (h/t Chica)
“There is no security on this Earth, there is only opportunity.”
– General MacArthur
“I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.”
– Pablo Picasso (via Chica)
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants,...”
– Anais Nin (via Chica)