Aug 12, 2011 18:16
from focus: a simplicity manifesto for the age of distraction
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t
hear, and not bothering.”
- A.A. Milne
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
- Gandhi
"The purpose of life is not to find yourself. It's to lose yourself."
- David Brooks, NYT op-ed contributor
from Life After College by Jenny Blake
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky
Most people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Underpromise; overdeliver. - Tom Peters
I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day. - Og Mandino
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. - Buddha