Inspirational Quotes - Page 291

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.