Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Walt Whitman
This page contains resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. It contains everything from quotes and books that I like to podcasts and videos.
If you don’t want to scroll through the entire list, you can click on one of the links below to filter the resources by specific category.
I will update this list as I discover new resources. If you have a resource you think I should add, please email me.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Walt Whitman
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.” But this holds true for leadership in general—give people space and they flourish.
Maria Montessori
Source: The Montessori Method (1912)
Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued together into our heads with stories.
Chris Brogan
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson, Source: Poem 690
Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.
Derek Sivers – How to Live
Be sincere, be brief, be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) 32nd US President
Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.
Aleks Krotoskm, broadcaster, journalist, and social psychologist
The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin
You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the plan. We come with it.
Margaret Atwood author of The HandMaid’s Tale
If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help.
Seymour Chwast
Source: The Left-Handed Designer
Even if you’re not a teacher, be a teacher. Share your ideas. Don’t take for granted your education. Rejoice in what you learn and spray it.
Source: 9 Life lessons
Tim Minchin
It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.
Julia Cameron, the Artist’s Way
Style—to renounce all but the essential, so that the essential may speak.
Freya Stark – travel writer
“Retreating with enthusiasm is a sign of wisdom and long-term thinking.”
Seth Godin
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
John Dryden
“Doth thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
Charles Spurgeon
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
“We know what we are but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare
“Play is the highest form of research.”
Albert Einstein
You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
Neil Gaiman – author
If you knew how much effort went into it you would not call it genius.
Michaelangelo
“Everything not saved will be lost.”
Nintendo “Quit Screen” message
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk (Novelist)
Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
Source: Aragon in The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkein
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Elliot
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Writer and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez
I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
Environmental activist, Frances Beinecke
Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
A Fremen proverb from Dune by Frank Herbert.