Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Charles Swindoll
Quotes
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.
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Old Buddhist saying
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn (1930 – 2009)
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Edward Tufte – Yale Professor Emeritus
Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.
Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills.
Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
Jim Rohn (1930 – 2009)
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
Frank Wilczek (Nobel Prize winner)
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett (1948 – 2015)
It is very important what not to do.
Iggy Pop
Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.
Wang Yangming
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
Annie Dillard
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Seneca the Younger
It is not what you look at that matters it is what your see.
Henry David Thoreau
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson (1840 – 1921)
A library is thought in cold storage.
Herbert Samuel (1870 – 1963)
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore (1852 – 1933)
I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson