Quotes

“If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.” -Lowell Lundstrum

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up” (1936)

“ISTPs always seem to know what they’re doing, but the whole chain of events presents a confusing picture to an outsider.”

“My ability to speak honestly about my weaknesses, failures and disappointments will be my greatest strength.”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“If a person can’t be the same person in two different places, maybe that person has not really done the work of being a person.” – Liz Colville

“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.” – John Churton Collins

“…When we begin stripping away the tangible components of this reality, all that remains is the energy to transform, to create…and the hope and trust that these creations will continue on with a renewing resonance all their own. —It’s never about getting it ‘right.’ It’s not about perfection in word choice, in spelling or grammatical precision. It’s about pulling pieces of life that move me to the fore…and creating change, one paragraph at a time.” – Carrie Ciula

“But I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” — Don Cheadle

“The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence.” – a Brahmin to Onesicritus, 327 BC, reported in Strabo’s Geography

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” – Winston Churchill

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” – Einstein

“Focusing is about saying no.” – Steve Jobs

“The dreamers are the saviors of the world.” — James Allen, writer