Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. By Willa Cather Quick View Author All Quotes, Willa Cather Tag: #life, #storytelling, #writing
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, “Make me feel important.” Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. By Mary Kay Ash Quick View Author All Quotes, Mary Kay Ash Tag: #life, #success
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. By Carl G. Jung Quick View Author All Quotes, Carl G. Jung Tag: #life, #mistakes, #psychology, #truth
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. By D.H. Lawrence Quick View Author All Quotes, D.H. Lawrence Tag: #life, #living, #philosophy, #women
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #life
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. By Voltaire Quick View Author All Quotes, Voltaire Tag: #learning, #self-knowledge, #wisdom
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. By Dr. Seuss Quick View Author All Quotes, Dr. Seuss Tag: #learning, #reading
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. By Benjamin Franklin Quick View Author All Quotes, Benjamin Franklin Tag: #learning, #mentoring, #parenting
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. By C.S. Lewis Quick View Author All Quotes, C.S. Lewis Tag: #learning
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him. By Napoleon Hill Quick View Author All Quotes, Napoleon Hill
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #inspirational, #journalism, #myth, #story, #truth-telling
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. By Marilyn vos Savant Quick View Author All Quotes, Marilyn Vos Savant Tag: #inspirational, #motivational
LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish. By Robert Greene Quick View Author All Quotes, Robert Greene Tag: #inspirational, #motivational
Well-behaved women seldom make history. By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Quick View Author All Quotes, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Tag: #inspirational, #misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, #women
It is never too late to be what you might have been. By George Eliot Quick View Author All Quotes, George Eliot Tag: #inspirational, #source-unknown
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. By Stephen King Quick View Author All Quotes, Stephen King Tag: #inspirational, #productivity, #writing
We accept the love we think we deserve. By Stephen Chbosky Quick View Author All Quotes, Stephen Chbosky Tag: #inspirational, #love
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. By Robert Frost Quick View Author All Quotes, Robert Frost Tag: #inspirational, #teachers
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #inspirational, #life-lesson, #spirituality
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. By Aristotle Quick View Author All Quotes, Aristotle Tag: #inspirational, #philosophy, #writing
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. By George Bernard Shaw Quick View Author All Quotes, George Bernard Shaw Tag: #inspirational, #life, #yourself
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. By Seneca Quick View Author All Quotes, Seneca Tag: #inspirational
Always do what you are afraid to do. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Quick View Author All Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson Tag: #inspirational
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go… By Dr. Seuss Quick View Author All Quotes, Dr. Seuss Tag: #inspirational
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. By Napoleon Hill Quick View Author All Quotes, Napoleon Hill Tag: #inspirational
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. By Theodore Roosevelt Quick View Author All Quotes, Theodore Roosevelt Tag: #inspirational
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #inspirational
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. By Helen Keller Quick View Author All Quotes, Helen Keller Tag: #inspirational
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought By Napoleon Hill Quick View Author All Quotes, Napoleon Hill Tag: #inspiration, #personal-development
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. By Mary Kay Ash Quick View Author All Quotes, Mary Kay Ash Tag: #inspiration, #resourcefulness
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. By J.R.R. Tolkien Quick View Author All Quotes, J.R.R. Tolkien Tag: #encouragement, #gandalf
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. By Helen Keller Quick View Author All Quotes, Helen Keller Tag: #dreams, #vision
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. By William Shakespeare Quick View Author All Quotes, William Shakespeare Tag: #dreams, #imagination, #psychology
You can have it all. Just not all at once. By Oprah Winfrey Quick View Author All Quotes, Oprah Winfrey Tag: #dreams, #life, #time
There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. By Maya Angelou Quick View Author All Quotes, Maya Angelou Tag: #change, #life-lessons, #transformation
Never confuse movement with action. By Ernest Hemingway Quick View Author All Quotes, Ernest Hemingway Tag: #action, #progress
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. By Carl Gustav Jung Quick View Author All Quotes, Carl Gustav Jung Tag: #action, #service
Be the change that you wish to see in the world. By Mahatma Gandhi Quick View Author All Quotes, Mahatma Gandhi Tag: #action, #change, #inspirational, #philosophy, #wish
Eureka” can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” ) By Erik Pevernagie Quick View Author All Quotes, Erik Pevernagie Tag: #eureka, #illuminate, #imagination, #out-of-the-blue, #question
Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. By Roy T. Bennett Quick View Author All Quotes, Roy T. Bennett Tag: #giving, #goals, #goals-in-life, #inspiration, #inspirational, #learn, #learning, #life, #life-quotes, #light, #light-and-darkness, #living-life, #meaning, #meaning-of-life, #meaningful, #meaningful-life, #wisdom, #wise