My Favorites Quotes
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Innovation is saying no to 1000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track and concentrate on the things that are really important.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia :))
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.
Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.
Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.
If I’d Shot You Sooner, I’d Be Out of Jail by Now
Innovation is saying no to 1000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track and concentrate on the things that are really important.
Silence and stillness is something to embrace and treasure. Relax into it and let go of the need to fill it with empty words or actions. Allow it to be your friend.
There are no problems, only challenges and solutions.
Your past does not matter and you are not who you were in the past.
The only place where life exists is NOW. Go live it. Don’t wait for tomorrow or until everything is perfect. It never will be.
People are generally good.
Life is not about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.
Life is all about the memories. Go create them.
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value
A small rock holds back a great wave.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.
