Just as a quick "atta boy" email or compliment can pick up your day, there are often words that can reset a discouraging time. Here is one I received today:
"People who end up living their dreams are not those who are lucky and gifted, but those who are stubborn, resolute and willing to sacrifice."
- Jonathan Vaughters, CEO of Slipstream Sports, writing in the New York Times, received from 365SuccessQuotes.com
Do you have one to share?
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Here's one that may be appropriate today on AFI since there's an active discussion here about stealing ideas and designs. It's by Rudyard Kipling and taken from his 1894 poem, The "Mary Gloster". I just love this one, fer sher!
"They copies all the could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind.
I have some great Seth Godin material, Connie...The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook
O.K. Here are a few I like...the first from one of my favorite artists, Thomas Hart Benton...
"The artist's life is the best life, if he can survive the first 40 years of it." (I'm in my 25th year of an artist's life, so I've a ways to go.)
And then this one from Buckaroo Banzai...
"No matter where you go, there you are."
Seth is very quotable.
Thanks for the laugh from Benton. That second one I've also heard attributed to Mary Engelbreit and I quote it to grandchildren who just want to escape ...
I don't believe it's hers, Connie, but it sure sounds like it could have been. It's from the 1984 science fiction movie, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension (screenplay by Earl Mac Rauch), and Yale Book of Quotations credits it to that.
Someone reminded me that Albert Einstein, Leo Tolstoi, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and Shakespeare all had only 24 hours in their days, too.
Another good one too good not to pass on:
“No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.”
- Seth Godin (1960-), American author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.”
— Doug Larson
"You were born with two eyes, two ears and one mouth. Happiness requires that you use them in that proportion"
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“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer who wrote novels and short stories
“As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.”
- Jack Canfield (1944-), American motivational speaker and author
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