“It only takes one person to change your life – you.”
— Ruth Casey
“The future is purchased by the present.”
-Samuel Johnson
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
Gore Vidal
“Better do a little well, than a great deal badly.”
-Socrates
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
D. Lilienthal
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“You can never plan the future by the past”
-Edmund Burke
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.
Claude M. Bristol
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
I haven’t seen this for some time and as always it strikes a chord. He was so eloquent, was Mark Twain, a wonderful example, and in this case, so inspiring.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
— Mark Twain