Stuff About Things #30

“Life is what happens while you're making other plans.”
     ― John Lennon

“You change the world by being yourself.” 
     ― Yoko Ono

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”  
     ― Joseph Campbell

“Cherish forever what makes you unique, cause you're really a yawn if it goes.” 
     ― Better Midler

 "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
     ― Oscar Wilde

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
     ― Paulo Coelho 

“The best feedback is what we don't want to hear.”
     ― George Raveling

“Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.”
     — Mignon McLaughlin

“All of our miseries are nothing but attachment.” 
     — Osho

“The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.”
     ― Osho 

“Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.”
      — Andre Gide

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”   
     — Bertrand Russell 

“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.” 
     ― Michael Faraday

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
     — Mark Twain

“The force of the temptation which urges us to seek for such evidence and appearances as are in agreement with our desires, and to disregard those which oppose them, is wonderfully great. In this respect we are all, more or less, active promoters of error. In place of practicing wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with us, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.”

     ― Michael Faraday 

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

     — Carl Jung

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”
     ― Robin Williams

“Experience is the best teacher in life.”
     — Lebron James

“Well, they’re all (very competitive), or they wouldn’t get to where they are. Probably the two biggest assassins, where, when they look at you, you feel ‘Okay, I’m gonna lose to this guy,’ were (Michael) Jordan, I think Jordan is the best player ever, and Kobe Bryant. Their preparation and their ability to just focus is off the charts.”
     — Coach Mike Krzyzewski …. When asked, “If you had to pick among the pro players you have coached and witnessed (in the Olympics and international play), who would you say is the most competitive player you’ve ever coached?”

“Effort is grossly underrated.”
     ― Gary Vaynerchuk

“A surplus of effort can overcome a deficit of confidence.”
     ― Sonia Sotomayor

“You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.”
     — Gary Vaynerchuk

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
     — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
     ― Jack Kerouac 

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
     ― Andre Gide

“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”  
     ― Tallulah Bankhead

“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.”
     ― Jose Ortega y Gasset

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
     ― Tallulah Bankhead

“And yes, I was afraid. You're never not afraid. I'm still afraid.... But my fear of failure never approached in magnitude my fear of what if. What if I never tried at all?” 
     ― Will Ferrell 

Nowhere is there place 
To stop and live, so only 
Everywhere will do: 
Each and every grass-made hut soon leaves 
Its place within this withering world.
     ― Saigyo