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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a persons’ success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anythin, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens.
Speaker: Yvon ChouinardSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?”
Speaker: SenecaSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Speaker: Benjamin DisraeliSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
Speaker: YodaPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Many a false step was made by standing still.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything popular is wrong.
Speaker: Oscar WildeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Speaker: Herbert Bayard SwopeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool
Speaker: Richard P. FeynmanSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
These individuals have riches just as we say that we “have a fever,” when really the fever has us.
Speaker: SenecaSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Speaker: Heinrich HeineSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Speaker: Neils BohrSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Speaker: Oscar WildeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?’
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!