My Favorite Quotes

An over sharpened sword cannot last long. - Laozi

You do not want to live in the spreadsheet. - Ramit Sethi

Most important, I had to be willing to try. The try is everything. - Jill Bolte Taylor

Productivity isn’t about doing more things, it’s about doing the right things. – Chris Bailey

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. – Confucius

Be the chess player, not the chess piece. – Ralph Charrell

To do two things at once is to do neither. - Publilius Syrus

Once you stop learning, you start dying. – Albert Einstein

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his true friend. - Abraham Lincoln

Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin

Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou

20% of the problems in a technical job are technical. The rest are political. - James Clark, my old boss

The shortest answer is doing the thing. - Ernest Hemingway

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach

What gets measured gets managed. – Peter Drucker

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything. – Warren Buffett

Getting help doesn’t mean that you’re weak. It means you’re strong enough to admit you are tired of struggling. – Manpreet Kaur

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. – Eugene Ionesco

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory. - Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton

Teach people — not lessons. - Unknown

Simple and easy are not the same thing. - Calm

"I can't tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." - Ed Sheeran

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. - Walter Cronkite

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. - William of Ockham

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. – Johnny Carson

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. – Friedrich Nietzsche

What your children really want for dinner is you. - Dallin H. Oaks

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. - Bruce Lee

Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince