That is a brilliant quote. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson arrived at the pen name 'Lewis Carroll' by translating his own name into Latin and then translating it back into English... and then reversing it. So, he was most certainly aware of Seneca when he quipped about the efficacy of planning a trip with no specific definition.
"In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."-- Twelfth Night.
The following quote didn't really inspire me. But I still love it because I think what it says is really true.
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”― Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
“If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery."
"And just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a rare and a wonderful reverence. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished."
"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."
(I used not to know when to shut up or stop defying authority, and my career paid for it)
Oh, that is one problem I have... I ALWAYS tell people the truth. If I think what they're saying is bullshit, I tell them that, without sugarcoating it. It has got me into trouble a few times, but it surprises me that people have accepted it for so long :) It's something that I have to work on though... Restraint is very difficult when you're in the right.
We have a guy at my work like that and people don't mind it. I actually like going to him for advice since he's going to be blunt. I think it's a matter of being a dick and being right. If you're a dick and you're wrong/opinionated it could quickly turn the tides against you.
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
The second quote is the same sentiment as the Frankl quote I posted as well. It's an empowering thought. We can always choose how we approach any given situation.
Reminds me of Douglas Adam's great quote, "A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
"The past is created from the present, not the other way around."
"The measure of change is not whether the outside is changed, the measure of change is whether you respond differently to the outside even if its still looks the same. That’s how you know you’ve changed"
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." —Michael Jordan
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit, and you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'OK, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."
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Interesting to see that he was predated in his sentiments by such a long time
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”― Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery."
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/jonathan-ive-on-steve...
Some good ones are
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it" attributed to Thomas Jefferson
One that resonates with me is this one by Cato:
"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."
(I used not to know when to shut up or stop defying authority, and my career paid for it)
Oh, that is one problem I have... I ALWAYS tell people the truth. If I think what they're saying is bullshit, I tell them that, without sugarcoating it. It has got me into trouble a few times, but it surprises me that people have accepted it for so long :) It's something that I have to work on though... Restraint is very difficult when you're in the right.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. - H. G. Wells
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
"The measure of change is not whether the outside is changed, the measure of change is whether you respond differently to the outside even if its still looks the same. That’s how you know you’ve changed"
--Bashar
Vince Lombardi
Supposed to have been said by Hannibal, but a good phrase for a project manager.
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." —Michael Jordan
- Ayrton Senna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton_Senna