Con’t.
By Richard Kaloust | November 25, 2011
| 23. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso |  |
| 24. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Goethe |  |
| 25. “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” – Tesla |  |
| 26. “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” – Machiavelli |  |
| 27. “Eureka! I’ve got it.” – Archimedes |  |
| 28. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” - G. K. Chesterton |  |
| 29. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.” - Pearl S. Buck |  |
| 30. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard branson |  |
| 31. “There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose the ventures before us” - William Shakespeare |
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| 32. “Hell! There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish somep’n” – Thomas Edison |  |
| 33. “There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.” – Vauvenargues |  |
| 34. “Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture” – William James |  |
| 35. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – André Gide |  |
| 36. “Age considers; youth ventures.” – Rabindranath Tagore |  |
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Cont.
By Richard Kaloust | November 23, 2011
| 9. “When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” – Nelson Mandela |  |
| 10. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney |  |
| 11. “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” – Steve Jobs |  |
| 12. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein |  |
| 13. “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? – the cuckoo clock. “ -Orson Wells |
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| 14. “Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.” – Nietzsche |  |
| 15. “Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.” – Leonardo da Vinci |  |
| 16. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain |  |
| 17. “Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – Maya Angelou |  |
| 18. “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton |  |
| 19. “Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi |  |
| 20. “Live the life you’ve dreamed” – Henry David Thoreau |  |
| 21. “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – William Somerset Maugham |  |
| 22. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ ” - Muhammad Ali |  |
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Get into Action: 77 Thoughts on Motivation
By Richard Kaloust | November 21, 2011
You have a fire inside you, a frictional energy, read these thoughts, think about them and let them propel you into action.
| 1. “I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however – I think it applies to other painters I know – is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it.” – Mark Rothko |  |
| 2. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford |  |
| 3. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T.S. Eliot |  |
| 4. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein |  |
| 5. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Goethe | |
| 6. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost |  |
| 7. “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” – Voltaire |  |
| 8. “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Emerson |
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