This list of my favourite quotes give an insight to the man behind the words.
"God gave man a penis and a brain but not enough blood to use them both at the same time"Ha! So true.
"All men choose what they perceive to be the "good choice" at every moment, however, they usually have no way of actually knowing if what they are choosing is actually good, or destructive."So don't judge people. And remember this when you critisise yourself for your past mistakes.
-- Socrates
"People don't notice whether it's summer or winter when they're happy.”If you find yourself constantly complaining about the weather, something is wrong in your life.
-- Anton Chekhov
"Get some rest Pam, you look tired"
-- Jason Borne
"Women!…can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em"
-- Alber Gibson
"You see that's the problem with terrorist. They are very inconsiderate when it comes to other people schedules"
-- Harry Tasker
"You and your kind, all you care about is money. This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm gonna give it to them"
-- The Joker
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
-- Terry Pratchett
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
-- Buddha
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. "
-- Muhammad Ali
"It is common knowledge that Jordan made more last-minute shots to win the game for his team than any other player in the history of the NBA. What is not so well known, is that Jordan also missed more last-minute shots to lose the game for his team than any other player in the history of the game. What made him the greatest was not perfection, but a willingness to put himself on the line as a way of life."
-- Joshua Waitzkin
"Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."
-- Bruce Lee
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
-- Bruce Lee
"There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all."
-- Peter F. Drucker
"What I tell people is the best advice I've ever heard, the best advice I ever came up with, is that live your life like you're the hero in your movie."
-- Joe Rogan
"If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher."
-- Turkish Proverb
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
-- Margaret Thatcher
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
-- Thomas Mann
"You don't set out to build a wall. You don't say 'I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built.' You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall."
-- Will Smith
"An army of donkeys led by a lion will defeat an army of lions lead by a donkey."
-- Mongol saying
"Happiness is like an orgasm: if you think about it too much, it goes away."
-- Tim Minchin
"The future has many names. For the weak, it's unattainable. For the fearful, it's unknown. For the bold, it's ideal."
-- Victor Hugo
"Deliberate practice has 3 key components: Setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback, and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome."
-- Steven D. Levitt
"Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off."
-- Chuck Palahniuk
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
-- Lao-Tze or Frank Outlaw
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
-- Buddha
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money."
-- Indian Proverb
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
-- Buddha
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
-- Epictetus
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
-- Muhammed Ali
“Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands.”
-- Japanese Proverb
"Step outside your comfort zone. Do that with people, scenes, food, music, travel, everything. The way to accelerate this is by having more interaction with people who are different than you. The key trait to have: curiosity."
-- Neil Strauss
"This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression—and with all this yet to die."
-- Ernest Becker
"The cold is my teacher"
-- Wim Hof (on the Joe Rogan Experience)
"The Buddha - the Godhead - resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer, or the gears of a cycle transmission, as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha, which is to demean one's self."
-- Robert M. Pirsig (in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
-- Chinese Proverb
"You are never too good not to benefit from feedback. Even Tiger Woods has a swing coach."
"You have to be so focused on the process, that the prize happens without your expectation."
--John Dudley
"Life is more fun when you open your mouth."
--Neil Strauss (on talking to strangers)
"A rejection is not a comment on who you are as a person. It is simply feedback on something you did."
-- Neil Strauss
"Instead of being outcome dependent, be learning dependent."
-- Neil Strauss
"“There is going to be a point where you’re not going to like this, and you need to know right now that we’re going to push through it."
-- John Dudley (on pursuing your goals)
"Sit sit, walk walk, don't wobble."
-- Buddhist saying on focusing on one thing at a time.
"The most important thing is that you know the areas in your life where your will power fails you, and you set up a system to succeed in those areas that you are unable to get around or over-ride, even if you want to."
-- Neil Strauss. I think the take away here is, develop good routines.
“Across the world, most people eat 4-8 plant species in their diet. For traditional hunter gatherer groups it was over 100”
-- Chris Kresser (on JRE #842)
"To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight’s duty is to proceed in that direction."
-- Ethan Hawke, (in Rules For a Knight)
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members."
-- Mahatma Gandhi