Catégorie : Quote
Procrastinating feels lazy… Planning, brainstorming, and discussing feels productive because you’re talking about doing stuff. If you don’t move to action, though, there’s no difference between the two.
Eric Ravenscraft
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
We live in an age where creativity — or the ability to generate new insights and connections — is the #1 asset and skill.
Benjamin P. Hardy
”Only” is better than “Best”. Instead of fighting to prove or be the best or brightest, be the only one thinking like that, doing that, looking at or engaging from that perspective.
Taylor J Wallace
Deciding in advance when and where you will take specific actions to reach your goal can double or triple your chances for success.
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Columbia University professor
They didn’t know it was impossible so they did it.
Mark Twain
L’étonnement est le début de la sagesse.
Un sage prit la parole et dit : « Cultivez l’émerveillement. Ne cessez jamais d’admirer la beauté, l’harmonie et la bonté du monde. Ne cessez jamais, tels d’éternels enfants curieux de tout, de vous interroger.
« L’étonnement est le début de la sagesse », disait un ancien maître de la sagesse, car il nous conduit à nous interroger et à découvrir l’invisible derrière les choses visibles. Il nous mène à la vérité.
Il nous transporte jusqu’à l’âme du monde.
Fuyez au contraire l’indifférence à vous-mêmes, aux autres et au monde. Fuyez l’insensibilité, ne soyez jamais blasés, satisfaits ou repus. Car alors votre esprit s’endormira. Il se satisfera de quelques certitudes et ne saura plus questionner le monde. Il sera telle une vieille souche sans sève et votre vie sera sans saveur, sans intelligence et sans joie. »
Frédéric Lenoir
I think the ability of the average man could be doubled if it were demanded, if the situation demanded.
Will Durant
« Motivation ISN’T INTERNAL — but situational.
If you want more motivation, you need a more demanding situation. »
Benjamin P. Hardy
Le bonheur est une porte qui ne s’ouvre que de l’intérieur.
Raphaëlle Giordano
All you have to do is wrap up your argument in “protecting the children” or “fighting terrorism” and you can generally fool half of the people half of the time about any terrible policy you want.
Finalement finalement. Il nous fallut bien du talent. Pour être vieux sans être adultes.
Jacques Brel – La Chanson Des Vieux Amants
The valuable ideas are the ones people question, because where there is a question there is room to explore.
If someone likes your idea the first time you explain it, your idea isn’t risky enough.
Nicolas Cole
Don’t think of yourself as being passionate, think of yourself as being a problem-solver.
Aytekin Tank
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
LAO ZI, The Way of Lao Zi
Life’s two most important questions are “Why?” and “Why not?” The trick is knowing which one to ask.
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now – by Gordon Livingston
The three components of happiness
- Something to do
- Someone to love
- Something to look forward
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now – by Gordon Livingston
The tourist takes his culture with him; the traveler leaves his behind.
Those who travel outside their own culture wear their country on their sleeve.
When you arrive in a new country, you bring along “cultural baggage” – your own set of assumptions, values, beliefs, and certainties. They can be a heavy burden, slowing you down as you explore new territories. Try to empty the cultural baggage from your mental suitcase.
See not only what you expected to see; also be open to anything and everything that comes your way. All experiences can be enriching.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
To feel at home, stay at home. A foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It’s designed to make its own people comfortable.
Those who like to feel they are always right should stay at home.
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French – By Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron
The Cartesian method requires that all elements of a problem and its solution be thoroughly mapped out before any action is taken. Intellectual mastery of the situation is what matters. Americans prefer to take action as quickly as possible and deal with details as they crop up.
In American thinking patterns, the shortest route to action must be the most efficient and the most practical, and therefore the best. Americans make decisions and implement them rapidly, making adjustments as they go.
The French prefer to map things out completely before taking action. The shortest route may not be the most scenic one, and though it will get you to your destination quickly, you might miss something important along the way. Only when they have an intellectual control of all aspects of a plan do they feel confident enough to implement it.
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French – By Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron
The minority parties in the French parliament are called “opposition.” This term is a clear indication of an environment where those parties’ job is to fight and not to cooperate in the creation of a healthier society.
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French – By Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron
An hour completely detached from your daily grind is much more productive than 5 hours detached in which you mentally punish yourself for “taking a break.”
Nicolas Cole