Catégorie : Quote

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time — help someone else.

Chinese Proverb

Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre déjà de ce qu’il craint.

Montaigne

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Greg McKeown – Essentialism

A good shock often helps the brain that has been atrophied by habit.

Napoleon Hill

People don’t have a strong intuitive sense of how much bigger 1 billion is than 1 million. 1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is about 31.5 years.

Paul Franz

I’m starting with the man in the mirror.

Michael Jackson

Action creates inspiration.
Paralysis comes from analysis.

Ben Hardy

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

Alain de Botton

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

Marcel Proust

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To become good at anything you have to know how to apply basic principles. To become great at it, you have to know when to violate those principles.

Garry Kasparov

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretzky, the best hockey player of all time.