hey...: 2015

Thursday, 31 December 2015

David Hume

"Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man. "

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Ken Keyes Jr.

"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."

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George Bush

"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view."

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Emily Dickinson

"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed."

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#81 Being the oldest grade in school

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Wednesday, 30 December 2015

"Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive."

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Sir Winston Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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Aprocrypha

"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words."

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Charles Dickens

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

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#82 Picking the right thing to unplug out of a power bar full of wires

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Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Indira Gandhi

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

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Eric Wald

"Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix."

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Daniel H. Burnham

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work."

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William Congreve

"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast / To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

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#83 Flushing a toilet with blue water in it

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Monday, 28 December 2015

Jason Fried

"You don�t need to win every medal to be successful."

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Jane Austen

"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."

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Dorothy Bernard

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

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Georgia O'Keeffe

"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."

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#84 Ripping your present open like a wild animal

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Sunday, 27 December 2015

Gordon Atkinson

"I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud."

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E. B. White

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

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Dorothy L. Sayers

"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."

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Willa Cather

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

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Saturday, 26 December 2015

Maxwell Anderson

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone

"Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical."

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Voltaire

"Regimen is superior to medicine."

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Edmund Burke

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

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Friday, 25 December 2015

W. Somerset Maugham

"All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them."

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

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William Cowper

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

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Seneca

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

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#85 Seeing all the Christmas lights on your drive around town

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Thursday, 24 December 2015

Plutarch

"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."

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Arthur Ashe

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."

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Jeanette Winterson

"What you risk reveals what you value."

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James Howell

"Respect a man, he will do the more."

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#86 Flipping channels and stumbling on that one Christmas special you loved as a kid

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Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Reading The Compound Effect, by Darren Hardy: Key Takeaways, Analysis, & Review by Eureka Books

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Reading How to Stay Motivated: The Goals Program by Zig Ziglar

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Plato

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

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Sir Wilfred Grenfell

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."

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English Proverb

"A full cup must be carried steadily."

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Cecil B. DeMille

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."

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#87 Weird food combinations that only you love

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Tuesday, 22 December 2015

John Hope Franklin

"We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey."

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Jean de La Fontaine

"Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes."

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Theodore Roosevelt

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

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Gretel Ehrlich

"Walking is also an ambulation of mind."

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#88 Stovetop hypnosis

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Monday, 21 December 2015

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

"In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try."

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Samuel Goldwyn

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

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Isaac Asimov

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

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Dan Parker

"Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'"

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#89 Rogue children

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Sunday, 20 December 2015

John Green

"It�s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now."

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Wayne Gretzky

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

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Edward Sellner

"We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise."

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Bruce Lee

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

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Saturday, 19 December 2015

Ben Stein

"I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human."

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Hubert H. Humphrey

"You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate."

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Pierre Corneille

"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

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Aristotle

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

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Friday, 18 December 2015

J. S. Bryan

"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family."

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Amelia Burr

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."

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Marie De Vichy-Chaconne

"It is only the first step that is difficult."

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Emily Dickinson

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

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#90 Pinky swears

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Thursday, 17 December 2015

Belva Plain

"How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!"

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Samuel Johnson

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."

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