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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
— Carl Sagan
On Focus & Distraction
We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
— Carl Sagan
On Purpose
I expect that humanity will achieve a workable compromise between freedom and order.
— Carl Sagan
On the Working Life
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
On Focus & Distraction
Not all those who wander are lost.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
On Purpose
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
On Confidence
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
— Pope John XXIII
On the Working Life
Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.
— Maggie Kuhn
On Confidence
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
— Bil Keane
On Focus & Distraction
The lighting of one candle is better than a curse of darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
On Confidence
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
— Jesus of Nazareth
On Purpose
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
— George Eliot
On Discipline
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
— George Eliot
On the Working Life
Light, breaking on shores where no human eye sees it, has yet been an artist.
— George Eliot
On Focus & Distraction
Time is the longest distance between two places.
— Tennessee Williams
On Starting Over
Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else.
— Tennessee Williams
On Confidence
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
On Confidence
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
— Robert Browning
On Confidence
Less is more.
— Robert Browning
On Focus & Distraction
God is in the details.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
On Focus & Distraction
I have offered you my opinions, never my advice.
— René Descartes
On the Working Life
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
— René Descartes
On Focus & Distraction
Excellence is never an accident.
— Aristotle
On Discipline
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
— Plato
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Life must be lived as play.
— Plato
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is no truth. There is only perception.
— Gustave Flaubert
On Confidence
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
On the Working Life
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
— Albert Einstein
On Focus & Distraction
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
— Abraham Lincoln
On Purpose
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
— Abraham Lincoln
On Discipline