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I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one…
— Robert Frost
On the Working Life
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
— Erich Fromm
On Confidence
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
— Erich Fromm
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The truth shall make you free.
— Jesus of Nazareth
On Confidence
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it be…
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Confidence
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Purpose
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
On Money, Plainly
I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.
— Vincent van Gogh
On Discipline
Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
— Vincent van Gogh
On Confidence
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
— Vincent van Gogh
On Discipline
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
— Vincent van Gogh
On the Working Life
I shut my eyes in order to see.
— Paul Gauguin
On Focus & Distraction
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
— Pablo Picasso
On Discipline
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
— Pablo Picasso
On Confidence
I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
— Pablo Picasso
On Confidence
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
— Tom Wolfe
On the Working Life
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it…
— Joan Didion
On Purpose
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self…
— Joan Didion
On Confidence
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.
— Joan Didion
On Focus & Distraction
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
— Lao Tzu
On Focus & Distraction
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it…
— Lao Tzu
On the Working Life
To know that you do not know is the best.
— Lao Tzu
On Confidence
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
— Friedrich Engels
On Discipline
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
— Napoleon Hill
On Confidence
He who does not value life does not deserve it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
On Purpose
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation. Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
On Discipline
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
— Leonardo da Vinci
On the Working Life
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
— Paulo Coelho
On the Working Life
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
— Paulo Coelho
On Confidence
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
— Eckhart Tolle
On Starting Over