1.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Michael Porter
The crux of strategy is deciding what to leave undone.
2.
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world
Miyamoto Musashi
View yourself humbly and contemplate the world profoundly.
3.
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
Vanna Bonta
The splendour that you behold in me is a manifestation of your own self.
4.
The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.
Cicely Tyson
The second anyone attempts to belittle or devalue you, realise how remarkable you are. Nobody would expend energy on trying to bring you down if they weren't threatened by your worth.
5.
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
Marcus Aurelius
6.
Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.
J. R. D. Tata
No accomplishment of significance is ever attained without intense contemplation and strenuous effort.
7.
The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
George R. R. Martin
The most luminous spark produces the deepest gloom.
8.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Authentic disasters in the world are not disputes between right and incorrect. They are disagreements between two justifications.
9.
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob Marley
'The joys of the present, become the sorrows of the future.'
10.
All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.
Michio Kaku
All children are born with immense potential, yet often stifled by the rigidity of the status quo.
11.
We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.
Manly Hall
'We are the sovereigns of the particles that compose ourselves, yet we are also the particles of the sovereigns that construct the cosmos.'
12.
People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.
Theodore Levitt
'Consumers are not searching for the tool but the end result.'
13.
Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.
Sydney Banks
Reflection is not actuality; nevertheless it is by means of Reflection that our realities are fashioned.
14.
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
Emile M. Cioran
15.
Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.
Paulo Coelho
16.
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.
Deepak Chopra
18.
The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.
Thelonious Monk
19.
Don't allow any set back to become bigger than your come back
Christine Caine
20.
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
Denis Waitley
24.
I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.
Richard Wurmbrand
25.
Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.
Lysa TerKeurst
26.
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
J. C. Ryle
27.
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.
Jean Baudrillard
28.
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.
Alexander Fleming
29.
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
Imran Khan
30.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
Oliver Herford
31.
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.
Jack Handey
32.
When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.
Ed Begley, Jr.
33.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
34.
The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.
Tucker Max
35.
My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.
Sheila Walsh
37.
Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.
Rob Bell
39.
There aren't any hard women, only soft men.
Raquel Welch
40.
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
James Lovelock
41.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
42.
The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.
India.Arie
43.
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
Christopher McCandless
44.
There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.
Anya Seton
45.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Mark Twain
46.
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
Aleksandar Hemon
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How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
Robert Browning
48.
To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.
Shane Koyczan
49.
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
Pete Wentz
50.
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee