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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it. Katharine Whitehorn
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Abraham Maslow
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
Providence seldom sends any into the world with an inclination to attempt great things, who have not abilities, likewise, to perform them. Dr. Johnson
All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac
Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe
Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power? Noel Coward
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. Logan Pearsall Smith
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Mark Twain
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. Pablo Picasso
Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway
If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious. Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live. … you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing. Carl Jung
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali
It's only work if somebody makes you do it. Calvin and Hobbes
They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now. Bob Monkhouse
There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard- working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard- working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.” Marshal von Mainstein
ReplyDeleteThank you. I have read that before and like it very much. It gives much to ponder.
DeleteMr Wood, have you given up the blog? I hope not.
ReplyDeleteThank you no but I have been away for Christmas and have just returned to freezing cold Bucharest. I intend to blog about my journey to Algeria a wonderful country.
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