Notable Quotes
“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen;
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“I didn’t understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable.
Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league.
I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.”
— Ernie Banks
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”
— Jack Canfield
“Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you....
If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.”
— Tim Ferriss
“The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential.
When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself but the world.”
— Roger Williams
“Baseball, it is said, is only a game.
True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
Not all holes, or games, are created equal.”
— George Will
“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day…
who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
— Mario Cuomo
“The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent.”
— Rob Kalin
“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“For me, the most fun is change or growth.
There are definitely elements of both that I like.
Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat:
You can go very quickly and turn fast.”
— Tony Hsieh
“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning,
because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset.
It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.”
— Sara Blakely
“Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
— Henry Van Dyke
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
— Willie Nelson