The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Miscellaneous
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. – Peter Drucker Category: Miscellaneous
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924 Category: Miscellaneous
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. РAndr̩ Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925 Category: Miscellaneous
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr. Category: Leisure
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. – Pablo Neruda Category: Peace
Good, better, best – never let it rest – till your good is better – and your better best. – John Furphy Category: Quality
They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. – Donald OConnor Category: Courage
