Quotes To LIve By

Friday, December 07, 2007

The Alchemist - Love at First Site Quote

It's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in the great city. And when 2 such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes a love and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.---- The Alchemist

George Jung from Blow
May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

Wayne Gretzky quoted by Steve Jobs on setting trends
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will





ideas are the beggining points of all fortunes

Mans only limitation lies in his development and use of his imagination.

man create anything in which he can imagine.

the punch that puts you to sleep is the one you don't see coming. - randolph sugar

veni, vidi, vici ( i came, i saw, i conquered) julius ceaser

politics is the art of promoting and protecting your own interests.

being political means understanding people, seeing through their eyes.

33 strategies of war page 161

plot against the difficult while it remains easy tau te ching

the prudent man might seem cold, his rationality sucking pleasure out of life. not so. like the pleasure loving gods on mt. olympus he has the perspective, the calm detachment, the ability to laugh that comes with true vision.

33 strategies of war page 156

i am the master of my fate, i am the captain of my soul.


the subconscious mind resembling a fertile garden spot, in which weeds will grow in abundance, if the seeds of more desirable crops are not sown therein.

think and grow rich page 69


Ghandi has accomplished through the influence of faith that which the strongest military on earth could not, and never will accomplish through soldiers and military equipment. He has influenced two hundred million minds to coalesce and move in unison as a single mind

the oak sleeps in the acorn. the bird waits in the egg and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.


success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.

every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.


when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. thomas edison

i dont think much of a man who isn't wiser today than he was yesterday. abe lincoln

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you're doing.

- Warren Buffett

if your reality begins with your dreams, your dreams become your reality. Donald Trump


a mans reach should exceed his grasp - rober browning


What ever God says is the way it is so it is truth. he can't lie because whatever he does is truth.

patience and stillness keep you from harm
but for movement the tiger and leopard will no fall into trap, the deer will not run into snare, the bird will not be stuck by net, and the fish and turtle will not be caught by hooks.

attack their weakness with your strength.
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history is littered with the corpses of people who ignored the costs. save yourself unnecessary battles and live to fight another day.
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the moral is to the physical as three to one
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find deputies/ proteges who share your ideas, keep them few and have them carry out your orders.
franklin d. Roosevelt had his infamous brain trust his cabinet on whom he depended on for their ideas and opinions. he never let them in on actual decision making.
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in war it is not men but the man that counts napolean bonaparte


drive them into a fatal position and the will come out alive; place them in a hopeless spot and they will survive.
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a great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. ralph waldo emerson


presence of mind is the ability to detach yourself from all that, to see the whole battlefield, the whole picture with clarity. All great generals have this quality. And what gives you the mental distance is:
preparation
mastering the details beforehand
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my policy is to have no policy abraham lincoln

Your only principle should be to have no principle.

deal with every situation differently and adapt to it.

33 strategies of war page 22.

being attacked is sign that you are important enough to be a target.

beat the grass to startle the snakes.

Test your enemies, pick their brains, say something extreme to find out where they stand

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I am warlike by nature. Attacking is one of my instincts. To be able to be an enemy, to be an enemy—this, perhaps, presupposes a strong nature; in any case it belongs to every strong nature. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
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if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand voltaire


Strategy is more than a science; its the application of knowledge to practical life, the developement of thoughts capable of modifying the original guiding idea in the light of every changing situation; its the art of acting under the most difficult of conditions.
Helmuth von moltke

let him who wants peace, prepare for war. - vegetius


where the determination is, the way can be found


better a little caution than a great regret.
richest man in babylon page 88

men of action are favored by the goddess of good luck.

the richest man in babylong page 58


no man can arrive at the full measure of success until he has completey crushed the full spirit of procrastination inside of him. napolean hill


when opportunity knocks, pay promptly so that the moment doesn't pass you by.

richest man in babylon page 54


If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? -- george clason

Live on less than you make- i.e. pay yourself first.

Seek advice from experts.

Make money work for you.

the richest man in babylon page 17



an old tongue loves to wag. and when youth comes to old age for advice he receives the wisdom of years.

the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that sailor may use them to chart his course

richest man in babylon page 13


things you learn and know

and

the training that teaches you to find out what you don't know

the richest man in babylon page 12


if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. now put the foundations under them. -- henry david thoreau

do not follow where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail - muriel strode

Take action, seize the moment. Man was never intended to be an oyster. Theodore Roosevelt


Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. hugh allen

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” -Jack Kerouac

“A man may fish with the worm that have eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm,” hamlet shakespeare

'Tis too much prov'd, - that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself Hamlet shakespeare

“I will speak daggers to her, but use none” hamlet William Shakespear

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein"

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein

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