The man of action has the present, but the thinker commands the future from his study.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.”

— David Allen
GTD Times

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”

— Albert Einstein

It is often said that children are the wealth of the poor. This was not my experience. But books are without question the wealth of the poor’s children. Books are a guiding light out of the underworld, a secret passageway, an escape hatch. To the affluent, books are ornaments. To the poor, books are siege weapons.”

— Joe Queenan
Closing Time

I have held many things in my hand and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”

— Martin Luther

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have”

— Andy Andrews

Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste.”

— Seth Godin

Do not fear the conflict. Do not flee it. Where there is no struggle, there is no virtue. Where love and faith are not tempted, it is not possible to be sure whether they are really present. They are tried and revealed in adversity, in difficult and grievous circumstances.”

— St. John Chrysostom (c. 347–407)