Zen, Work, Goals, Conversation Quotes

ZEN
Mevlani Rumi
Sell all your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

WORK
Barbara J. Winter
For the few who are passionate in their work, that passion is basic to their emotional well-being – and to their financial success.

GOALS
David Viscott
Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

CONVERSATION
Ludwig Wittgenstein
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

More Quotes from The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.
Timothy Ferriss. 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-35313-9

Steve Jobs
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Anne Lamott
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.

George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Quotes from The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Work Week:Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.
Timothy Ferriss. 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-35313-9

Jean Cocteau
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have no fear of discomfort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Paul Fussel
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

William Gibson
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.

Happiness, Work, Striving, Women Quotes

HAPPINESS
Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

WORK
Theodore Roosevelt
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

STRIVING
Ranier Maria Rilke
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

WOMEN
Pierre-Jules Renard
Don’t tell a woman she’s pretty; tell her there’s no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Knowledge, Work, Leadership, Age

KNOWLEDGE
Henry Louis Mencken
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

WORK
Jeff MacNelly
A career is a job that has gone on too long.

LEADERSHIP
John C. Maxwell
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

AGE
Madeleine L’Engle
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

Nature, Work, Results, Pets

NATURE

William Ralph Inge
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

WORK

Fernando Flores
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

RESULTS

Mark Victor Hansen
Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else’s results.

PETS

Aldous Leonard Huxley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Perception, Work, Results, Life Style

Perception

Henri-Louis Bergson
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Work

Anonymous
One who works with his hands is a laborer; one who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman; one who works with his hands, his head, and his heart is a master.

Results

Robert Anthony
You can only have two things in life, Reasons or Results. Reasons don’t count.

Life Style

Michael E. Angier
It’s expensive to be a maverick.