People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
—John Dos Passos
Fate leads those who are willing. The unwilling it drags.
—Viggo Mortensen
Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say.
—Keith Ellis
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
—Pablo Picasso (Spanish Painter)
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (American Journalist)
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E. M. Forster (English Novelist)
Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?
—Bill Taylor
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
—Mary Manin Morrissey (American Christian Religious Leader)