Justin Simpson > Justin Simpson's Quotes

“Think globally, act locally.”
― Paul McCartney

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
― Buddha

“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
― Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
― Albert Einstein

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
― Sophia Loren

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
― Albert Einstein

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
― Winston Churchill

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchhill

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything