"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
Words like art can sometimes inspire the reader to articulate meaning in many different ways. This is a list of quotes, books that has played a part in some of my thinking. If the below contents inspires and helps just one other then my goal to sharing is done. Let's all be better together!
Quotes:
For me these act as a constant reminder on the principles to what's important. Helps me to take a step back from the day to day tasks that keeps us occupied and often reminds me of what we do and why we do.
We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience. - John Dewey
Our choices today affect our options for tomorrow. - Unknown
Make a difference about something other than yourselves. - Toni Morrison
I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was interested in creating things I would be proud of. - Richard Branson
Remember: The Bottleneck Is at the Top of the Bottle. Where are you likely to find people with the least diversity of experience, the largest investment in the past, and the greatest reverence for industry dogma: At the top! - Gary Hamel
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. - Peter Drucker
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. - Charles Kettering
The more you can dream, the more you can do. - Michael Korda
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. - Mohandas Gandhi
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. - Lou Holtz
Success means never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about. - Tom Peters
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. - E.M. Young
Four steps to achievement: plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently. - William Ward
If its safe, its risky. - Sam Balsara
You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. - Mahatma Gandhi
If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much, either. - Michael Goldhaber
Be distinct or be extinct! - Tom Peters
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Don't confuse the art of the possible, with the art of the profitable. - David Tansley
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi
Think Different - Apple
Quality..Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. - William A Foster
Success is never final. - Winston Churchill
Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do. - Patricia Fripp
The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity. - Keith Ferrazzi
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. - A.C. Benson
Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. - Bob Burg
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. - Richard Moss
Reasonable men attempt to adapt themselves to the world, Unreasonable men attempt to adapt the world to themselves, Progress is in the hands of unreasonable men. - George Bernard Shaw
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. - James Randolph Adams
Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever. - Brian Wilson
Winners never Quit, Quitters never Win. - Vince Lombardi
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. - Vincent Van Gough
Recognition and exposure comes only to the people who makes themselves visible. We should take comfort in knowing that even the Oscars have a submission process. - Ian Wharton, Spark for the fire.
If you want to do something different, you need to start by thinking different. - Barry Katz
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire
When you lose, don't lose the lesson. - Dalai Lama
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you. - Lao Tzu
It's an advantage to be at a disadvantage. It's a disadvantage to be at an advantage.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. - Napoleon Hill
All genuine learning comes from experience. - John Dewey
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
You cannot change the circumstances but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. - Jim Rohn
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. - Jordan Belfort
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm. - Swedish Proverb
Think like an entrepreneur, Act like an owner, and Win as a team. Behaviour eats process for breakfast.
Culture is a set of behaviours that are either rewarded or punished -
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude is an attitude - Shri Vimal
If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough - Albert Einstein
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. - C.S. Lewis
We are very, very small, but we are capable of very, very big things - Stephen Hawking
Reading:
Author's spend endless unforgiving amounts of time articulating their thoughts in a prescriptive manner. This curation of knowledge, insight helps me fast track my learning. In the age of tweets, blogs and fake news its too easy to get blinded by information overload. My reading catalogue for your inspiration.