Yogi Bera: “If you don’t know where you’re going you may end up some place else!”

  1. Would the boy you were, be proud of the man you are? – Laurence J. Peter
  2. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. – John Cage
  3. Never let anyone define your value by their lack of willingness to pay what you are worth—Anonymous
  4. The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. – William H. Gass
  5. Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy. Peter Drucker
  6. As any honest magician knows, true magic inheres in the ordinary, the commonplace, the everyday, the mystery of the obvious. Only petty minds and trivial souls yearn for supernatural events, incapable of perceiving that everything — everything! — within and around them is pure miracle. Edward Abbey.
  7. Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. –William S. Burroughs
  8. People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  9. If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you don’t bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you. – Jodi Picoult
  10. Jobs are like going to church: it’s nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there’s something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in every single week. -Thomas Michael Disch, science fiction author and poet