"That’s the way goal-oriented people spend their lives. Each goal, successfully reached, finds them better equipped, with more experience, to set the next goal. Goals for such people tend to ascend in stair-like fashion, each one a bit more demanding and fulfilling than the one before. In a few years they find themselves accomplishing, with surprising ease, goals that would have been impossible for them when they first began their journey into meaning."
-- Earl Nightingale
"We have so little control over our lives. The only thing we can really control is what we spend our days on. What we work on and how hard we work on it. It might seem like a stretch, but I really think the best thing you can do if you want to make art is to pretend you’re starring in your own remake of Groundhog Day: Yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, there’s just today and what you can do with it."
-- Austin Kleon
"You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO . . . Try to do some BAD work—the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell—you are not responsible for the world—you are only responsible for your work—so DO IT."
-- Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
“For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info you need.”
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
"The people who want to control us through fear and misinformation—the corporations, marketers, politicians—want us to be plugged into our phones or watching TV, because then they can sell us their vision of the world. If we do not get outside, if we do not take a walk out in the fresh air, we do not see our everyday world for what it really is, and we have no vision of our own with which to combat disinformation."
-- Austin Kleon
"The dictionary defines will as choice, intention, inclination, determination, tendency, and in order to make it the will of Omnipotence you must animate it, make it alive within you by enthusiasm, feeling, and animation until it becomes embodied in the subconscious mind. When man learns to choose wisely, he will choose happiness, peace, security, joy, health, abundance, and all the blessings of life."
-- Joseph Murphy
"For now is the only time that we have. It is our only negotiable currency. Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. It is only today that we may spend in the noble effort of using all the gifts that God gave us."
-- Og Mandino
"Knowledge is different. You can read and gain knowledge; you can go to school and gain knowledge. With self-awareness or introspection, you step back from the canvas of life, and you take an honest look in the mirror at the person behind the mirror and say, “What am I good at? What do I believe in? What’s important to me? What do I really want to be when I grow up?” This has to do with introspection and authentic self-awareness. We don’t do much of that today, in my opinion."
-- Denis Waitley
"It’s interesting—and often quite astonishing—that people with goals tend to live longer than people without them. It’s as if they can extend their lives simply because they have something to do. It must be the interest that lends vitality and energy to their live"
-- Earl Nightingale
"There are no rules, of course. Life is an art, not a science. Your mileage may vary. Take what you need and leave the rest. Keep going and take care of yourself. I’ll do the same."
-- Austin Kleon
