An earned compliment costs nothing, but its returns are immeasurable. Very humanly, when we are complimented, when our efforts are appreciated, most of us will usually strive to perform even better down the line. What a return on the investment of delivering a few earned words of praise! – G. Kingsley Ward
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity—the thinker. – Eckhart Tolle
Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful. – Duane Hanson
Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon… Everything is Different. – Bill Watterson
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. – Auguste Rodin
A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. – Mohamad Ali
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. – Albert Einstein
When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength—400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it’s really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn’t afraid of the dark anymore after that. – Elon Musk
Don’t be tempted to break momentum—work through it. – Lorii Myers
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. – Zsa Zsa Gabor
Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t. – Peter Drucker
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. – Elon Musk
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. – Oscar Wilde
I think midlife crisis is just a point where people’s careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships. – Bill Murray
The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it. – Rodney Dangerfield
You can handle just about anything that comes at us out on the road with a believable grin, common sense, and whiskey. – Bill Murray
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge. – Michel de Montaigne
By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don’t even exist yet. That’s a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store. – Taylor Mali
Don’t be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something. – Dan Heisman
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. – Muriel Spark