quality of life
“Quality of life is about the little things—doing them well, doing them right.” - Don Winslow (The Winter of Frankie Machine)
desire more out of life
“Don’t be scared of your hunger. If you’re scared of your hunger, you’ll just be one more ninny like everyone else.” - Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge)
truth
“…no truth is ever seen the same way by any two persons.” — Leo Tolstoy
success
“To multiply small successes is precisely to build one treasure after another. In time one becomes rich without realizing how it has come about.” - Frederick the Great
reality
“It is what people think they see in another person that makes his reality.” — Don Delillo (Cosmopolis)
leadership
“A leader should do anything, but not everything.” - Plutarch
ending
“The only real ending is death. Everything else is a transition.” - Robert Greene
goals
“To go too far is as bad as to fall short.” - Confucius
behavior
“In anything, it is a mistake to think one can perform an action or behave in a certain way once and no more.” - Cesare Pavese
greed
“The desire to get something for nothing has been very costly to many people who have dealt with me and with other con men… When people learn—as I doubt they will—that they can’t get something for nothing, crime will diminish and we shall all live in greater harmony.” - Joseph Weil
speed
“You must be slow in deliberation and swift in execution.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
blame
“…you yourself are largely the agent of anything bad that happens to you. With more prudence, wiser policies, and greater vision, you could have avoided the danger. So when something goes wrong, look deep into yourself-not in an emotional way, to blame yourself or indulge your feelings of guilt, but to make sure that you start your next campaign with a firmer step and greater vision.” - Robert Greene
behavior
“You must pay attention to the pattern more than the apologies.” - Robert Greene
attention
“We become what we pay attention to.” - Scott Galloway
collaborate and improvise
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” - Charles Darwin
the right things
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” - Peter Drucker
influence
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” - Jonathan Swift
enough
“Abundance makes me poor.” - Ovid