# My Quote of the Day — Quote Collection > Machine-readable companion to the public site. Contains 292 quote/author records. ## 1. Dave Wilson > Sometimes life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It’s what you do with those second chances that counts. ## 2. Tom Peters > Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders ## 3. Bobby Knight > The key is not the will to win…everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important ## 4. Theodore Roosevelt > Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind ## 5. Philip McKernan > One of the scariest things in the world is to stand in front of the mirror and meet yourself ## 6. Robert Ingersoll > We rise by lifting others ## 7. Dale Carnegie > Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving ## 8. Criss Jami, Healology > Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie ## 9. John W. Gardner > Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well ## 10. Pearl Zhu > The ‘result’ of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term ## 11. Mark Twain > The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ## 12. Anon > Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much more ## 13. Anon > Hope for the best but expect the worst ## 14. Anon > Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself ## 15. Anon > Rise above the storm and you will find sunshine ## 16. Anon > The best dreams happen when you're awake ## 17. Anon > There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going ## 18. Anon > Change your thoughts and you change the World ## 19. Anon > If you have everything under control you're not moving fast enough ## 20. Anon > Trust yourself you know more than you think you do ## 21. Anon > The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them ## 22. Anon > The power of imagination makes us infinite ## 23. Anon > You can only cross the ocean with the courage to lose sight of the shore ## 24. Anon > Things will catch your eye; pursue only those that capture your heart ## 25. Anon > It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop ## 26. Alan Cohen > There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. ## 27. Martin Luther King, Jr. > The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy ## 28. Thomas Paine > A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody ## 29. Matshona Dhliwayo > Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one. ## 30. Benjamin Franklin > Tell Me and I Forget; Teach Me and I May Remember; Involve Me and I Learn. ## 31. Greg McKeown > Your obligation is to the highest point of contribution you can make ## 32. Heraclitus > The only constant is change. ## 33. Mahatma Gandhi > The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems ## 34. Buddha > If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path ## 35. Robert Ingersoll > We rise by lifting others ## 36. Bob Berg > All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust ## 37. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami > Where focus goes, energy flows ## 38. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry > A goal without a plan is just a wish ## 39. Marcus Aurelius > If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment ## 40. Nicholas Dandolos, a.k.a. “Nick the Greek > The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself ## 41. Viktor Frankl > Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response ## 42. Brené Brown > Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen ## 43. Ken Blanchard > Feedback is the breakfast of champions. ## 44. Cary Grant > I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally, I became that person. Or he became me. ## 45. Peter Bergen > Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity ## 46. Dalai Lama > Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. ## 47. Brian Brault > We cannot choose what our legacy will be. We can choose our actions and the world will determine our legacy ## 48. Dante > The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ## 49. Warren Buffett > What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. ## 50. Albert Einstein > Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid ## 51. Alexander Graham Bell > When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. ## 52. Donald McGannon > Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example ## 53. John F. Kennedy > Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. ## 54. FD Roosevelt > We have nothing to fear except fear itself. ## 55. Vladimir Lenin​ > There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. ## 56. Anon > There are no extraordinary people. Just ordinary people doing extraordinary things. ## 57. Ralph Waldo Emerson > If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. ## 58. James Stockdale > You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ## 59. Benjamin Franklin > They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. ## 60. Bill Watterson > Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ## 61. Charlie Munger > Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome. ## 62. W. Edwards Deming > In God we trust. All others must bring data. ## 63. Author Unknown > Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get. ## 64. Martin Luther King Jr. > I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you. ## 65. Anthony de Mello > Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. ## 66. Alphonse Karr > The more things change, the more they stay the same ## 67. Medieval Persian Sufi poets > This too shall pass ## 68. F. Scott Fitzgerald > The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ## 69. Christine Szymanski > Words will hold some water, but actions carry buckets full. ## 70. Author Unknown > With great power there must also come great responsibility. ## 71. Shep Hyken > The key is when a customer walks away, thinking ‘Wow, I love doing business with them, and I want to tell others about the experience. ## 72. Winston Churchill > Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. ## 73. Aaron Levie > Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now. ## 74. Andrew Carnegie > No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. ## 75. Lailah Gifty Akita > The vision is for an appointed time. You must be patient and wait for the fulfillment of your vision. ## 76. Susan Cain > There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. ## 77. Aaron Sorkin > I guarantee whoever said ‘the customer is always right’ was definitely a customer. ## 78. Teresa Amabile > Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation. ## 79. Ayesha Siddiqi > Be the person you needed when you were younger. ## 80. Aristotle > It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ## 81. David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-Founder of Basecamp > Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years. ## 82. Michael Jordan > My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn. ## 83. Anonymous > What’s easy for you may feel impossible for someone else. ## 84. Ayn Rand > You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. ## 85. John F. Kennedy > The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ## 86. Maya Angelou > I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ## 87. Edward R. Murrow > To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful. ## 88. Ann Landers > Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it. ## 89. Jessie Potter > If You Always Do What You’ve Always Done, You Always Get What You’ve Always Gotten ## 90. Thomas Edison > I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ## 91. Alfred Lord Tennyson > Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier' ## 92. Brian Tracy > Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. ## 93. JM Smith > If you dance with the devil, then you haven’t got a clue, for you think you’ll change the devil, but the devil changes you. ## 94. Voltaire > Common sense is not so common. ## 95. Elvis Presley > Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do ## 96. Veronica Roth > It’s when you’re acting selflessly that you are at your bravest. ## 97. Stephen R. Covey > Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. ## 98. Eugene O'Kelly > Too often, commitment was measured by how many hours you were willing to work. But commitment is best measured not by the time one is willing to give up, but by the energy one wants to put in. ## 99. Robert Green Ingersoll > In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ## 100. Elizabeth Cady Stanton > Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. ## 101. Albert Einstein > The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. ## 102. Bill Gates > Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ## 103. Abraham Maslow > The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ## 104. William Deresiewicz > You won’t be able to recognize the things you really care about until you have released your grip on all the things that you’ve been taught to care about ## 105. Saul Kaplan > As our learning crests, should we fail to jump to new curves, we may actually precipitate our own decline. ## 106. Craig Groeschel > When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders. ## 107. Friedrich Nietzsche > If you know the why, you can live any how. ## 108. Steve Jobs > If you want to make everyone happy, don’t be a leader, sell ice cream. ## 109. Wayne Gretzky > I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. ## 110. Mark Twain > History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. ## 111. Helen Keller > Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. ## 112. Joyce Meyer > Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too. ## 113. Thomas Jefferson > If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done. ## 114. J. Michael Straczynski > Remember, there are always two sides to every story. Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, their side and the truth in the middle. Get all the facts before you jump to conclusions. ## 115. Lou Holtz > Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them ## 116. Confucius > He who will not economize will have to agonize. ## 117. Mark Twain > Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ## 118. Charlie Munger > Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. ## 119. Peter Belcher > Nothing will kill a great employee faster than watching you tolerate a bad one. ## 120. Author Unknown > Don’t be afraid to lose people. Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone around you. ## 121. Author Unknown > Wisdom is like wine, it’s often hard to know the quality until it ages a few years. ## 122. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe > The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. ## 123. Charlie Brown > What if today, we were just grateful for everything? ## 124. Betty Friedan > You can have it all, just not all at the same time. ## 125. Scott Dye > Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you. ## 126. Benjamin Franklin > Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. ## 127. Neil Gaiman > If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. ## 128. Elbert Hubbard > “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ## 129. George Santayana > Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. ## 130. Carl Jung > If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. ## 131. Rabih Alameddine > What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. ## 132. C.S. Lewis > Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less. ## 133. Author Unknown > Focus on the process, not the result. ## 134. Henry David Thoreau > The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ## 135. Doug Larson > Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route. ## 136. Harry Sheehy > It is your response to winning or losing that makes you a winner or loser. ## 137. Robin Sharma > Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. ## 138. Heinrich Heine > Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too. ## 139. Margaret Cavendish > Excessive ambition is the demon of the wise man and the angel of the fool. ## 140. Lao Tzu > A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ## 141. John Wooden > Don't confuse activity with achievement. ## 142. Stephen Hawking > The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. ## 143. Author Unknown > Life is a marathon, not a sprint, so pace yourself accordingly. ## 144. Stephen Covey > Accountability breeds response-ability. ## 145. Alain de Botton > There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. ## 146. Chinese Proverb > When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ## 147. Author Unknown > How we do anything is how we do everything. ## 148. Tony Gambill > Leadership is about getting it right, not being right. ## 149. Epictetus > We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ## 150. Travis Bradberry > Feedback is the breakfast of champions. If you have the courage to ask people how you can improve, then you have the potential to become great. ## 151. Elbert Hubbard > To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ## 152. Timber Hawkeye > You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. ## 153. Nelson Mandela > I never lose. I either win or learn. ## 154. James Surowiecki > The many are smarter than the few. The many are smarter than the few. ## 155. Author Unknown > Customers may forget what you said but they'll never forget how you made them feel. ## 156. Mark Twain > All generalizations are false, including this one. ## 157. Thomas Paine > The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ## 158. Nassim Nicholas Taleb > Survivorship bias is one of the most insidious biases in the human arsenal of misbelief. ## 159. Wayne Gretzky > You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ## 160. Art Jonak > Those who spend their time looking for the faults in others, usually make no time to correct their own. ## 161. Steve Maraboli > We all have strengths and weaknesses. The success of our work depends on knowing the difference. ## 162. Jim Rohn > You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. ## 163. Voltaire > Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. ## 164. Steve Jobs > Often, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. ## 165. Helen Keller > Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much. ## 166. Isaac Asimov > Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ## 167. Bob Procto > Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result. ## 168. Francis Bacon > The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it. ## 169. Unknown > Karma is like a rubber-band: it can only stretch so far before it comes back and smacks you in the face. ## 170. Jeff Bezos > If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends. ## 171. Maya Angelou > When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. ## 172. Rollo May > The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ## 173. Jim Carrey > Everyone should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of, so they can see that it’s not the answer. ## 174. Roy T. Bennett > The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. ## 175. Author Unknown > If a deal sounds like it’s too good to be true, it probably is. ## 176. Steve Jobs > You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ## 177. Tim Elmore > We must prepare children for the path, instead of the path for children. ## 178. Charlie Munger > I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up and boy does that help—particularly when you have a long run ahead of you. ## 179. Charlie Munger > Early on, write your desired obituary — and then behave accordingly. ## 180. Charlie Munger > Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things. ## 181. Derek Sivers > My favorite thing in the world is to have my mind changed. ## 182. Martin Luther King Jr. > The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ## 183. Thomas Edison > Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ## 184. Archilochus > In the face of adversity, we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. ## 185. Albert Einstein > No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. ## 186. Steve Jobs > Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. ## 187. JR, Artist > The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other. ## 188. Charlie Munger > The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ## 189. Richard Branson > Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress. ## 190. Annie Duke > The worst time to make a decision is when you are in it. ## 191. B.J. Neblett > We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences – be they positive or negative – make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. ## 192. Winston Churchill > It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required. ## 193. Elvis Presley > The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. ## 194. Vince Lombardi > Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ## 195. Khalil Gibran > Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ## 196. Thomas Jefferson > The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ## 197. George Bernard Shaw > All great truths begin as blasphemies. ## 198. Garry Ridge, Former CEO of WD-40 Company > Anyone who makes a decision aligned to one or more of our organizational core values is always safe. ## 199. Theodore Roosevelt > Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ## 200. Isaac Newton > Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy ## 201. Michelle Obama > The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them. ## 202. Thomas Edison > Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ## 203. Martha Beck > How we do anything is how we do everything. ## 204. Maya Angelou > You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ## 205. Edward Stieglitz > In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. ## 206. Neale Donald Walsch > Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. ## 207. Author Unknown > Author UnknownGreat minds don’t always think alike. They challenge each other to think differently. ## 208. Kenny Loggins > You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. ## 209. George Orwell > If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ## 210. Winston Churchill > To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ## 211. Nassim Nicholas Taleb > The problem with information is not that it is hidden, but that it is mixed with irrelevance. ## 212. Tituss Burgess > There’s absolutely nothing you can control other than showing up and doing your job. ## 213. Leo Tolstoy > It is not the quantity of knowledge that matters, but the quality. Some people know a lot, but don’t really know what’s useful or important. ## 214. Henry Ford > If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. ## 215. Art Buchwald > The best things in life aren’t things. ## 216. Winston Churchill > Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ## 217. Simon Sinek > Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge. ## 218. Joyce Meyer > Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut. ## 219. Robin Sharma > Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better. ## 220. Ernest Hemingway > The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. ## 221. Benjamin Franklin > An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ## 222. Stephen Hawking > Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ## 223. Carl Jung > You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. ## 224. Frank A. Clark > The trick is to recognize luck when it is happening and take advantage of it. ## 225. Jim Rohn > We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. ## 226. Abba Eban > Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself. ## 227. Martin Luther King Jr. > Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ## 228. Dr. Theodore Woodward > When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. ## 229. Samuel Johnson > The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ## 230. Ginni Rometty > Growth and comfort do not coexist. ## 231. Peter Gallagher > To stay on the map you’ve got to keep showing up. ## 232. Epictetus > We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ## 233. Maggie Kuhn > Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes. ## 234. Marcus Tullius Cicero > More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. ## 235. Dr. Seuss > To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. ## 236. John Wooden > Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ## 237. Nelson Mandela > Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. ## 238. Warren Buffett > You can’t do a good deal with a bad person, and you can’t do a bad deal with a good person. ## 239. Saint Augustine > The world is a book, and those who don’t travel read only a page. ## 240. George Bernard Shaw > Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it. ## 241. Michael Hoph > Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. ## 242. Author Unknown > Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong. ## 243. Dale Carnegie > Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ## 244. Albert Einstein > You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. ## 245. Jonatan Mårtensson > Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ## 246. Proverb > Speak the truth, but ride it with love. ## 247. Saint Augustine > Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. ## 248. Author Unknown > The purpose of life is to live a good life, and the way we know what is good is through values—and our job is to transmit those values to the next generation. ## 249. Yvon Chouinard > If you make a mess, you clean it up. ## 250. George Orwell > If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ## 251. Jon Kabat-Zinn > You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. ## 252. Roy E. Disney > When values are clear, decisions are easy. ## 253. Norman Vincent Peale > Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. ## 254. Richard Marcinko > The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. ## 255. David Russell > The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ## 256. Richard Branson > Now is the only time we have. ## 257. Richard Branson > Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. ## 258. Craig Groeschel > Culture is what you tolerate. ## 259. Ric Elia > You don’t need a near-death experience to truly start living. ## 260. Unknown > What you do not know about yourself, someone else does. ## 261. Anne Frank > Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ## 262. Unknown > What you do not know about yourself, someone else does. ## 263. Charles Kettering > Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. ## 264. Chris Voss > No is a dynamic that you’ve got to master before you can ever master yes. ## 265. Gene Bedley > Responsibility finds a way. Irresponsibility makes excuses. ## 266. Louis Gerstner > Culture is not just one aspect of the game—it is the game. ## 267. Stephen M.R. Covey > We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. ## 268. Anne Lamott > Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes… including you. ## 269. Will Rogers > Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. ## 270. Viktor Frankl > Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. ## 271. Warren Buffett > You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. ## 272. Charles Darwin > It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ## 273. Richard Feynman > The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. ## 274. Maya Angelou > You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ## 275. Robert Fulghum > Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ## 276. James Joyce > The longest way round is the shortest way home. ## 277. Jonathan Haidt > We have overprotected our children in the real world and underprotected them online. ## 278. Seneca > We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. ## 279. Flannery O’Connor > The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ## 280. J.C. Watts > Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. ## 281. Paul Graham > There is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth. ## 282. Mark Twain > Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ## 283. Ayn Rand > We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. ## 284. John Wooden > Sports do not build character, they reveal it. ## 285. Blaise Pascal > All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. ## 286. Alice Walker > The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ## 287. Semisonic > Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. ## 288. George Orwell > If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ## 289. Richard Feynman > The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. ## 290. Sean Swarner > Take away what money can buy and look at what's left. ## 291. Daniel Kahneman > We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone's intention. ## 292. Confucius > A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one.