“Easy isn’t the goal. Quality is the goal.”
Ed Catmull, Creativity Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Quotes
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but…
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.”
Helen Keller
"Just because you identify with a stereotype…"
“Just because you identify with a stereotype does not mean that you need to embody it.”
Anonymous
"You have power over your mind – not…
You have power over your mind – not outside events.
Realise this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is…
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour.”
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
"Automation has become so sophisticated that on a typical passenger flight, a human pilot holds the controls for a grand total of just…
“Automation has become so sophisticated that on a typical passenger flight, a human pilot holds the controls for a grand total of just three minutes. What pilots spend a lot of time doing is monitoring screens and keying in data. They’ve become, it’s not much of an exaggeration to say, computer operators.”
"Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a…
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
Aldous Huxley
"When you write the story…"
“When you own the story you get to write the ending.”
Bene Brown
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as…
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Zig Ziglar
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you…
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
"DON'T WASTE WORDS…"
DON’T WASTE WORDS
Jump to conclusions
Inscription from the entrance to The Cave Hotel which Millican occupied in Borrowdale. The camping holidays that he offered to people were described like this:
“The Programme will be seasoned to taste with further real adventures and experiences such as the following:
A Dinner of the Savage Club on a Desert Island.
Exploration of a Cave.
Lost in the Mountain Midst.
A Thunderstorm in the Mountains (weather permitting).
Dangling over the Precipice.
Astride the Razor Ridge.
Ascent of the Needle.
Varied Hairbreadth Escapes”.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing…"
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Viktor Frankl was a world famous neurologist and psychiatrist – and also a survivor of Auschwitz.
Graham Chastney 