"Just be willing to do your work as hard as you can with the ability you have."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
great passion
"Let go of this idea that you have to find this one great thing that is my passion, my great passion."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
following your passion...
"I can't imagine how sick you are about following your passion… Find something you can do that would be great. If you try something and it doesn't work, that's okay too. Most things do not work. Most things are not good."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
Accept your mediocrity...
"Learn to accept your mediocrity. No one's really that great. You know who's great? The people that just put tremendous amount of hours into it. It's a game of tonnage."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
Level of dedication
"When I was starting out, I used to sit down and write a couple of times a week. And then, I was watching these construction workers go back to work, watched them trudging down the street. It was like a revelation to me: these guys don't want to go back to work after lunch, but they're goin'. That's their job. If they can exhibit that level of dedication for that job, I should be able to do the same."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
way to create...
"The way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day."
- Jerry Seinfeld, writer and comedian
...still thinking
"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking."
- Jerry Seinfeld, Writer and comedian
- Jerry Seinfeld, Writer and comedian
when they do it.....
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
3 D's of freedom
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
-Hubert Humphrey, US Vice President (1911-1978)
...Many experiences
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
-William Styron, novelist (1925-2006)
eternal day & night
The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)
Truth & preferences
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
-Gwendolyn Brooks, poet (1917-2000)
..with ourselves
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
-William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)
..watching
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
-Robert Fulghum, author (b. 4 Jun 1937)
The way you treat...
"The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers."
— Sam Walton
wrote for...
Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher and author (1878-1969)
Working at roots...
I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots."
-George T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)
Want to / Ought to
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
-Rosalynn Carter.
Growing self & others
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
-Jack Welch
been reading...
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
-Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1900-1971)
Time vs Deadline
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
-Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (1899-1974)
...where you think
The past is never where you think you left it.
-Katherine Anne Porter, writer and activist (1890-1980)
Roses & French beans
Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships.
-Ruskin Bond, author (b. 19 May 1934)
Happiness Defined
"I have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes to be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor—such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate. What more can the heart of a human desire?"
- Tolstoy
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