Quotes

I’ve been reading a lot of Will Durant’s writing lately, and I must say that he fascinates me. Today’s quote comes from him, “The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds..” I’m guessing that if a herd of cattle were stampeding towards…

Don’t be afraid to step out and take a risk. You don’t want to end up rotting away in a backwater someday wishing that you had… Years ago when we were considering purchasing a new house, and weighing up the risks, a friend said “some days just getting out of bed can be a risk”….

There have always been distractions, and reasons why we can’t succeed at something, but in today’s world, it’s even harder to focus. Just the pace and demands of life, let alone the intrusions of things like social media and the 24 hour news cycle, makes it harder to focus. Lets define success here for a…

One of my favorite quotes over time is that “the only thing that is constant is the rate of change”, which is based on the sayings of Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher who lived from 535 – 475BC. If that was the case then, then it is certainly even more true today. The change that I’m…