Blog Marco - Interesting Quotations

The Difference Between Thinking and Doing

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:29:24 -0700

We do things without thinking about them at all and we think things without having the slightest intention of doing them.

— Hector B. Poole from Twilight Zone Episode #52

Technology Tools Waste of Time: Bill Gates

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:56:09 -0700

All these tools of tech waste our time if we're not careful. I'm not a 24-hour-a-day tech person. I read a lot and some of that reading is not on a computer.

— Bill Gates on quitting facebook and using time effectively.

Bringing Value to the Hour

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:18:22 -0800

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

— Jim Rohn

Making Your Decision to Commit

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:29:18 -0700

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth - that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

True Wealth

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:50:33 -0700

If you want to know how rich you are, add up everything you have that money cannot buy and death cannot take away!

— Anonymous on Wealth

Time

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:02:59 -0800

Making the most of time, before time kills me.

— Random thought, heard over the radio

The Definition of Success

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:00:26 -0800

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

— William Feather

Rational Continuity; One Precedes The Other

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:19:30 -0800

What follows is ever closely linked to what precedes;
it is not a procession of isolated events, merely obeying the laws of sequence, but a rational continuity.
Moreover, just as the things already in existence are all harmoniously coordinated,
things in the act of coming into existence exhibit the same marvel of concatenation,
rather than simply the bare fact of succession.

— Marcus Aurelius

Action It Now!

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:45:31 -0700

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

— William Feather

Small Things Lead to Greatness

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:11:45 -0700

We cannot do great deeds unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Market Timing

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:34:57 -0700

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

— Jesse Livermore (It's a Share Trading quote)

Make Use Of The Present

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:17:19 -0700

An hour you spend in the present will save you one or two years in the future

— Nguyen "Anthony" Nguyen

World Peace Begins With One Person

Sat, 20 May 2006 01:23:43 -0700

If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.

— Chinese Proverb

Responsibility in Character Forming

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:52:58 -0800

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints.
It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

— Jim Rohn

Mirror Reflection of Yourself

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:27:30 -0800

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves:
we do unto others as we do unto ourselves.
We hate others when we hate ourselves.
We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves.
We forgive others when we forgive ourselves.
We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

— Eric Hoffer