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THE ONLY THING HARDER THAN STARTING SOMETHING NEW, IS STOPPING SOMETHING OLD.

Russel Ackoff

THOSE WHO CANNOT FEEL THE LITTLENESS OF GREAT THINGS IN THEMSELVES ARE APT TO OVERLOOK THE GREATNESS OF LITTLE THINGS IN OTHERS.

from the book of tea by Kakuzo Okakura (via Maurice Heesen)

LIFE IS SHORT. MAKE IT DEEP.

Buffi Duberman

ALS JE JE OP HET DOEL CONCENTREERT, VERVAGEN DE GRENZEN. ALS JE JE OP DE GRENZEN CONCENTREERT, VERVAAGT HET DOEL.

Aad van Nes

WHEN THE GOING GETS WEIRD, THE WEIRD TURN PRO.

H. Thompson

THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER TOMORROW.

Dan Quale

YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF YOUR YOUTH UNTIL THEY HAVE FADED.

Laz Buhrmann

WHATEVER YOU DO, THE ONLY SECRET IS TO BELIEVE IN IT AND SATISFY YOURSELF. DON’T DO IT FOR ANYONE ELSE.

Keith Haring

TOUGH TIMES DON’T LAST BUT TOUGH PEOPLE DO.

Barry MacGuigan

IT SHOULD REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

Brendan Dawes

WHEN THE ONLY TOOL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER, IT IS TEMPTING TO TREAT EVERYTHING AS IF IT WERE A NAIL.

Abraham Maslow

I DON’T KNOW THE KEY TO SUCCESS, BUT THE KEY TO FAILURE IS TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYBODY.

B. Cosby

WE ARE ALWAYS THE SAME AGE INSIDE.

Gertrude Stein

DISCOVERY CONSISTS OF LOOKING AT THE SAME THING AS EVERYONE ELSE AND SEEING SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

Albert Szent-Gyorgi

YOU INVITE THINGS TO HAPPEN. YOU OPEN THE DOOR. YOU INHALE. AND IF YOU INHALE THE CHAOS, YOU GIVE THE CHAOS, THE CHAOS GIVES BACK.

Dave Eggers

SERENDIPITY IS LOOKING IN A HAYSTACK FOR A NEEDLE AND DISCOVERING A FARMER’S DAUGHTER.

Julius Comroe jr.

EEN POND VEREN VLIEGT NIET ALS ER GEEN VOGEL IN ZIT

Bert Schierbeek

I CANNOT TEACH ANYBODY ANYTHING, I CAN ONLY MAKE THEM THINK

Socrates

THE WORLD OF REALITY HAS ITS LIMITS; THE WORLD OF IMAGINATION IS BOUNDLESS.

Rousseau (via Pieter Spinder)

I DID IT BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE.

Mike Horn

PRACTICE ISN’T THE THING YOU DO ONCE YOU’RE GOOD, IT’S THE THING YOU DO THAT MAKES YOU GOOD.

Malcolm Gladwell

FAILURE IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN AGAIN, MORE INTELLIGENTLY.

Henry Ford

A BIRD DOESN’T SING BECAUSE IT HAS AN ANSWER, IT SINGS BECAUSE IT HAS A SONG.

Maya Angelou

PEOPLE WHO SAY IT CANNOT BE DONE SHOULD NOT INTERRUPT THOSE WHO ARE DOING IT.

George Bernard Shaw via anothersomething.org via Nalden

WE MAKE A LIVING BY WHAT WE GET. WE MAKE A LIFE BY WHAT WE GIVE.

Winston Churchill