Thursday, February 9, 2012
He should sweep streets so well that
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau
Haste is blind and improvident.
- Titus Livius (Livy)
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that
all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration,
bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
They don’t call them DEADlines for nothing - keep breathing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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