Career Advice
Teddy Roosevelt
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~ Teddy Roosevelt
Margaret Young
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~ Margaret Young
Michelangelo
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all. ~Michelangelo
George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
– George Bernard Shaw
Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves.
– Carl G. Jung
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where the is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rumi
Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: He’s free. ~Rumi, poet born 1207 in Balkh (what is now Afghanistan)
Abraham Maslow
A musician must make his music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to ultimately be at peace with himself. ~Maslow
Buddha
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ~Buddha