Smixplsy Quotes & Sayings

No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together. — Paul Auster

I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback. — Donald Miller

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if you're not a citizen you are a slave. — Malcolm X

Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it. — Rene Lavand

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things. — Ndamukong Suh

Learn to love yourself and all that other stuff will not matter — Keke Palmer

As I'll explain, mission is one of these desirable traits, and like any such desirable trait, it too requires that you first build career capital - a mission launched without this expertise is likely doomed to sputter and die. But capital alone is not enough to make a mission a reality. Plenty of people are good at what they do but haven't reoriented their career in a compelling direction. Accordingly, I will go on to explore a pair of advanced tactics that also play an important role in making the leap from a good idea for a mission to actually making that mission a reality. In the chapters ahead, you'll learn the value of systematically experimenting with different proto-missions to seek out a direction worth pursuing. You'll also learn the necessity of deploying a marketing mindset in the search for your focus. In other words, missions are a powerful trait to introduce into your working life, but they're also fickle, requiring careful coaxing to make them a reality. This — Cal Newport

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity. — Cesar Chavez

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. — Karl Barth

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. — Flavor Flav

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. — William Shakespeare

You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby. — Muhammad Ali

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present — Lou Holtz

If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it. — Danny Bonaduce

history has no overall direction or purpose — Damien Keown