“A word too much always defeats its purpose.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” — Karl Lagerfeld
“I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.” — Charles M. Schwab
“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.” — Thomas Edison
“There are as many opinions as there are experts.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The man who says ‘I may be wrong, but… ‘ does not believe there can be any such possibility.” — Frank ‘Kin’ Hubbard
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell
“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” — J. Paul Getty
“I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.” — Albert Einstein
“If you are more fortunate than others, it’s better to build a longer table than a taller fence.” — Unknown
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. ” — William Hazlitt
“Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me… it’s gossip.” — Erma Bombeck
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” — Robert G. Ingersoll
“Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.” — Zig Ziglar
“The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.” — Eric Hoffer
“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” — Patrick Young
“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.” — Confucius
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” — Flora Whittemore
“Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.” — Andrei Sakharov
“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.” — Rose Kennedy
“Rock ‘n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.” — Frank Sinatra
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” – John Muir
Picture taken from the top of Lembert Dome looking out at Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, 2016 – Color photo converted to black and white in Lightroom. Photograph copyright by Jeffrey B. Ross – ALL Rights Reserved.
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Exposure: 1/125 sec @ f/13
Focal Length: 55mm
ISO 100
Nikon D3300
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“Success has always been a great liar.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves on it, and passers-by only see the smoke.” — Vincent van Gogh
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.” — Max Lerner
“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Lucy van Pelt cartoon character by Charles Schulz
