“Those at the top of the mountain did not fall there.” — Unknown
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” — Winston Churchill
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” — Alan Watts
“I’m making some changes in my life. If you don’t hear back from me . . . you’re one of them.” — Tom Zegan
“A hint is something we often drop, but rarely pick up.” — Unknown
“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” — Honore de Balzac
“The movies were custard compared to politics.” — Nancy Reagan
“A billion here a billion there, sooner or later it all adds up to real money.” — Everett Dirksen, Former American Senator
“A person’s tongue can give you a taste of his heart.” — Ibn al-Qayyim
“We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.” — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.” — Unknown
“Weekends are a bit like rainbows: They look good from a distance, but disappear when you get up close to them.” — John Shirley
“I gravitate towards gravitas.” — Morgan Freeman
“You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.” — Unknown
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” — Lao Tzu
“If we like them, they’re freedom fighters, she thought. If we don’t like them, they’re terrorists. In the unlikely case we can’t make up our minds, they’re temporarily only guerrillas.” — Carl Sagan
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. ― Stephen Covey
See previous STATUS QUOtes and perhaps another quote by Stephen Covey HERE
“Gossip is the Devil’s radio.” — George Harrison
“What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?” — Henry Miller
“It’s a kind of tired that sleep can’t fix.” — Unknown
“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” — Robert Orben
“Let go or be dragged.” — Zen Proverb
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Ignoring the signs is a good way to end up at the wrong destination.” — Unknown
“I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.” — Bill Veeck
“No deal is better than a bad deal.” — Mark Cuban
“You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.” — Olivia Laing
“To those who are given much, much is expected.” — Maya Angelou
“We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent.” — Ellen DeGeneres
“Beautiful people do not just happen.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“You need to prepare for the unexpected because there is 100 percent certainty the unexpected will happen.” — Kevin O’Leary
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents.” — Andrew Carnegie
“He’s liked, but he’s not well liked.” — Arthur Miller
