Recent Quotes to Awaken

Realized it had been awhile since I had posted a collection of quotes from recent reads. My Moleskine is packed full, so it’s hard to narrow it down for the post, but here is a handful that impacted me…

Your imagination is the only attribute you share with God. You have no boundaries in your imagination. It is the only place where you have no limitations. You can become someone you have never been. You can go places you have never seen. You can experience a life you have never lived. Is it possible that your imagination is the playground where you and God are to commune and dream together? ...

Your imagination is a gift. When you enter a relationship with the God who created you, you are awakened, you come alive, and all of a sudden you begin to live the life you were born to live. You were created on purpose. You were created with purpose, for a purpose.

~ Erwin McManus, Wide Awake

The businesses we think of as overnight successes weren’t. We just didn’t notice them until they were well baked. ...

Most of the time, if you fail to become the best in the world, it’s either because you planned wrong or because you gave up before you reached your goal. ...

The brave thing to do is to tough it out and end up on the other side - getting all the benefits that come from scarcity. The mature thing is not even to bother starting because you’re probably not going to make it through the Dip. And the stupid thing to do is to start, give it your best shot, waste a lot of time and money, and quit right in the middle of the Dip. ...

A few people will choose to do the brave thing and end up the best in the world. Informed people will probably choose to do the mature thing and save their resources for a project they’re truly passionate about. Both are fine choices. It’s the last choice, the common choice, the choice to give it a shot and then quit that you must avoid if you want to succeed.

~ Seth Godin, The Dip

Less is not laziness. Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is not laziness. ...

The timing is never right. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. ...

Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

~ Timothy Ferris, The 4-Hour Work Week

Posted 07.25.2008

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