"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

-- Aristotle

#Inspirational Quotes #Mean Quotes #Goal Quotes

“We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.”
“Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.”
“One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.”
“The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.”
“I donâ€™t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I donâ€™t believe in white wine; I insist on color.”
“It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how the world anyway is. It is bad faith or 'bullshit', respond 'absolutists', to suppose - as the rhetoric of postmodernism implies - that we could seriously live and act with the thought that truth and value are simply our own projections. An attractive feature of 'ineffabilism', as I see it, is that it evades these accusations.”
“Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.”

Source : "Media Monkey's diary", www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2012.
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”

Source : "Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World". Book by Barbara Warren Holden and Jennifer Read Hawthorne, 2004.

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