“Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fire it up
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
—Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695), poet, writer
Dreams Into Action
“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
- Anais Nin
A life well used
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
On dating men
“Just ignore everything they say and just pay attention to what they do. Because if you do that, you’re not gonna make all the big mistakes.”
- David Pausch, on Oprah 10/22/2007 giving future dating advice to his baby daughter, Chloe.
reading note: David Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon and is dying of pancreatic cancer. Show notes: Guests who are facing death share candid confessions and how they live their lives.
True Happiness
“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
- Helen Keller
Capabilities
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.”
— Thomas Edison
Do
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
- Desmond Tutu
No happiness without action
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
