"4 hour work week" great quotes

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give
you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the
time.
—HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and
journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
Everything popular is wrong.
—OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest

Retirement IsWorst-Case-Scenario Insurance.

Interest and Energy Are Cyclical.

Less Is Not Laziness.

The Timing Is Never Right.


"Someday" is a disease that will take your
dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If
it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it
and correct course along the way.

Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission.

Emphasize Strengths, Don't FixWeaknesses


The choice
is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental
improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become
mediocre.


Things in Excess Become Their Opposite.



Distress Is Bad, Eustress Is Good.


Distress refers to harmful stimuli that make you weaker, less
confident, and less able. Destructive criticism, abusive bosses,
and smashing your face on a curb are examples of this. These are
things we want to avoid.  :)




Many a false step was made by standing still.
—FORTUNE COOKIE
Named must your fear be before banish it you can. —
YODA, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back



risks weren't that scary once you took them.


Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no
happiness without action.
—BENJAMIN DISRAELI, former British PrimeMinister





To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no,
whether they consider themselves brave or not.

Conquering Fear = Defining Fear

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall
be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course
and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the
condition that I feared?" —SENECA





ear comes in many forms, and we usually don't call it by its fourletter
name. Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent
people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.
Most who avoid quitting their jobs entertain the thought that their
course will improve with time or increases in income. This seems
valid and is a tempting hallucination when a job is boring or
uninspiring instead of pure hell. Pure hell forces action, but anything
less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.




You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that
money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with
money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have no
fear of discomfort.
— JEAN COCTEAU, French poet, novelist, boxing manager, and
filmmaker, whose collaborations were the inspiration for the term
"surrealism"


I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but
most of them never happened. —MARK TWAIN





"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from
here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,"
said the Cat.
"I don't much care where ..." said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
—LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,Maxims for Revolutionists