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“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Knowing that wisdom waits to be gathered, I actively search her out. I will change my actions TODAY! I will train my eyes and ears to read and listen to books and recordings that bring about positive changes in my personal relationships and a greater understanding of my fellow man. I will read and listen only to what increases my belief in myself and my future.
I will seek wisdom. I will choose my friends with care.
I am who my friends are. I speak their language, and I wear their clothes. I share their opinions and their habits. From this moment forward, I will choose to associate with people whose lives and lifestyles I admire. If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. I am an eagle. It is my destiny to fly.
I will seek wisdom. I will listen to the counsel of wise men.
The words of a wise man are like raindrops on dry ground. They are precious and can be quickly used for immediate results. Only the blade of grass that catches a raindrop will prosper and grow.
I will seek wisdom. I will be a servant to others.
A wise man will cultivate a servant’s spirit, for that particular attribute attracts people like no other. As I humbly serve others, their wisdom will be freely shared with me. He who serves the most grows the fastest.
I will become a humble servant. I will look to open the door for someone. I will be excited when I am available to help. I will be a servant to others. I will listen to the counsel of wise men. I will choose my friends with care.
I will seek wisdom.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“First we make a choice. Then our choices make us.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“I am saying that outside influences are not responsible for where you are mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, or financially. You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“A wise man will cultivate a servant’s spirit, for that particular attribute attracts people like no other. As I humbly serve others, their wisdom will be freely shared with me. Often, the person who develops a servant’s spirit becomes wealthy beyond measure.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“As children, we were afraid of the dark. Now as adults, we are afraid of the light. We are afraid to step out. We are afraid to become more.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“He did, however, put in me the ability to make a decision and then make it right.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“I am who my friends are. I speak their language, and I wear their clothes. I share their opinions and their habits. From this moment forward, I will choose to associate with people whose lives and lifestyles I admire. If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. I am an eagle. It is my destiny to fly. I will seek wisdom.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“The answer, of course, is that we are always and forever influenced by those with whom we associate. If a man keeps company with those who curse and complain—he will soon find curses and complaints flowing like a river from his own mouth. If he spends his days with the lazy—those seeking handouts—he will soon find his finances in disarray. Many of our sorrows can be traced to relationships with the wrong people.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“You are where you are because of your thinking. Your thinking dictates your decisions. Decisions are choices.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“When I make a decision, I will stand behind it. My energy will go into making the decision. I will waste none on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“There are a few of us who have latched on to this silly idea that we can change the world. We will develop the power to ignore what is popular and do what is right. One person can attain the power to lead hundreds of thousands of people to the promised land of their dreams.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“From this moment forward, I will accept responsibility for my past. I understand that the beginning of wisdom is to accept the responsibility for my own problems and that by accepting responsibility for my past, I free myself to move into a bigger, brighter future of my own choosing.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“My smile has become my calling card. It is, after all, the most potent weapon I possess.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly. My decisions come quickly, and they lead to victory.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“It is time for us to part, my friend. Perhaps our time together will bring more understanding to your life’s journey. I can do nothing to alleviate your struggles and would not if I were able. It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“life itself is a privilege, but to live life to its fullest— well, that is a choice!”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Truth is truth. If a thousand people believe something foolish, it is still foolish! Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion. I have found that it is better to be alone and acting upon the truth in my heart than to follow a gaggle of silly geese doomed to mediocrity.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“You will become a lighthouse of personal growth and power, and by your example and leadership, you will prevent many a worthy man from crashing his life upon the rocks of mediocrity.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“He who serves the most grows the fastest. I”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
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“Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quote from The Sorrows of Young Werther
“I had recently read to my dismay that they have started hunting moose again in New England. Goodness knows why anyone would want to shoot an animal as harmless and retiring as the moose, but thousands of people do—so many, in fact, that states now hold lotteries to decide who gets a permit. Maine in 1996 received 82,000 applications for just 1,500 permits. Over 12,000 outof-staters happily parted with a nonrefundable $20 just to be allowed to take part in the draw. Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. That’s all there is to it. Without doubt, the moose is the most improbable, endearingly hopeless creature ever to live in the wilds. Every bit of it—its spindly legs, its chronically puzzled expression, its comical oven-mitt antlers—looks like some droll evolutionary joke. It is wondrously ungainly: it runs as if its legs have never been introduced to each other. Above all, what distinguishes the moose is its almost boundless lack of intelligence. If you are driving down a highway and a moose steps from the woods ahead of you, he will stare at you for a long minute (moose are notoriously shortsighted), then abruptly try to run away from you, legs flailing in eight directions at once. Never mind that there are several thousand square miles of forest on either side of the highway. The moose does not think of this. Clueless as to what exactly is going on, he runs halfway to New Brunswick before his peculiar gait inadvertently steers him back into the woods, where he immediately stops and takes on a startled expression that says, “Hey—woods. Now how the heck did I get here?” Moose are so monumentally muddle-headed, in fact, that when they hear a car or truck approaching they will often bolt out of the woods and onto the highway in the curious hope that this will bring them to safety. Amazingly, given the moose’s lack of cunning and peculiarly-blunted survival instincts, it is one of the longest-surviving creatures in North America. Mastodons, saber-toothed tigers, wolves, caribou, wild horses, and even camels all once thrived in eastern North America alongside the moose but gradually stumbled into extinction, while the moose just plodded on. It hasn’t always been so. At the turn of this century, it was estimated that there were no more than a dozen moose in New Hampshire and probably none at all in Vermont. Today New Hampshire has an estimated 5,000 moose, Vermont 1,000, and Maine anywhere up to 30,000. It is because of these robust and growing numbers that hunting has been reintroduced as a way of keeping them from getting out of hand. There are, however, two problems with this that I can think of. First, the numbers are really just guesses. Moose clearly don’t line up for censuses. Some naturalists think the population may have been overstated by as much as 20 percent, which means that the moose aren’t being so much culled as slaughtered. No less pertinent is that there is just something deeply and unquestionably wrong about killing an animal that is so sweetly and dopily unassuming as a moose. I could have slain this one with a slingshot, with a rock or stick—with a folded newspaper, I’d almost bet—and all it wanted was a drink of water. You might as well hunt cows.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from A Walk in the Woods
“The fair breeze blew,
The white foam flew,
And the forrow followed free.
We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, quote from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Sai la favola del pipistrello?
Gli uccelli e le bestie erano in guerra. Quando stavano vincendo gli uccelli, il pipistrello diceva di essere un uccello, perché sapeva volare. Quando vincevano le bestie, il pipistrello diceva di essere una bestia, perché aveva i denti.
Per questo il pipistrello non si fa vedere di giorno. Nessuno vuole guardare le sue due facce. (Pag. 614, "Il falò delle vanità")”
― Tom Wolfe, quote from The Bonfire of the Vanities
“Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”
― Tom Robbins, quote from Still Life with Woodpecker
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