Let's Not Over-Analyse: Over-Analysis Quotes

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
by Leo Buscaglia


A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.
More Quotes on Procrastination


The problem isn't that you don't have good ideas. The problem is that you want the assurance that they're going to work out. Nobody gets that assurance. You have to be WILLING to TAKE THAT RISK.
O, The Oprah Magazine (Nov 2002)

Do Your Level Best Each Day Quotes

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
Booker T. Washington

Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it possible -show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryan

Dale Carnegie Quotes - Quotations

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale Carnegie

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.
Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie


Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie

Keep on raging - to stop the aging.
Dale Carnegie

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale Carnegie

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

Finish It Quotes - Complete It Quotes: Get It Done

Too many men work on parts of things; doing a job to completion satisfies me.
Dick Proenneke

Focus Quotes - Concentration Quotes

Concentration is the secret of strength.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Paul J. Meyer



If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.



If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

Bobby Nichols



It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps



Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn



I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Charles Dickens


Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Ray Knight


Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

Orison Swett Marden

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet.

Edwin Moses


Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.

Peter F. Drucker

Quotes From Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

Quotes from Randy Pausch's "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"

Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon and give his 'last lecture' after he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. 

What would you say in your last lecture?


Randy Pausch:


It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

I probably got more from that dream and not accomplishing it than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.

You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Head fake learning is absolutely important, and you should keep your eye out for them because they’re everywhere.

Don’t complain. Just work harder. That’s a picture of Jackie Robinson. It was in his contract not to complain, even when the fans spit on him.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.

It’s pretty easy to be smart when you’re parroting smart people.

It’s very important to know when you’re in a pissing match. And it’s very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

On whether the 'virtual worlds' created by his student project teams' work: 'I can’t tell you beforehand, but right before they present it I can tell you if the world is good by the body language. If they’re standing close to each other, the world is good.'

If you’re going to do anything that is pioneering you will get those arrows in the back, and you just have to put up with it. I mean everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

And he said: "Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life."

You just have to decide if you’re a Tigger or an Eeyore.

I have a theory that people who come from large families are better people because they’ve just had to learn to get along.

Loyalty is a two way street.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.


Be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

Don’t bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.

Syl said: "It took me a long time but I’ve finally figured it out. When it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do." It’s that simple. It’s that easy.

You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest.

I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

Apologise when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.


Be good at something, it makes you valuable.


Get a feedback loop and listen to it. Your feedback loop can be this dorky spreadsheet thing I did, or it can just be one great man who tells you what you need to hear. The hard part is the listening to it.

Creativity Quotes

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
Thomas Disch

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso


No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

I will master something, then the creativity will come.
Japanese Proverb

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Erich Fromm

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
Rollo May


One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne


The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But it is why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Abraham Maslow

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein quotes

Creative minds are rarely tidy.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury


It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
Lillian Hellman


The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams


Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron


A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is "trying things to see if they work."
Ray Bradbury

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller


Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown


The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
Barthold Georg Niebuhr


You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Nietzsche

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant


An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf


The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

Fear Quotes - Afraid Quotes ... and Courage Quotes

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.

Erica Mann Jong

Fate loves the fearless.

In Latin: Fortes fortuna juvat or Audaces fortuna juvat.


Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea - rudder, anchor, oars, and the fear of going down.
Antonio Machado

Who sees all being in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear (Isa Upanishad)

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Krishnamurti

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world.(Marianne Williamson, quoted by Nelson Mandella in his inaugural speech)


Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. (Rainier Maria Rilke)

Who is brave and bold will perish;
Who is brave and subtle will benefit.
The subtle profit where the bold perish
For Fate does not honour daring.
And even the sage dares not tempt fate.
Fate does not attack, yet all things are conquered by it;
It does not ask, yet all things answer to it;
It does not call, yet all things meet it;
It does not plan, yet all things are determined by it.
Fate's net is vast and its mesh is coarse,
Yet none escape it.
Tao Te Ching

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

Don’t be afraid. Take Risks. There’s really nothing to be afraid of. … Because the really important things in my life have been utterly unpredictable and unavoidable. … Relax and plunge into life.
Isabel Allende in Wintergasten