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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Anne Lamott
Hope
Sometimes
Expectation
Onto
Opens
Shiny
Pinned
Forth
Floats
Image
Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Today
Hope
Health
Me
Better
Tomorrow
Looking
Gives
After
Healthy people live with their world.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Health
People
World
Healthy
Live
Healthy People
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
Our
Spend
Our Lives
Days
Course
How
Lives
You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.
Anthony Bourdain
Time
Food
You
Better
Finding
Given
Between
Hub
Than
Die
Being
Want
As Far As
Anything
San
Far
Barcelona
Choice
Hard
Hard Time
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
Anthony Bourdain
Time
Me
Travel
First
Way
First Time
Real
Very
Southeast
Southeast Asia
Childhood
Asia
Fantasies
Grip
Should
Fulfillment
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
Anthony Bourdain
Life
Me
You
Better
Those
Television
Seems
Better Things
Know
Making
Than
Just
Stop
Stops
Being
Interesting
Your
Fun
Challenging
Things
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.
Anthony Bourdain
Life
Women
Seem
Guys
Like
Know
Terrible
Doing
Truths
Who
Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.
Ashwin Sanghi
Dangerous
Met
Action
About
More
Thrills
Bullet
Target
Anticipation
Than
Much
The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
Ashwin Sanghi
Day
Attention Span
People
Writing
Try
Drop
Ought
Seconds
Scary
More
Tougher
Writers
Part
Almost
Attention
Than
Get
Getting
Human
Maybe
Goldfish
Span
Turn
Average
Us
Page
Why
Humans
At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'
Brendon Burchard
Love
Matter
Live
Our
Our Lives
End
Did
Ask
Lives
Everybody says, 'I want to change,' but they're not willing to pay the price of it. That was the metaphor of 'Life's Golden Ticket'... Life is some kind of a ride, and if you want that ride to be exhilarating and amazing, you've got to pay to get in. And the price is a willingness to change above and beyond what most people will do.
Brendon Burchard
Life
You
Change
People
Ride
Amazing
Will
Pay
Everybody
Says
Kind
Willing
Willingness
Some
Above
Price
Ticket
Beyond
Most
Got
Metaphor
Exhilarating
Get
Golden
Want
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
Brene Brown
Dangerous
Myth
Weakness
Vulnerability
Profoundly
To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
Brene Brown
Me
People
Leader
Important
Think
Finding
Someone
Potential
Himself
Accountable
Sustainability
Holds
Processes
Really
Who
Her
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
Brene Brown
You
People
Paralyzed
About
Shame
Talk
Talking
Without
Privilege
Get
Cannot
Race
Start
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
Change
Will
Luck
About
Only
Sure
Sure Thing
Thing
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Bret Harte
Beginning
Born
Soon
End
Linked
Begin
Die
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy
Positive
Own
Winners
Habit
Advance
Make
Expectations
Manufacturing
Event
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Brian Tracy
You
Will
Help Others
Others
Back
Give
More
Come
Want
Help
Away
Credit
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
Superior
Nothing
Believe
Those
Circumstance
Dared
Inside
Something
Except
Splendid
Been
Achieved
Them
Who
Ever
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
Bryant H. McGill
Truth
Truth Is
Tool
Those
Favorite
Deceive
Often
Who
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
Bryant H. McGill
News
History
Legal
Writing
Control
System
Records
Through
Real
Contracts
Legal System
Reporting
Committed
Information
Social
Manipulation
Violence
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
Bryant H. McGill
Life
Better
Long
Long Life
Merely
Make
Make A Difference
Than
Difference
Meaningful
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Bryant H. McGill
Others
Consideration
Considerations
Deliver
Politeness
Method
Used
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. Lewis
Truth
Reflect
Think
Imagination
Way
All Things
Least
Heavenly
Things
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
Adversity
Prosperity
Weather
Long
Devil
Monotonous
Excellent
Years
Dull
Campaigning
Middle-Aged
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