Eclectic quotations accumulating in Hell's Kitchen, NY, USA.

20081008

"What is the most important thing that you should do right now? It's easy to figure out the answer--the most important thing is usually the item you least want to do. So jump on it. Get it out of the way. Then go on to the next thing you don't want to do and get rid of that item by completing it. You'll be amazed at how it frees your spirit no to have them hanging over you."
-- Tom Hopkins

20081007

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
-- Napoleon Hill

20081006

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world".
-- Annie Lennox

20081005

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."
-- Robert Muller

20081004

"It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure".
-- Emilio James Trujillo

20081003

“For every line of conversation she has with someone else, she has sixteen with herself.”
-- Sarah Pare

20081002

"There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so --now -- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it."
-- Abraham-Hicks

20081001

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
-- Maya Angelou

20080930

“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.”
-- Thomas Cardinal Wolsey

20080929

"It's been a privilege to be here. "
-- Paul Newman (1925-2008)

20080928

"Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy -- you're right on the path of that which you intended..."
-- Abraham-Hicks

20080927

"It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button."
-- Abraham-Hicks

20080926

"If you are feeling a shortage of time or money, your best effort would be to focus upon better-feeling thoughts, and do more things that make you feel good. Your time is a perceptual thing, and even though the clock is ticking the same for everyone, your alignment affects your perception, as well as the results that you allow".
-- Abraham-Hicks

20080925

"If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me."
-- Jimmy Buffett

20080924

"To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: 'Leave no stone unturned.'"
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

20080923

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."
-- Michel de Montaigne

20080922

"In the end, everything is a gag".
-- Charlie Chaplin

20080921

"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing".
-- Jessica Alba

20080920

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
-- Og Mandino

20080919

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-- Thomas Jefferson

20080918

"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

20080917

"It is not your aptitude, but your attitude that determines your altitude."
-- Zig Ziglar

20080916

"I have no memory. Every day is a new day because I don't remember the day before. Every minute is like the first minute of my life. I try to remember, but I can't..."
-- Andy Warhol

20080915

"It takes a lot of work to look so good. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080914

"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting."
-- Andy Warhol

20080913

"art is what you can get away with."
-- andy warhol

20080912

"Everybody must have a fantasy." -- Andy Warhol

20080911

"The world fascinates me."
-- Andy Warhol

20080910

"i wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever?"
-- andy warhol

20080909

"Pop art is for everyone "
-- Andy Warhol

20080908

"I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080907

"There should be a course in the first grade on love."
-- Andy Warhol

20080906

"Wasting money puts you in a real party mood "
--
Andy Warhol

20080905

"think rich, look poor "
-- andy warhol

20080904

""There will be times when it seems that your dreams are slipping away. Remind yourself once again why you follow those dreams, and you will bring them back to life... Choose to live not in a world that's overwhelmed with problems. Choose instead to live in a world that is overflowing with positive possibilities...
On the surface, life can often seem tumultuous and incomprehensible. Yet deep inside, where it truly matters, life is the way you see it and becomes what you choose to make it."
-- Ralph Marston

20080903

"People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look and it's magic. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080902

"When the going gets tough, smile. And know that you have what it takes to make it through... When stress and tension and confusion surround you, relax. Select a specific challenge, deal with it, and then move calmly and confidently to the next... If you're being pulled in every direction by forces beyond your control, take time to remember what you value most. Focus on what's important to you, and you'll naturally move toward it".
-- Ralph Marston

20080901

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. " -- andy warhol

20080831

“Alice came to the fork in the road.
“Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

20080830

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
-- Frank Capra

20080829

"When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal points of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do - and with it the quality of your life- increases dramatically."
-- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

20080828

"Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly."
-- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

20080827

"Whether you think you can, or can't, you are usually right."
-- Henry Ford

20080826

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
-- Jimmy Durante

20080825

"use mind over matter. if you don't mind, it doesn't matter".
-- unknown

20080824

"Your rewards in life are always in direct proportion to your contribution."
-- Anonymous

20080823

"In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."
-- Chester L. Karrass

20080822

"Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace with it."
-- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

20080821

"The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
-- O.S. Marden

20080820

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future".
-- Niels Bohr

20080819

"If you dream as big as you can dream, anything is possible."
-- Michael Phelps

20080818

"A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints."
-- Anonymous

20080817

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
-- Anais Nin

20080816

"I never explain anything..."
-- Mary Poppins

20080815

"A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything".
— Harry Browne

20080814

"You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty".
— Sacha Guitry

20080813

"The only way things are going to change for you is when you change."
-- Anonymous

20080812

"We don't beat the reaper by living longer... We beat the reaper by living well and living fully."
-- Randy Pausch

20080811

"You're only as old as your knees".
-- Shirley Conran

20080810

"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom".
-- Shirley Conran

20080809

"... The events of this very day will move you closer to God.... That is what they were designed to do, and you will experience them doing just that if you will allow yourself to... It is all a matter of opening your eyes to what is really happening (as opposed to what it looks like is happening). Judge not by outward appearances."
-- Neale Donald Walsch

20080808

"Suffering has nothing to do with events, but with one's reaction to them. What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter".
-- Meditations from Conversations with God

20080807

"The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm".
-- O.S. Marden

20080806

"A liar needs a good memory"
-- Quinilian

20080805

"" We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can..."
-- will rodgers

20080804

"People Pleasers are always seeking the validation of others for all that they do. Unfortunately, their deep feelings of inadequacy rob them of actually hearing how important and appreciated they are to their receiver. When People Pleasers are acting from their emotional wounds, their self-sabotage comes from their inability to hear what another might truly want from them. Looking through their own filter of "How can I please you?" cuts them off from hearing, listening to, and being in touch with appropriate behavior, thereby cutting themselves off at the foot. The shadow of People Pleasers is their deep shame that they are nothing without you. "You" is whomever they happen to be attached to at the moment, together with the deeds they are doing on "your" behalf to prove how necessary they are... What is the People Pleaser's shame? Useless,forgettable, insigificant, disposable, needy, unwanted, passive aggressive".

-- Debbie Ford, Why Good People Do Bad Things

20080803

"True People Pleasers are usually people who were wounded badly in adolescence -- shamed until their needs no longer seemed important to them -- and learned at a young age that to survive with the least amount of stress thrown at them, they should try with all their might to make others happy. People Pleasers are prey for the predator types and feel deeply ashamed that they are just not worth the space they take up in the world. Their feelings of worthlessness, and the fear that they are nothing without someone else's love or approval, leave them with a driving need to prove their worth to others. People Pleasers are the ones with a warm smile on their face and the word prey stamped on their forehead. They are driven to capture your love by doing, overdoing, and then doing some more. They will give until there is nothing left of themselves and covertly feed off the one they are giving to in a less than healthy way. They may take the form of the love buyer, buying gifts and spending money that they don't have, in order to gain love. Their food is the adoration of others, and although they may look like they are giving, they are actually taking".
-- Debbie Ford

20080802

"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have".
-- Coleman Cox

20080801

"You cannot change your type, but you can make yourself a brilliant success at that type".
-- Emmet Fox

20080731

"I never read. I just look at pictures. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080730

"I just think any picture you take is a good picture. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080729

"I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080728

"I am a deeply superficial person. " -- Andy Warhol

20080727

"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. " --Andy Warhol

20080726

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080725

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080724

"I think everybody should like everybody. "
-- Andy Warhol

20080723

"Once you gain control over the thoughts you think, your sense of injustice will subside and will be replaced with the exuberance for life and the zest to create that you were born with."
--Abraham-Hicks

20080722

"If you need to know in advance that everything will 'work out' before you jump in, you'll never jump into anything... Yet 'jumping in' is life's greatest excitement, its grandest
adventure. Don't deny yourself that. Just go for it. Trust that Life will bring you benefit no matter what happens".

-- Neale Donald Walsch

20080721

"Don't be afraid of growing old. Be afraid of growing boring."
-- Unknown

20080720

"...Look to see what behaviors you are

indulging in over and over again that are clearly not serving you. Then, go on a 'bad habit diet.'... I mean it. I'm not kidding, Pick one bad habit, one bad behavior, a day for five days. You can do this. Stop doing the stuff you're doing that obviously

does not serve you--or others."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

20080719

"This period of your life marks a New Beginning. You

can feel it. And you have only just begun to know the

treasure and the glory of You. And you have only just

begun to make your Real and Lasting Contribution.

So step into this day with zest and zeal! Go now and

give your gift. We're all waiting for you. And we need

the wonder of Who You Are".


-- Neale Donald Walsch

20080718

"No effort is ever wasted, although some pay dividends later than you think... Do not imagine that you 'wasted your time' because something didn't turn out right. There is no such thing as 'waste' in the Universe. Everything -- everything -- yields benefit... It's true. And your life will show you this. So don't decry the 'effort that failed.' All things lead to your highest good. You just may not know it yet".
-- Neale Donald Walsch

20080717

"War is not nice".
-- Barbara Bush

20080716

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them".
-- Anatole France

20080715

"My ambition is all in my head. I'm on a f*cking journey. I'm on a walkabout".
-- Heath Ledger

20080714

"If you take just one tiny thing out of your past, I believe it will change the position of everything else so I try not to have any regrets in life."
-- Heath Ledger

20080713

"I don't plan at all... I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future."
-- Heath Ledger

20080712

"Bloom where you are planted..."
-- Unknown

20080711

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand”.
— Frank Herbert

20080710

"Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: Something is important here; otherwise, I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want? And then simply turn your attention to what you do want. . . . In the moment you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop; and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And—in that moment—your feeling will change from not feeling good to feeling good. That is the Process of Pivoting".
-- Abraham-Hicks

20080709

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
-- Groucho Marx

20080708

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
-- Kurt Vonnegut

20080707

"The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery."
-- Ralph Hodgson

20080706

"The realization that something is not as you want it to be is an important first step, but once you have identified that, the faster you are able to turn your attention in the direction of a solution, the better, because a continuing exploration of the problem will prevent you from finding the solution. The problem is a different vibrational frequency than the solution—and all thoughts (or vibrations) are affected by (or managed by) the Law of Attraction".
- Abraham-Hicks Publications.

20080705

"You could spend years and years figuring out how to take three steps at once. Or you could simply take one step, and then the next, and then the next.

"Being able to think things through is a tremendously valuable skill. But don't let all that thinking prevent you from doing.

"Sometimes it pays to think of a more efficient or effective or faster way to complete the task. Other times you're better off when you just go ahead and do it.

"Analyzing what you must do can be helpful. Yet analysis by itself won't get the job completed.

"After you think it through, go ahead and get it done. Put your clever thinking into action, and you'll have something of tangible value to show for it.

"Put your mind to work and you'll create great ideas. Then put those ideas to work with your efforts, and bring them successfully to life".

-- Ralph Marston

20080704

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you".
-- Lao Tse

20080703

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done".
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

20080702

"Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you’re doing
it wrong".
-- James Leo Herlihy

20080701

"I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven".
-- Barbra Streisand