Keep a notebook

Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter. And lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.

~ Jack London

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Ruff! Ruff!

Don’t hire a dog, then bark yourself.

~ David Ogilvy

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New ideas

Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

~ Howard H. Aiken

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Knowing

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; Doing is the completion of knowing.

~ Wang Yangming

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The flowers that blossom

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

~ Albert Schweitzer

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Taken for granted

In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

~ Bertrand Russell

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Sight

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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Cynicism

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

~ George S. Patton

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Restful

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.

~ Hal Boyle

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Options

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.

~ Thomas Sowell

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