Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha