If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying. -- Bruce Lee

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

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

Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb