Ought Quotes - Page 8

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine.

I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.

The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.

Data really powers everything that we do.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Libraries are the future of reading.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.

Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.