"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Arena

-- Mark Twain

"So I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.' I knew that when I was 80 I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day, and so when I thought about it that way it was an incredibly easy decision. And I think that’s very good."

-- Jeff Bezos, Regret Minimization Framework (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ)

Scared of what we might not be able to do.

Scared of what people might think if we tried.

We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes.

We say no when we want to say yes.

We sit quietly when we want to scream.

And we shout with the others,

when we should keep our mouths shut.

Why?

After all,

we do only go around once.

There's really no time to be afraid.

So stop.

Try something you've never tried.

Risk it.

Enter a triathlon.

Write a letter to the editor.

Demand a raise.

Call winners at the toughest court.

Throw away your television.

Bicycle across the United States.

Try bobsledding.

Try anything.

Speak out against the designated hitter.

Travel to a country where you don't speak the language.

Patent something.

Call her.

You have nothing to lose

and everything

everything

everything to gain.

JUST DO IT.

(http://joshpremuda.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Barry-Sand...)

mark twain: "Dance like nobody’s watching; Love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; Live like it’s heaven on earth."

Einstein: "imagination is more important than knowledge"

Programmers quote:"I find that most people get upset by mistakes. I generally don't. I have always thought that the reason is that I am trained to accept that there will be mistakes, because compilation errors are a norm. When they happen, you fix them, and move on with your life. If you get upset over compilation errors, you won't last in this biz"

trotsky: "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable"

"always end on a quote"

"No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have a lot in common." - Felix Dennis

"Not the lowest hanging fruit. You want the highest RoI fruit." - Me =)

"There are no right and wrong decisions. Make a decision and then [work hard enough to] make sure it was the right one." -My Mom

Both of these have gotten me through some dark days, both career-wise and personally.

--Anon, Chinese proverb

From the 'sunscreen' speech.

The whole thing is worth listening to or reading.

http://www.google.com/search?q=sunscreen+speech

"Deliver to world what you would buy if you were on the other end of the deal"

"Have lots of assiduity. That means you sit down on your ass and do it until it's done"

All Charlie Munger

-- Steve Jobs

- Jack London

"No one ever lay on their deathbed saying 'I wish I'd watched more TV.'"

- Tennessee Williams