Quote from Steve Jobs:
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something...almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Simimal Quotes:
Seng-ts'an
Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.
Vernon Howard
How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that.
Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
John Eliot, Ph.D.
Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.
Patrick Delany
Think of what you speak, but speak not all that you think.
Henry Ford
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Susan Jeffers
Don’t be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around. The path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
David Kekich
Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in, business and in life. Empire builders spend hour-after-hour on mental work… while others party. If you're not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking...then you're giving in to laziness and no longer control your life.
Barbara De Angelis. Ph.D.
When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."
Timothy Ferriss
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.