Quote of the Day -- Rumer Godden

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organise and concentrate—or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my ‘ten minutes.’ I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive. 

-- Rumer Godden

Quote of the Day -- Robert Cialdini

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

-- Robert Cialdini

Quote of the Day -- Charles Bukowski

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

— Charles Bukowski

Quote of the Day -- Emily Dickinson

Forever—is composed of Nows— 

-- Emily Dickinson

Quote of the Day -- Adam Smith

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.

-- Adam Smith

Quote of the Day -- Carl Jung

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

-- Carl Jung

Quote of the Day -- Ruth Benedict

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

-- Ruth Benedict

Quote of the Day -- Ho Chi Minh

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

-- Ho Chi Minh

Quote of the Day -- Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

-- Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day -- Virginia Woolf

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. 

-- Virginia Woolf