Thursday 28 March 2024

Quotes: Booker T. Washington

"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."

 –– Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915), American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several U.S. presidents 

via: Day In & Day Out Notes, 2024, p. 52. 

Wednesday 27 March 2024

Quotes: John Wooden

"It's the little things that are vital. Little things make big things happen." 

–– John Wooden (1910-2010), American basketball coach and player

via: Day In & Day Out Notes, 2024, p. 52. 

Tuesday 26 March 2024

Quotes: Michelangelo

"Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things."

–– Michelangelo (1475-1564), Italian sculptor, painter, and architect 

via: Day In & Day Out Notes, 2024, p. 51.

Monday 25 March 2024

Quotes: Harriet Rubin

"Ask yourself, when you are afraid or on the verge of a breakthrough: When does a candle shine the brightest? The answer is always in the dark."   

–– Harriet Rubin (b. 1952), American writer

Source: Harriet Rubin. The Princessa

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2002.

Sunday 24 March 2024

Quotes: Mignon McLaughlin

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

–– Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983), American journalist and author 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2002.

Saturday 23 March 2024

Quotes: Anna Quindlen

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart it is not success at all." 

–– Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), American journalist and novelist 

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.

Friday 22 March 2024

Quotes: Milan Kundera

"... you can do one of two things –– you can stand still and put down roots and take on traditions and build them up, have families, contribute, make money, buy a tux, go to the dinner, you know, be part of it. But the traditions build up and they slowly crush you into the ground. Or, you can put down no roots, have no traditions, flit about, stay on the cusp of life all the time, wear no tux. But the problem with that is you evaporate and you float away. And this is really a fundamental decision everybody makes in their life." 

–– Milan Kundera (1929-2023), Czech-born French writer 

Source: Ian Brown (b. 1954), Canadian journalist and author. Ian Brown, Russell Smith and Mike Bullard. "You feel bullet-proof when you flirt in a tux." The Globe and Mail. Saturday December 8, 2001 (p. L1, L7); p. L7. Quote is from Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.