#lever

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#leverage #leadership

Age of the geek, baby, we rule the world! ↗

— Alec Hardison

#age

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ↗

— Rumi

#cleverness #self #wisdom #world #change

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#people #death

«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!» ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#crazy #dreams-inspirational #madness #poem #dreams

I hate when I'm at the grocery store and the person checking me out asks, "Paper or plastic?" It's offensive. As if I'm going to sleep with her just because she has a clever pick up line. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #grocery-store #humor #paper-or-plastic #funny

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#desperation #hope #inspiration #misattributed #tenacity

What I stand for is what I stand on. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#inspirational #inspirational

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courage #courageous #crazy #death #definition

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. ↗

— Criss Jami

#articulation #babble #babbling #cleverness #comprehension