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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

—Mike Myers

To do work you love and feel that it matters; how could anything be more fun?

—Katherine Graham

We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We’re told every day, “You can’t change the world.” But the world is changing every day. The only question is…who’s doing it? You or somebody else? Will you choose to lead, or be led by others?

—J. Michael Straczynski

Failure is the condiment which gives success its flavor.

—Truman Capote

A turtle may live for hundreds of years because it is well protected by its shell, but it only moves forward when it sticks out its head.

—Ricardo Semler

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

—George Bernard Shaw

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

—Benjamin Franklin

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. To seek: to embrace the questions, be wary of answers.

—Terry Tempest Williams

I never wear a watch because I always know what time it is. It is always now. And now is when you should do it.

—Steve Mariucci

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.

—Dr. Seuss