陈 元伟 > 元伟's Quotes

“sleep is more important than food. You can go a week without eating and the only thing you’ll lose is weight. Give up sleep for even a couple of days and you’ll become completely dysfunctional.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

“If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don’t come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“There’s only one rule I know of: You’ve got to be kind.” —Kurt Vonnegut”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“Years ago, in a motivational seminar by the master, Zig Ziglar, I heard a story about how mediocrity will sneak up on you. The story goes that if you drop a frog into boiling water, he will sense the pain and immediately jump out. However, if you put a frog in room-temperature water, he will swim around happily, and as you gradually turn the water up to boiling, the frog will not sense the change. The frog is lured to his death by gradual change. We can lose our health, our fitness, and our wealth gradually, one day at a time. It might be a cliché, but that’s because it is true: The enemy of “the best” is not “the worst.” The enemy of “the best” is “just fine.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn’t the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“typical millionaire lives in a middle-class home, drives a two-year-old or older paid-for car, and buys blue jeans at Wal-Mart.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“It is human nature to want it and want it now; it is also a sign of immaturity. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“The enemy of “the best” is not “the worst.” The enemy of “the best” is “just fine.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“A budget is people telling their money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“Aristotle once said, “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“Savings without a mission is garbage. Your money needs to work for you, not lie around you.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“Someone who never has fun with money misses the point. Someone who never invests money will never have any. Someone who never gives is a monkey with his hand in a bottle.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“I tell everyone never to take more than a fifteen-year fixed-rate loan, and never have a payment of over 25 percent of your take-home pay. That is the most you should ever borrow.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness