Dave Kipper > Dave's Quotes

“Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Practice doesn't make perfect.
Practice reduces the imperfection.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
― Amelia Earhart

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.”
― Tom Rath, Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes