Daniel Egan > Daniel's Quotes

“I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set it free. —Michelangelo”
― John G. Miller, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

“Joseph Nicolosi”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”
― St. Vincent de Paul

“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. —George S. Patton”
― Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. —Václav Havel”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”
― Dave Barry

“No worldly mind would ever have suspected that He Who could make the sun warm the earth would one day have need of an ox and an ass to warm Him with their breath; that He Who, in the language of Scriptures, could stop the turning about of Arcturus would have His birthplace dictated by an imperial census; that He, Who clothed the fields with grass, would Himself be naked; that He, from Whose hands came planets and worlds, would one day have tiny arms that were not long enough to touch the huge heads of the cattle; that the feet which trod the everlasting hills would one day be too weak to walk; that the Eternal Word would be dumb; that Omnipotence would be wrapped in swaddling clothes; that Salvation would lie in a manger; that the bird which built the nest would be hatched therein—no one would ever have suspected that God coming to this earth would ever be so helpless. And that is precisely why so many miss Him. Divinity is always where one least expects to find it.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”
― Eleanor Brownn