Alinka Rutkowska > Alinka's Quotes

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
― Buddha

“Dream until your dreams come true.”
― Aerosmith

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
― Earl Nightingale

“It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?”
― J.M. Barrie

“When you can feel the feeling of having what you want, the thing that you want is not far away.”
― Alinka Rutkowska, Maya & Filippo Look for Whales

“Look around less, imagine more.”
― Esther Hicks

“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.

The job is not the work.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
― Seth Godin

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Strangers will show you the way

But a true friend will escort you,

to your destination.

1st November, 2006”
― Tushar Mangl

“At any given moment, you have the power to say that this is NOT how the story is going to END”
― MHS Pourri

“Don't ever think you are nothing. Somewhere along the line, there is going to be someone who thinks you are everything”
― MHS Pourri