'Special' Ed Harris > 'Special' Ed's Quotes

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
― Karl Marx

“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The way you build momentum is by getting something done and then moving on to the next thing. No one likes to be stuck on an endless project with no finish line in sight.”
― Jason Fried, ReWork

“Where I’d had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“As a result, buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we’ve unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those “other things” muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Equality is a lie.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Which, translated into workaday language, means that none of us know very much, and by the very nature of our being can never know as much as we need to know in order to live sanely and enjoy life while we live.”
― Napoleon Hill, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

“Nothing is more tragic–or more common –than mental inertia.”
― Napoleon Hill, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

“Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. MRS. BROWNING.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, and in nothing to be carried about; to be cheerful and courageous in all sudden chances and accidents, as in sicknesses: to love mildness, and moderation, and gravity: and to do my business, whatsoever it be, thoroughly, and without querulousness.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A man might have applied that to him, which is recorded of Socrates, that he knew how to want, and to enjoy those things, in the want whereof, most men show themselves weak; and in the fruition, intemperate: but to hold out firm and constant, and to keep within the compass of true moderation and sobriety in either estate, is proper to a man, who hath a perfect and invincible soul; such as he showed himself in the sickness of Maximus.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“But he that honours a reasonable soul in general, as it is reasonable and naturally sociable, doth little regard anything else: and above all things is careful to preserve his own, in the continual habit and exercise both of reason and sociableness: and thereby doth co-operate with him, of whose nature he doth also participate; God.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Keep thyself therefore, truly simple, good, sincere, grave, free from all ostentation, a lover of that which is just, religious, kind, tender-hearted, strong and vigorous to undergo anything that becomes thee.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“five per cent who were succeeding had formed the habit of systematic saving of money,”
― Napoleon Hill, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

“The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,—what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“And men are subject, also, to this same Law of Attraction. Go into any cheap boarding house district in any city and there you will find people of the same general trend of mind associated together. On the other hand, go into any prosperous community and there you will find people of the same general tendencies associated together. Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances. “Misery loves company.”
― Napoleon Hill, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

“Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success, for how may a man be sure that he has attained success unless he has established in his mind some definite object that he wishes?”
― Napoleon Hill, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

“IV. He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If you don’t feel rewarded by doing small steps and making gradual improvements, then you’ll rarely stick with something long enough to feel the accomplishment of a big payoff.”
― Derek Doepker, The Healthy Habit Revolution: The Step by Step Blueprint to Create Better Habits in 5 Minutes a Day

“In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did was allow people’s enthusiastic credulity to do the work for him.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I agree,” he said. “You have a horse in your bathroom, and I will, after all, have a little port.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good gamester, and to pay in cash.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Henry, did you know that it’s a proven fact that married men live longer than single guys? It’s also a proven fact that married men are far more willing to die.”
― Henry Bushkin, Johnny Carson: A Taut Portrait of a Complex Man Revealing the True Johnny Carson

“The tools here are most useful under pressure. First, because they stop us from only reacting. They bring focus. They help us resist the takeover of the lizard brain. They remind us what sets us apart: We think.”
― John Braddock, A Spy's Guide to Thinking

“Always devise your rules as if you didn’t know whether you were going be at the top or the bottom of the pecking order.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion