Inspirational quotes for 20th April 2008.

Henry Ford: “Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.”

Les Brown: “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.”

Al Lopez: “Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field - if you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.”

Norman Vincent Peale: “There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.”

Inspirational quotes for 22nd March 2008.

Grace Lichtenstein: “Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.“

Carl Jung: “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.“

Jack London: “I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.“

Because I just got a DVD set of the show, here is a Scrubs special.

Sean: “You know Freud said that 90% of all human behavior is motivated by sexual impulses. Give me some credit, I would say at least 30% of my behavior is motivated by advertising and the rest by violence in film.”

Turk: “This is the reason why your headache didn’t go away. That’s actually pronounced analgesic, not anal-gesic. Sir, the pills go in your mouth.”

Dr. Cox: “I don’t know if they taught you this in the land of fairies and puppy dog tails where you obviously, if not grew up, then at least spent most of your summers, but you’re in the real world now!”

Janitor: “Some hooligan keeps disconnecting the alarm. I told security to look into it. But no, no, they’d rather catch the guy who’s stealing organs from the transplant ward.”

Dr. Cox: “Couples who are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don’t let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time.”

Inspirational quotes for 09th February 2008.

Ernest Hemingway: “I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”

Ray Douglas Bradbury: “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

Scott Adams: “I’m slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can’t motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”

Lou Dorfsman: “Creativity is a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It’s in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.”

Following on from my look at influences, here is a House special.

“The great thing about telling somebody they’re dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they’re willing to die for. What they’re willing to lie for.”

Cuddy: “Dr. House! Need you here.”
House: “No thanks. Lots of sick people. I might catch something.”

“What else turns you on? Drugs? Casual sex? Rough sex? Casual, rough sex? I’m a doctor, I need to know.”

“Dying people lie too. Wish they’d worked less, been nicer, opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to do something, you do it. You don’t save it for a sound bite.”

Chase: “How would you feel if I interfered in your personal life?”
House: “I’d hate it. That’s why I cleverly have no personal life.”