Big Idea Coach

A wish for the perfect life...

"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline,for life would no longer teach me anything.
                                                --Allyson Jones

Love does not consist in....

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”

                                                --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The secret of the interesting man...

“The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.”

                                                --William Dean Howells

The Self is not something one finds...

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the Self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

                                                --Thomas Szasz

Mishaps are like knives...

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us up, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

                                                --James Russell Lowell

You have to know how to accept...

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

                                                --Ray Bradbury

Success comes to those...

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

                                                --Henry David Thoreau

Life is the garment we continually alter...

“Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit.”

                                                --David McCord

The learned man knows...

“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”

                        --Victor Hugo

You can't build a reputation on...

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

                                                --Henry Ford