Author: Laurence

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist, simply look ahead.

Simon Sinek
A good leader creates followers. A great leader creates leaders.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
It’s the people not like us, that make us grow.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Alfred North Whitehead
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Bruce Lee
Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer, and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place. It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful of lies. And all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.

Mark Twain
When things are going really well with my wife, I wonder; “What did I do to deserve this?” When things are going badly with my wife, I wonder;”What did I do to deserve this?”