30 quotes to live by

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May 3, 2012 by Benji

Another installment in the Turning 30 blog posts, (30 albums that changed my life and my bucket list) here is a list of 30 quotes that I try to live by. A few of these I have heard in person, but most are famous quotes. As before, these are not in order of importance, its in alphabetical order. I’d love to hear from you what your quotes are.

1)      “If faith without works is dead; then willingness without action is fantasy “Anonymous

2)       “Equality implies individuality” Trey Anastasio

3)      “If you have a problem with “the god thing” work the 12 steps and you will be contacted shortly” Marcus Barnett ( he said that to me personally)

4)       “It’s not what you know, who you know, or who knows you… it’s HOW you’re known” Terry Bean ( he said that to me personally)

5) “These are the three ways in which one can find out the true character of another person: how he behaves with his wallet, what he says when he’s angry or when he’s drunk!” Chazal

6) “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not” Kurt Cobain

7) “The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing” Stephen R. Covey

8)  “When patters are broken new worlds will emerge” Barry Demp  (He said that to me     personally)

9)   “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”
Thomas E. Edison

10)   “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” Albert Einstein

11)  “It’s better to regret something you did than something you didn’t do” Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

12)   “Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil” Jerry Garcia

13)    “Be the change you would like to see in the world” Ghandi

14)   “Knowledge Talks, Wisdom Listens” Jimi Hendrix

15)   “Success has many fathers, but Failure is a lonely Orphan” JFK

16)   “When the tide rises, all the ships raise together “JFK

17)   “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” John Lennon

18)   “You will not get anywhere in life if you don’t interrupt things” Florine Mark (she said that to me personally)

19)   “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it” Golda Meir

20)   “My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin – Binyamin – the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there’s been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since”
Benjamin Netanyahu

21)   “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it”
Picasso

22)   “It takes a smart man to earn a fortune and a brilliant man to keep one” Rockefeller

23)   “It doesn’t matter what you do when you grow up, as long as you do it like a Mentch” Jacob Rosenzweig (he said that to me many times when I was growing up)

24)   “You can’t teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar” David Sandler

25)    “If you were born on 3^rd base, no one knows if you can swing a bat” Howard Schwartz

26)   “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation” Herbert Spencer

27)   “Sometimes an iron fist covered with a velvet glove is the most affect mode of communication” Steve Szajna

28)   “If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up” Hunter S. Thompson

29)   “Call on God, but row away from the rocks” Hunter S. Thompson

“It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful, it’s artistic, from my standpoint and I just love real estate” Donald Trump