명언과 동기부여로 가득한 책

• How Successful People Think: C...
• Maxwell
• 2009-06-01

자기계발서. 작가가 참 날로 먹는구나, 라는 생각이 들기도 한다. 책의 반은, 유명인사의 명언이나 좋은 구절들을 뽑은 것이고, 나머지 반은 자신의 생각을 덧붙인 것이다. 이렇게 하면 나도 책 한 권 내겠네, 라고 생각하면서도 별 3개를 주는 이유는, 책의 곳곳에서 포스트잇에 써놓고 내 책상 위해 붙여놓고 싶은 글귀들을 발견했기 때문이다. 특히 간결하고 명확한 문체 덕분에 이해하기도 쉽다. 짜집기도 능력이지 뭐. 게다가 음악 같은 것과 다르게 명언을 싣는 것은 저작권 문제도 없으니까.



You have to think anyway, so why not think big? – Donald Trump

Who you are determines what you see – and how you think.

The Value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.

It’s a fact that you begin to think like the people you spend a lot of time with.

If creativity is what you would do if you were unafraid of the possibility of failure, then reality is dealing with failure if it does happen.

Most people spend more time planning their summer vacation than planning their lives. – source unknown
 At the beginning of every month, I spend half a day working on my calendar for the next forty days.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. – Henry Ford

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done. – Sam Ewing

People who think big attract big people to them.

Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and say, ‘Why Not?’” – George Bernard Shaw

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

If you want to succeed, you need to think about what’s best, not what’s popular.

Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson