Someone Who Doesn't Care About What's Distant Will Soon Encounter Worries Quotes

Someone who doesn't care about what's distant
will soon encounter worries at hand. - Confucius

What lies behind us, and
what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program,
it'll serve us right..! - Larry Niven

Some people talk in their sleep .
Lecturers talk while other people sleep .
- Albert Camus

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
Not thinking, yet not dreaming.
Ready for whatever may come.
When the opponent expands, I contract;
and when he contracts, I expand.
And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit,
"it" hits all by itself.
- Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig,
you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. - George Bernard Shaw