Chris Guillebeau Quotes

If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it. ~ Chris Guillebeau

If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. ~ Chris Guillebeau

To truly live without regrets, pay attention. Ask yourself hard questions and see where they lead. Do I really want this job? Is this relationship right for me? If I could do anything, would it be what I'm doing today ... or something different? ~ Chris Guillebeau

Passive Income: It's not just about real estate ~ Chris Guillebeau

The concept of deferred gratification, or sacrificing now to save for the future, can be helpful in setting aside money in a retirement account for old age. It can also serve as an effective rationalization for life avoidance. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Don't waste your time living someone else's life. ~ Chris Guillebeau

WHAT YOU DON'T DO DOESN'T MATTER ~ Chris Guillebeau

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future. ~ Chris Guillebeau

value is created when a person makes something useful and shares it with the world. ~ Chris Guillebeau

In the battle between planning and action, action wins. ~ Chris Guillebeau

In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Often when we ask for advice, we don't really want advice-we want someone to say "That's great! Go for it!" ~ Chris Guillebeau

People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life," he began before clarifying, "I don't think that's what we're really seeking. What we seek is an experience of being alive. ~ Chris Guillebeau

If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Everyone dies but not everyone truly lives. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Without the edge, [life's] boring ... If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that? ~ Chris Guillebeau

It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing. That path is paved with safe lives, middle of the road monotony, and little chance of failure. But where's the fun in being like everyone else out there? ~ Chris Guillebeau

Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life. ~ Chris Guillebeau

You can do more than you think ~ Chris Guillebeau

If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too.
I have no interest in living a balanced life.
I want a life of adventure. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Your comfort zone may be more like a cage you can't escape from than a safe place you can retreat to. ~ Chris Guillebeau

We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you're not doing something about it, you're doing something about it. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn't exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority. ~ Chris Guillebeau

11 WAYS TO BE UNREMARKABLY AVERAGE 1. Accept what people tell you at face value. 2. Don't question authority. 3. Go to college because you're supposed to, not because you want to learn something. 4. Go overseas once or twice in your life, to somewhere safe like England. 5. Don't try to learn another language; everyone else will eventually learn English. 6. Think about starting your own business, but never do it. 7. Think about writing a book, but never do it. 8. Get the largest mortgage you qualify for and spend 30 years paying for it. 9. Sit at a desk 40 hours a week for an average of 10 hours of productive work. 10. Don't stand out or draw attention to yourself. 11. Jump through hoops. Check off boxes. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. ~ Chris Guillebeau

I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn't have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred. ~ Chris Guillebeau

If you've ever felt a strange sense of sadness or alienation, there's a potential way out of the confusion- just shift this feeling into a sense of purpose. It's not about happiness, although happiness often results from doing something you love. Instead, it's about challenge and fulfillment, finding the perfect combination of striving and achievement that comes from reaching a big goal. ~ Chris Guillebeau

The choices we make now affect the opportunities available in the future ~ Chris Guillebeau

When we really get serious about our insecurities, we usually find that three specific fears emerge: the fear of failure, the fear of success, and the fear of change. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Don't try to explain everything, but do tell a few good stories. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects. ~ Chris Guillebeau

I might fail, but I'd never forgive myself if I didn't try. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Give yourself permission to do what you've always wanted. ~ Chris Guillebeau

Faith is trusting, that no matter what plan you had, God has a better one. ~ Chris Burkmenn

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun! ~ Chris Tucker

The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of men. Their faces are covered with semen from dozens of masturbating men, their anuses are penetrated repeatedly by lines of partners, and they are raped. The women portrayed in the films exist to fulfill the desire of men in the most degrading and painful way possible. Nearly all porn dialogue includes lines from women such as I am a cunt, I am a bitch. I am a whore. I am a slut. ~ Chris Hedges

The very concept of home has become tarnished, misty, elusive. As never before, we are living in a rootless age. So many of us are refugees, living out of suitcases, car trunks, cardboard boxes, desperate to go back to a home that no longer exists. ~ Chris Atack

Study's good, because it microcosms everything - if you understand everything within the walls of what you study you can identify other walls too, other areas of study. Everything's separate and discrete and there is no macrocosm, really. When there are no walls there is no study, only chaos. And so you break it down. ~ Chris Kraus

Every adult is the creation of a child. ~ Chris Fuhrman

Mass culture is Peter Pan culture. It tells us that if we close our eyes, if we visualize what we want, if we have faith in ourselves, if we tell God that we believe in miracles, if we tap into our inner strength, if we grasp that we are truly exceptional, if we focus on happiness, our lives will be harmonious and complete. This cultural retreat into illusion, whether peddled by positive psychologists, Hollywood, or Christian preachers, is a form of magical thinking. It turns worthless mortgages and debt into wealth. It turns the destruction of our manufacturing base into an opportunity for growth. It turns alienation and anxiety into a cheerful conformity. It turns a nation that wages illegal wars and administers off-shore penal colonies where it openly practices torture into the greatest democracy on earth. ~ Chris Hedges

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine. ~ Chris LeDoux

Trouble is our only defense against boredom. ~ Chris Fuhrman

No, I'm a vampire." Matthew stepped forward, joining Chris under the projector's light. "And before you ask, I can go outside during the day and my hair won't catch fire in the sunlight. I'm Catholic and have a crucifix. When I sleep, which is not often, I prefer a bed to a coffin. If you try to stake me, the wood will likely splinter before it enters my skin." He bared his teeth. "No fangs either. And one last thing: I do not, nor have I ever, sparkled." Matthew's face darkened to emphasize the point. I ~ Deborah Harkness

I'm not trying to win individual awards. ~ Chris Webber

He is looking down on the two crystal balls that the old man's foul, strong hands have rolled across to him. In one he sees Margaret, not in her raincoat and her nodding plumes, but as she is transfigured in the light of eternity. Long he looks there; then drops a glance to the other, just long enough to see that in its depths Kitty and I walk in bright dresses through our glowing gardens. We had suffered no transfiguration, for we are as we are, and there is nothing more to us. The whole truth about us lies in our material seeming. He sighs a deep sigh of delight and puts out his hand to the ball where Margaret shines. His sleeve catches the other one and sends it down to crash in a thousand pieces on the floor. The old man's smile continues to be lewd and benevolent; he is still not more interested in me than in the bare-armed woman. Chris is wholly inclosed in his intentness on his chosen crystal. No one weeps for this shattering of our world. ~ Rebecca West

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done. ~ Jack Kornfield

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. ~ Chris Chocola

Women share everything. It's the blessing we received when we turned down muscles and mustaches." He ~ Chris Cleave

In the '90s, when I started, it was still a rough-and-tumble, physical league. You take the hook and holding and a little bit of the physicality out of the game, and the speed ratcheted up two-fold. Now you have a split second to make a hit, or decide to pull up. When there's indecision, you're going to make a mistake. ~ Chris Pronger

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language. ~ Chris Hedges

Basically, the more you try to do, the less you actually accomplish. This is a stark, inescapable principle that we all live with. ~ Chris McChesney

It is more important that we listen to others than to always be speaking, for in that way we learn what there is to know. We should be easy to talk to, and grateful for new information. ~ Wu Wei

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets. ~ Chris Chocola

Instead, we spent our downtime prodding at lifeless characters and wondering how long a human body could subsist on a diet of ramen and Coke before liver function ceased entirely. ~ Chris Baty

By refreshing our sense of belonging in the world, we widen the web of relationships that nourishes us and protects us from burnout. ~ Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution. ~ John Henry Holland

Come on, sweetheart. I'm letting you do this. Do it." When she didn't respond, he added, "Listen, I know it's easier when they're not fucking looking at you."
Beckett turned and faced the wall.
"I don't know who hired you, but can I ask you for something?" He talked at the wall.
Here comes the fast-talking, the mojo, the shout to his employees.
"Could you make sure Cole doesn't take credit for his handiwork last night? And can you follow up on that Chris guy?" Beckett turned his head a bit, listening for her answer.
He still trusts me. He still trusts me with his brothers. I can't do it. ~ Debra Anastasia

Then I started really studying what the Scriptures say, and God showed me that it wasn't my job to do the heavy lifting. No. That was something that only He could do. It was my job to seek Him, to trust Him, and to stand on His Word. ~ Chris Fabry

I am the best in the world at what I do. ~ Chris Jericho

I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different. ~ Chris Pine

They studied the way the world
changed at morning and dusk and imagined how the sun might fall on the skin of a goddess. ~ Chris Bohjalian

Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them? ~ Chris Murray

'Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career. ~ Chris Klein

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending. ~ Chris Matthews

I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration. ~ Chris Christie

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction. ~ Chris Carter

There's only a couple hundred of us here in the Square. Pretty much everybody has a sweet pad, except Brainbox, who lives in the library. I mean literally lives in the Bobst Library. I ~ Chris Weitz

The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him. ~ Chris Stein

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away. ~ Chris Cornell

Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit. ~ Chris Burkard

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done. ~ Chris Wedge

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. ~ Chris Hedges