garykoelling

"Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter."

Editor's note: It's worth understanding that serendipity is not luck. It involves the act of looking, of paying attention and having a mind open to discovering value in places you couldn't imagine.

"Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere."

"the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook"

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

"Properly speaking a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him."

"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public."

“If it sounds like writing, rewrite it.”